Ethereum price, like other major altcoins, maintains its stability while maintaining the bullish outlook. At the same time, the network recalls that Ethereum has never stopped producing blocks since its launch.
At the BUIDL Asia 2026 conference, Luca Zanolini, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, highlighted the roadmap’s goal of reducing transaction finality to less than a minute. Meanwhile, the ratio of long contracts to short contracts remained stable at 1.54, a quiet signal that “smart money” is accumulating as indecision sets in among retail investors.
Zanolini’s remarks, made on April 17 at the Sofitel Ambassador Seoul, struck at the heart of Ethereum’s design philosophy.
“Ethereum is designed to continue producing blocks even if participation rates decline,” he said. “The next challenge is to maintain this advantage while reducing the finality of transactions to less than a minute. »
In 2023, Ethereum continued to produce blocks without interruption even after software bugs caused more than half of its notaries to go offline. The developers aim to implement the final improvements between 2029 and 2030, strengthening the main thesis of the network.
Ethereum Price Prediction: $2,420 is the Target
ETH price has been trading in a narrow bullish range between $2,285 and $2,360 over the past 24 hours, with daily trading volume above $18 billion. This number reflects active participation at these levels without liquidity falling. The funding rate is near neutral at 0.0001%, indicating no excessive leverage one way or the other.
The critical support zone is $2,250; As long as ETH price remains above this low, the technical structure supports a push towards the resistance level at $2,420. A clear break above $2,420 would open the way towards $2,870, a level close to the areas seen before the pullback from the coin’s all-time high of $4,950. The current price still represents a 52% reduction from the high, meaning the upside potential in percentage terms is still significant.
The dynamics of open interest rates indicate that the market is in a waiting state, which makes a sharp movement in either direction possible. The long/short ratio of 1.54 suggests directional conviction among major players, but conviction alone does not negate the impact of adverse macroeconomic factors. Therefore, the $2,250 level should be watched carefully.
Does LiquidChain address what Ethereum can’t?
Ethereum may be the network that never sleeps, but it also carries the burden of a $280 billion market cap. Achieving a tangible rise from current levels requires stimulating macroeconomic factors, breaking weeks of resistance and sustained institutional demand. This is a long list of conditions.
As critical levels decline, the risk-reward ratio at $2,330 becomes tighter than it was 5 years ago for traders. Here, early-stage infrastructure projects present a completely different equation.
The LiquidChain ($LIQUID) project is a layer 3 infrastructure built around a simple thesis: integrating Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana liquidity into a single execution environment. The problem of dispersing liquidity across chains remains real and costly, and LiquidChain’s unified liquidity layer aims to address this dilemma directly, with features such as “one-step execution” and a “single deployment” architecture that allows developers to access all three systems without the burden of redeployment.
The presale price is currently $0.0145, with $675,000 raised so far, plus a massive 1,600% annual return for early buyers via staking. Verifiable settlement also adds a level of accountability at the institutional level, which most early competitors to Layer 3 solutions have ignored.
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