#Ethereum-ETH :

Are the $10,000$ ETH back in play?

What if Ethereum arrived too soon for its own good? And is it only now that Ethereum's long-term vision of an on-chain financial system is coming to fruition?

For lack of a better phrase, Ethereum certainly isn't as sexy as it used to be.

In 2017, it was the most exciting cryptocurrency that had ever existed, possibly even more than Bitcoin. And the 2017 ICO mania caused the price of Ethereum to explode to dizzying heights.

The vision was that all investment and capital markets would be built on Ethereum, that our world would be on-chain and that it would be Ethereum's chain that would exist. While it wasn’t the first “smart contract” blockchain, it quickly became the most successful.

And then I realized traditional finance hated cryptocurrencies and didn’t want to have anything to do with them.

Ethereum had, proverbially, crossed the line. And although in 2021 it would reach new price highs, the vision of its beginnings had long been forgotten.

And that’s why ETH is trading at the same price it was four years ago.

But what if Ethereum arrived too soon for its own good? And is it only now that traditional finance is rapidly becoming a complete crypto degenerate that Ethereum's long-term vision of an on-chain financial system is coming to fruition?

And if our future is on-chain and with Ethereum… will the $10,000 ETH be back in play?