Ethereum Moves Sideways, Why ETH’s Price Has Slowed DeFi Activity

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Ethereum crashed to $1,770 in one of the worst days for the first cryptocurrency by market cap in 2021. At the time of writing, it has reclaimed the high area around these levels and trades at $1,991 with a 4.6% profit in the daily chart.A recent report by Glassnode Insights, written by Luke Posey, investigates the implications of these price action in the Ethereum ecosystem. The analyst believes both the cryptocurrency and DeFi token prices are showing weakness with EIP-1559 not having the expected catalyzer effect.
Ethereum’s network has seen low activity and its transaction fees have declined to levels last seen in summer 2020. Most of the activity has been taken by decentralized exchanges with Uniswap still number dominating this metric.
The DEX sector has experienced the highest growth in the ecosystem with a 5,600% increase year over year in terms of volume. This metric has been consolidating around $2 billion daily with an increase in periods of high volatility.Source