Long positions accounted for $12.91 million of the total as Ether fell 1.43% to $2,707.
Ethereum is trading around $2.75K after holding a multi-week consolidation above $2.4K. The broader structure remains constructive, but ETH is now pressing into an important resistance area where the reaction could determine whether the current advance extends toward the next major supply zone.
The estimated wait to withdraw from staking reached 14.77 days. Jiang Zhuoer said some long-term holders consider Ether's current price high and need to sell to lock in profits.
The Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet on October 1.
Fraudsters drained more than 766 ETH—valued by the community at roughly $2 million—by launching a counterfeit Ethereum Layer 2 that posed as GIWA before the real network ever went live.
SparkLend's milestone highlights growing trust in conservative DeFi protocols, potentially influencing future lending market dynamics. SparkLend crosses 600,000 ETH in deposits, setting a new all-time high.
Crypto traders are becoming increasingly bearish on Ethereum and XRP.
zkAPI, built with the Open Anonymity Project and now live on Ethereum mainnet, uses zero-knowledge proofs so neither the AI provider nor the payment server can tie a user's requests to whoever paid for them.
The co-authors of EIP-8363 say Ethereum's issuance policy needs a dedicated process outside fork planning, and Lido has offered to help lead it.
The price was $2,752 15 minutes earlier and was down 0.54% over the past hour as of 6:26 p.m. ET.
The Ethereum Foundation made a significant privacy advancement this week. Through an official announcement, the organization revealed that zkAPI has been activated on Ethereum's main network, offering a new way to pay for AI services privately.
Ether was priced at $2,753.97 on Oct. 2.