The price of ETH has seen gains at the start of the week, bouncing back from selling pressure over the weekend and trading at $1,630. Despite negative market pressure since June, ETH has sustained support above $1,530. If the support area from $1,600 to $1,630 holds, Ethereum may consolidate with an upper limit of $1,700 before the next breakout targeting highs above $2,000.

Major cryptocurrencies saw positive performance on Monday, September 18, with investors regaining confidence in digital currencies. Bitcoin's price rose 0.15% to $26,585.27 over the last 24 hours, while Ethereum's price remained flat at $1,629.15. XRP's price increased by 0.11% to $0.4973, and Litecoin's price added 1.06% to trade at $64.63.

Ethereum executed the beacon chain merge on September 15th, 2022, and today marks the one-year anniversary of the merge. According to on-chain data provider Ultrasound.money, the Ethereum supply has decreased by 299,722.81 ETH since the merge, keeping Ethereum in a state of deflation. In addition, the amount of ETH burned since the merge has reached 981,698.48, worth approximately $1,655,780,441.

Lido's collateral ratio reached 32.26%, with a net inflow of 2.596 million ETH since the upgrade in Shanghai. In addition, the total amount of ETH collateral is 26.77 million, which is 22.27% of the supply.

Metis plans to become Ethereum's first decentralized L2 this year, allowing its community to take control of critical centralized components of the network.Metis co-founder Elena Sinelnikova said that by authorizing community control of the decentralized sequencer pool, Metis aims to demonstrate the advantages of maintaining L2 scalability while reducing centralization risks.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 21,000 ETH (worth $34,227,360) has been transferred from an unknown wallet to OKEx.

XRP's price has risen by 3% to reach $0.5, thanks to positive US CPI data and a new Bitcoin ETF filing by Franklin Templeton Investments. The cryptocurrency has broken out of a falling wedge pattern and could potentially reach $0.7. Ripple is planning to hold a "Proper Party" on September 29 to celebrate its win against the SEC, with potential announcements including an IPO.

PeckShield, attackers on the cryptocurrency trading platform CoinEx used Stargate to transfer 113 ETH from Arbitrum to the Ethereum mainnet, and then transferred them to centralized trading platforms such as Binance and FixedFloat.

According to PeckShield monitoring, the attacker of CoinEx transferred 113 ETH across chains to Ethereum and then transferred them to exchanges, including FixedFloat and Binance.

Ethereum has made significant progress in reducing energy consumption and becoming economically deflationary since transitioning to proof of stake a year ago, but technical challenges persist. The Merge, which took place on September 15, 2022, resulted in a 99.9% reduction in energy use and the dominance of liquid staking providers like Lido.

According to DefiLlama data, the 24-hour protocol revenue of friend.tech reached 2.27 million US dollars, ranking second only to Ethereum and surpassing Lido.

According to Etherscan data on September 15th, Banana Gun: Router had a gas consumption of 35.51 ETH in the past 3 hours, ranking third in gas consumption. It has consumed a total of 115.69 ETH in the past 24 hours.

ZachXBT that a smart contract allowing for legal refund requests has been deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and zkSync. All donors can apply for a refund within the next 365 days, with the refunded amount adjusted proportionally based on legal fees incurred. Due to compatibility issues, all zkSync donors must claim their refund on Arbitrum.

Lookonchain monitoring shows that after a market downturn 4 hours ago, a whale address went long on ETH and WBTC on Compound. The whale deposited 4,998 ETH ($7.75 million) into Compound and borrowed $6 million in stablecoins. They then purchased 3,218 ETH ($5 million) at a price of $1,554 and 39.4 WBTC ($1 million) at a price of $25,393.

PeckShield monitoring found that the phishing attacker who previously attacked a whale address and obtained 24.23 million US dollars in encrypted currency has once again transferred 2,000 ETH (3.1 million US dollars) to a new address 0x71C8...790e, and about 600 ETH was sent to Tornado Cash.

September 12th, according to Coinglass data, the entire network liquidated $167 million USD in the past 24 hours, of which long positions were liquidated for $150 million USD, Bitcoin was liquidated for $77.5699 million USD, and Ethereum was liquidated for $33.8199 million USD.

According to Ultrasound data, up to now, a total of 3,595,078.52 ETH have been burned on the Ethereum network. Among them, OpenSea burned 230,050.68 ETH, ETHtransfers burned 301,250.52 ETH, and UniswapV2 burned 205,245.87 ETH. <br>

On September 9th, according to data shared by CryptoSea founder Crypto Rover on X platform, there are currently 14.7 million ETH on trading platforms, while there are 28.1 million ETH in staking contracts, which is nearly twice the former.

Chris Burniske, founder of Placeholder Capital and former head of crypto at ARK Invest, has expressed bullish sentiment on Solana (SOL), a leading Ethereum competitor. He predicts that an investment of $75,000 in SOL could turn into $2 million, based on the assumption that SOL will reach a price double its all-time high of about $260 recorded in November 2021.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 13:14:11 Beijing time, 21,410 ETH (worth $34,983,372) was transferred from an unknown wallet address to Coinbase.