THE Ethereum Networkone of the leading blockchain solutions, has once again been hit as the network’s average staker revenue has seen a sharp drop over the past few days, indicating a decrease in user or staker interest and engagement.
Ethereum stakers face falling yields
In a negative development, the average revenue from Ethereum stakes has fallen dramatically, hitting new lows as network activity experiences a major slowdown. EthereumParticipants in the Proof-of-Stake mechanism saw their rewards decrease due to reduced demand and fewer transactions on the network, which had a significant impact on staking yields.
Kyle Doops, a well-known market expert and host of the show Crypto Banter common negative developments on Platform X (formerly Twitter). Staking yields have decreased due to a combination of factors such as lower trading volume, coinciding with a larger market decline.
According to the expert, the average earnings of Ethereum stakers over the past 7 days have dropped sharply to their lowest level in 6 months. Specifically, on September 12, the earnings were recorded at around $5.44 million.
He noted that transaction fees The market also saw a decline due to a drop in network activity, which severely impacted stakers’ profits. Additionally, transaction volume and on-chain activity plummeted, falling precipitously from March peaks and mirroring February 2024 levels.
The average income of stakers is one of many metric which has fallen significantly in the past few days. Ethereum futures market funding rates have also seen a decline to new lows.
Kyle Doops revealed The futures market is currently set to hit its lowest funding rates in 2024, indicating a continued bearish trend. As funding rates fall to new lows, traders appear to be becoming more cautious, demonstrating a growing gap between long and short positions in the market.
With the 50-day average financing rate showing a steady downward trend, buying interest appears to be waning. Until the perpetual rate future or if spot markets see an increase in demand, Kyle Doops is confident that the price of ETH could remain low.
Do recent moves suggest ETH is poised for gains?
Despite these negative developments, Ethereum price is slowly attracting gains, as revealed by CoinMarketCap. At the time of writing, ETH ETH price stands at $2,326, reflecting an increase of around 0.61% over the last 24 hours. However, this price level has been reclaimed after ETH faced strong resistance at the $2,388 level yesterday, pushing prices down to $2,300.
While ETH has been gradually increasing over the past day, the weekly and monthly time frames show that the crypto asset has decreased by over 0.50% and 11.14% respectively. ETH’s market cap and trading volume have increased by 0.60% and 14%, indicating that investors are betting on the digital asset’s renewed momentum.
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