{"id":120812,"date":"2023-07-11T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/ethereum-eth-eyes-key-price-target-as-fees-hit-fresh-lows-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:09:25","slug":"ethereum-eth-eyes-key-price-target-as-fees-hit-fresh-lows-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/ethereum-eth-eyes-key-price-target-as-fees-hit-fresh-lows-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum (ETH) Eyes Key Price Target as Fees Hit Fresh Lows\n &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to on-chain analytics firm <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1678488261076094976\">Santiment<\/a>Ethereum&#8217;s average transaction fees have dropped to a modest $2.45, and the price of ETH is almost ready to climb again above $1,900.<\/p>\n<p>ETH was trading at $1,868 at the time of writing, hardly higher than the previous day.  According to Santiment, after a brief period during which the average fee for transactions on the Ethereum network rose to $7.40, it has since fallen to $2.45, with the majority of these fees coming from ETH and WETH over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd11 Following a brief stint where <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a>&#8216;s network became rather pricey at $7.40 per transaction, the average fee has dropped back down to $2.45.  Over the past 24 hours, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> and wrapped <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24WETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$WETH<\/a> are getting the lion&#8217;s share of these fees. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0br2LcwWWR\">https:\/\/t.co\/0br2LcwWWR<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/odoQWGcq0r\">pic.twitter.com\/odoQWGcq0r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santiment (@santimentfeed) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1678488261076094976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The average transaction fee, or gas fee, on the Ethereum network has cooled significantly after spiking over 57% in the first week of July, owing to VMPX, a newly launched cryptocurrency that operates as an ERC-20 and BRC-20 token.<\/p>\n<p>On July 7, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intotheblock\/status\/1677242237426581504\">IntoTheBlock<\/a> reported that Ethereum fees spiked by over 50% in the past week, with a new, suspicious token, VMPX, making up 18% of the gas consumption.  Data shared by IntoTheBlock showed that the second largest cryptocurrency saw total fees of $47 million within the said period.<\/p>\n<h2>ETH price action<\/h2>\n<p>The ETH price encountered headwinds after reaching the $1,976 mark on July 3. The gain was restrained by some concerns, including an increased likelihood of future interest rate increases and a more restrictive regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to CoinShares, Ethereum received inflows of $2.9 million for the past week, slightly benefiting from an uptick in investor mood.<\/p>\n<p>The RSI is close to midway, and both moving averages have flattened down, indicating that supply and demand are in balance.  Ethereum may retest the resistance area of \u200b\u200b$1,976 if buyers push the price above $1,905 before moving towards the $2,000 level.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if the price drops below the daily MA 50 at $1,842, the bears will attempt to push it down to the daily MA 200 at $1,718, which might forestall the declines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to on-chain analytics firm SantimentEthereum&#8217;s average transaction fees have dropped to a modest $2.45, and the price of ETH is almost ready to climb again above $1,900. ETH was trading at $1,868 at the time of writing, hardly higher than the previous day. According to Santiment, after a brief period during which the average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-120812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120814,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120812\/revisions\/120814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}