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I saw one shorter lost $24M the other day on hyper liquid shorting ETH

!banbet ETH $5000 12/31/2026

ETH Is my bitch and I’m it’s pimp

One thing I've noticed in watching the crypto market over the last several years is that there are usually a handful of tokens that drive increased interest across the space. That increased interest seems to start in one area, and start to consolidate as a broader trend in the market as time goes by.
So I thought it'd be interesting to evaluate - Where did the renewed interest begin? What's the driving force in the top cryptocurrencies by market cap?
You can't just look at % growth in the last 1, 7, or 30 day periods, because an overnight run could impact the price greatly over the time period, without there actually being meaningful interest. I also only looked at the Top 15 cryptos by market cap, because everyone knows shitcoins can grow 200% over night due to the high volume, low market cap.
**So which projects were the leaders? Spoiler Alert - even BTC and ETH followed their price action.**
First up XMR (Monero), which was building since mid-July to early August at a stable rate and seems to be the first to take off in this recent run at least in the top 15 cryptos by market cap.
https://preview.redd.it/lc5tmeis7tkh1.png?width=1794&format=png&auto=webp&s=87c8ff841eabb0ad4dd64d33728cb2c854a49689
Next Up, Chainlink. LINK started showing new signs of life as early as August 5th, but didn't truly take off until August 14th. Since then it's actually displaced XMR (Monero) in market cap and is the biggest winner of this August run so far.
https://preview.redd.it/fvkthkjw3tkh1.png?width=1846&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c3cebc5a97d15191361fca88c199ef2a34fb0a6
TRON seems to border the leader/follower categorization. It's had some growth recently, but it comes and goes. Both XMR and LINK have had steady and consistent growth in August without the dips.
https://preview.redd.it/3q76txpf4tkh1.png?width=1786&format=png&auto=webp&s=966509be9dacfd19e6c6008b6b3bbeb32884837c
**Now For the followers:**
**BTC** \- while it may still be the king in terms of cryptos, it was very much a follower in the recent run up, beginning on August 19th, which you'll see repeated through this analysis.
https://preview.redd.it/ksertslt4tkh1.png?width=1872&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b56b589f0cfc1ee64af5f5a981aafeea7948c4a

ETH - Appears to be a follower as well, mimicking the August 19th trend.
https://preview.redd.it/ri2h7coe5tkh1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=360cce481ff9d57aaf00b6c76991b7daf01e2ba3
SOL - in the same boat. Kind of a mixed bag until the August 19 ramp up
https://preview.redd.it/hv80ximl5tkh1.png?width=1702&format=png&auto=webp&s=f7c9f016993f5449d35c6a1f0a63806b5ba0f67a
XRP- Another August 19th baby, more pronounced considering the downtrending line before the ramp
https://preview.redd.it/4lnjw03y5tkh1.png?width=1746&format=png&auto=webp&s=9099cece19e8b9968f196221a9a506f056e42b7a
HYPE - HyperLiquid following the same trends on August 19th.
https://preview.redd.it/3er2e8oh6tkh1.png?width=1798&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b445ec0d986fece01db94d3bdbfbfe04f0c1024
DOGE was a little late to the party, but being a memecoin, not surprising it was also following suit on August 19th.
https://preview.redd.it/vvdmodwz6tkh1.png?width=1750&format=png&auto=webp&s=13776ef61945700625af546fae509870269b0efa

>But come on, this is getting overheated.
ETH is currently 21.94% below its price exactly five years ago in 2021. It isn't overheated; it's simply repricing, as I would expect after years of massive underperformance and overselling. ETH's PA has been so horrendous that even a 100% rally from here still wouldn't undo the damage caused by BTC and TRX dramatically outperforming it.
I've been extremely patient with ETH since 2017. At some point, we all have to decide whether it's still worth holding. For me, watching ETH collapse from nearly $5K to $1.6K in 2026 was the absolute last straw. That kind of shitcoin price behavior stops here as far as I'm concerned.
I will be offloading some ETH at much higher levels. I'm done round-tripping almost 90% of my crypto portfolio every cycle.

Anyone else full porting $ETH?

Why’s sad is that even when 🌽 doubled from prior ATH. ETH never even cracked its 2021 highs.

I'm only down 25% lifetime on my ETH holdings now.

At this current time you can insert any crypto. BTC, ETH, LTC, DOGE, ~~Moons.~~

50/50 BTC/ETH. Go away for five years. Come back and give thanks.

