Ethereum must first clear $2,672
Ethereum has already done much of the work. After falling back below $2,400 this week, ETH recovered $2,500 and then $2,600. Bref Crypto was still tracking $2,500 as the level needed to restart the recovery in early September. That resistance is now behind the market.
The next one lies around $2,672. This level corresponds to a Fibonacci retracement calculated from the decline since the October 2025 record. A weekly close above it would technically open the way toward the $2,950–$3,000 area, according to a market analysis carried by TradingView.
The broader context provides a few additional arguments. ETH has reclaimed its 50-week moving average around $2,540, and US Ethereum ETFs have returned to inflows after several sessions of outflows. On September 18, around $143.8 million flowed into these products, according to data cited by 24/7 Wall St.
Staking demand is also heavily skewed: around 1.76 million ETH were recently waiting to enter validation, compared with just 128,640 ETH awaiting exit.
$3,000 is therefore no longer very far away.
But $2,672 remains the gateway.
Bitcoin still has $83,000 ahead of it
Bitcoin’s situation is fairly similar. BTC moved back above $80,000 on Friday and reached around $81,300 over the weekend. The move triggered roughly $603 million in liquidations over 24 hours, including $523 million in short positions. More than 110,000 traders were reportedly liquidated.
Bref Crypto has been watching $82,000 for several weeks. The zone had already turned the market back in early September after a high of around $82,280.
It has still not disappeared.
To seriously target $90,000, Bitcoin must first break through $82,000–$83,000, then avoid repeating the false breakout seen at the beginning of the month. A move back above $83,000 would put $85,000 next, a level already monitored during the previous breakout attempt.
$90,000 would then be approximately 8% above $83,000. That is no longer a gigantic move for Bitcoin, especially after the +25% recorded in August.
BTC is also benefiting from a more constructive long-term structure. It has just reclaimed its 50-week moving average, while its weekly Supertrend had already temporarily turned green at the beginning of September.
The sequence nevertheless remains conditional: $83,000 before $90,000.
The two cryptocurrencies now have almost the same problem
Crypto Rover’s tweet therefore greatly simplifies the situation, but it captures something interesting.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are both close to a level that could accelerate their recovery.
For ETH: $2,672.
For BTC: $82,000–$83,000.
Above those levels, the charts become more open. Ethereum could return to the $2,950–$3,000 region. Bitcoin could move toward $85,000 and then $90,000.
The context is nevertheless different. Ethereum is currently benefiting from strong staking demand and the return of ETF inflows. Bitcoin is mainly benefiting from a technical recovery after resisting several negative developments, including the Fed’s rate hike and the CLARITY Act’s procedural failure in the Senate. Moving above $80,000 despite those two events strengthened the bullish scenario.
There is one difference from Crypto Rover’s very direct wording: an asset does not “want” any price.
Buyers still have to take it there.
ETH is just a few dozen dollars from its first confirmation. Bitcoin, meanwhile, is returning for another confrontation with the resistance that already rejected it in early September.
If both break through at the same time, $3,000 for Ethereum and $90,000 for Bitcoin will no longer be just two round figures displayed on X. They will become the next major zones that the market will actually have to negotiate.
