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You’ve probably heard by now that ETH is a cursed asset. Doomed. 

Maybe you’ve read tweets that say Ethereum is destined to go the way of Intel — a stock that has collapsed in value by two-thirds over the past five years while competitors (Nvidia and AMD) have thrived by comparison.

It’s a take that only works if you focus solely on price and ignore how much activity persists on Ethereum and its surrounding web of layer-2s and layer-3s.

Ether has only gained 30% in the past year while its direct rival, SOL, has about doubled.

Even XRP has easily beaten ETH over the bull market to…

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