Ethereum can be useful infrastructure without ETH being attractive at every price.

ETH pays transaction fees and backs validator participation. The base portion of transaction fees is burned. Those mechanisms explain the token's role, but they don't settle its valuation.

A useful engineering question is how the product's activity reaches demand for the asset.

Start with the user: what needs Ethereum, why choose it over an alternative, and who pays? Then ask whether that demand survives when incentives disappear. A busy application and durable token demand aren't automatically the same thing.

Next, examine supply, issuance, burning and liquidity alongside the price. Use dated measurements and consistent time periods. High activity can still disappoint an investor if the price already assumes much stronger growth.

Finally, write down what would weaken the argument. Competition could reduce demand. Technical failures could damage trust. Usage could grow without producing the economic benefit expected for ETH.

That last step makes the research useful when conditions change. A thesis with a failure condition can be tested; a story that explains every outcome can't.

https://ethereum.org/developers/docs/intro-to-ether/

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