ETH down 6.7% after crypto ‘Black Monday,’ showing more resilience than alts

Ether (ETH), the autochthonal cryptocurrency of the layer-1 Ethereum blockchain network, is down astir 6.7% successful the past 24 hours, pursuing Friday’s marketplace crash, showing greater terms resilience than galore altcoins, which crashed by implicit 95% successful immoderate cases.

The marketplace clang sparked by US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement took the terms of ETH down to a debased of astir $3,510 connected Friday, a diminution of implicit 20% successful a azygous day.

Price tapped the 200-day exponential moving mean (EMA), a dynamic enactment level, earlier rebounding to implicit $3,800. The comparative spot scale (RSI) is besides astatine 35, nearing oversold conditions, signaling a imaginable reversal to the upside. 

Ethereum terms enactment and analysis. Source: TradingView

The abrupt marketplace downturn liquidated astir 1.6 cardinal crypto traders, according to Coinglass. Following the marketplace carnage, Sassal, a crypto investor, said:

“BTC and ETH did comparatively good compared to the long-tail of alts, which nuked 70% oregon more, with immoderate adjacent going down 95% oregon more. I'm not usually into conspiracies, but intelligibly this was not mean marketplace behavior.”

Friday’s marketplace clang represented the astir terrible crypto liquidation lawsuit successful history, wiping distant up to $20 billion successful 24 hours and shaking capitalist assurance successful the markets, arsenic fears of a protracted commercialized warfare betwixt the US and China gripped traders.

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ETH to $5,500 adjacent oregon volition inbound merchantability unit suppress price?

ETH is down implicit 22% from its all-time precocious of $4,957 reached successful August, according to information from TradingView.

Analysts from concern probe steadfast Fundstrat forecast that ETH could rally to a new all-time precocious of $5,550 aft bottoming retired successful Friday’s marketplace downturn.

Ether speech inflow mean hits highest level recoded successful 2025. Source: CryptoQuant

However, imaginable merchantability unit could support prices down. The Ethereum speech inflow mean, a metric that tracks the fig of coins sent to exchanges for imaginable selling, reached 79 connected Saturday, according to CryptoQuant.

This marks the highest level of ETH speech inflows recorded successful 2025. Higher speech inflow levels tin mean accrued selling pressure, portion reduced speech inflows awesome that investors are holding for the agelong term, creating a instauration for terms increases. 

Withdrawals from Ethereum’s staking queue besides hit a grounds $10 cardinal successful October, which could awesome imaginable merchantability unit from validators exiting the queue, but does not needfully mean they volition sell, analysts from marketplace quality level Nansen told Cointelegraph.

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