2025 has been a rollercoaster of a year for the second-largest cryptocurrency. It began on a high note, alongside the rest of the market, but slumped after the first Trump-induced tariffs to under $1,500 in April. It went on a massive run in the following months and broke its 2021 all-time high by coming inches away from the $5,000 mark.<\/p>\n
The trend since then has been precisely the opposite, as it plunged by almost 50% to bottom out at $2,600 in late November. Despite a few price jumps above $3,000, it has been unable to reclaim that level decisively and now sits inches below it. But there are additional warning shots for its future price performance.<\/p>\n
Data shared by Ali Martinez shows that Ethereum whales had disposed of $360 million worth of ETH in the past week alone. Their total holdings have been declining ever since the early October run-up from more than 5.73 million tokens to 5.61 million as of press time.<\/p>\n
$360 million in Ethereum $ETH<\/a> sold by whales in just one week! pic.twitter.com\/wUNcGoJi5r<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ali Charts (@alicharts) December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n Another worrying trend on the sell side is the recent behavior of investors using the spot Ethereum ETFs to gain exposure to the asset. Farside data paints a clear picture, as the funds have been in the red for seven consecutive trading days since December 11. They have lost almost $650 million in the past week alone, and over $700 million since December 11.<\/p>\n The total net inflows into the ETH-based exchange-traded funds stood at over $15 billion in early October but have declined to under $12.5 billion as of Friday\u2019s close.<\/p>\n Unlike the aforementioned selling spree by different cohorts of investors, on-chain data suggests that retail has been returning. Santiment presented<\/a> evidence that the number of newly created ETH addresses has seen a few impressive spikes to well over 190,000 daily in December, which are levels even higher than those seen in July, right before the underlying asset started to gain traction.<\/p>\n Additionally, some analysts, such as Merlijn The Trader, believe ETH could be on the verge of a breakout. He compared the current setup to the 2015-2018 parabolic rally in terms of accumulation that could open the door for the asset to surge by triple-digits against BTC.<\/p>\n \u201cThis Ethereum Move Will Catch Everyone Off Guard,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n The post Is Ethereum Crashing Again? 2 Major Warning Signs You Can\u2019t Ignore<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2025 has been a rollercoaster of a year for the second-largest cryptocurrency. It began on a high note, alongside the rest of the market, but slumped after the first Trump-induced tariffs to under $1,500 in April. It went on a massive run in the following months and broke its 2021 all-time high by coming inches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":122063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Flipside<\/h2>\n