- Practically $300 million price of shorts get worn out
- $5,000 in sight?
Flagship altcoin Ethereum (ETH) has reached a brand new report excessive for the primary time in practically 4 years.
The token hit a brand new report peak of $4,885 at 21:08 UTC on the Bitstamp trade, surging by greater than 15% in a single day.
Within the meantime, Bitcoin’s dominance has now plunged to only 56.5%, in response to CoinGecko information.
As reported by U.Right this moment, ETH’s monster surge got here after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explicitly signalled that there could be a charge reduce subsequent month.
Practically $300 million price of shorts get worn out
CoinGlass information reveals {that a} whopping $287 million price of shorts have been liquidated over the previous 24 hours. For comparability, solely $67 million price of Bitcoin shorts bought worn out over the identical time period.
A $10 million ETH liquidation order occurred on the OKX trade earlier right this moment.
$5,000 in sight?
Based on Polymarket bettors, ETH now has a 74% probability of hitting the much-coveted $5,000 degree this August.
Actually, there’s a 29% probability of the flagship altcoin surging all the best way to the $5,400 degree over the last week of this August.
The chances of ETH hitting $10,000 in 2025 at present stand at 16% on Polymarket.