Ethereum Stalls in Neutral as a Major Protocol Upgrade Looms

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Key Takeaways

ETH trades near $1,790, recovered from its early-June low but still capped below every major average.
Open interest sits almost exactly on its 30-day average, with a Z-score of -0.28, a neutral reading.
Spot ETFs drew $32M the week of June 16, the first positive week after a month of outflows.
The Glamsterdam upgrade, ETH’s biggest since the Merge, has entered final testing as the next catalyst.

Ethereum has spent past days recovering from a sharp washout, climbing back to around $1,790 on 17th of June after 9% weekly gain, from an early-month low near $1,510. But the more telling story is not the bounce, it is how quiet the market underneath it has become. Leverage is neutral, ETF flows have only just stopped bleeding, and the price sits in no-man’s-land below resistance. This is a market waiting, and the most plausible thing it is waiting for is now in view.