PANews, February 18 — According to Forbes, industry insiders believe that Ethereum is currently in a “gap period between narratives,” where the market tends to price in uncertainty when lacking a clear long-term value proposition. Over the past few years, the mainstream market narrative has been that scalability mainly occurs on Layer 2, while the mainnet maintains security, decentralization, and a streamlined architecture. This approach has successfully attracted capital and development resources. However, the current market focus is shifting back to zero-knowledge technology and privacy capabilities at the base layer, causing some investors who built valuation models based on the old approach to have misaligned expectations. Fully on-chain transparency presents practical obstacles for institutional funds; large corporations and funds are reluctant to have their trading strategies tracked in real time. If Ethereum aims to attract trillion-dollar institutional capital, protocol-level privacy features will become a key competitive factor. Additionally, the expansion of options markets around spot ETFs is also changing Ethereum’s price formation mechanism, with the influence of covered call strategies and market maker hedging behaviors continuing to grow.
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