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I wonder why Etherium has been stagnant over the past few weeks without any significant rise in price. It became stable which is good. However, it dropped two fold since its maximum achieved in the end of January 2018 when the Bitcoin and majority of altcoins were slumping. I have seen many posts ans articles about the Etherium overpassing Bitcoin this year, but it seems not much to be the case as of now...

ICO investment profitability decreased -> demand for ETH decreased (less willing to invest in ICO) -> price decreased

also because there are a lot of dumps going on, people are panic selling, the whales are exiting to better investments and ICO scammers are pulling out.

at the same time newbie investors are buying and panicking at the same time which is keeping the price up in an stagnant status.

I think the main reason is the bubble of crypto market, almost all the coins dropped more than 50% compared to the highest price on January. There is another important reason, some ICO dev team are selling their ETH raised a few months ago.

Because of the beatish market ethereum is also affected then ico today are low and altcoins is downtrend. Now ico is to slow now and some altcoins are pump and dump. Market is bearish due to some govt regulations issues now let see for couple of months but I am hoping that this will not last.

for now ETH has decreased very significantly, I don't know what happened? I experience the loss on a drop eth, I hope this doesn't last long

Best answer. By the way do you think that if the people would create a much better ICOs that may lead to the price growing for Ethereum?

As BTC still ruling the market so all coins including ETH follow it. We need a really good news for ETH so that it can grow despite the general decreasing trend.

Because it is a premined piece of shit.

I don't know the main reason but I think it is because of bubble in the cryptocurrency market and the panic selling of the people who had there investments on the ethereum. But I hope in the next few days Ethereum's value will increase so my loss will be replaceable with profit.  :)

Now the whole market is in suspense. The ethereum is no exception. However, I believe that soon the market will rise again soon: a lot of ICOs, the emergence of new investors in the market (institutional) and etc

it takes a long time for eth itself to rise or fall, because it is kind of long-term investment.
besabar course, will be up in time alone.

Ethereum is centralized garbage that only delivers broken promises

The price of the Etherium should not be high. This is not a necessity for the functioning of the infrastructure. To date, Ether is overrated. It's too early cost to it.

It's hard time for this market and this is not just about ETH, all the tokens fell in price on the background of the news that was a few days ago. I think gradually the market will grow and all the tokens will go up in price

When it comes to ranking in the market Ethereum is the second leading one, in demand to be consider, the stagnant word is not related to your statement, Stagnant never flows no will to make it go. as we are going to evaluate its price it has a lot of consumer which are the investor, because most Project demands ethereum as an investment, However, Leading crypto (Bitcoin) is affected, Red days to be consider.

Furthermore, there are several articles about,Which could be greater in power of stability, Eth or BTC, But I'm not fond of comparing so that i Value every cryptos I HOLD, that is why i'm not too affected when the price goes down or up, it's normal, (VOLATILITY).

Whole market is in red zone and ethereum is not a exception. Market in the hands of bears and they are trying to drop it more but now bulls are also trying to catch the market and it is slowly recovering. All coins are down due to bulls and bears fight and finally bull will win in the end.

I doubt it would overpass bitcoin BUT it can come close, if so, then this is the time for ethereum to moon when btc is down. This just purely shows that bitcoin is the king and every coins/tokens are just following bitcoin's footsteps.

The majority of markets have known if the real reason behind the ethereum is the icos are dumping their amount raised from the public sale to the market. That makes the majority of whales are still accumulating cheap ethereum before they will try to pump it as soon as possible. The mtgox trustee has made a clarification and that was pushing the price of bitcoin was getting increasingly more than ethereum.

Ethereum's drop in price over the last couple of months is due to the whole market moving down. It doesn't really say anything about the merits of Ethereum itself.
I would say just be patient, Ethereum will rise again as will the rest of the market.

One more thing - you are right that a lot of people do think that Ethereum might pass Bitcoin, but this is obviously in terms of market cap, not individual coin price. It is very unlikely that 1 ETH will ever be worth more than 1 BTC.

very difficult eth can replace Bitcoin it stings impossible all altcoin decreases following the movement of the king

Market still in sell pressure, but i don't think it's bearish (or maybe short bearish)
I believe in Q3 or Q4 2018, crypto price including ETH will reach new high

Don't worry too much about the current value of Ethereum since the entire market has been bearish for quite sometime and it seems like it is starting to recover at the moment. Ethereum has the potential to reach $3000 by the end of this year and it will continue to surge in value over time thanks to their huge community and passionate developers. I have not sold any of my coins including Ethereum at the moment and will continue to HODL them for future gains. My advice is to HODL your coins until the market rallies in the future.

