The story of Ethereum can't go on anymore; it's been getting more and more disappointing over the years.

In this bull market, retail investors have all moved to Solana to play, those into contracts have gone to Hyperliquid, and Layer 2 still looks half-dead, not even Vitalik himself mentions "general-purpose Layer 2" anymore.
Ethereum used to boast that "DeFi is the safest, institutions love to use it," but now when something happens with Aave, it directly damages that reputation, and confidence is about to collapse.
2026