Ether Risks Lapsing Into Bear Market as Crypto Selloff Deepens

Just two months ago, enthusiasm around Ethereum — the blockchain that powers a key corner of the crypto economy — was spilling into the mainstream. Its native token, Ether, had surged to a four-year high as investors treated it as both a currency and a bet on the network’s growing role in payments and finance. Wall Street desks were structuring funds around it, and SWIFT’s pilot of an Ethereum-linked ledger seemed to confirm its arrival as real-world infrastructure.