Experienced analyst and trader Peter Brandt has predicted that etherium will rise from the ashes to fly to the moon in 2025.

I usually try my best not to say anything good about etherium. You could call it hate, that's probably the right thing to do. But the shrinking pattern could act as support for a flight to the moon,” Brandt wrote.

Based on a chart published by Peter, the ETH exchange rate fell to the bottom line of a contracting triangle when it dipped to $1,389 on April 9. The coin's price pushed back from that barrier and rallied upward. Therefore, the value of etherium has a chance to reach the upper boundary of the figure, located around $3,840.

Fluctuations of the ETH rate on the chart made by Brandt

After the cryptocurrency's price fell to $1,389, an uptrend emerged, which accelerated strongly on May 8. Thanks to the bullish trend, the digital asset has already appreciated by 88%, and on May 11, its rate reached its highest since February 2025 at $2,596. Etherium is now worth $2,550, so if Peter's forecast comes true, the value of ETH will grow by another 51%.

There's always room on the etherium train, even for the haters. But don't miss it because of your hate,” commented Brandt's post by a member of the ETH community.

It is noteworthy that many users of the Polymarket platform are betting on the growth of the etherium exchange rate to $4,000 in 2025. This is evidenced by the fact that the probability of this outcome is 34%. It turns out that the gambling members of the crypto community agree with Peter's position.

Brian Armstrong attributed the abandonment of the idea to concerns for the company's financial well-being and a reluctance to compete with his own customers: “There have definitely been times over the past 12 years when we have considered whether to invest 80% of our balance sheet in cryptocurrency, specifically bitcoin. But made a conscious decision to avoid the risks.”

According to the CEO of the crypto exchange, not all projects can take advantage of Strategy Michael Saylor's strategy, but only those with significant free financial resources.

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) will continue to increase its resources in crypto assets, and not only in the first cryptocurrency, as well as expand its presence in the derivatives market thanks to the purchase of Deribit for $2.9 billion, said the head of Coinbase.

Earlier, Brian Armstrong suggested that the US authorities should pass laws that would allow Americans to receive interest from investing in stablecoins - along with favoring banks.

On May 11, a major cryptocurrency whale invested millions in Pepe (PEPE) token memes instead of the OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) digital assets issued by U.S. President Donald Trump.

According to employees of research firm Lookonchain, the wealthy trader got rid of $9.9 million worth of TRUMP coins on Sunday and entered into futures contracts to buy $16 million worth of PEPE, thus betting on the memcoin's long-term appreciation.

Cryptocurrency transactions made.

The reason why the crowdfunder sold OFFICIAL TRUMP is most likely because he fears a drop in the cryptocurrency's exchange rate. TRUMP has added 46% in value since May 6, but on Saturday, Lookonchain employees reported that 3.5 million tokens worth $52.7 million were sent to cryptocurrency exchanges from crypto wallets associated with Trump's virtual currency development team, so insiders were suspected of preparing to dump OFFICIAL TRUMP's exchange rate.

Pepe overtook TRUMP in terms of price appreciation, rising 85% during an impressive bull rally that began on May 6. Despite this, the cryptokit bought memcoins at the peak, apparently counting on the upward trend to continue. He took a big risk because the RSI index on the daily chart indicates an oversold condition in the market. In this regard, the correction that has already started is likely to continue and the price of Pepe will go down in the short term.

According to the court's verdict, the former Celsius founder must pay a $48 million fine and will serve time at Otisville Correctional Institution. The businessman's lawyers had asked for about a year, arguing that their client “did not intend to defraud anyone” but was an unfortunate victim of the market crisis, “like many others”.

Celsius positioned itself as a profitable alternative to banks, offering high interest rates for storing cryptocurrency. Gaining popularity through Mashinsky's speeches, the company held $25 billion in assets at its peak. However, in June 2022, at the height of the “cryptozyme,” Celsius stopped withdrawing funds. A month later, the company filed for bankruptcy, blocking its customers' access to $5 billion in crypto assets.

U.S. federal prosecutors alleged that Mashinsky intentionally lied about the company's financial performance, creating the illusion of profitability.

In December 2024, Mashinsky pleaded guilty to two charges: commodities fraud and manipulating the price of the CEL token issued by Celsius.

Earlier, the Celsius Network platform appealed the decision of Judge John Dorsey (John Dorsey), who rejected the demand to the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX to pay compensation of $444 million.

According to Michael Saylor, a large number of “economically weak” investors are exiting the asset, which is why the asset is still unable to break the $150,000 mark: “For various reasons, a large number of bitcoins have ended up in the hands of governments, lawyers and bankruptcy administrators. They don't have the mindset of investors with a ten-year horizon, and when the bitcoin price started to rise, they took advantage of the situation and decided it was a good exit point to get liquidity.”

Saylor said he was not surprised by the lack of willingness of U.S. authorities to spend money to buy bitcoins for the government's bitcoin reserve. While the authorities are procrastinating, other institutional players, including hedge funds, asset managers and technology companies, will buy bitcoin as a reserve asset to protect against fiat currency inflation, the businessman said.

The influx of funds into spot bitcoin-ETFs helps stabilize the cryptocurrency's exchange rate by attracting fresh capital from traditional financial markets, smoothing volatility and making downturns less sharp, Saylor reasoned.

Earlier, Michael Saylor said that bitcoin's fluctuations are mainly due to its high liquidity and 24/7 availability, rather than correlation with other assets. Stretegy (formerly MicroStrategy) is the largest publicly traded bitcoin holder.

The exchange Binance wants to be sued for $13.3 billion for delisting the cryptocurrency Bitcoin SV (BSV), which emerged from the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hardfork in November 2018.

