Forget a Big September Catalyst: Ethereum’s Real Strength Lies Elsewhere, Says Curve Finance

Ethereum (ETH) has managed to tap $4,600 level after this week’s market ￰0￱ latest recovery remains modest, as the leading altcoin gained a little more than 7% over the past ￰1￱ now argue, though, that September won’t bring flashy catalysts either. Don’t Expect Fireworks in September In a statement to CryptoPotato , Curve Finance said September is unlikely to bring a single “headline” catalyst. Instead, the team added that Ethereum’s importance lies in its role as the underlying infrastructure powering decentralized finance (DeFi). By calling it the “operating system of DeFi,” they added that even though the market has seen a pullback after ETH’s all-time high, the network’s long-term fundamentals remain strong, with institutional adoption steadily growing.

“These may not make daily headlines, but they are precisely what cements Ethereum as the backbone of both DeFi and the emerging digital ￰2￱ at the base layer is ￰3￱ by the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik Buterin, and the zk/ethproofs groups are steadily pushing L1 scalability forward.” The comments align with the Ethereum Foundation’s recent move when it outlined its ambitious “Trillion Dollar Security” with the phase focusing on strengthening user experience (UX) security, combining immediate fixes with longer-term initiatives that aim to protect Ethereum as it ￰4￱ Foundation stated that wallet security sits at the heart of this effort, as safe key management and transaction signing are essential for user ￰5￱ setting a baseline security standard for wallets and addressing blind signing risks, the EF seeks to ensure Ethereum can support billions of users and trillions in on-chain ￰6￱ structural focus is reflected in on-chain trends as well.

Ethereum’s Contract Boom CryptoQuant’s analysis revealed that Ethereum’s recent surge in new smart contract creation is a strong indicator of renewed network utility and ￰7￱ back, Smart contract growth has long mirrored Ethereum’s market ￰8￱ 2020-2021 DeFi and NFT boom, for example, coincided with a massive ETH ￰9￱ similar bursts of contract activity have also preceded corrections, most notably in 2018 and late ￰10￱ current renewed surge in contract deployment demonstrated confidence in Ethereum’s long-term ￰11￱ such, growth in this metric could provide the structural base for ETH to climb beyond the much-anticipated $5,000 threshold.