👑 ETH Wants the Crown Back

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Today’s post is quite interesting. We’ve got some 2026 forecasts that might shift how you see the market heading into the new year!

Here’s what we got for you today:

• 👀 3 crypto trending we analyzed in 2026

• ⭐ 50 ETH can make you a millionaire?

• ⭐ Crypto 2026: No bull, yet no bear

• 🔥 Burning hot takes for the road

Our trader, Eugene Le, spent the last few weeks digging into the data, and honestly, this pullback is normal for a mid-cycle correction.

Most of you underestimate how fast crypto moves once accumulation ends. So here’s a look at where we really are in the crypto cycle and why the pullback isn’t as bad as it feels:

Then, if you want a clear picture of how money, assets, and real infrastructure are moving onchain next, here’re 3 crypto trending that will drag the world onchain in 2026.

💵 $20K ETH & A “50 ETH = MILLIONAIRE” FUTURE

Arthur Hayes - founder of BitMEX and one of the sharpest macro minds in crypto - just dropped a bold prediction:

“ETH will hit $20K, and just 50 ETH could be enough to make you a millionaire by the next U.S. election.”

At first it sounds crazy. But when you hear his full thesis, it actually makes a lot of sense. Here’s what Hayes is seeing:

• $ETH ( ▼ 2.71% ) and $SOL ( ▲ 1.03% ) will outlast all other L1s. Most other L1s won’t survive the next cycle

• High FDV chains like Monad will likely crash 99% when being overhyped with weak foundations

But why ETH?

Hayes believes Ethereum will become the default public infrastructure for institutions, especially as banks and enterprises abandon failed private chain experiments.

1/ Institutional Adoption is Already Happening

Just look at what BitMine is doing:

• Bought 33,504 ETH this week

• Bought 138,452 ETH earlier this month

• Now holding ~3.86 million ETH → That’s hundreds of millions of dollars in ETH, sitting on corporate books

Add to that:

• ETH exchange balances are at multi-year lows

• Whales just accumulated 900,000 ETH over the past few weeks

• Institutional wallets now hold close to 5% of all ETH in existence

Hayes says this is the foundation for a huge run-up. But he also doesn’t think it’ll be all on Ethereum L1.

2/ Ethereum = #1, Solana = #2 (But a Distant Second)

Solana had a huge 2023–2024 run (from $7 to $300), driven by meme coins. Hayes thinks Solana needs something truly new to compete long-term.

ETH still dominates in institutional relevance, liquidity, and developer ecosystem. His verdict: Solana survives, but Ethereum leads.

So… how much ETH do you need to make it big? → “50 ETH,” Hayes says, “is enough to become a millionaire if ETH hits $20K.” Cause:

• ETH supply on exchanges is shrinking

• Institutions are buying ETH aggressively

• Layer 2s are scaling

• Banks are prepping to launch Web3 strategies on Ethereum

Hayes says the only thing that could derail this is a drop in stablecoin adoption. Institutions pulling out of on-chain finance. If that happens, Bitcoin might outperform ETH for a while.

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🐻 CRYPTO 2026: NO BULL, YET NO BEAR

Researcher Aylo, who’s got 134K followers, just shared a pretty honest take: He still isn’t sure where this market is going, and honestly, neither am I.

Right now, crypto seems caught between two opposing camps:

1/ On one side: the “4-year cycle” believers They think the top is already in. Because:

• Market structure looks weak

• OG whales are dumping hard

• Historically, midterm election years (2014, 2018, 2022) were brutal for crypto, some of the worst bear market lows happened then

2/ On the other side: we’ve got the macro optimists They argue a new high is coming soon. Their reasons are:

• If Trump gets a say in the Fed again, we could see stimulus heat up to support the midterms

• Liquidity could return

• And the Russell 2000 just broke out, so maybe risk assets are waking up

Honestly, both make sense. But what really caught my eye is where Aylo sees the real pressure: Bitcoin supply.

And this is also really important: OG whales are still consistently selling. That steady selling pressure is canceling out any positive macro signs.

So what’s the main scenario here? → $BTC might just stay in this wide, annoying sideways range. Not bad enough to scream bear market. But also not strong enough to break above $100K.

Basically, every pump is just getting smacked down by whale sell pressure. And yesterday’s Fed meeting supports that idea.

Yeah, they did cut rates by 25bps, which sounds nice, but their dot plot says we’ll probably only get one more rate cut in 2026.

Right now the Fed is only doing “technical QE” → buying short-term T-bills to keep the banking system flowing.

→ That’s not the same as printing money and pumping it into risk assets.

Yes, the long-term trend is still monetary debasement, but that doesn’t help much short-term.

👉 Unless Hassett becomes Fed Chair, and that won’t even be until mid-2026, there’s no sign of big liquidity returning.

We’re likely in a “dead cat bounce” phase for BTC, followed by a long sideways grind. Even the charts are hinting at that.

3/ BTC monthly chart looks… not great right now

In the past, BTC’s strongest bull runs usually had 3 clear signals showing up together:

• MACD Golden Cross stays intact

• Monthly candle closes above the 20 EMA and 20 MA

• The 20 EMA is above the 20 MA, keeping the Golden Cross valid

Whenever those three lined up → the bull market kept going strong.

But right now, the first condition is already broken. The MACD Golden Cross has failed. And the other two conditions are under threat.

And if you remember 2018 or 2022… this is exactly how things started falling apart back then.

→ MACD failed first, then 2–3 months later, price dipped below all major trend lines → boom, downtrend confirmed.

Now on the weekly chart, it’s even more bearish. Momentum is gone.

• BTC has clearly entered a downtrend

• RSI 44, which held up the entire trend since Sept 2023, got cracked during the Nov 2025 drop

• Both major trendlines (white and green) have been broken

Right now, price is just kind of bouncing weakly, retesting that broken green trendline. There’s no strong support trendline left holding things up.

If BTC can’t get back above that green trendline, it’s probably heading lower. Here are the potential support zones to watch:

• $78,000

• $69,000–$71,500

• $58,700–$60,200

• (worst-case) $47,000–$52,000

That $58.7k–$60.2k zone is looking like the most realistic level for a deep pullback. And if, big if, it ever dips to the $47k–$52k area? That would be a super strong buy zone for a lot of people.

⚠ IMPORTANT: If BTC closes a weekly candle above $105k–$107k → the entire bearish structure becomes invalid.

That’s the level where RSI broke down in November. Take it back and bulls are back in the game. I wouldn’t go full bearish or full bullish just yet!

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🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD

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