Ethereum's 6-month moving average of new smart contract deployments has reached unprecedented levels, higher than at any point in the network's history, while price sits at $2,348, more than 50% below the $4,800 highs of 2021.
Kosta Gushterov
Journalist
Kosta has reported on cryptocurrency markets and blockchain infrastructure since 2020, bringing over six years of hands-on experience in the crypto industry built through daily tracking of markets, trends, and emerging blockchain developments. Specializing in Bitcoin on-chain analysis, institutional ETF flows, and digital asset price action, his work at Coindoo has been cited by other news agencies and consistently covers market developments with a focus on data-driven reporting across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. Over the years, Kosta has contributed to multiple crypto media outlets in different regions, authoring over 6,000 articles across the sector. His reporting spans cryptocurrency markets and the broader fintech industry, tracking not only price action but also the technological and regulatory forces shaping the ecosystem. To support his analysis, Kosta actively leverages on-chain data and metrics from leading platforms such as Santiment, Glassnode, and CryptoQuant, enabling deeper, evidence-based market insights. He believes in the power of transparency and the data that underpins the blockchain ecosystem. His academic background in Marketing Management from Denmark further complements his analytical approach, adding a strong understanding of communication strategy and content positioning to his work.
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Every time Bitcoin has recovered 30% from a cycle low, it has never revisited that low and the price is currently $2,500 away from that threshold.
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Bitcoin's adjusted long-term holder MVRV is declining but remains above the stress zone that has historically accompanied cycle bottoms, while network participation holds near recent highs despite a modest pullback from April 21 peaks.
XRP's whale transactions, exchange deposits, and withdrawals have all hit multi-year lows simultaneously, while price makes lower highs and tests the $1.40 support level for the third time in a week.
Raoul Pal is not watching ceasefire headlines to form his Bitcoin thesis. He is watching the incentive structures of the four parties involved in the Iran conflict, and concluding that the market is pricing a war the game theory says cannot be sustained.
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and founder of Maelstrom, is 95% long in a market where Warren Buffett is sitting on the largest cash pile of his career.
Tron's price has rejected twice from $0.335 in five days while active addresses on the network fell 21% over 74 days, a divergence between price and participation that the on-chain data makes increasingly difficult to dismiss.
Ethereum's supply scarcity on Binance reached a record 2.47 in April, the highest reading in seven years of data, while price simultaneously sold off to $2,260. ETH has since recovered to $2,410, now approaching the resistance level that capped price on April 21.
