Ethereum price started a major increase above the $3,350 resistance. ETH is 
now consolidating gains and holding the key support at $3,280. Ethereum 
started a downside correction after a major rally to $3,400. The price is 
trading above $3,280 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a 
bullish trend line forming with support at $3,280 on the hourly chart of 
ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase if it 
stays above the $3,280 zone. Ethereum Price Hits Support Ethereum price 
remained stable above $3,300 and started a fresh increase, like Bitcoin. ETH 
price rallied above the $3,320 and $3,350 resistance levels. A high was formed 
at $3,402, and the price recently started a downside correction. There was a 
move below $3,320. The price dipped below the 23.6% Fib retracement level of 
the recent wave from the $3,060 swing low to the $3,402 high. Ethereum price 
is now trading above $3,280 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is 
also a bullish trend line forming with support at $3,280 on the hourly chart 
of ETH/USD. If the bulls can protect more losses below $3,280, the price could 
attempt another increase. Immediate resistance is seen near the $3,320 level. 
The first key resistance is near the $3,350 level. The next major resistance 
is near the $3,385 level. A clear move above the $3,385 resistance might send 
the price toward the $3,450 resistance. An upside break above the $3,450 
region might call for more gains in the coming days. In the stated case, Ether 
could rise toward the $3,500 resistance zone or even $3,550 in the near term. 
Downside Break In ETH? If Ethereum fails to clear the $3,320 resistance, it 
could start a fresh decline. Initial support on the downside is near the 
$3,280 level and the trend line. The first major support sits near the $3,260 
zone and the 100 hourly SMA. A clear move below the $3,260 support might push 
the price toward the $3,220 support and the 50% Fib retracement level of the 
recent wave from the $3,060 swing low to the $3,402 high. Any more losses 
might send the price toward the $3,150 region. Technical Indicators Hourly 
MACD – The MACD for ETH/USD is losing momentum in the bullish zone. Hourly RSI 
&#8211; The RSI for ETH/USD is now below the 50 zone. Major Support Level – $3,280 
Major Resistance Level – $3,385

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Keyrock and Dune have published a “12 Charts to Watch in 2026” dashboard that 
tries to pin next year’s crypto narrative to measurable market structure, 
where liquidity is forming, where value is being returned, and which rails are 
quietly becoming systemically important. The report’s premise is 
straightforward: each chart pairs a live dataset with an explicit 2026 
prediction. Taken together, the set reads like a checklist of whether crypto’s 
core primitives: trading, issuance, payments, and funding are becoming deeper 
and more institutional in their behavior. 12 Crypto Metrics To Watch This Year 
Keyrock puts prediction markets near the top of the stack after a 2025 run 
that saw weekly volume rise 9.2x to just under $5 billion, with Kalshi, 
Polymarket and Opinion controlling a combined 98.4% share at the time of 
writing. For 2026, it forecasts a 5x jump versus the 2025 run-rate to $25 
billion in weekly volume, and a matching 5x rise in open interest as markets 
deepen and positions persist longer. Related Reading: Crypto Market Bill Draft 
Criticized For Allowing Continued Developer Prosecution On tokenization, the 
chart tracks non-stablecoin onchain RWA AUM, explicitly excluding stablecoins 
to isolate whether capital markets assets are moving onchain. Keyrock says 
non-stablecoin RWA AUM grew 3.4x in 2025 and projects more than 4x growth in 
2026, led by tokenized cash-like products (T-bills and money market funds) and 
private credit, with early signs of equities and ETFs as market structure and 
regulation mature. A third adoption vector is x402, which Keyrock describes as 
an open payments protocol pioneered by Coinbase in 2025 to let software, 
including AI agents pay for digital services using stablecoins. Its measurable 
call: weekly x402 volume exceeding $100 million in 2026, framed as a proxy for 
“machine-native commerce” showing up in production. For onchain asset 
management, Keyrock tracks vault AUM across major providers and argues 2025 
was about product maturity; 2026 is positioned as distribution. Its headline 
forecast is vault AUM tripling to $36 billion before year-end, alongside a 
prediction that at least one major broker-dealer offers an onchain vault 
“yield shelf.” Related Reading: New Hope For Crypto: Senators Introduce 
Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act Derivatives are treated as the clearest 
stress test for depth. Keyrock highlights how the DEX-to-CEX futures trading 
ratio grew more than 3x in 2025, from 6.34% to 21%, and says open interest—not 
volume—is the key signal for whether venues can “hold risk in size” as new 
asset classes migrate onchain. The 2026 target: onchain perp OI exceeding $50 
billion. Value return is monitored via buybacks. The report notes multi- 
million-dollar programs in 2025 from Hyperliquid, Raydium and Pump.fun, and 
predicts weekly buyback spend reaches at least 2x 2025 levels, plus a shift 
away from “fixed percentage of fees” models toward “value-aware” execution 
(pacing bands, triggers, disciplined accumulation). Solana MEV is framed as a 
distribution problem as much as a trading one. Keyrock notes tip-based MEV 
(validator + Jito tips) fell from a peak of 100,000 SOL (about $25 million at 
the time) to a low of 1,000 SOL (about $139,000), then points to the Block 
Assembly Marketplace (BAM) as the mechanism that could reshape where MEV is 
captured, away from reflexive tip spikes and toward explicit execution pricing 
set by apps and venues. Moreover, Keyrock uses “shielded ZEC” as a privacy 
proxy and forecasts shielded deposits rising from 4.9 million to more than 7 
million by end-2026. On Ethereum, it tracks whether blobs develop a meaningful 
fee floor and predicts a median hourly blob cost of at least $0.05 per blob on 
a full-year basis. Payments show up in consumer form via crypto card spend, 
with the report forecasting a $500 million monthly spend print at least once 
in 2026. TradFi integration is tracked via spot BTC ETF AUM, with Keyrock 
projecting holdings surpass 2.5 million BTC in 2026 and net inflows positive 
in at least eight months. Finally, the stablecoin funding chart anchors on 
Aave’s USDC variable borrow APY on Ethereum, which it says ranged from 2.4% to 
9.8% in 2025. The forward-looking claim is about rate stability rather than 
level: a drop in 30-day rolling volatility of USDC borrow APY to an average 
below 0.25 versus roughly 0.40 in 2025—positioned as a prerequisite for 
longer-duration, institution-style strategies. At press time, the total crypto 
market cap stood at $3.25 trillion. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart 
from TradingView.com

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