🚀 Ethereum (ETH): Not just a crypto asset, but a global decentralized computer!

Since its launch in 2015, Ethereum has long surpassed the category of "digital currency" and has become one of the most important infrastructures in the blockchain world. DeFi, NFT, DAO, Layer 2... these popular concepts are almost all inseparable from it.

📊 What is Ethereum so powerful for?
1. The progenitor of smart contracts: Bitcoin is "digital gold", Ethereum is "the global virtual machine".
2. The most prosperous ecosystem: Over 90% of DeFi, NFTs, and stablecoins run on ETH.
3. Deflation Mechanism: After The Merge, the annual inflation rate of ETH decreased from 4% to -0.2%, becoming scarcer.
4. Clear roadmap: Surge (scalability), Scourge (MEV), Verge (Verkle tree), Purge (cleaning historical data), Splurge (optimization) - Vitalik personally lays out the plans and continues to deliver.

⚠️ But the challenges remain:
- The mainnet gas fees remain high, although L2 alleviates the situation, fragmentation is severe.
- New generation public chains such as Solana and Aptos have more aggressive performance, intensifying competition.
- The regulation on the nature of staking (is it a security?) is still under observation.

🧭 One sentence summary:
Bitcoin is "money", Ethereum is "world computer".

You don't need to buy coffee with it, but your on-chain identity, assets, games, voting, lending... could all run on it in the future.

📌 What Ethereum applications have you used? Are you bullish or bearish? Let's chat in the comments!