Ether jumps to all-time high above $2,000, in step with bitcoin's latest rally

"[Bitcoin] is a benchmark for investors' confidence in store of value, while interest in assets like [ether] that focus on the programmable, smart contract side of the ecosystem show investors optimism for the utility and potential of decentralized finance," John Wu, President at Ava Labs, the team behind Avalanche, told Insider. "Ethereum breaking past this threshold may result in a paradigm shift that will benefit the two to three smart contract networks gaining real traction with decentralized finance."

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