COINDESK DAILY: Wormhole’s W Token Has a 999% Weekly Return; Why VanEck Is Bullish on Ethereum Layer 2s
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:51.6 | Ethereum layer 2s could rocket to a trillion-dollar base valuation by 2030, according to Van Eck. |
| 0:58.2 | The investment firm evaluated 46 layer 2 networks across five key areas and predicted thousands of roll-ups to eventually emerge. |
| 1:06.9 | Van Eck analysts Patrick Bush and Matthew Siegel estimated that Ethereum will eventually capture |
| 1:12.3 | 60% of the market share across all public blockchains. |
| 1:15.9 | They modeled their estimate around the volume of assets within the Ethereum ecosystem. |
| 1:20.6 | Meanwhile, the analysts wrote that the firm expects there to be cutthroat competition among |
| 1:26.2 | layer 2s, stating that they're generally |
| 1:28.4 | bearish on the sector's outperformance. Leveraged funds, which the CFTC describes as hedge funds |
| 1:35.3 | and commodity trading advisors held record bearish wagers on the Bitcoin price at the end of the |
| 1:40.8 | first quarter as the cryptocurrencies rally stalled near record highs. |
| 1:45.3 | Hedge funds boosted their net short positions in the CME standard Bitcoin futures contracts |
| 1:49.7 | to 16,102. That's the most since the futures began trading in late 2017, according to CFTC figures |
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