Ether's order-book depth slid to 35-45% of bitcoin's in the third quarter, CoinGecko found, while its price rose 70%. The slide came mainly from bitcoin's book growing by about half while ether's stayed near $13 million to $14 million.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
The exchange reports $5.36m of reserves, most of it its own token, against CoinMarketCap volume of $272.6m. The proof-of-reserves report it promised in May is now 90 days late.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Roughly 400 million FOGO, about 4% of supply and some $3 million, left foundation wallets, and containing it took a full network halt, which tells holders where the keys and the stop button both sit.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives74
- Confidence36
The exchange promised proof of reserves on May 23 and has not delivered it. Its founder now says he will take his own staff's unpaid-wage claims to the police.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives72
- Confidence57
HIP-3 open interest is past $4 billion, and roughly a fifth of it sits in two contracts on one South Korean memory maker. Concentration, not tokenization, is the story.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives66
- Confidence33