After weeks of whisper-quiet consolidation, Ethereum has finally found its voice, roaring through a historically thin price zone with conviction. Backed by heavy volume and strong weekly closes, ETH’s breakout isn’t just technical. The silence is over, and the bulls are back in charge. Weekly Charts Tell The Story: ETH Strength vs. SOL Struggle Cazz, in a recent update on X, highlighted a significant development on the Ethereum weekly chart. The ETH/USD pair has broken out of an 8-week tight consolidation range. This breakout came on the back of high volume and strong weekly closes near the highs. Its rapid price movement through a historically thin zone further confirms that this is classic big money behavior. Related Reading: Ethereum Bulls Roar — $3K Beckons After 5% Spike The technical structure suggests Ethereum’s bullish momentum is not only gaining traction but also aligning with broader institutional interest. This kind of breakout pattern often indicates the start of a stronger trend, especially when accompanied by elevated volume and price conviction as seen on the chart. In contrast, the SOL/ETH chart is showing a completely different story. Cazz pointed out that the pair is breaking down below long-term support on the weekly timeframe. This signals relative weakness and may be a sign that market participants are shifting preference away from SOL in the short and medium term. While Solana could still deliver in isolated moves, the overall structure puts Ethereum as the stronger asset. Cazz’s analysis suggests a shift in market leadership, with Ethereum gaining strength through “classic big money behavior” while Solana shows weakness. As ETH asserts itself as the institutional Layer 1, it could be entering a more dominant phase in the near term. ETH Shifts Gears: From Accumulation To Acceleration According to Cazz, after “more than a year of sideways action and base building,” which he notes “can be a sign of institutions building substantial positions,” ETH appears to be transitioning into a new leadership phase. This shift is backed by strong fundamentals (tokenized treasuries, RWAs, DeFi infra) and upcoming regulatory catalysts, all pointing toward Ethereum’s growing dominance. Related Reading: Ethereum Price Signals Strength — Bullish Pop May Be Just Ahead Cazz highlighted that “Ethereum memes are coming back to life on big volume,” signaling a strong return in community sentiment and trader interest. This renewed energy around Ethereum memes is happening as the price breaks through key levels and narratives regain traction in the market. In his observation, Cazz pointed out that some are already up 5-10x from local bottoms, showcasing just how quickly opportunities are unfolding in the Ethereum ecosystem. Such momentum suggests that the quiet accumulation phase may now be giving way to a more aggressive rally led by both fundamentals and capital rotation. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com
As the month nears its end, the crypto market turns momentarily red, with Solana (SOL) retesting a crucial support level that could determine its short-term performance. An analyst suggests that holding the current range over the weekend will be key for the long-awaited rally back to $200. Related Reading: Bitcoin $106,800 Support Retest To Determine Next Move – Breakout Or Breakdown Ahead? Solana Hits Multi-Week Low Amid the crypto market pullback, most cryptocurrencies are recording a red Friday, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) momentarily losing some key levels. Solana, one of the cycle’s leading Altcoins, followed the rest of the market and registered a 6% retracement in the daily timeframe. SOL has seen a significant recovery from its multi-month downtrend, which led the token to hit a 14-month low of $95 during the early April retraces. Over the past month and a half, the cryptocurrency has reclaimed multiple crucial levels, setting the stage for a potential rally. However, the cryptocurrency has struggled to reclaim the key $180 resistance despite hitting a three-month high of $187 a week ago. A reclaim of this key barrier could push SOL’s price toward the $200 mark, enabling a rally to new highs. Today’s price action has sent Solana to a 22-day low of $156 after losing its $164-$180 price range and the $160 support zone for the first time since the May 8 breakout. Trader and analyst Crypto Bullet shared a bearish outlook for Solana, suggesting that the token will underperform for the rest of the year. He highlighted SOL’s trading pair against ETH, noting that the cryptocurrency has been in a rising wedge in the weekly chart since the Q4 2024 rally. According to the SOL/ETH chart posted by the trader, the cryptocurrency has broken down out of the formation after losing the 0.069 mark. To Crypto Bullet, this signals that “ETH will soon pump way harder than SOL.” All Eyes On SOL’s Weekly Close Analyst Rekt Capital pointed out that Solana is attempting to continue Weekly Closing within its Range High resistance, which is key for its long-term rally. He previously explained that the cryptocurrency re-entered its Post-Halving Re-Accumulation Range after successfully reclaiming the $120 barrier last month and consolidating within the $160-$175 range high. To the analyst, SOL’s price “needs to continue demonstrating price stability” around this zone, as that is what is “required for SOL to break out from this range into the $200+ levels.” He affirmed that Solana needs to aim for a retest similar to late 2024, when the cryptocurrency built a base around the Range High ahead of the breakout with multiple weekly closes near the resistance zone, which led to a massive breakout to the $200 mark. Related Reading: Ethereum Repeating Early 2024’s Playbook – $3,800 Target In Sight? Rekt Capital highlighted that SOL has been successfully retesting this area as support over the past few weeks. However, he warned that cryptocurrency mustn’t close below the current price zone as it would “tease a possible loss of this region as support.” A drop below this range could lead to a retrace into the Range Low, between the $120-$135 mark. “Price stability at the Orange Range High going forward is thus key here,” he concluded. As of this writing, Solana trades at $159, an 11.6% decline in the weekly timeframe. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
