Pump.fun now lets creators change fee wallets only once after launch, moving 
to curb “vamping” on Solana as platform revenue falls and industry figures 
call for coordinated reform. Pump.fun, the dominant Solana (SOL)-based 
memecoin launchpad, announced a significant protocol change on March…

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Ethereum is trading below $2,200. The market is volatile. And yet, quietly, 
the structural case for ETH has never looked more constrained on the supply 
side. A new CryptoQuant report reveals that 38.31 million ETH — roughly 31.4% 
of the total supply — is now locked in staking, an all-time high. That is not 
a footnote. It is the most significant supply development in Ethereum&#8217;s recent 
history, and the price has not caught up to it yet. Related Reading: Bitcoin 
Structure Has Changed: UTXO Data Challenges Traditional Cycle Narratives The 
data is unambiguous: the ETH 2.0 Staking Rate indicator just recorded its 
highest reading ever, meaning nearly one in three Ether in existence is off 
the market, unavailable for immediate sale, and contributing nothing to 
exchange liquidity. Simultaneously, the circulating supply of Ethereum on 
Binance has fallen to its lowest level since 2020 — a parallel compression 
that tightens the market from two directions at once. The analysis reveals a 
market hollowing out from the inside. Sellers have less to sell. Buyers face a 
thinner book. And volatility, for now, is masking a structural shift that the 
price has yet to fully price in. A Market Being Drained From Both Ends The 
report makes the consequence plain: nearly one third of all Ethereum in 
existence is no longer available for immediate sale. That is not a temporary 
dislocation. It is the cumulative result of a sustained behavioral shift — 
investors moving capital out of active trading and into long-term staking, 
with no indication of reversal. The exchange data sharpens the picture 
further. Ethereum&#8217;s circulating supply on exchanges has fallen to its lowest 
level since 2016. Not since last cycle. Not since the last correction. Since 
2016, a figure that reframes the entire conversation about where this market 
stands structurally. What that number means in practice is straightforward: 
the book is thin. When available supply contracts to historic lows, the market 
loses its buffer. Modest buying pressure — the kind that would barely register 
in a liquid market — becomes capable of triggering outsized price moves. The 
mechanism for a supply shock is not theoretical. It is already assembled. 
Selling pressure is declining because sellers are becoming holders. Holders 
are becoming stakers. And stakers, by definition, are not selling. The market 
is not just tightening. It is being restructured in real time. Related 
Reading: Ethereum Price Divergence Signals Weak US Buying Pressure: Coinbase 
Premium Stays Negative The Chart Tells a Harder Story Ethereum is currently 
trading at $2,180, up 6.16% on the week but still navigating one of the more 
structurally precarious positions it has occupied since the 2022 bear market. 
The weekly candle opened at $2,053, tapped a high of $2,198, and has not yet 
reclaimed it — a detail that matters. The longer context is sobering. After 
peaking near $4,800 in early 2025, ETH has retraced more than 50% over roughly 
twelve months. The current price sits below all three major moving averages 
visible on the chart — the short-term blue, the mid-term green, and the long- 
term red — an alignment that technically defines a market still in 
distribution, not accumulation. Related Reading: Bitmine Locks 68% of Ethereum 
Holdings As Staking Position Surpasses $6.75B What the chart also shows is 
where support has historically lived. The $2,000 level has acted as a 
structural floor across multiple cycles, and last week&#8217;s wick to $1,700 — 
which was bought aggressively, as the volume spike confirms — suggests that 
floor is being defended. For now. The critical question is not whether $2,180 
holds. It is whether ETH can reclaim $2,500 and put distance between itself 
and those moving averages. Until it does, every rally is a test, not a trend. 
Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com

Ethereum Staking Ratio Hits Record 31.4% As Exchange Supply Crashes To 2016 Lows

Chainlink’s (LINK) price is changing hands around $9.42 today, with 1-hour 
gains of 0.13%, a 24-hour rise of 3.64% and a 7-day increase of 1.19%, putting 
its market capitalization at roughly $6.67 billion on a circulating supply of 
about 708.09…

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DeFi&#8217;s robustness, bridging traditional finance and blockchain.
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Trump taps Silicon Valley and crypto-linked leaders to steer U.S. science 
policy, signaling a deeper fusion of emerging technologies, economic strategy, 
and digital assets within federal advisory priorities. Trump Names Tech Titans 
to Science Policy Council A federal advisory body on science policy is being 
reconstituted to address technological change and economic impact. The White 
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