Binance removed Bitcoin SV from its platform in April 2019, citing that the digital asset was non-compliant due to the actions of its creator Craig Wright, who proclaimed himself Satoshi Nakamoto. Changpeng Zhao, the trading platform's founder, warned against delisting BSV if Wright continued to spread false information that he invented BTC, but Craig did not heed the warnings and the coin was rejected.

After Bitcoin SV was removed, a group of disgruntled British investors filed a lawsuit against Binance. The exchange was accused that due to the delisting of the cryptocurrency traders missed out on profits, and as compensation the plaintiffs asked for $9 billion. But they were defeated in the legal battle, because in 2024 the appeals court rejected their complaint.

Nevertheless, in May this year, Binance users decided to resume the legal battle, and their lawyers appealed the verdict of the appeals court, calling it erroneous. They are demanding to compensate the victims for losses amounting to 10 billion pounds, which is $13.3 billion.

Since May 7, Bitcoin SV has risen in price by 28%, but the growth of the cryptocurrency's rate is hardly related to the renewed litigation between traders and Binance. Most likely, the value of BSV increased on the background of the bullish trend prevailing in the crypto market. However, it should be noted that on May 8, the value of the coin broke through the downtrend line that emerged at the end of April and consolidated above it. This indicates a high probability of a continuation of the bull rally.

The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) leading fuel supplier Emarat has partnered with Crypto.com exchange to integrate a cryptocurrency payment option at its fuel stations. In the initial phase of this initiative, crypto payments will be activated at 10 Emarat stations across the UAE.

This experience will later be extended to all points in the network, and there are 155 of them, including Dubai and the Northern Emirates. In addition to this, the company has also launched a fuel naming rights program.

As part of this collaboration, we are also launching an Emarat x Crypto.com service station at Al Wasl Road in Dubai, the flagship location under the world's first Landmark project that introduces naming rights for fuel stations,” the company said.

The announced initiative also aims to enhance retail convenience, improve customer experience at Emarat stations and position Emarat as a leader in digital payment solutions in the fuel retail sector.

This partnership embodies our shared commitment to innovation, redefining retail convenience and improving customer experience through advanced digital technologies,” Emarat said.

According to a report from Swiss cryptobankers, sentiment around Etherium “remains negative.” The market is focused on Solana's significant transaction volumes and its recent dominance in generating commissions.

“Leaving sentiment aside, we believe that the medium-term outlook will be primarily driven by the choice of platforms on which traditional financial institutions offer their products,” Sygnum explained its forecast.

In favor of Etherium, according to analysts, are parameters such as security and stability - combined with higher returns. By this indicator, the ether network is 2.5 times ahead of Solana.

“The market has always rated Solana's revenue as less stable as it is heavily concentrated in the memcoin sector. And this limits its superiority,” the experts explained.

Solana is showing progress in the Decentralized Finance Marketplace (DeFi), with the share of blockchain funds locked in blockchain smart contracts increasing from 9.5% to 11.5% since the beginning of January. Etherium has seen its figure drop from 63.5% to 55%.

While Etherium share of the stablecoin market has declined since the beginning of the year, it is still above 50%, while Solana, while doubling its market share, is still just above 5%.

So far, the “Etherium killers” have failed to encroach on the network's dominance, and despite innovation in some projects, most have come to naught at all, Sygnum pointed out.

Earlier, Etherium co-founder Vitalik Buterin was inspired by Bitcoin's minimalist design and urged developers to simplify the underlying protocol while maintaining the network's security parameters.

According to Kee Young Ju, the pressure from sellers of the asset is gradually weakening, and capital inflows from major financial market participants continue through spot exchange-traded bitcoin funds: “It is time to abandon the old theory of cycles. It is much more important now to track the amount of new liquidity from funds and institutions. But the market remains in a frontier state, with many metrics hovering on the edge.”

The industry used to be much simpler, comprising large holders, miners and retail investors. Cycles were distinct and culminated in massive sell-offs when the big players exited the position, argues CryptoQuant's CEO. Now the market has changed dramatically, with the emergence of government agencies, investment companies and exchange-traded funds. Capital movement scenarios have become much more unpredictable, the analyst said.

According to Yang Ju, the bitcoin market is merging with traditional finance (TradFi) - this changes the logic of price movement and the main influencing factors. The erroneous forecast does not cancel the value of onchain data - data remains important, but experts can draw different conclusions, explained the head of CryptoQuant.

Earlier, experts from K33 Research said that during the year the bitcoin market will be subject to a large number of positive catalysts caused by the actions of the administration of US President Donald Trump.

UFC superstar Conor McGregor has unexpectedly spoken out about the creation of a strategic bitcoin reserve in Ireland. He published a post on this topic on social networks, which in just a few hours garnered more than 500,000 views.

Cryptocurrency was originally created to give power back to the people. Ireland's strategic bitcoin reserve will return power to the people's money. I'll be running a Twitter feed where I'll be talking about what I want to change. Victory for Ireland! - he wrote.

It's common to hear such calls from crypto-enthusiasts or politicians during election season. The fact that McGregor not only touched on the topic, but also stated that he will continue to cover it, indicates the popularity of cryptocurrencies in Europe and in Ireland in particular. In addition, the interest of such a well-known personality in the idea of creating a strategic bitcoin reserve in Ireland could attract public attention and put pressure on politicians to consider such a move.

The idea of creating a bitcoin reserve has often been discussed by authorities in various countries in recent years. For example, the Czech National Bank is currently considering the possibility. The Swiss National Bank has already discussed and rejected the idea. Russia has announced plans to diversify its reserves with bitcoin by 2028 to reduce dependence on the US dollar. Polish presidential candidate Slawomir Mentzen suggested creating a strategic reserve of the flagship cryptocurrency to turn the country into a cryptocenter.