Altcoin breadth has not recovered above healthy levels since October 2025, with the Altcoin Season Index collapsing from near-75 to 43 in a matter of weeks as TOTAL3 falls to November 2024 valuations.
ETH is trading below both its Binance-anchored AVWAP and the Realized Price of its largest holders simultaneously, while exchange flow data sends conflicting signals about whether selling or repositioning is the dominant force.
Ondo Finance's ONDO token gained 50% in a week, reaching $0.40 with a market cap approaching $2 billion.
XRP's price is hovering around $1.44 as of March 21, up 3.15% on the week but still struggling to reclaim meaningful technical ground.
Ethereum has been grinding against the $2.1K level for weeks, and the pattern is hard to ignore. Every approach, every attempted breakout - same result, a rejection.
Currently trading around $71,000, Bitcoin is pushing toward a resistance zone that could define the next several months of price action.
Binance Research's latest cycle analysis covers U.S. midterm election years going back to 1939 for equities and across all three Bitcoin midterm cycles on record.
The amount of Ethereum sitting on exchanges just hit a multi-year low. At 12% of total supply, ETH is being steadily pulled off trading platforms and into self-custody wallets, staking contracts, and cold storage.
The past few weeks handed crypto markets a blunt reality check. Bitcoin shed significant ground, leverage got flushed out of the system, and yet the on-chain picture tells a story that contradicts the panic.
Ethereum doesn't get second chances at levels like this. Right now, ETH is pressing against the most significant trendline of this entire market cycle - the ascending support structure that has, so far, defined every meaningful higher low since the last bear market.
Ethereum is regaining strength, with several prominent market analysts arguing that the asset may be significantly undervalued despite improving technical conditions.
Bitcoin closed February 2026 with one of the weakest performances in its history, marking the third worst February on record.


