Analysts predicted that Ethereum price could exponentially increase as whales become more interested in the crypto asset, with whale activity hitting a six-week high.

Despite the projected growth, an Ethereum insider suggested that the cryptocurrency should address several key issues to ensure that it can continue to flourish.

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Ethereum: Projected Price Upsurge

Analyst Bаsictrаdingtv stated that prices of Ethereum could skyrocket as there is a growing interest among investors to buy the digital asset, saying that a 60% price hike is highly likely to happen.

Blockchain data analysis firm Santiment identified a spike in whale activity on the Ethereum network and recommended a potential purchasing spree.

According to their recent update, whale activity reached a six-week high, with average holders accumulating Ethereum after the con’s recent price decline.

🐳 Ethereum’s whale activity spiked to a 6-week high as its price declined as low as $2.38K Friday. Historically, this is a sign of accumulation from high capital key stakeholders. Though not a guarantee this will have an immediate effect on prices bouncing, it is encouraging! pic.twitter.com/zcofdvszLF

— Santiment (@santimentfeed) October 26, 2024

Projections shown by market observers suggested that Ethereum prices could soar and hit the $4,000 mark with some analysts forecasting that it might even breach the $6,000 level.

Ethereum price growth could be fueled by its growing appeal to whales as demonstrated in the six-week high whale activity wherein more than 6,400 new wallets were made by large investors.

Bаsictrаdingtv also agreed that Ethereum prices could reach the $4,000 level. However, he hinted that the possible bullish breakout would be invalidated if the ETH price dipped to $2,000, saying that this “pricе zonе” is a key indicator that should be kept an eye on.

Recalibrating Protocol For Growth

Meanwhile, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a post that there are several issues that the cryptocurrency needs to address to thrive in the ever-evolving crypto space.

Buterin explained that one of these issues is to simplify its protocol and ensure its continuous growth, saying that the coin’s protocol has become more complicated and it already undermines Ethereum’s integrity and security. He said that simplification of the protocol could help address the said issue.

He explained that Ethereum has already implemented changes in the past, citing the removal of the SELFDESTRUCT opcode as an example. The SELFDESTRUCT opcode was known to complicate interactions among users and posed potential security risks.

However, Buterin cautioned that the removal of such features must be conducted in a systematic approach so developers could see the impact of such action before implementing the changes.

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Solving The Storage Problem

Another critical issue raised by Buterin is the storage problem being experienced by the cryptocurrency.

Buterin said that Ethereum needs at least 1.1 terrabytes of storage to house its enormous historical data.

He suggested the implementation of “cryptographic proofs of the state”, adding that this solution will allow nodes to retain only a fragment of the histories.

He added that this approach is the same as the torrent system wherein nodes only keep pieces of data that intersect from one node to another.

At the time of writing, Ethereum is being traded аt $2,470, a 2.84% price dip in the last 24 hours. On the other hand, ETH’s trаding volumе went up by more than 30% to nearly $22 billion in only a single day.

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The decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) is once again the top-ranked ERC-20 project in terms of recent development activity, according to the crypto analytics platform Santiment.

Santiment notes on the social media platform X that Chainlink registered 649.03 notable GitHub events in the past 30 days, nearly double the number of the second-ranked project, Ethereum (ETH), which clocked 342.2.

The decentralized oracle project also topped the list in June, July and September.

The web3 project Status (SNT) ranked third in the past 30 days, registering 270.57 events. Status aims to offer users a secure messaging app, crypto wallet and web3 browser via an open-source, peer-to-peer protocol and end-to-end encryption.

An ERC-20 project is a standard that developers use to issue tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and virtual machine.

Santiment notes that it doesn’t count routine updates and utilizes a “better methodology” to collect data for GitHub events based on a “backtested process.”

The analytics firm has previously said that heavy development activity centered around a crypto project indicates developers believe in the protocol. Development activity also suggests that the project is less likely to be an exit scam.

LINK is trading at $11.11 at time of writing. The 18th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down more than 6% in the past 24 hours.

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A widely followed cryptocurrency analyst and trader is leaning bullish on a large-cap Ethereum (ETH) competitor while outlining the path forward for the Goatseus Maximus (GOAT) memecoin.

Starting with the Ethereum rival, the analyst pseudonymously known as Sherpa tells his 228,300 followers on the social media platform X that Solana (SOL) is set to surge due to robust network activity.

“SOL: this one will clearly break all-time highs and this is predictable given all of the on-chain action the last two weeks.”

Solana is trading at $174 at time of writing and would need to rally by over 49% to surpass the all-time high price of $260 that was recorded in November of 2021.

Turning to GOAT, the pseudonymous analyst predicts that the memecoin that has exploded by around 15x in a few weeks will reach a fully diluted value of $1 billion, a gain of around 50% from the current $667.8 million.

According to Sherpa, GOAT will be an “interesting one to view” following the launch of the memecoin’s perpetual contract on Binance earlier this week.

“If you’re in this from earlier, I think it’s probably smart to take some profit with the Binance futures listing. This should create a bunch of volatility and I think that there are a lot of unknowns with it.”

GOAT is trading at $0.694 at time of writing.

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