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Ethereum is trying to clean up its image just as it’s losing its grip. The Ethereum Foundation launched a campaign in 2025 called the “Trillion Dollar Security Initiative” to promote the blockchain as the only serious option for securing real-world value.
But the effort comes at a time when the project is slipping across the board, from price performance to user attention and developer support, while Solana is gaining fast.
The message coming from Ethereum’s leadership is all about stability, uptime, and security. But Ether, the token that runs on it, hasn’t kept up with Bitcoin since the Merge upgrade was rolled out in 2022. The gap has only widened.
The Ether-to-Bitcoin price ratio has stayed on a downward slope since then, and Ethereum has struggled to pull in new interest even as it added new tech upgrades. Instead of regaining momentum, it has seen core users and builders Ethereum’s leadership walk away.
Solana gains traction while Ethereum loses ground
In 2024, Solana’s active developer count jumped by 83%, while Ethereum’s dropped by 17%, data from Electric Capital showed. Cheaper fees and better user experience on Solana have pulled in a younger crowd that’s more focused on speed, memecoins, and new ideas than Ethereum’s long-term vision.
That same audience drove Solana’s price to an all-time high earlier this year while Ether stayed mostly flat. Ethereum’s ecosystem has gotten too fragmented, and developers are opting out of dealing with Layer-2 rollups like Base and Arbitrum just to get basic dApps running.
Even the Ethereum Foundation’s own move to promote security is being questioned. Katie Talati, head of research at Arca, said the new initiative was less of a breakthrough and more of a branding effort. “This feels more like a marketing repositioning from the Ethereum Foundation than an actual technical innovation,” Katie said.
“I don’t believe that this announcement alone will be enough to recapture developer and user mindshare. But over the long term, a greater focus on security guarantees via improvements to UX/UI will attract more developers. Users, however, only come when there is something interesting to use.”
Part of Ethereum’s current struggle comes from its scaling progress. After the Dencun upgrade last year, Ethereum did make progress on moving activity off the main chain. But most of that activity landed on Layer-2s.
The core network hasn’t kept that momentum, and as a result, Ether’s burn rate has dropped. That weakens the coin’s previous deflationary pitch, one of the key reasons investors used to hold it in the first place.
Wall Street push fails to spark interest in Ether ETFs
Now, Ethereum’s leaders are chasing attention in Washington and on Wall Street. A group called Etherealize, formed with support from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and led by researcher Vivek Raman, is focused on lobbying for the blockchain’s future in traditional finance.
Vivek explained the strategy in an email, saying, “We speak to TradFi and Wall Street players all day and in the end — a blockchain’s security is the most important quality to ensure trust.” He added that Ethereum’s role will be as “digital oil” to complement Bitcoin’s role as “digital gold.”
That narrative hasn’t worked out well so far. In 2025, spot Ether ETFs in the US saw $42 million in net outflows. At the same time, Bitcoin ETFs brought in $8 billion across a dozen funds. Institutions seem more interested in returns and yield than Ethereum’s security pitch. Ethereum’s roadmap hasn’t been convincing enough to pull serious capital out of Bitcoin’s orbit.
At the same time, Michael Saylor’s firm MicroStrategy is going all-in on Bitcoin again. His company just announced it would sell $2.1 billion worth of 10% “perpetual strife” preferred stock to buy more Bitcoin. That kind of headline doesn’t help Ethereum’s case.
When one chain is pulling in billions through aggressive buying strategies, and the other is launching rebrands to chase institutional money that isn’t even arriving, the contrast is sharp.
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One analyst has pointed out how Dogecoin is showing a breakout from the Bull Pennant. Here's where the target could be, based on the pattern.
Dogecoin Just Saw a Surge That Broke Above Bull Pennant Resistance
In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez talked about a pattern that has formed in the hourly price of Dogecoin recently. The pattern in question is the “Bull Pennant,” a type of Pennant from technical analysis (TA). Pennants form whenever the price of an asset sees a consolidation between two converging trendlines after a strong move. The initial fast move is called the ‘pole’ and the consolidation channel is called the ‘pennant’.
This arrangement is similar to that of Flag patterns, with the main difference between the two being that the Flag consists of parallel consolidation channels, not triangular channels. Like other consolidation patterns in TA, when the price is stuck inside the pennant, it is likely to face resistance above and support below.
Pennants are generally considered to be continuation patterns, so the breakout is likely to occur in the same direction as the previous move (i.e. in the same direction as the pole). When the pole is pointing up, the resulting Pennant is called a Bull Pennant. Likewise, when it is in the opposite direction, it forms what is known as a Bear Pennant.
Here is a chart shared by the analyst showing the Bull Pennant that the 1-hour Dogecoin price has likely been trading within recently:
As can be seen in the chart above, Dogecoin has seen a net consolidation to the downside within the previous Bull Pennant, but now, with the latest surge of the asset, its price has been able to break above the resistance line.
So far, memecoin has not gained much distance on the way, so it is yet to be confirmed whether this is a real breakout or not. If it is indeed the case and the dominant pattern here is a Bull Pennant, then it is likely that DOGE will see a rally of similar size to the extreme of the pattern.
The length of this Bull Pennant-related extreme puts the breakout target at around $0.31. If memecoin can run to this mark, its price would increase by nearly 30% from current levels.
Now we have to wait and see how Dogecoin will develop in the coming days and whether its path will resemble the one outlined by this model.#MerlinTradingCompetition $DOGE