{"id":21570,"date":"2025-04-10T19:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21570"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:03:32","slug":"are-defi-and-layer-2-chains-squeezing-the-juice-out-of-ethereum-deep-dive-on-the-downfall-of-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21570","title":{"rendered":"Are DeFi and Layer 2 chains squeezing the juice out of Ethereum: Deep dive on the downfall of ETH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bitcoin posted one of its worst Q1 returns in 2025, Ethereum performed even worse, with over 45% drawdown in its price. Ethereum\u2019s price has been in a decline since the Dencun upgrade in March 2024. Ethereum\u2019s downfall seems driven by the Layer 2 protocols amassing large transaction volume and passing on the fraction of the revenue to the ETH chain.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin posted one of its worst Q1 returns in 2025, Ethereum performed even worse, with over 45% drawdown in its price. Ethereum\u2019s price has been in a decline since the Dencun upgrade in March 2024. Ethereum\u2019s downfall seems driven by the Layer 2 protocols amassing large transaction volume and passing on the fraction of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-21570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}