Ethereum (ETH) has failed to break from a key level, retracing 4% as most of the market bleeds. Some analysts believe that ETH’s next leg up won’t come in a few months, as the second-largest cryptocurrency could move sideways until May. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Final Dip Before $273,000? A Market Veteran Thinks So Ethereum To Continue Sideways Move? On Monday, Ethereum swan against the current and registered a 6.3% surge toward the $2,850 support zone, momentarily breaking out of a symmetrical triangle pattern where it has been consolidating for the past 15 days. The cryptocurrency attempted to reclaim the $2,700-$2,800 level but failed to hold the zone in the following hours. On Tuesday, ETH’s short-lived party ended, sending the King of Altcoins on a 4% pullback toward the $2,605 mark. Crypto analyst Ali Martinez noted that Ethereum needed to hold the $2,600 support, a crucial level for the cryptocurrency, to continue within its multi-year ascending channel. To the analyst, failing to hold this level could hinder the long-awaited Altcoin season. Moreover, failing to hold this level could see ETH dropping to the $2,400 mark, as the current level doesn’t have significant demand. According to Martinez, the $2,425 level remains the most critical support zone for the cryptocurrency, as 10.33 million wallets accumulated 63.43 million ETH. Amid its most recent performance, market watcher DocXBT considers that Ethereum needs a re-accumulation period to attempt to reclaim higher levels. The analyst stated, “It needs an extended period of re-accumulation,” as the ones seen during the FTX collapse, 2023’s capitulation, and summer 2024’s capitulation. To DocXBT, “There’s nothing for ETH to do except go sideways for an extended period of time.” He added that it could continue hovering within its current range for two to three months “before we can bring trends down, flip them, and maybe get bullish again.” ETH’s $4,000 Breakout Just ‘A Matter Of Time’ Crypto trader Mikybull pointed out ETH’s bullish pattern in the longer timeframes. Ethereum has been in an ascending triangle since 2022, which suggests it could have a “massive breakout” once the upper resistance, around the $4,000 mark, is broken. The trader asserted that a “longer consolidation leads to a sustainable rally.” Similarly, analyst Ted Pillows stated that Ethereum is holding its uptrend support level, which suggests that the $4,000 breakout is just “a matter of time,” which could lead to a retest of the 2021 all-time high (ATH). The analyst pointed out the sentiment shift toward the Solana memecoin ecosystem, suggesting that rotation to Ethereum is about to happen. “Memecoins chains are dying, and people are flocking to utility chains,” he affirmed on X. Related Reading: SUI Bearish Grip Tightens As Price Eyes $2.8 Retest Amid Market Pressure Other analysts have recently signaled the potential rotation from SOL to ETH, arguing that the SOL/ETH trading pair has topped after the recent events in the Solana network. The most recent incident saw capital rotate toward Ethereum for the first time in a while and suggests the “ETH season” could be near. At the time of writing, Ethereum trades at $2,631, a 1% retrace in the weekly timeframe. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
Solana (SOL) recently lost its key support zone amid the controversial Libra (LIBRA) token launch and crash. The cryptocurrency has dropped over 12% in the last three days and some analysts suggest it risks a deeper correction to monthly lows. Related Reading: Cardano Price Eyes Impulse Move After Bearish RSI Divergence Was Invalidated, Here’s The Target LIBRA Token Crashes Solana’s Party The Solana network has been the talk of the town this cycle due to the memecoin frenzy, as it has been the go-to chain for these projects. The cryptocurrency has also been one of the leading tokens over the last year, outperforming most altcoins in 2024. Since 2025 started, SOL has shown strength despite the repeated market retraces, holding above key levels, quickly bouncing back, and even hitting its latest all-time high (ATH) of $295 nearly a month ago. Nonetheless, the most recent controversial launch of a Solana-based token has sent SOL’s price into a three-day pullback. On Friday, the Viva La Libertad project was announced alongside the Libra token, receiving the endorsement of Argentina’s President Javier Milei. The project aimed to “encourage Argentina’s economic growth by funding small businesses and startups” and surged to a $4.5 billion market capitalization following the president’s X post. However, it crashed 94% after the team wallets and insiders sold over $100 million worth of LIBRA at the token’s peak, resulting in President Milei’s distancing from the project. After the Libra crash, market sentiment shifted, with some community members expressing exhaustion from the numerous memecoin scams launched in the Solana network during the cycle. As a result, SOL’s price dropped to $190 and hovered within this range until