{"id":38835,"date":"2025-07-25T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38835"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:46:47","slug":"weekly-recap-ethereums-comeback-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38835","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: Ethereum\u2019s Comeback Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that ETH was languishing at less than $1500 in April. Now it\u2019s above $3800 again.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum\u2019s comeback is the story of the summer. Through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/07\/24\/ethereum-etfs-attract-usd8-7m-in-first-year-inflows-as-blackrock-s-etha-fund-hits-usd10b-aum\">ETFs<\/a> ($2 billion inflows in two weeks), ETH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/07\/22\/sharplinks-ether-bet-surpasses-13b-after-latest-purchase\">treasury vehicles<\/a> and excitement around tokenization, the comeback is well and truly on. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2025\/07\/24\/why-expensive-ethereum-will-dominate-institutional-defi\">institutions<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/07\/21\/institutions-are-driving-ethereums-comeback?term=organic&amp;utm_campaign=CoinDesk&amp;utm_content=CoinDesk+Editorial&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">in the driving seat<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>One of BlackRock\u2019s key digital assets stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/07\/25\/ether-focused-sharplink-appoints-former-blackrock-executive-as-co-ceo\">will lead Joseph Lubin\u2019s ETH vehicle, SharpLink<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As EY\u2019s Paul Brody wrote this week, with institutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2025\/07\/21\/ethereum-has-already-wonpaul-brody?utm_term=organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=coindesk_main&amp;utm_content=editorial\">\u201cEthereum Has Already Won,\u201d<\/a> and will probably keep winning for decades to come. The incumbency of the Network Effect \u2013 that a critical mass of transactions in stablecoins and tokenization will fall to Ethereum \u2013 makes it a de facto network. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>In markets:<\/p>\n<p>While bitcoin held steady under 120k, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2025\/07\/21\/the-node-altcoin-season?utm_term=organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=coindesk_main&amp;utm_content=editorial\">altcoins did well.<\/a> Hell. Most of the crypto market is looking relatively healthy these days. <\/p>\n<p>And, according to President Trump, Jerome Powell could soon cut rates (or get fired). If so, that will help risky assets like bitcoin et al. <\/p>\n<p>In other big news:<\/p>\n<p>Roman Storm\u2019s Tornado Cash trial intensified. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/07\/24\/roman-storm-trial-is-coding-a-crime-the-tornado-cash-court-battle-intensifies\">CoinDesk\u2019s Cheyenne Ligon was there. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/07\/24\/elon-musk-s-xai-partners-with-kalshi-to-bring-grok-to-prediction-markets\">Elon signed up X\/Grok to prediction market Kalshi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/07\/22\/jpmorgan-plans-to-launch-crypto-backed-loans-report\">JP Morgan will offer crypto loans<\/a> but faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/07\/24\/crypto-industry-asks-president-trump-to-stop-jpmorgan-s-punitive-tax-on-data-access\">protests from crypto trade groups over data access.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you next week.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that ETH was languishing at less than $1500 in April. Now it\u2019s above $3800 again. Ethereum\u2019s comeback is the story of the summer. Through ETFs ($2 billion inflows in two weeks), ETH treasury vehicles and excitement around tokenization, the comeback is well and truly on. And institutions are in the driving [&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-38835","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\/38835","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=38835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}