The ETH price has risen by 0.5% in the past 24 hours, ascending to $1,919 after a long-dormant participant in the Ethereum ICO apparently sold $116 million of the token via Kraken.
ETH is now up by 2% in the last seven days and by 11% in the last 30 days, with the altcoin having risen by 60% since the beginning of the year.
It seems that an XRP-driven and market-wide rally has helped Ethereum avoid being damaged too much by the sale of the formerly inactive ETH, although the offloading of such a large sum of the cryptocurrency potentially doesn't bode well for the near future.
But with Ethereum remaining one of the strongest cryptocurrencies in the market in terms of fundamentals, ETH is bound to rise again sooner or later.
ETH's indicators look as though the coin could witness further gains in the coming days, with its relative strength index (purple) passing above 50 and potentially heading to 60 or higher.
This signals growing momentum for ETH, yet the coin will need to reverse the decline of its 30-day moving average (yellow) before there can be a strong expectation that it will see some consistent gains.
To be fair, ETH looks as though it has finished a mini-correction that began in the weekend, when market euphoria regarding the Ripple decision subsided a little.
It's unlikely to fall much further in the near term, with its support level (green) having held up very well over the past week, despite a number of falls.
And while some observers may regard the news of the dormant ETH with alarm, it should be regarded as mostly positive that someone has been able to sell more than $100 million in ETH without there being a massive impact on the altcoin's price.
The funds in question – about 61,216 ETH – had been held in a wallet
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