Ethereum dives 4% following ongoing Foundation sales and ETF outflows

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  • Global Ethereum ETFs posted net outflows of $19 million.
  • Ethereum Foundation sells 100 ETH for $226,868 worth of DAI following price decline.
  • Ethereum Layer 2 network activity hits record highs.
  • ETH could decline toward symmetry triangle support after seeing rejection around a key descending trendline.

Ethereum (ETH) is down 4% on Monday following another round of sales by the ETH Foundation, totaling 100 ETH. Meanwhile, Layer 2 networks are experiencing record highs in network activity despite the price decline.

Daily digest market movers: Ethereum ETFs outflows, ETH Foundation sells again

Spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETF) globally continued their weekly outflow streak, posting $19 million in negative flows last week, per CoinShares report. US spot ETH ETFs, outweighed by Grayscale's ETHE outflow pressure, were responsible for over 67% of the flows.

Following CoinShares' report, the Ethereum Foundation sold 100 ETH for $226,868 DAI a few hours ago, per Spot On Chain. The move has taken the Foundation's total sales in the past few weeks to 650 ETH despite criticism from a few crypto community members.

Notably, ETH's price during most of the Foundation's sales have turned out to be weekly price tops. While most of its ETH sales are too small to cause a market decline, investors may be using the ETH Foundation activity as a proxy to time price tops, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Despite the Foundation's sales, crypto analyst HedgeX posted a chart on X showing that Ethereum validators reached an all-time high on Monday. Increasing validators implies growing decentralization, which is one of the key ethos of Web3.

Meanwhile, Ethereum Layer 2s hit a record high of over $10 billion in total value locked (TVL), over 2x of Solana's TVL, per Leon Waidmann, Head of Research at Onchain Insights. Apart from TVL, the Layer 2 user base also grew more than 35x weekly to reach a high of over 10 million active addresses, per data from growthepie.

ETH Layer 2 Weekly Active Addresses

ETH Layer 2 Weekly Active Addresses

ETH technical analysis: Ethereum sees rejection around key trendline

Ethereum is trading around $2,280 on Monday, down 4% on the day. In the past 24 hours, ETH has seen nearly $61 million in liquidations, with long and short liquidations accounting for $54.76 million and $6.06 million, respectively, per Coinglass data.

Ethereum is trading within a symmetry triangle that dates back to November 2021. After seeing a rejection on Friday around a descending trendline extending from May 27, ETH is fast declining following the resumption of traditional markets on Monday.

ETH/USDT Daily chart

ETH/USDT Daily chart

The trendline within the symmetry triangle suggests ETH could decline toward the $2,100 to $2,200 range in the coming days. ETH posted similar declines from August to November 2022 and July to October 2023 before eventually staging a rally. ETH could see an extended rally around October or November if history repeats.

On the way up, ETH faces resistance around the 2,817 price level. A sustained move above this level could fuel bullish momentum for ETH, considering it was a critical support level for over four months before flipping into a resistance following the market crash on August 5. The 50-day, 100-day and 200-day Simple Moving Averages (SMA) also stand as potential resistance.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastic Oscillator (Stoch) momentum indicators are below their neutral levels, indicating prevailing bearish pressure.

A sustained move below the symmetry triangle will invalidate the thesis.

In the short term, ETH could decline to $2,261 to liquidate positions worth $24.73 million.

Ethereum FAQs

Ethereum is a decentralized open-source blockchain with smart contracts functionality. Serving as the basal network for the Ether (ETH) cryptocurrency, it is the second largest crypto and largest altcoin by market capitalization. The Ethereum network is tailored for scalability, programmability, security, and decentralization, attributes that make it popular among developers.

Ethereum uses decentralized blockchain technology, where developers can build and deploy applications that are independent of the central authority. To make this easier, the network has a programming language in place, which helps users create self-executing smart contracts. A smart contract is basically a code that can be verified and allows inter-user transactions.

Staking is a process where investors grow their portfolios by locking their assets for a specified duration instead of selling them. It is used by most blockchains, especially the ones that employ Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism, with users earning rewards as an incentive for committing their tokens. For most long-term cryptocurrency holders, staking is a strategy to make passive income from your assets, putting them to work in exchange for reward generation.

Ethereum transitioned from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism in an event christened “The Merge.” The transformation came as the network wanted to achieve more security, cut down on energy consumption by 99.95%, and execute new scaling solutions with a possible threshold of 100,000 transactions per second. With PoS, there are less entry barriers for miners considering the reduced energy demands.

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