{"id":66099,"date":"2026-01-02T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66099"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:16:32","slug":"ethereum-crushes-a-record-from-2021-so-why-is-price-still-stuck-at-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66099","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Crushes A Record From 2021\u2014So Why Is Price Still Stuck At $3,000?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) recorded 1.87 million daily transactions on Dec. 31 but remains trapped under resistance as another failed breakout attempt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/ethereum-eth-price-predictions\">dashed bulls\u2019 hopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Network Activity Explodes To Record Highs<\/h3>\n<p>Ethereum\u2019s 7-day moving average of daily transactions hit 1.87 million on Dec. 31, surpassing the previous ATH of 1.61 million from May 2021 during the NFT and DeFi mania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/384130\/ethereum-daily-transactions-all-time-high?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">according<\/a> to The Block.<\/p>\n<p>The network also logged 728,904 active addresses\u2014the highest since May 12, 2021\u2014and added 270,160 new addresses in a single day, the biggest daily surge since early 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Ruck<\/strong>, director of LVRG Research, credited the spike to network upgrades that slashed fees, boosted scalability, and pulled in institutional money via ETFs and real-world asset tokenization.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pectra And Fusaka Upgrades Fueled The Surge<\/h3>\n<p>Two major 2025 upgrades, Pectra and Fusaka, drove the transaction boom.<\/p>\n<p>Pectra increased blob throughput, introduced account abstraction for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49671021\/ethereum-crushes-a-record-from-2021-so-why-is-price-still-stuck-at-3000?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Ethereum\" crushes a record from why is price still stuck at>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) recorded 1.87 million daily transactions on Dec. 31 but remains trapped under resistance as another failed breakout attempt dashed bulls\u2019 hopes. Network Activity Explodes To Record Highs Ethereum\u2019s 7-day moving average of daily transactions hit 1.87 million on Dec. 31, surpassing the previous ATH of 1.61 million from May 2021 during 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-66099","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\/66099","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=66099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}