Just crossed with this Milk Road Tweet sharing an interesting data about ETH performance.

As you can see in the image above with the Fastest Assets to $500B, Ethereum is the one that achieved the fastest achievements and holds the record.

Timeline to $500B:

• Ethereum (ETH): ~5.8 years
• Exxon Mobil (XOM): ~7.9y
• Bitcoin (BTC): ~12 years
• Apple (AAPL): ~35 years

Ethereum did this in less than 6 years, what it took one of the most iconic companies on Earth more than three decades to achieve. Even Bitcoin, the OG of crypto took double the time.

Most people know Ethereum as “that crypto with smart contracts and NFTs,” but here’s a stat that puts things into perspective: it just became the fastest major asset in history to hit a $500 billion market cap.

This is not just a random milestone. This highlights how crypto and Ethereum is the fastest growing asset class ever created. We are watching the birth of a financial system that grows at internet speed. Ethereum is not just digital money, it is becoming the base layer for everything in the future, from DeFi, NFTs, gaming, DAOs, etc. Everything will be on top of Ethereum ecosystem.

Skeptics usually dismiss crypto as hype but the numbers are just brutal facts. Adoption curves are accelerating and capital is flowing so fast. Imagine not believing in a project with this amount of investment and insane metrics.

🅴🆃🅷🅴🆁🅴🆄🅼 🅸🆂 🆃🅷🅴 🅵🆄🆃🆄🆁🅴

Source:

• Tweet: https://x.com/MilkRoadDaily/status/1959284546375217256

John Gillen, former BlackRock VP and host of the Milk Road Macro podcast, did not hold back in a recent tweet. John's tweet is a response to a chart shared by Milk Road, which was also covered by u/Kirtash93 today, about ETH being 'the fastest major asset in history to hit a $500B market cap.' He pointed out a big comparison, at 10 years Bitcoin had a market cap of around $60 billion. With the same age Ethereum reached roughly $600 billion.

For John Gillen this a warning to skeptics still doubting Ethereum's future. He pushed back against the usual anti-ETH narratives: that ETH is dead, that another coin will beat it, or that Bitcoin alone is enough. His argument is honest and straight to the point: refusing to hold ETH today is risky and negligent. Let's talk numbers. Ethereum is the center of DeFi, Ethereum hosts almost 300,000 tokens and hosts 40 of the top 100 cryptos. Ethereum is at a stage where its network effects are no longer speculative, they are already shaping the direction of the entire crypto space. There have been studies that confirmed Ethereum's role as a driver of innovation, its growth is often compared to the early days of the internet.

Gillen's conclusion is you do not have to bet everything on ETH.. but refusing to hold even a little is a big risk. In his words: 'stop arguing with reality and just learn the lesson.'

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinJesus17/status/1959484497230991590

World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform closely tied to the Trump family, confirmed that its native WLFI token is officially launching on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet.

The announcement marks a shift in WLFI’s trajectory, which began as a governance-only token and is now entering open circulation.

The token generation event (TGE) is slated for September 1st, 2025, with spot trading expected to begin at 12:00 PM UTC. At launch, 20% of WLFI’s supply will be made transferable, with the remainder subject to community governance or longer vesting schedules

Bitget has announced an early trading of the $WLFI token, giving traders a chance to position themselves ahead of the official spot listing.

WLFI’s emergence into the tradable market comes after WLF’s July governance vote, in which holders overwhelmingly approved making the token transferable – moving it beyond its original voting-only design.

The launch also occurs amid WLFI’s broader strategy to stabilize token value via a $1.5 billion crypto-treasury initiative.

The firm is building the treasury through a substantial capital infusion into ALT5 Sigma, which has recently added Eric Trump to the board, a move that has drawn both political interest and scrutiny.

Data from Whales Market, an OTC (over-the-counter) decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows for the trading of tokens before their TGE, shows that WLFI is trading as high as $0.42, many multiples higher than its original presale price.

so the legendary leverage trader james wynn is back with another wild position. this guy just opened a 25x long on eth with perfect timing as we pushed past $4,860 for new all-time highs.

