Jetonul nativ al Ethereum, Ether (ETH), continues to face downside risks in a mediu cu rate mai mari ale dobânzii. But one analyst believes that the token’s next selloff move could turn into a bear trap as the market factors in the possible release of the Merge this coming August.
ETH to $4K?
Ether’s price could reach $4,000 by 2022’s end, conform to a technical setup shared on May 20 by Wolf, an independent market analyst.
The analyst envisioned ETH moving inside a multi-month ascending triangle pattern, which comprises a horizontal trendline resistance and rising trendline support.
Notably, ETH’s latest retest of the structure’s lower trendline could initiate a big rebound toward its upper trendline, which sits around the $4,000-level, as shown below.
Wolf took his bullish cues from a similar triangle setup from 2016, whose formation preceded a major bull run from $1 to $27. Similarly, another ascending triangle occurrence in 2017 coincided with a bullish follow-up, wherein ETH/USD rose 270% to over $1,500.
The Merge vs. low liquidity “death spiral”
Wolf’s fractal-based analysis came as Preston Van Loon, one of the Ethereum core developers, confirmed that the blockchain project’s much-anticipated upgrade to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism would occur sometime in August.
Lup notat that Ethereum was setting up a “bear trap,” which would make sense prior to the upgrade, complimenting his technical setup, as discussed above.
Bear trap few months from the #combina are sens. $ ETH
— Wolf (@IamCryptoWolf) 20 Mai, 2022
The pending upgrade was one of the key catalysts behind Ether’s price rally in 2021, as many investors believed it would improve the long-standing scalability problem in the Ethereum blockchain while cutting transaction and gas costs. Nonetheless, Ethereum Foundation kept delaying the launch.
“Undoubtedly, this lack of progress has played a major role in Ethereum’s recent price decline,” Bitfreedom Research, a tech-stock and crypto research entity, notat while predicting ETH’s price to decline toward $950–$1,900 by October 2022.
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The firm cited higher interest rates as the core reason behind its bearish outlook for Ethereum, noting:
“The crypto market moves extraordinarily fast, which means crypto companies need LOTS of cash to power rapid growth. With no cash available, this can lead Ethereum’s ERC20-token economy to move in a death spiral.”
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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-preparing-a-bear-trap-ahead-of-the-merge-eth-price-to-4k-next