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By Julie Binoche
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The Network-vs-Token Problem. Hoffman drew a hard line between Ethereum the network and ETH the asset.
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Why This Sale Hits Different. Hoffman isn't some random retail trader who got tired of waiting.
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What ETH Needs to Prove. The honest question now is whether ETH can find a new story.
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David Hoffman sold everything. The Bankless co-founder liquidated his entire ETH portfolio, a move that's already rattling corners of the Ethereum community that once treated him…
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Hoffman's reasoning isn't simple doom-and-gloom. He's not calling Ethereum dead. What he's saying is more nuanced — and maybe more unsettling for ETH bulls.
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Hoffman drew a hard line between Ethereum the network and ETH the asset. He's still optimistic about the network itself — stablecoins, DeFi, decentralized infrastructure, all of…
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That framing hits hard given where ETH is trading right now. The token's been stuck in a tight band between $2,050 and $2,100, and it's struggled to push past the $2,300…
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And it's not just price action. Institutional demand is inconsistent. Ethereum ETFs haven't delivered the steady inflows that would normally boost confidence. That's a problem.
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Hoffman isn't some random retail trader who got tired of waiting. He co-founded Bankless — a platform that spent years making the case for Ethereum as digital money, building a…
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More context: Ethereum Foundation Plans Smaller Market Footprint as Board Grows and ETH Sales Drop
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He was clear that selling doesn't mean he's bearish on Ethereum broadly. He plans to put his capital to work elsewhere.
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The Layer 2 issue sits underneath all of this. A big chunk of Ethereum's activity has migrated to Layer 2 solutions and applications built on top of the base chain.
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The honest question now is whether ETH can find a new story. The "ultrasound money" narrative — where fee burns would make ETH deflationary and increasingly scarce — was supposed…
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None of that is fatal. Ethereum's network is still dominant. Stablecoin volume running through it is enormous. DeFi activity hasn't collapsed.
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