Overview
- Ethereum has dropped about 23.5% over the past 30 days to roughly $1,557, with price trading near $1,550 on Saturday and immediate support around $1,500–$1,510.
- On-chain data show every major whale cohort is now sitting on unrealized losses for the first time since 2019, a rare sign of large-holder capitulation that has previously aligned with market troughs.
- The Estimated Leverage Ratio fell from 1.11 to 0.85 over three weeks, signaling that many leveraged positions were closed or liquidated and reducing forced-liquidation risk while also shrinking speculative demand.
- Spot ETH exchange-traded funds have recorded consecutive weekly net outflows and are on pace for a seventh straight week of withdrawals, removing a steady source of institutional buying pressure.
- A Protocol Guild organizer who recently left the Ethereum Foundation warned of a potential $30 million per year shortfall for core development, a finance gap that would push teams to seek new institutional funding or change how protocol work is paid for.