Sunday. As more details of the Libra project came out, Solana dropped another 7.8% to the $180 support zone, sending the price to its lowest valuation in two weeks. Solana Loses $180 Support On Monday morning, the cryptocurrency briefly recovered to the $187 level but was rejected from the nearly one-month downtrend resistance line, as trader Crypto Rand noted. To the investor, there is a “Key squeeze over the main $180 support.” Crypto analyst Ali Martinez highlighted that Solana remained within its key range. The $180 to $190 crucial zone holds the post-election breakout level and has been a significant bounce range for the cryptocurrency over the past four months. Nonetheless, SOL fell below its key support zone after President Milei retweeted a post about the Libra token on Monday afternoon. The X post explained the steps to invest in the cryptocurrency, briefly sending LIBRA 60% up before retracing 42% after Milei undid his retweet. Since then, Solana has hovered between the $175 to $178 price range, a 6.6 retrace in the daily timeframe. Is The SOL Season Over? Amid SOL’s recent price action, some analysts have pointed out its chart against Ethereum (ETH). According to Daan Crypto Trades, SOL/ETH will be “an interesting chart to watch for the next few weeks.” The trader explained that SOL interest peaked a month ago when the TRUMP memecoin was launched. The series of “scams, rugs, and grifts” during the weak market has destroyed the “on-chain/meme ecosystem,” which had fueled Solana’s “strong tun-up to that point.” Daan argues that “capital [is] rotating from SOL to ETH for the first in a while,” which could see the SOL/ETH trading pair retesting the 2021 ATH level at 0.058. This level has been “pretty influential this cycle” and was a key bounce point in Q4 2024. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Big Breakout? Fed’s “Not QE, QE” Just Flipped The Switch Meanwhile, Michaël van de Poppe considered the valuation of SOL/ETH has topped after a “massive wick created a massive bearish divergence and valuations start to drop.” As a result, “ETH season starts over SOL season” and rotation from Solana towards Ethereum has started. The analysts compared the memecoin frenzy to 2020’s DeFi surge, concluding that the SOL “memecoin fiesta has been an inner-circle money printer for a small group, and everybody knows about it now.” Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
After some volatile days, Solana (SOL) has broken out of a three-day downtrend, fueling inventors’ bullish sentiment for its short-term performance. A crypto analyst suggested that SOL might be preparing to surpass $300 soon if a key level is reclaimed. Related Reading: Number Of New Trump-Themed Malicious Tokens Spike 206% After Official Memecoin Launch Solana Holds Despite Volatility Solana, the fifth-largest crypto by market capitalization, has performed remarkably over the last week, fueled by US President Donald Trump’s token launch. Last Friday, President Trump launched his official memecoin, TRUMP, on the Solana network after months of speculation and fake launches. The launch kickstarted a three-day crypto market frenzy that propelled TRUMP to an all-time high (ATH) of $75 and a market capitalization of $15 billion. Amid the frenzy, Solana jumped 25% in 24 hours, hitting $270 before climbing another 9.5% to its new ATH of $295.83. Moreover, Solana’s Total Value Locked (TVL) surpassed its 2021 record of $10.02 billion and hit $12.1 billion on Sunday, DeFiLlama data shows. Analyst Rekt Capital noted that Solana needed a weekly close above $250 followed by a possible retest to confirm its breakout from the re-accumulation range. However, the second launch of a Trump-related memecoin sent SOL’s price 12% down, closing the week at $241. On Sunday afternoon, Us First Lady Melania Trump announced her official memecoin, MELANIA, on social media. The token received heavy backlash from the community, and the crypto market saw a 6.6% correction in a few hours, with Bitcoin dipping below momentarily $100,000. Despite the correction, SOL held above the weekend breakout levels, hovering between the $230 to $270 price range over the last three days but failing to hold above $260 for most of this period. SOL Preparing For Jump To $300 On Wednesday, Solana’s price saw a 10% surge to $264 before retracing. Crypto analyst Jelle highlighted that the “SOL hourly chart just looks like it wants another stab at $300 this month.” The analyst pointed out that the cryptocurrency had broken out of its three-day “Post-trump shitcoin launch downtrend,” while indicators like moving averages were “back to bullish.” The post also noted that SOL’s recent performance was trying to reclaim November highs. According to Jelle, the cryptocurrency displays bullish momentum and is “on the edge of entering price discovery” like BTC. He also noted that Solana has turned its previous high against its Ethereum (ETH) trading pair into support. As a result, reclaiming the $260 range could propel SOL’s price to new highs. “Reclaim $264, and all bets are off,” he stated. Similarly, Nebraskangooner shared a positive outlook for Solana, noting that it is “consolidating right at all-time highs… no reason to think this doesn’t melt up from here.” Related Reading: Analyst Says Bitcoin Is Entering Second ‘Price Discovery Uptrend’, What’s Ahead For BTC? Analyst Byzantine General suggested there could be “a bit more chop because we are at OI resistance, but it might have already bottomed out,” but concluded that Solana “looks pretty good” in the short term. As of this writing, SOL is trading at $255, a 2.5% increase in the daily timeframe. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com