Eth short on ETH target $2350

Like gold, the value of any given crypto is only tangentially related to its use as a medium of exchange.  
Monero came with some (IMHO minor) privacy enhancements and ASIC resistant PoW at a time when BTC mining went full ASIC.  Providing *any* privacy improvements over BTC/ETH is a strong selling point for illicit markets and adding support to their existing BTC/ETH system was easy. So it filled a niche and became relatively popular in some P2P trading circles.
Zcash's privacy is and was *technically* superior to Monero, but supporting shielded addresses required a lot of work for each exchange/wallet as they were incompatible with standard BTC transaction flows.  Most places "added support" for Zcash only through unshielded transactions (which were compatible with traditional BTC addresse, etc). The PoW was GPU friendly, but ASICs still took over relatively quickly (my apologies for the small role I played in the zcash PoW design) and thus the distribution of Zcash mining awards was more centralized.
Zcash has worked to address these structural barriers to shielded transaction adoption (etc) over time, but it takes a lot of R&D as it is made of moon math.  Monero had a headstart in the P2P space and people holding Monero also very loudly overstated Monero's privacy
protections and spread FUD about Zcash (which is true of any crypto). 
Meanwhile, regulatory frameworks were created to enable traditional markets and capital to access cryptos (chiefly BTC and ETH).  Monero did not benefit from this as much because its privacy features prevent compliance with financial regulations.  However, Zcash's privacy features were specifically designed to support standard reporting requirements.  Thus users can selectively disclose transaction information to regulators and banks without exposing it to the public.  AFAIK (and it's been a long time since I was involved) Zcash's ability to protect transaction flows from other investors is a highly desirable trait for some B2B crypto use cases, earning it a spot alongside BTC and ETH.
It seems odd that Monero would still be more widely supported in illicit markets despite technically inferior privacy.  However, the last time I checked BTC and ETH are *still* the preferred currency in these places, with many not supporting Monero at all.  Which says a lot about how much of their security model relies on the cost of enforcement.
So while Monero has greater uptake in enthusiast P2P and illicit markets, those markets are comparatively TINY.  If anything, Monero's popularity with illicit markets has drawn a lot of regulatory heat *away* from Zcash.  Monero's ... rocky development history also doesn't help its reputation among investors.
I strongly advise against basing any large investment decisions on this information.  In my experience, making investments based on the quality of the code, privacy protections, or market use didn't matter compared to the much larger and opaque market forces.  Buy and hold, don't read too much into the technical analysis.

10x is normal at low market cap. ETH is now blue chip.

If it's an investment for you, you should probably just get rid of it. Mavericks are for the OG diamond hand holders of ETH, from a different age.

You can always use hyperliquid for the swap bridge ETH>USDC>BTC

Crypto at least BTC and ETH move together. But TA on both is very similar

>**Staking collectoooor,**
>**Lean issuance reductooor,**
>**Smooth operatoooor.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

I'm with you. In almost 2 decades of knowing about BTC and a decade of investing, I've never bought any coin. But if this is just a mini bubble that's burst and drop down to the 40ks or lower, I'll finally make my first purchase from the proceeds from selling my free BTC from my CB card rewards, after selling at between 67k-70k. Until then, I'll take my freebies for now, as I've spent most of my adult life doubting any significant gains from BTC (even when it was below $1000), but I don't see the potential for anything close to a repeat of what I've already missed out on. ETH is, in my opinion, the only proper coin that has the potential and historical evidence of a fraction of the gains we've seen with BTC. Right now, BTC can get to $150k, giving us a whopping 2x. ETH hits $10k, that's 4-5x, while leaving plenty of room for exponential growth after that. And $20 of a variety meme/shitcoins could provide more gains. But to those who took the risk back in the day and have been holding/flipping BTC since below $1000, or even $100, good on you, and keep it going.

Broadly, yes. They are "majors", so still crazy volatile, but not like a memecoin which can go to zero faster than you can shit yourself.
Thing is, you will always find someone who hates "your" coins. XRP is a bit of a joke and didnt do sooo good last cycle compared to to others, and eth performed badly last cycle.
SOL was the hot new thing in 2024, leading to some memecoin madness. But I think its placed to do pretty well.
My own recommendation to look into - ZCASH. Its been doing very well, even during the bear market we just had. I chose that over XRP and ETH this time around. Time will tell if I am right.
But please, read about it, make your own choice, dont just believe some rando on the internet. 😉

Sounds like a solid option for ETH to SOL