Trade ETH on Bexplus and get double deposit bonus

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Posted: April 28, 2021 | Last updated: April 29th, 2021

By: Anjali Sriniwasan

Journalist

Anjali Sriniwasan

Journalist

Posted: April 28, 2021 | Last updated: April 29th, 2021

The crypto market has gone through a bloodbath over the last few days, while just a week ago, we were celebrating the ATH of several cryptos, including BTC, ETH, Doge, and XRP. The possible reasons for the big sell-off had been discussed in dozens of articles, so we will let it slide for now. But amid the fear and hesitation, one crypto stands out with resilience and independence: Ethereum.

With Bitcoin showing weakness, BTC dominance fell below 50% for the first time since January 2018. ETH was one of the most best-performed major altcoins, recording a 16% return over the past seven days. This could be a result of investors seeking hedge in altcoins and the increase of use cases of DeFi.

Ether to become a deflationary asset

Both Ether and Bitcoin are decentralized digital currency made use of blockchain. But while Bitcoin aims to replace fiat, Ether is created to be traded as a digital currency and to support the Ethereum network. The Ethereum network enables the deployment of smart contracts and decentralized applications. Some of the popular DeFi applications include Uniswap and MakerDAO, and NFTs that occupied the news headlines in the past month are also part of the Ethereum blockchain.

Now one more point is added to the scoring list of Ether.

One of the points Bitcoin believers used to sell the story is Bitcoin’s limited supply that enables it to hedge against inflation. The supply and demand relationship tells us that in most cases when the supply of an asset is greater than the demand, the price will become lower, otherwise, the price will increase. The increase of Bitcoin’s price encourages people to buy more, thus lowering the supply in the market, which in turn boosts the price. This is one of the fundamentals of Bitcoin’s price rallies.

In the coming July, the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 will be packaged with the London hard fork. In EIP 1559, the “base fee” will fluctuate according to network congestion and is set by wallet providers. You can add a “tip” on top of the base fee as an incentive to miners to get your transaction to be processed more quickly. The base fees will be burned after collection so Ether will become scarcer over time.

Source: Messari

Investors are betting on Ether

Source: Santiment

Data of Santiment shows the amount of ETH being stored in exchange wallets has been rapidly decreasing and hit a 1-year low. As the price of ETH continues to go up, we see a significant drop of supply on exchanges, indicating that investors are accelerating to accumulate more ETH and hodl it.

Source: Santiment

Meanwhile, although ETH took a dive with other cryptocurrencies, it has bounced back several times and could soon challenge its ATH. Santiment report suggests ETH may be starting to decoupling from BTC and establishes itself as an independent alternative to BTC.

More people are looking into ETH as it is easier to own a whole ETH than a BTC. And while the price of ETH lags behind BTC by a large margin, it is worth noting that BTC has six more years to develop. Healthy fundamentals and a striving ecosystem Ethereum’s are expected to drive the price of Ethereum higher in the long term.

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