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Story: Ethereum Posts 3 Straight Monthly Losses for the First Time Ever

By Dan Saada

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What's Driving the Losses. The problems aren't coming from one place. Network congestion has been a recurring headache — slow…

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Investors Are Watching, and Waiting. Some investors are spooked. Others, maybe surprisingly, see a buying opportunity buried somewhere…

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Bigger Questions About Crypto Stability. Ethereum has long been treated as a bellwether for the wider digital asset market.

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Ethereum is bleeding. Three months in a row of losses — something that's never happened before in the coin's history — and the market is starting to ask some hard questions.

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The streak is unprecedented. Ethereum has long carried a reputation as one of the more stable, dependable names in the crypto space, a kind of anchor asset for portfolios that…

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The problems aren't coming from one place. Network congestion has been a recurring headache — slow transaction speeds, scalability concerns that have lingered longer than most…

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It's worth being honest about what we don't know here. The source didn't specify exact percentage drops for each month, and there are no official figures attached to the decline…

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What's pretty clear, though, is that scalability and transaction throughput are at the center of the technical complaints.

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They haven't. No official response, no published recovery roadmap, no public statement addressing the technical issues or the sustained price weakness.

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And that absence of communication matters more than people sometimes admit. In traditional markets, a company facing a rough quarter would at least issue guidance, say something…

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Some market participants are rethinking their positions. The risk calculus has shifted. Holding through a one-month dip is one thing.

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Ethereum has long been treated as a bellwether for the wider digital asset market. When it struggles, it tends to drag sentiment down across the board.

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The scalability issue sits at the heart of a lot of this. Congestion on the network makes it expensive and slow to use, which pushes users and developers to look elsewhere.

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