The total Lock-up Position of Ethereum Layer 2 has rebounded to 33.08 billion USD, with a 7-day rise of 2.16%. The top five Lock-up Positions are Arbitrum One, Base, OP Mainnet, Unichain, and ZKsync Era.

Golden Finance reports that Grayscale stated on platform X: "We believe that Ethereum may benefit from the United States' friendly policy shift towards cryptocurrency. New legislation like the Genius Act could clarify stablecoin regulations, promote investment, and accelerate the adoption of smart contracts. With strong development activity and expansion plans, Ethereum is well-positioned to benefit from this."

Golden Finance reported that the Ethereum Community Foundation published a post on the X platform stating that it has received enthusiastic feedback from the community since its launch. Therefore, it will release complete funding details, the first batch of initiatives, core team and contribution value information, as well as disclose how to apply or contribute in the coming weeks. The Ethereum Community Foundation stated that the organization is not a think tank but a "fighting fund" aimed at pushing ETH to reach $10,000.

BlockBeats news, on July 5, Nick Tomaino, founder of the crypto venture capital firm 1confirmation, stated, "We firmly support Ethereum because without it, this industry cannot continue to move forward. The values of trust, neutrality, open source, and permissionless innovation must be continually spread. Some currently popular trends, such as venture capital chains and corporate adoption of Ethereum vault strategies, are actually unrelated to these values. This does not mean they are bad. They could be good." But as Hal Finney said 33 years ago: "Computers can be used to liberate and protect people, not to control them."

Nick Tomaino, the founder of 1confirmation, stated on the X platform that support for Ethereum is crucial for the development of the encryption industry, emphasizing the value of open and neutral innovation. He pointed out that although the encryption industry is focusing on enterprise encryption treasuries, this does not undermine the value of Ethereum, and enterprises are either establishing ETH treasuries or actively developing.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin pointed out in an interview at Cannes that institutions are focused on the stability and reliability of Ethereum, rather than just scalability and speed. He emphasized the importance of privacy and long-term functionality, noting that Ethereum has never gone down in the past ten years, and institutions choose Ethereum based on these core values.

At the Ethereum community conference, Vitalik Buterin pointed out that many institutions value the stability and reliability of Ethereum and consider long-term features such as privacy to be more important. He hopes that Ethereum can become a model for an open, free, and permissionless network.

In the past 24 hours, the crypto market fund flow shows a net inflow of 62.92 million USDC, while BTC saw a net outflow of 312 million USD and ETH a net outflow of 150 million USD, indicating investors' preference for stablecoins and the dumping of mainstream tokens.

On July 5th, insider Whale @qwatio increased short positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum again after being liquidated 10 times, with total losses exceeding $14 million. The scale of its Bitcoin short order is 55.85 million yuan, with unrealized gains of approximately $129,125; the scale of its Ethereum short order is 11.05 million yuan, with unrealized losses of approximately $138,596.

Gate News bot message, trader @qwatio, after experiencing 10 consecutive partial liquidations, still chooses to increase Bitcoin (40x leverage ) and Ethereum (25x leverage ) short positions. The data shows that the trader lost 16 million dollars in this transaction, with a total loss exceeding 14 million dollars.

In 2025, Brazil's Central Bank service provider C&M Software suffered a cyber attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $140 million. Hackers successfully infiltrated 6 financial institutions by purchasing employee account information and converted the funds into crypto assets. The relevant accounts are currently being tracked and frozen.

In 2025, Brazil's Central Bank service provider C&M Software suffered a cyber attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $140 million. Hackers successfully infiltrated six Financial Institutions by purchasing employee account information and converted the funds into Crypto Assets, and related accounts are currently being tracked and frozen.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that ETH has fallen below 2500 USDT, current price 2498.87 USDT.