There is an opinion that Ethereum is on stable position and it's good but Eher is not so strong to grow.

It is because of market stagnation, it is happening to other coins not just eth, market is not yet stable, as more traders have not resumed training, when market stables everything will be fine.

I think you must wait a little longer for the ethereum increase its value, because in cryptocurrency fluctuation is normal and its all because the news that around the world who give benefit to cryptocurrency or make it look bad, and we want to always support it to make the situation in good condition

If based on the decline that occurred a few months does not have the ethereum increase means. but actually, this coin has gone through development and changes are very good. for this time a lot of the issues that make crypto crashed including ethereum and much prefer selling than on hold, this is the classic reason that makes the ethereum remains at the same price even getting down to this moment.

Yes. A possibility, I think ETH is stuck with an invisible thread called bitcoin. That is what I have been hesitating for a long time. Because, bitcoin still dominates and represents the power of a real king on cryptocurrency. ETH is still a popular and trusted coin. The market capitalization of ETH is only lower than bitcoin with more than 50 billion (market cap).
The bitcoin value affects other altcoins, even the value of the token after the ico.

I hope that ethereum will continue to grow gradually due to the increasing popularity of cryptocurrency as a convenient means of payment, security of storage and independence from state influence.

ALl crypto currencies prices are low now but if we can belive to statistics the prices will grow to the end of summer!

I have the same question and it looks like the impact from Facebook and Twitter banning ICO's might be working now.

Looks like the social media made a great deal for advertising this ICO's and now they are in the hard times to spread the news.
We know this ICO's have been the one pumping the Ethereum value since almost all of it are ERC-20.

This is Cryptocurrency market it is a volatile market,no one can predict what it may be in the next few days just be patient with the market it will come up

Nope, Ethereum is not stagnant and it is a sleeping giant as per my prediction. All altcoins follow Bitcoin's trend but Ethereum will react to Bitcoin's trend late. Bitcoin price is rising and Ethereum will also follow the path in another couple of days is my prediction. I think Ethereum will reach $1000 before April.

It is a good sign which stated that ethereum doesn't get any impact to others market, it has their own markets and peoples love them and keeping them as a long term investment.

I Think the trend has already turned around and the ETH is getting ready for the flight .. start the countdown ...)

There is no need to believe that the Crypto-currency is already on the way! I'm sure that the crypto-currencies have just begun their journey. And Ethereum, too. My opinion is that, in the end, Ether will become currency number one. But the majority of altcoins will cease to exist.

Bitcoin went to the other direction so there is going to be a pump on Ethereum. The pump doesn't look that strong though.

Ethereum is not stagnant at all, rather it is in downtrend specifically in terms of btc, i think it is moving nicely down, soon we will be able to find nice entry points for eth long positions, so keep an eye on the charts.

This is due to the fact that many altcoins are traded with Ethereum. Also, many altcoins are released on the ERC20 platform - the ethereum platform.
And he went to a loss because the altcoins are selling. In times of crisis, many altcoins will die - this will lead to a reduction in the price of the ethereum itself.

Everything makes its economic circle, from falling to growth. The cycle is closed and if the process of falling is now under way, then soon the process of growth will take place. All that is now necessary to be cautious, and if possible, buy, because the ascent will be accurate, in the next few months.

The entire market is still bearish. And no new money is coming in. Everyone is on the lookout to know exactly where the market is before investing. Until the market stabilises and has a concise upward movement before one can judge which coin is stagnant and which is not.

The ethereum coin is stagnant ,it is so because there are maybe some factors lying in the digital market that cause the altcoins value is is not moving from this time , this is business there will be time in which there are in high value and time in which value is very down.

Take a look at daily price chart - there is a strong down trend and it hasn't been changed yet. So unfortunately I don't see the power to grow... Moreover I guess it can drop even lower to $400 soon.

First of all BTC price fell down as a result of which other Altcoins went down.Many tokens of successful ICO were sold by the people in a huge quantity that the price of ETH fell down to very low level.Its mean next time it will surge to very high level.I did not sold me tokens and hold them and i know that ETH will cross $1k in 2018,so good time is coming near.ETH is growing at a very slow rate thats why its price is increasing slowly.

I think that many traders and investors began to show interest in bitcoin, because they saw a slight upward movement. This was the reason that the price of ETH frozen in one place. But I'm sure that soon the growth will begin.

Markets a little sideways right now unfortunately, don’t just look at ethereum. Hopefully the whole market picks up the rest of this year.

