This week has been the best ever for Ethereum (ETH)<\/a>. The coin has rallied past $3,500, which marks its highest value this year, with its market dominance increasing by 17%. Its latest market cap ($398 billion) means the currency is now more valuable than MasterCard, PayPal, and Bank of America.<\/p>\n
Despite the four times growth in ETH since the beginning of the year, current market activity suggests that the bull run will not be slowing down anytime soon. The supply of Ethereum on various exchanges has been slowing down faster than exchange inflows. This trend shows increased growth and less risk in investing in crypto.<\/p>\n
The growth trend of Ethereum is also an exciting aspect that investors should be looking out for. The non-exchange ETH whale addresses have doubled while the exchange ETFs have dropped by half. This is an opposite trend to the exchange and non-exchange whale addresses.<\/p>\n
As ETH is increasingly flowing out of exchanges, there is an increase in the number of ETH deposits flowing into DeFi protocols. The total value of ETH deposited in DeFi protocols<\/a> has increased two times in the past three months.<\/p>\n
It has also seen increased network activity on the Ethereum mainnet<\/a>. Ethereum is also looking to complete the upgrade to Eth 2.0 by the end of next year.<\/p>\n