The position breakdown:

• deployed $5,568 in margin to control 29.3 eth ($139,215 total position)
• entry price around $4,239
• currently showing $14,888 unrealized gains (267% return on margin)
• also running a 10x doge long worth $206,130 that's slightly underwater

his total leveraged exposure is $345,000 with only $26,600 in equity. margin usage sitting at 110% which is absolutely mental.

context on this guy:

for those who don't know wynn, this is the same trader who got liquidated on a $100 million bitcoin position back in may, then lost another $25 million a few days later. he literally updated his twitter bio to "broke" and disappeared for a while.

came back in july with a $19.5 million 40x bitcoin long and a $100k pepe position. now he's betting big on eth at the highs.

why the timing is interesting:

eth just hit $4,867 on coinbase - highest since november 2021. this rally came after powell signaled september rate cuts, and we're seeing massive institutional inflows.

eth etfs had $287.6 million in net inflows thursday, bringing total aum over $12.1 billion. plus corporate treasuries added $1.6 billion worth of eth in the past month alone.

my thoughts:

wynn either has the worst timing in crypto history or he's a contrarian genius. opening a 25x long right at all-time highs seems insane, but his entry at $4,239 was actually pretty smart if you look at it.

the guy clearly doesn't learn from getting rekt, but you can't argue with a 267% return. his margin usage at 110% means any decent pullback could liquidate him though.

what this means for eth:

when high-profile degens start opening massive leveraged longs, it usually signals we're either at a local top or about to see a parabolic move. institutional money flowing in suggests the latter.

if powell actually cuts rates in september and eth continues getting corporate adoption, wynn might time this perfectly. but one red candle and he's toast.

positions or ban: holding eth since $3,200, not brave enough for 25x leverage

anyone else think wynn is either going to make bank or get completely destroyed again?

Total Value locked in Sushi.com is $ 49.78k

• 3.2559152 ETH ($15.02k)
• 7785985 DONUT ($34.82k)
• Trading Volume in last 24 hours = $ 195.91
• Trading Volume in last 7 days = $ 1.71k
• In the last 7 days ETH is has moved +7.0%
• In the last 7 days DONUT has moved +7.9%
• Last week 1 ETH = 1.04m DONUT
• Today 1 ETH = 1.03m DONUT
• 6466.66 DONUT per day distributed amongst all in range positions.

Overall a pretty quiet week for DONUT, but an amazing week for ETH! As ETH Dominance rises, the possibility of an alt-season is back on the cards, great for all those micro-cap tokens out there.

A fairly balanced week across both networks; and with slightly higher prices on Mainnet, which is normal.

Mainnet = $0.004625
Arbitrum = $0.004436

It's great to see the liquidity pool get back towards 50k in TVL, and hopefully this continues to grow, not only with higher ETH and DONUT prices, but with more liquidity positions.

Here is the current liquidity leaderboard; thank you to everyone on the list for supporting the $DONUT pool.

The Liquidity leader currently holds nearly 1/3 of the total pool position, which is not ideal. It would be great to continue to spread this out for a more stable and decentralized situation.

Hypothetically, if an exchange listing was to become a possibility; I wonder if the current size of the Arbitrum liquidity pool even be able to handle the additional demands that would ensue. 🤔

Hey all,

In this post only data is included which was generate between 18.08.2025 until now (25.08.2025).

CHANGELOG: Added statement how many tips where send to posts or comments. Also updated the columns Send tips & Receive tips to also display post and comment tip date:
number of all tips (post tip amount/ comment tip amount).

Last week 38 (-11) user send tips and 168 (+22) user received tips, with
- 1067 tips send (-167)
- 1905.6 donuts send (-1102.4)

(..): Difference to last week.

The 1067 tips, were send with an average tip weight of 0.917.
510.0 tips send to posts, 47.8% of all tips send.
557.0 tips send to comments, 52.2% of all tips send.

Found 173 (+19) different users in tip data of the week.

Most tips send this week from one person to another: Odd-Radio-8500 send 20.0 tips to SigiNwanne.
Most donuts send this week from one person to another: Wonderful_Bad6531 send 101.0 donuts to DrRobbe.

On average 28.1 (+2.9) tips were send per user.
On average 50.1 (-11.3) donuts were send per user.

Active Send users is very low compared to other weeks. The amount of donuts send dropped because aminok did not send big tips this week. Also kirtash send tip amount dropped significantly, by about ~80 tips this week. Number one spot seems getable again :).

The the following tables are cut at 100 entries.

Send Leaderboard

** Receive Leaderboard **

It’s always the same, they fomo in when an asset is rising but avoid it when it’s crashing. Happened with Nvidia when it was trading at $90 in April, and it happened with ETH when it was trading at $1600-$2000 earlier this year. How silly! I have accumulated great gains by buying in when ETH was trading in the $2000 range. Don’t intend to sell it and never will.

Ethereum is the best play moving forward and I think everyone needs to start buying them while it is still cheap.

Don’t be those clowns who missed out on btc and are now trying to stack sats. Face it you missed the boat and it’s too late. Early investors will always win. While late investors have limited gains. Don’t wait until ETH is too expensive and then start stacking 0.5/0.1 of them. Honestly you have only yourself to blame if it gets to that.

