Ethereum

According to Alibaba AI, crypto markets have largely priced in earlier war-related fears and could see strong upside into 2026, with fresh highs projected for XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The model points to XRP potentially reaching $12 from around $1.38, Bitcoin climbing toward $150,000, and Ethereum breaking above $5,000 and possibly hitting $6,000 by year's end. It also flags early-stage meme coin Maxi Doge, built on Ethereum, as a high-risk play seeking outsized returns through its ongoing presale and staking incentives.

BitMine Immersion Technologies has revealed a staked Ether position valued at about $6.0 billion, representing roughly 3.04 million ETH and a reported 3.71% share of Ethereum’s circulating supply. The company also disclosed that its combined crypto, cash, and high-risk investments total approximately $9.9 billion, while investors weigh the implications for staking yield, liquidity, and concentration risk.

According to CryptoQuant, 38% of altcoins are trading close to their all-time lows, highlighting persistent pressure on smaller market cap tokens. At the same time, institutional investors are directing capital toward U.S. spot Ethereum and Bitcoin ETFs, which saw net inflows of $38.7 million and over $458 million respectively. BlackRock's Ethereum ETF contributed about $26.5 million of the ETH inflows, while the broader market remains in a risk-off mood, with sentiment gauges still signaling fear.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence model, expects Ethereum’s price outlook this year to remain constructive, even as the asset trades near $1,936 and is down 35% since the start of the year. The model forecasts a potential rebound to a $3,500–$5,500 range over the next ten months, which would exceed Ethereum’s August 24, 2025 all-time high of $4,953. As a base-case scenario, DeepSeek pinpoints $4,000 by 2026, linking this to Ethereum’s role in DeFi, RWA tokenization and growing institutional access via spot ETFs.

Ethereum (ETH) is preparing the ‘Glamsterdam’ upgrade, which Vitalik Buterin detailed in a March 2 post, introducing ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation) to curb block builder centralization. The roadmap also features FOCIL for multi-party transaction inclusion, encrypted mempools to mitigate toxic MEV, and longer-term ideas for more distributed block construction inspired by systems like BitTorrent.

Bitcoin is consolidating near $67,000 while spot Bitcoin ETFs led by BlackRock's IBIT register $263.2 million in inflows, with additional contributions from Fidelity, Bitwise and Ark. Major altcoins including Ethereum, BNB and Solana also post weekly gains as total crypto market capitalization hovers around $2.3 trillion and sentiment remains in the Fear zone.

CoinShares reports that institutional investors allocated a total of $1,000,000,000 to Bitcoin and other crypto investment products over a single week, ending a prior five-week run of $4,000,000,000 in outflows. Bitcoin products drew $881,000,000, while Ethereum and Solana attracted $117,000,000 and $53,800,000 respectively, with the majority of inflows coming from the US market. Despite the sharp rebound, Bitcoin and Ethereum products still show net outflows year-to-date, while Solana investment products have accumulated $156,000,000 in net inflows.

U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded about $458 million in net inflows on Monday, with BlackRock's IBIT alone attracting more than half of that total. Analysts said large investors are treating the latest pullback and ongoing geopolitical instability as an attractive entry point and increasingly see bitcoin as a maturing diversifier asset, while related Ethereum and Solana products also drew fresh capital.

Digital asset investment products saw $1 billion in net inflows last week, ending a five-week stretch of $4 billion in redemptions as large Bitcoin holders and softer prices encouraged fresh buying. Bitcoin products captured $881 million and Ethereum drew $117 million, while Solana, Chainlink, XRP, and Sui also recorded positive flows across key markets led by the United States. Over the same period, crypto markets stayed range-bound amid rising geopolitical tensions and a US strike on Iran that briefly pushed Bitcoin toward $63,000 and Ethereum below $2,000 before prices reverted to prior trading ranges.

Ethereum rebounded from $1,950 and moved above $1,920, $1,960 and $2,000, before pausing after a high near $2,089. The price is now holding above $1,960 and the 100-hour Simple Moving Average, with a rising channel support near $1,960 and key resistance levels at $2,040, $2,080, $2,120 and $2,155. A failure to break $2,080 could trigger a pullback toward $1,990, $1,960, $1,930 or even the $1,880–$1,840 support area.