{"id":78429,"date":"2026-09-20T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/ethereum-price-retreats-from-2668-as-momentum-starts-to-fray\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:57:07","slug":"ethereum-price-retreats-from-2668-as-momentum-starts-to-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/ethereum-price-retreats-from-2668-as-momentum-starts-to-fray\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Price Retreats From $2,668 as Momentum Starts to Fray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Ethereum\u2019s price is back near $2,600, but ETH remains roughly 47% below its October 2025 peak.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Tom Lee sees a $6,000 path if bitcoin hits $150,000 and ETH\/BTC climbs back to 0.04.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Ethereum\u2019s Glamsterdam upgrade is slated for Q4, with Sepolia scheduled for Oct. 6.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Ethereum Is Back, but Not All the Way Back<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/price\/ethereum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethereum\u2019s price<\/a> has finally given bulls something to work with. After sinking to $2,360.70 around Sept. 16, ETH ripped to $2,668 per coin before cooling around $2,600, reclaiming levels not seen since January. Yet zoom out, and the comeback looks very different. Ether is still about 47% below its October 2025 peak near $4,946, while the ETH\/BTC ratio sits near 0.032, miles below its 2021 high around 0.08.<\/p>\n<p>That gap is precisely why the year-end debate has gotten interesting. ETH\u2019s price has spent much of this cycle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/price\/bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trailing bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) price<\/a>, but roughly 35% of its supply is now staked, exchange balances have been falling, and spot ETH ETFs hold around $16.7 billion in assets. After more than $400 million in midweek outflows, roughly $144 million came back on Sept. 18. Demand is there. A stampede, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<h2>The $6,000 Math Has a Catch<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/crypto-news\/tom-lee-sees-bullish-12-months-as-wall-street-embraces-crypto\/\">Fundstrat\u2019s Tom Lee<\/a> has laid out one of the cleaner bullish paths. If Bitcoin reaches $150,000 and ETH\/BTC recovers to 0.04, his math puts ethereum near $6,000 by December. BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes has gone further, making ETH his largest position and floating a speculative $10,000 end-2026 target built around a major liquidity expansion.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ethereum\/embed\" width=\"100%\" style=\"max-height:500px;height:500px;border:none;overflow:hidden;border-radius:4px\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"ethereum market data\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/standard-chartered-keeps-40000-eth-target-despite-57-price-decline\/\">Standard Chartered\u2019s Geoff Kendrick<\/a> sits closer to earth with a $4,000 end-2026 target, while Citi has previously cut a 12-month target as low as $2,240. That leaves Wall Street and crypto\u2019s biggest personalities staring at the same asset and finding radically different destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The strange part is that they\u2019re largely watching the same ingredients. ETF flows need to improve, ETH needs to gain ground against bitcoin, and macro conditions can\u2019t go off the rails. A $6,000-$10,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/price\/ethereum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ethereum price<\/a> isn\u2019t simply today\u2019s rally with a few more green candles attached.<\/p>\n<h2>First, Ethereum Needs to Beat $3,000<\/h2>\n<p>The charts offer a much nearer hurdle. Ethereum is trading above nearly every major daily moving average, including its 50-day SMA at $2,272.50 and 200-day SMA at $2,076.10. But momentum has cooled, with resistance sitting around 2,655-2,668 and another technical zone extending toward $2,672.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_849176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-849176\" style=\"width:1996px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-849176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethereum 24-hour chart via Tradingview on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A sustained break through that area puts 2,800-3,000 in play. Failure brings $2,400 back into the conversation. In other words, before anyone starts engraving $6,000 on the trophy, ETH still has to prove it can hold the breakout it already has.<\/p>\n<h2>Glamsterdam Arrives With the Clock Running<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/ethereum-glamsterdam-upgrade-final-testing\/\">Then comes Glamsterdam<\/a>. Sepolia is scheduled for Oct. 6, with the Ethereum mainnet upgrade still penciled in for Q4. The fork targets higher throughput, parallel execution, greater blob capacity and changes to how blocks are built. It won\u2019t magically triple ETH, but a clean launch could give the market another reason to revisit Ethereum\u2019s scaling story.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Q4 with a surprisingly simple scoreboard: 2,550-2,672, ETF flows, ETH\/BTC and Glamsterdam. Ethereum has clawed its way back to $2,600. Turning that recovery into $4,000, $6,000 or the much louder $10,000 calls is where the easy part ends.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/market-updates\/ethereum-price-retreats-from-2668-as-momentum-starts-to-fray\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Ethereum\u2019s price is back near $2,600, but ETH remains roughly 47% below its October 2025 peak. Tom Lee sees a $6,000 path if bitcoin hits $150,000 and ETH\/BTC climbs back to 0.04. Ethereum\u2019s Glamsterdam upgrade is slated for Q4, with Sepolia scheduled for Oct. 6. 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