ETH Price Prediction: Ethereum Price Pullbacks Aiming for a 15% Bullish Move Ahead

Ethereum Price Analysis: A support trendline has given a specific direction to the ongoing recovery rally in Ethereum price. Under the influence of this trendline, the coin price has recorded 21.8% growth in the last three weeks from local support of $1700.

Timeline of Ethereum

With its recent highs fueled by the Shanghai upgrade, Ethereum's (ETH) price hovers around the $2,100 mark. As of April 17, ETH was trading at $2,070, down from its 90-day high of $2,137 achieved on April 16.

The Shanghai and Capella upgrades, collectively known as Shapella, which enabled unstaking for the first time since ETH staking was introduced in December 2020, went live last week — precisely on April 12.

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As Ethereum's (CRYPTO: ETH) Shapella hard fork began, allowing users to withdraw their staked Ether, over 1.03 million ETH worth $2.1 billion was withdrawn within the first four days. What Happened: According to the beaconcha.in, the withdrawals were made through 473,700 withdrawal requests, the highest withdrawal day being April 15, with 392,800 ETH being taken out.

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Ethereum has found a lot of resistance after $2,100 as bears are ramping up their activities once more. The digital asset saw a good run last week following the Shapella upgrade given that withdrawals from the Ethereum Beacon contract were not as high as expected.

Ethereum (ETH), the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has been in the news for several positive reasons all month long. Over the past 24 hours, the digital currency has soared to an 11-month high of $2,137.45.

Nearly $2 billion worth of Ethereum (ETH) is set to be unstaked after the top smart contract platform's Shapella update went live last week. In a new report, crypto analytics platform IntoTheBlock finds that 868,631 of staked ETH, worth more than $1.8 billion at time of writing, are currently in queue waiting to be withdrawn.

Four days after the Ethereum (ETH) Shapella upgrade, more than 1 million ETH has been withdrawn, according to beaconcha.in data. According to the data, 1.04 million ETH has been withdrawn from the 491,037 processed withdrawals.