Gate News bot message shows that on July 4th, a total net inflow of 2,617 Bitcoins worth approximately $283 million was recorded for 10 Bitcoin ETFs. Among them, the BlackRock iShares Bitcoin ETF had a net inflow of 2,044 Bitcoins (approximately $221 million), and currently, the open interest stands at 698,919 Bitcoins (approximately $75.65 billion). On the same day, 9 Ethereum ETFs

Odaily News Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated: The success of Ethereum has exceeded everyone's expectations. (Cointelegraph)

Sean Dawson, the research director at Derive, stated that the implied volatility of Bitcoin and Ethereum decreased in June, as traders positioned themselves in anticipation of a market breakout. Despite the escalation of the situation in the Middle East causing short-term fluctuations, the market remains optimistic about future trends, especially Ethereum, with traders betting on significant movements in July.

BlockBeats news, on July 4th, the Ethereum Foundation announced a 3-year operational funding for Argot Collective to continue supporting its work on the Solidity language and other key Open Source infrastructure for Ethereum. It is reported that Argot was founded by former members of the Ethereum Foundation, dedicated to maintaining the tools that Ethereum relies on.

According to Gate News bot, on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) has monitored that a certain ETH Whale/institution has accumulated a deposit of 38,100 ETH to various CEXs over the past six days, with a total value of 94.198 million USD.

Gate News bot reports that according to PI Shield monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation development team (Ethereum Foundation EFDev) has internally transferred 1000 ETH (worth approximately 2.55 million USD) to the relevant Address 0xc061...0B6d.

According to BlockBeats news on July 4, on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai9684xtpa) monitored that a certain ETH whale/institution has accumulated a deposit of 38,100 ETH to various CEXs over the past six days, with a total value of 94.198 million USD. Since June 27, this Address has distributed 39,700 ETH to 8 addresses, which were then dispersed to dozens of new addresses for CEX deposit operations over the past week, with unknown purposes.

On Thursday, the cryptocurrency market showed relatively calm performance, with weak price fluctuations in mainstream tokens. Traders are digesting the strong employment data from the U.S. and assessing their holdings strategies. Bitcoin fell slightly by 0.6%, currently reported at $108,840, having briefly touched $110,590 during the day. Ethereum edged up above $2,590, but the price's continued sideways movement leaves the direction unclear. Aside from the Solana ecosystem meme coin Bonk (big pump of 10%), the daily price fluctuations of the top 100 crypto assets are generally in single digits.

Gate News bot reports that former Ethereum core developer Eric Conner recently stated that the price of Ethereum (ETH) has been consolidating for several weeks in the range of $2400 to $2600, with a decrease in trading volume and subtle emergence of highs and lows. Long-term consolidation typically leads to significant fluctuations, so if ETH firmly breaks through $2600, the movement could be swift and dramatic. Conner listed three key catalysts supporting Ethereum's rise potential:

According to the Gate News bot, on-chain data shows that the smart money that previously closed all positions on Bitcoin long orders and increased the position on SOL long orders is now going long 25x on ETH on Hyperliquid, with an open interest of 2638.7103 ETH, a holdings amount of 6,715,253.84 USD, and an entry price of 2,545.74 USD.

BlockBeats news, on July 4, according to on-chain information, the smart money that previously closed all positions on Bitcoin long orders and increased the position on SOL long orders has just gone long on ETH with 25x leverage on Hyperliquid, with an open interest of 2638.7103 ETH and a position amount of 6,715,253.84 USD, at an entry price of 2,545.74 USD. This smart money has accumulated a profit of 15.92 million USD on Hyperliquid, with a profit of 7.62 million USD in the last 7 days.

Ethereum ($ETH) price successfully broke through the key resistance level of $2,450, initiating a new round of pump. Currently, the ETH price has solidified above $2,550, demonstrating sustained upward momentum, and Crypto Assets market investors are following whether it can break through further.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that ETH has fallen below 2550 USDT, current price is 2549.68 USDT.

Recently (June 30, 2025), the well-known asset management company Bitwise released its "Mid-Year Report" document, reviewing its prediction accuracy for the first half of 2025 made in December 2024, and making new predictions for the second half of the year. Bitwise expects that the Bitcoin price will reach $200,000 by the end of the year, while Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) will not set new all-time highs (ATH) for the remainder of 2025.