Ethereum is probably going to 5k by next week. This is your last chance to buy when it is still trading at the 4000s level.

EDIT: ETH was at 4750 when I first posted now it’s over 4900

For people in countries with hyperinflation or capital controls, crypto already is a currency. It lets them save, transact, and send remittances without banks siphoning off fees or governments freezing funds. Layer-2 solutions and stablecoins are tackling volatility and scalability, making day-to-day payments more practical. Imagine streaming micropayments for content, frictionless global trade, or instant payroll in any part of the world. Crypto may not dominate your local coffee shop yet, but dismissing it as “not money” is like dismissing the internet in 1995 as “not media.” The infrastructure is being built and, when it matures, crypto could be the most efficient and universal currency humanity has ever seen.

However, on the Capitalisn’t podcast, Luigi Zingales (Nobel Prize in Econimics) said:

“I think that the problem with all the cryptos is that in order to create some trust in the system, you basically bound the supply. Once you bound the supply, the price is driven entirely by demand. To the extent that demand is fluctuating, prices fluctuate crazily. Because they fluctuate crazily, nobody is going to use it as a currency. That’s the reason why the movement now, especially with Bitcoin, says, ‘Oh, it’s not a currency. It’s an asset. It’s digital gold.’” (Source: https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/why-this-nobel-economist-thinks-bitcoin-is-going-to-zero-with-eugene-fama/)

This proposal is based on ETIP - 119, originally posted by u/kirtash93, to address the current rise in meme spam and its impact on r/EthTrader.

Current situation

Whenever Donut's and / or Ether's prices go up, r/EthTrader's activity rises as well. This is statistically proven.

The issue is along with it comes more spam, especially from Donut farmers trying to maximize their earnings.

Problem

Even though meme posts are limited to Special Membership subscribers, farmers adopted a strategy which is to spam as many memes a day as possible.

This floods the feed with low effort memes, burying content that might actually be useful, engaging, or insightful.

This tends to drive people away from the subreddit.

Solution

Limit the number of memes in the "Hot" feed (AKA "the front page") to 2.

So, if 2 memes are already in the top hot posts, mods remove extras, until an automated solution exists.

This keeps only the most engaging memes in the feed, while clearing clutter at the same time. 2 birds, 1 stone.

Some alternative ideas I was thinking about:

• Limiting memes to weekends.
• Lowering the multiplier for memes.

However, this option is probably the least restrictive, and the one that least negatively affects r/EthTrader Special Memberships, while directly focusing on farmers.

Advantages

• A cleaner, more balanced feed.
• Less low quality spam.
• High engagement memes stay visible.
• Improves overall community experience.

Disadvantages

• Special Membership subscribers may feel restricted.
• Mods will likely have extra workload until an automated solution is ready.

Conclusion

Memes are fun, everyone loves them. They're an important part of any crypto community. The problem is spamming memes makes the subreddit worse. This proposal aims for balance, to allow memes but prevent them from overwhelming the feed.

The choices are:

• [YES]
• [ABSTAIN]
• [NO]

This proposal will remain up for a minimum of 2 days, according to the governance rules & guidelines. This proposal requires 2 moderators to sign it off in order to proceed to a governance snapshot vote. If approved, this proposal will automatically be queued for Governance Week.

Throwaway account btw.

Bought 3.25 eth and put on a hardware wallet when it was ~300

Bought some btc and some eth on top, with total bag now being ~16k whilst buying the total bag for ~2k.

Back then, I set my goal to cash out if it ever reached 5k (EU) and got ‘close’ in 2021 but then ofc. the bull run was over.

Tbh, I’d like my holdings to run to 20k and cash it all out then but it being at 4k now, I’m looking forward to giving some to my family (‘gifted’ some family members 0.1 eth for christmas in 2017), reinvest 2-3k in eth when/if there’s a correction, put some money in an etf and use the rest to travel, pay off some things and get equipment to start preparing for mountain climbing or preparing for my first triathlon.

It’s been a fun ride, been through the hype and also seeing it slide down again. Going from 300 to 500, back to 120, up to 3809, back to 1200 and on. I am eyeing the chart, put my holdings on my trade account and just contemplating whether to hold just a bit longer, risking again a drop back.

I’m using pi cycle top, rsi and macd to chart a bit but it’s ofc. Just astrology for finance. Just, wanting to thank my friend who introduced me to it, take a nice dinner somewhere and enjoy the peace of mind too. On the other hand, we’re ao close. Is it too daring to wait longer for a potential extra 1.5-2k or is that just greed taking over.

It’s been an honour regardless to be part of this journey with many of you!

So my question to you, what would you do?