Stagnancy is part of the investment. If there is lot of investment then it will spike in the market value and if it is less then obviously the coins will decrease in the value. On the other hand we can not surely say that bitcoin will be overcame by the ethereum itself because it doesn't have that much volume as well as market Cap to cover the bitcoin first line of defence. It will take far greater efforts for Ethereum and if they kept it limited to ICO projects then they may not progress at specific point beyond. The reason is simple, more the ICO getting scam these days the more is the output of the ETH as well. SO it may or may not cross the bitcoin.

Maybe because of the what happen to bitcoin that falls hard and some investor withdrew their fund that might happen to ETH as will. But for me its ok because eth will surely be stable not like other altcoin that dumps hard as will.

there is a reduction in quality ICO available, so it may be a reason. Also EOS sells too many ethereums

Ethereum have other contenders when it comes to smart contract if that what we think will make the price of ethereum go up. We have other platforms like NEO and STELLAR.

so it's necessary that eth price has to significantly rise every day right? The price has been dropping and sleeping exactly because of people like this who expect the price only to grow and if it doesn't happen they sell

it is currently the condition of eth is decreasing due to the parent coin is bitcoin itself is also experiencing a decline deep enough
if bitcoin down it will inevitably impact on other coin coins like eth xlm xrp etc.
if the bitcoin price is normal again certainly other prices will go up as before
I also wish if the normal price goes back up but what is the power of the current market condition leads to the declining price

hopefully all back to normal again

We see that Ethereum's price is stable while there is a certain improvement in the crypto market. I think the most important reason for this is advertising bans starting for ICOs. (Facebook, Google, maybe Twitter can also agree bans...)

The developers of the etherium moved to another project, so the coin becomes cheaper. To start growth, you need to solve several problems. The main one is the burning of part of the coins during the transaction.

The two main reason that are holding the market back and stopping it from recovering are whales and launching of scam ICO’s and projects. Whales have manipulated the crypto market many times and have caused panic sell among new investors and many other people. Whales are mostly responsible for massive dips in crypto market that occur for no reason. Moreover, launching of scam ICO’s have caused the money to flow outside the crypto market and has led to many dips and crashes in the market making it stagnant.

I think its natural no big deals becuase the whole market condition pretty much slow. most of the ico price under water and also price drops another reason for eth stagnant .

ETH is still in development, and the development of the ETH not only reflected in prices, because recently a lot of ICO raise need to use the ETH, so contributing to a bubble ETH appeared, at present there are a large number of teams in selling the ETH, so prices are normal, and ETH is still under development.

probably because the price decline from BTC for now also decreases and affects the eth itself.
for now the price of eth is not stable yet, and it still takes time to get back to the stabill price.

ICO prices are no better when they enter the trade, perhaps because the value of ICO token growth and trade is so worthless that people throw it away to make a profit, that could be the reason why the ETH price has not looked good

You are right. Ethereum declined a lot compared with bitcoin.
I believe it is caused by ICO teams. They raised so much ethereum during 2017 that they must have sold lots of it to cash out.

the FUD around eos trying to dump around 415k eth, exiting of scammer ico, bearish market sentiment can be some of the reasons for eth to be this stagnant other than this, stagnancy should be a logical stop after booming so high in value in such a short span of time.

maybe this one makes perfect sense.
for now eth has not been well worth the price because of the decreasing of the last month.
but for now eth is very suitable for the buy and made in the investment for the long term to come.

That is one of what I observe in the EThereum price, many are saying that the price of ethereum is up but on actual cases, its not the price have been maintained for quite sometime now. But becuas eof you statement then basically it is one of the effect.

I think the overall market is still difficult. No new money in crypto recently apart from day traders. there are a lot of dumps going on, people are panicking selling, buying better investments and interesting ICO scammers. at the same time, novice investors buy and panic while keeping prices in a stagnant state.

there are many factors that make the price of ethereum fall sharply and almost half its value is lost. this is not good for the development of ethereum itself. right now, there is not much we can do but just wait and always try to read the situation and the market behavior. but, the opportunity to buy ethereum today is so great. because the value is quite cheap. I think ethereum will have a future progress to change its value

About that, I just thinking that it will recover and some of the factors that make it stuck.. it will turn being support to the development of the price. Well anyhow Ethereum still has a strong bond with bitcoin on its price movement & developments, the strength of this coin in the crypto world, it still potentially will leaving its stuck.

Over the past few days, we have witnessed a rapid recovery of Ethereum-coded currency. But now, due to the spread of unfounded rumors, this currency system is facing a real devaluation. As you know, Ethereum is a virtual currency unit, which is also The name refers to the whole payment system, with functions similar to Bitcoin. Its price is also partly due to the price of the BTC.

During recent period Ethereum becomes grow again. This Ethereum grow consists of small steps and doesn’t seem seriously now. But I believe that it is a good sign and growth will be more intensive in nearest future.