The Ethereum scaling battle is intensifying, with the two major Layer 2 giants, Arbitrum and Optimism, leading the charge. They are no longer experimental chains but ecosystems worth billions of dollars, becoming the pillars of modern DeFi and incubators for next-generation Web3 infrastructure. However, they have chosen vastly different paths: one pursuing modular unity and the other emphasizing sovereign flexibility.

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) displayed strong momentum before the weekend. Bitcoin broke through its recent consolidation phase, climbing above $109,000 and approaching its all-time high. At the same time, ETH and XRP closely followed in Bitcoin's footsteps, closing above key resistance levels, indicating a positive market outlook and the potential for continued upward movement in the short term.

The DAO incident is the largest crypto asset vulnerability in history, resulting in a loss of $360 million. This event exposed the security risks of smart contracts and the governance difficulties of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, prompting the industry to focus on protective measures and governance improvements. In terms of investment, risks should be reassessed, and multiple strategies should be adopted to drop potential losses.

In the past 48 hours, the price of Ethereum (ETH) has strongly risen by over 8%, climbing from around $2400 on July 1 to nearly $2600 at the time of writing. The latest on-chain data shows that both the number of ETH accumulation addresses and the total amount of Ethereum liquid staking are approaching historical highs (ATH), fueling optimistic expectations in the market for an imminent breakout in the price of ETH.

On July 4th, the crypto market was influenced by the better-than-expected June US Non-farm Payrolls (NFP), with most zones showing a slight rise. Bitcoin rose by 0.47% and Ethereum rose by 0.41%. The NFT and Meme zones performed prominently, rising by 1.92% and 1.58%, respectively. Other zones like PayFi and Layer1 also saw slight increases. The index indicates that the encryption zone as a whole continues to improve.

BitMine Immersion Technologies announced the issuance of Hong Kong stocks at $4.50 per share, raising $250 million for its Ethereum reserve strategy, and the stock price subsequently rose over 30 times, with a closing price of $135.

Gate News bot message, data shows that address 0xACc7 (suspected to be related to CEXt) withdrew 10,000 ETH (approximately 25.97 million USD) from the exchange again about 20 minutes ago. The wallet has withdrawn a total of 50,734 ETH (approximately $130 million) from multiple exchanges in the past two days. According to a previous report by Lookonchain, that Address has 24...

According to BlockBeats news on July 4th, on-chain data analyst Yu Jin monitored that a certain Whale/institution has cumulatively transferred 13,000 ETH (approximately 32.51 million USD) to CEX in the past two days. Over the last three weeks, they have cumulatively transferred 81,182 ETH (approximately 198 million USD) to CEX, with an average price of about 2,443 USD. Currently, they still hold only 14,131 ETH (approximately 3.668 million USD), which is expected to be fully transferred to CEX in the next three to four days.

Odaily News CryptoSlam data shows that in June, Ethereum on-chain NFT sales amounted to approximately $100,148,795.05, marking the lowest monthly sales record since February 2021, while last month's Ethereum on-chain NFT transaction volume was about 549,000. As of now, the total sales of NFT on the Ethereum blockchain have approached 46 billion USD, with the total number of on-chain transactions reaching 55.1216 million.

Golden Finance reported that Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, revealed data on the X platform stating that Ethereum has captured more than 80% of the real-world asset (RWA) market share and 50% of the stablecoin market share. Trust in RWA and trust in stablecoins are equivalent to trust in ETH.

PANews July 4 news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, Tether Treasury minted 1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network about 5 hours ago.

