ETH Price Has Nothing to Do With Ethereum Utility: Opinion

With EIP 1559 activated, Ether's economic model became similar to that of tech stocks, while Bitcoin ($BTC) solidified its "store of value" status. That was a major mistake for Ethereum that damaged $ETH, Frax and Everipedia founder says.

Ethereum's network utility fails to catalyze $ETH price

Ethereum ($ETH), the largest smart contracts platform, remains "amazing" and is still on its way to becoming a major issuance layer in the world. At the same time, this inspiring tech journey has nothing to do with $ETH price performance, Frax's Sam Kazemian shared on X.

As Ether ($ETH) keeps disappointing its community, Kazemian sees the wrong narrative as a root cause of its underperformance. With periodical token burn events introduced by EIP 1559 activation on Aug. 5, 2021, $ETH pivoted to the wrong utility model:

Biggest mistake was changing the social Overton window of EIP1559 burns as revenue/stock buybacks instead of '$ETH is digital gold/silver/oil like $BTC & some of the commodity gets used up every block as part of the design." Instead, it's now more tech stock instead of $BTC-like.

Also, he opined that, if an EIP 1559 analogue was implemented in Bitcoin ($BTC), the "digital gold" narrative of $BTC maxis would also be damaged.

As such, with its P/E DCF (price-to-earnings discounted cash flow) valuation model, the $ETH cryptocurrency fails to benefit from the battle-tested utility of its underlying blockchain.

As covered by U.Today previously, EIP 1559 with its fee burn events was the most radical upgrade of Ether tokenomics ever.

$ETH/$BTC routinely finds new low; is it over for Ether?

Ethereum's ($ETH) underperformance compared to major cryptocurrencies is in the spotlight for the global crypto community.

In his thread, Nic Puckrin, Coin Bureau founder and CEO, shared some reasons for this painful situation. He noticed that the average $ETH owner bears paper losses right now.

Ethereum ($ETH) has lost its narrative battle to Bitcoin ($BTC). Other L1s are eating its lunch when it comes to smart contracts deployment. Even Ether-based L2s siphon liquidity and damage $ETH's value.

Institutional money — based on spot ETF performance in the U.S. — clearly chose Bitcoin ($BTC) over Ethereum ($ETH). Also, it is highly unlikely to benefit from monetary injections globally.

That's why more blood might be ahead for the $ETH/$BTC pair.

Today, on April 12 in early morning hours, $ETH/$BTC hit another bottom at 0.18666. It means that 1 Bitcoin ($BTC) is now equal to 53.5 Ethers. This is the lowest rate for $ETH/$BTC since early 2020, data says.