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Ethereum staking is starting to look institutional
For a long time, Ethereum staking lived in a familiar box. Lock your ETH, earn rewards, compound over time.
Tokenized gold is winning — and it says a lot about what crypto is becoming
While crypto Twitter argues about memecoins and the next AI narrative, something quieter has been happening. People are buying tokenized gold.
Ethereum Price Split Signals $2,000 Line as Bear Flag Meets Bullish Divergence
Ethereum traded near $2,040 on the 4 hour chart from Binance after a sharp selloff from late January highs.
MegaETH Mainnet Signals a New Phase in Ethereum Scalability
We view MegaETH’s mainnet launch as a bold and welcome step forward in Ethereum’s scaling journey, demonstrating that aggressive Layer-2 optimizations can deliver real-time performance while preserving Ethereum’s security and settlement model.
The network has gone live with ambitious throughput targets, aiming for 50,000 transactions per second and ultra-low latency (as fast as 10-millisecond block times), marking a meaningful evolution in how blockchains approach speed and responsiveness.
Unlike typical rollups that focus on throughput or cost reduction alone, MegaETH’s performance-first design is part of a broader industry shift toward specialized execution environments anchored to Ethereum that can handle demanding, latency-sensitive applications.
By delivering near-real-time interactions and high transaction capacity without sacrificing settlement security, MegaETH enriches the ongoing debate on how best to scale Ethereum’s ecosystem.
For developers and liquidity providers, this launch expands optionality and could attract innovative apps across DeFi, gaming, high-frequency finance, and beyond to environments that combine speed with Ethereum compatibility.
As the ecosystem grows, monitoring early usage metrics, TVL inflows, developer engagement, and on-chain activity on MegaETH will be key in assessing its impact and potential to spill over into broader sentiment for Ethereum and related infrastructure.
In the medium term, this development signals that real-time execution layers are becoming a meaningful part of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, offering complementary paths that accelerate mainstream adoption without forcing trade-offs in core trust assumptions.
Ryan Lee, Chief Analyst at Bitget
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