Gate News Bot news, July 4th, according to CoinMarketCap, as of the time of writing, ETH (Ethereum) is currently priced at $2593.35, with a rise of 0.97% in the last 24 hours, reaching a high of $2635.19 and a low of $2378.39. The current market capitalization is approximately $31.306 billion, an increase of $2.998 billion compared to yesterday. Ethereum is a leading innovative application and blockchain network platform. It provides infrastructure for decentralized applications (DApps), supporting various application scenarios such as smart contracts, stablecoins, DeFi, and NFTs. Ethereum is committed to building a more equitable and open financial system and internet, offering users data privacy protection and asset ownership. As the center of blockchain innovation, Ethereum attracts a large number of developers to its ecosystem.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, there has been a net inflow of funds in the crypto market spot, with an inflow of 128 million USDC, 105 million BTC, and 55.99 million ETH; while USDT and others saw a net outflow of 80.18 million.

According to ChainCatcher news, Whale Alert monitored that Tether minted 1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network 3 minutes ago.

According to ChainCatcher news and market data, the US stock Bitmine Immersion (BMNR) has expanded its rise to 121.98%, currently quoted at 129.86 dollars, with a weekly increase of over 2944%. Bitmine Immersion (BMNR) previously announced the completion of a $250 million private placement financing, with the funds primarily intended for increasing its holdings in Ethereum, which it plans to use as a core reserve asset, while continuing to maintain its main business in Bitcoin mining.

BlockBeats news, on July 3rd, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai9684xtpa), "insider traders" were forced to close positions on 1,111.70 ETH and 37.96 BTC just 50 minutes ago, resulting in a loss of 330,000 USD; the total losses in the past month have risen to 15.645 million USD. · BTC 40x short order: Holdings of 151.84, worth 16.68 million USD, entry price 106,697.3 USD · ETH 25x short order: Holdings of 4,446.81, worth 11.56 million USD, entry price 2,452.03 USD.

PANews July 3 news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, today 10 U.S. Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow of 2226 BTC (approximately $245.34 million), among which Fidelity had an inflow of 1680 BTC (approximately $185.1 million), currently holding 201349 BTC (approximately $2.219 billion). On the same day, 9 Ethereum ETFs had a net inflow of 16509 ETH (approximately $4.334 million); among which iShares (BlackRock) had an inflow of 4539 ETH (approximately $119.1 million), currently holding 1773112 ETH (approximately $4.65 billion).

Gate News bot message, data from July 3 shows: A total net inflow of 2,226 Bitcoins has been recorded for 10 Bitcoin ETFs, worth approximately $245 million. Among them, the Fidelity Bitcoin ETF had a net inflow of 1,680 Bitcoins (approximately $185 million) in a single day, with a current holding of 201,349 Bitcoins (approximately $2.219 billion). 9 Ethereum ETFs total net inflow

Gate News bot message: According to on-chain data, in the past 24 hours, two large institutional accounts have withdrawn a significant amount of Ether (ETH) from multiple centralized exchanges. A wallet suspected to be related to CEXt has withdrawn 40,734 Ether from several centralized exchanges, worth approximately $104 million. At the same time, CEXxas Capital�

BlockBeats news, on July 3rd, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader address with a 100% win rate on ETH has been holding onto his ETH short positions without closing them to lock in profits. His position's unrealized gains once exceeded 26 million dollars but have now dropped to 6.43 million dollars.

PANews, July 3 news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, trader 0xcB92 had previously maintained a 100% win rate in ETH trades, but this time he did not choose to take profit and still holds a short order on ETH. His unrealized profit once reached as high as 26 million USD, but has now shrunk to 6.43 million USD.

As the crypto market overall turns bullish, short positions in major assets are being systematically liquidated. Ethereum ( ETH ) is no exception. On July 2, it surged 6.78% in a single day, pushing the ETH price back to the $2600 level, during which nearly $90 million in short orders were liquidated. The core issue is: Can ETH turn the reclaimed $2600 into a launching pad for continuous rise? The rebound in market risk appetite makes Ethereum's next move crucial.

According to ChainCatcher news and monitoring by @lookonchain, SharpLink Gaming is acquiring a large amount of Ether. SharpLink Gaming announced yesterday that it has purchased a total of 198,167 Ether at an approximate price of $2,608 (about $517 million), and today it has added 2,738 Ether (approximately $7.09 million) through OTC Trading.