Ether is trading at around $1,896 on Saturday morning, roughly €1,720, its lowest level since mid-August. The same week brought a technical announcement that carries more weight for the medium-term outlook than the price suggests: the developer team behind the Ethereum client Lighthouse has submitted a fix for a vulnerability that would have become exploitable around the next major upgrade, Glamsterdam.
What is confirmed: the fix exists as a pull request and is still awaiting review, and the price briefly fell below $1,890 overnight into Saturday. Our assessment follows further down. In short, we see ETF flows as the stronger lever over the coming weeks, but the code as the factor that determines when Glamsterdam arrives at all.
Where the price could head over a horizon of months is covered in our Ethereum price prediction. This piece sticks to the short term: what lies behind the Lighthouse vulnerability, which levels have broken or held since Friday, and which steps investors can sensibly take now.
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