Ethereum is trading near the $2,090 level as the market digests a recent over-the-counter (OTC) sale by the Ethereum Foundation (EF).

The iShares Staked Ethereum Trust begins trading on March 12, offering investors both price exposure and staking rewards — while a tiered fee waiver structure positions BlackRock aggressively against competing Ethereum products.

The Ethereum Foundation has made a decisive break from years of operational practice.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE American: BMNR) added another 60,976 ETH in the first week of March, bringing its total holdings to 4,534,563 tokens - worth roughly $8.9 billion at current prices.

Vitalik Buterin isn't interested in making Ethereum more palatable to the mainstream. In a pointed set of directives for 2026, the co-founder is pushing developers toward what he's calling a fundamental rethink - one that prioritizes self-sovereignty over convenience and long-term resilience over short-term growth.

While crypto markets spent much of 2025 debating which blockchain would dethrone Ethereum, stablecoin issuers were busy printing money - on Ethereum.

Ethereum's infrastructure is busier than it has ever been. Network throughput - the amount of computational work processed per second - has broken all-time highs, with the combined output of Ethereum's Layer 1 and Layer 2 ecosystem surpassing 100 Mgas/s. That's a number that would have seemed far-fetched just two years ago.

In the final week of February 2026, the company added 50,928 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its total holdings to 4,473,587 ETH.

Ethereum is preparing for one of its most significant technical overhauls in years, as reported by co-founder Vitalik Buterin.