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Ethereum’s outlook for 2026 has become increasingly contested after the most recent downturn in the entire crypto market. Earlier this year, research from Standard Chartered suggested that Ethereum could end 2026 near $7,500, a target that implies significant upside from current levels. However, recent price action, with ETH languishing around $2,000 and lacking clear bullish momentum, puts such projections against a very different realistic outlook. Standard Chartered’s Ethereum Long-Term View In a January research note, Standard Chartered’s digital assets team trimmed its medium-term outlook for Ethereum while keeping a highly optimistic vision for the years ahead. The bank now sees…

Ethereum’s prolonged weakness has pushed key on-chain valuation metrics into territory historically associated with major market bottoms. This has prompted analysts to debate whether ETH is approaching a long-term inflection point or if further downside still lies ahead. Summary Ethereum price prediction debates are intensifying as MVRV metrics show ETH trading at levels historically associated with major market bottoms. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Ethereum appears deeply undervalued, citing similarities to past crash periods that later delivered strong recoveries. On-chain analyst Jao Wedson cautions that while capitulation is underway, historical data suggests further downside is still possible before a…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the imprisoned former CEO of FTX, reportedly filed a motion for a new trial in the Southern District of New York today, citing Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The filing, reported by the Inner City Press, was supported by a declaration from attorney Daniel Chapsky and comes as SBF continues to dispute the circumstances surrounding FTX’s bankruptcy and his conviction.  In a series of recent posts on X, SBF claimed he never approved the bankruptcy filing and that lawyers effectively forced the company into Chapter…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Vitalik Buterin is pushing back against the dominant narrative shaping today’s artificial intelligence industry. As major AI labs frame progress as a competitive sprint toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), the Ethereum co-founder argues that the premise itself is flawed. In a series of recent posts and comments, Buterin outlined a different approach, one that prioritizes decentralization, privacy, and verification over scale and speed, with Ethereum positioned as a key piece of enabling infrastructure rather than a vehicle for AGI acceleration. Buterin likens the phrase “working on AGI”…

Bitcoin’s long-standing narrative as “digital gold” is being put to the test as its recent price action increasingly resembles that of a high-risk growth asset rather than a traditional safe haven, according to new research from Grayscale.Report author Zach Pandl said on Tuesday that while Grayscale still views Bitcoin (BTC) as a long-term store of value due to its fixed supply and independence from central banking authorities, recent market behavior suggests otherwise.“Bitcoin’s short-term price movements have not been tightly correlated with gold or other precious metals,” Pandl wrote, pointing to record rallies in bullion and silver prices.Instead, the analysis found…

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career…

The crypto market downturn has been particularly hard on leading American exchange Coinbase (COIN), which has seen its stock plunge more than 50% since bitcoin’s early October record above $126,000, including a 27% decline in 2026 alone.Attempting to catch up to that fast tumble, JPMorgan’s Ken Worthington slashed his price target on COIN to $290 from $399 ahead of the company’s fourth quarter earnings report coming after the close on Thursday.Worthington remains a bull on the stock and his reduced target still suggests 75% upside from COIN’s current price of $1655.Worthington projects adjusted EBITDA of $734 million, down from $801…

Ethereum researcher ladislaus.eth published a walkthrough last week explaining how Ethereum plans to move from re-executing every transaction to verifying zero-knowledge proofs.The post frames it as a “quiet but fundamental transformation,” and the framing is accurate. Not because the work is secret, but because its implications ripple across Ethereum’s entire architecture in ways that won’t be obvious until the pieces connect.This isn’t Ethereum “adding ZK” as a feature. Ethereum is prototyping an alternative validation path in which some validators can attest to blocks by verifying compact execution proofs rather than re-running every transaction.If it works, Ethereum’s layer-1 role shifts from…

What to Know: Bybit’s Stockholm Open partnership underscores a broader push for mainstream adoption and brand legitimacy across crypto. That push spotlights the need for scalable infrastructure that can handle mass-market volumes, an area where Bitcoin’s base layer still struggles. Bitcoin Hyper proposes an SVM-powered Layer 2 for Bitcoin, bringing high-speed smart contracts to BTC while settling to Layer 1. Crypto exchange Bybit has secured the title partnership for the Stockholm Open, a move that plants the industry’s flag squarely in the Nordic market. The tournament, now officially the ‘Bybit Stockholm Open,’ signals more than a standard sponsorship; it’s a…

Malicious MEV attacks pose a significant threat to traders on Ethereum. Our latest research shows that almost 2,000 sandwich attacks happen daily and more than $2 million is extracted from the network each month. Even traders who execute large WETH, WBTC or stable swaps remain at risk and can lose a substantial portion of their trades. MEV thrives because of the transparent nature of blockchains, where transaction data is visible before transactions are executed and finalized. One path toward mitigating MEV is mempool encryption, particularly through the use of threshold encryption. In our earlier articles, we examined two different models for…