I don't think we can say that ETH price is stagnant. It is low now but if you look at it's price one year ago, it was just 50 bucks, meaning that it actually increased tenfold in a year. Yes, it was 1,000 in January but I would say it was rather a quick rise. Just like today it's just a dip.

I think this is due to the fall of the entire market. We just need to wait for the BTC to grow and then Ethereum to grow.

yes maybe because token etherium has more high potency and very suitable to invest in it beside that at present I see token etherium more have high potential for future and many possibility will give advantage to big investor.

ETH has been growing for a long time and now it's time to rest. There is nothing surprising. An asset can't grow constantly. I'm sure that it will drammaticaly grow in a long term.

Well, what is happening to ETH is such that can happen to any coin with Bitcoin inclusive. What I do know also that the impact of the current dip issue on the coins we have in general seems to  differ respectively. We have some that are still trying to hold their grounds despite the dip, while some have gone beyond what people thought will happen to them during a period like this. Above all buddies, patience is just the key at a time like this, so we won't regret some actions we may be forced to make at a time like this.

Well, if there wasn’t any interference from government, ethereum would have been able to surely surpass bitcoin at the end of this year. ETH is a platform of smart contracts on which ICO’s are launched. Government of many countries across the world are trying to regulate the launching of ICO’s, which has reduced the number of projects launching on ETH platform and hence we have not see any significant gains in Ethereum.

Moreover many social networking sites such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are banning crypto advertisements of ICO’s, etc which has reduced the price of ETH and is holding it stable currently.

The request for crypto currency token is not yet much, however, there is much dump by holders to request which can encourage bidding war.

The Ethereum ecosystem has not yet reached its full potential. Numerous issues have popped up in recent months which may be holding it back. These will need to be resolved soon for Etereum to really take off. Even Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin acknowledges there are many issues which hinder the growth of Ethereum.

not only coins but all the ethereum. are the cycle like this I think. just had to hold on longer in order to get great results because of course in the next few months the price will be higher.

In my experience in analysis the movement of cryptocurrencies price, everything depending on the bitcoin's price, ethereum is stagnant because bitcoin is stagnant too, bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrencies and altcoins will follow the king. About the article that the ethereum will overtaking bitcoin, it is just opinions and all of people can do that include us.

In your words there is logic, but I think that there are a number of other factors that affect the price. Demand falls and the price accordingly - there is a panic. In fact, I believe in ETH, but I'm also concerned about its price.

Just look at the Ethereum price one year ago and then tell me if the return Ethereum gave in the last year wasn't good enough for you? Do you expect the price to just keep on going up. The current price drop is nothing but a market correction and is healthy for the markets,

I think that the demand for a coin has slightly decreased. The market is not in the best shape now. People panic, respectively, afraid to invest large sums in coins.  We need to rejoice that the market is not a critical situation.

Actually, I consider the more or less stagnant situation of Ethereum at present as a good thing. Take a closer look at the market and you will not find it hard to conclude that it is undergoing a little bit severe kind of fall which may take some time to recover. I am already happy that instead of a free fall, Ethereum has floated somewhere in the $500 plus level. It also manages to show some green every now and then despite a generally red market.

I think ethereum's decrease in demand isn't about ico profits as icos are still profitable with great projects.
I think its mostly about market's bear behaviour as community follows decrease like sheep in my opinion.

Yeah, thats exact what it looks the behaviour of ethereum today having decrease in demand but totally is in shape were its value remains in the same spot of having low and high and as the head of the cryptocurrency todays is experiencing also a hard correction. Although some ICO are affected this trends today.

Well, it's the same as you are asking if why ETH is continuously falling or rising. That's cryptocurrency and that's how its market price goes. If it is stagnant, then that's just the way it is now. If the demand of people for ETH will rise, then expect it to rise, and fall if it goes the other way too.

Many ICOs are Ethereum network dependent using the ERC-20 compatible tokens so now we know who dictates and controls the price of Ethereum, many ICOs have come and go and some stand firm and the more the ICO demand the higher the demand of Ethereum too. For the past few quarters particularly in 2017 there are plenty of successful ICO that lead to the high demand of Ethereum but this following months due to some ICO regulations some ICO project was not push through that lead to the lesser demand of Ethereum that's why its market was bearish. Hopefully by next quarter we shall see a market recovery of Ethereum.

The market was recovering some days ago and would even have had experienced bullish trend soon if it wasn’t for the news of regulation of ICO’s in various countries and banning of crypto advertisements on social networking platforms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.

These recent news have led the market to crash once again and this time the dip was massive than previous as there was also news of G20 summit being held on crypto currencies. Probably the market will recover and see bullish trend in the month of July and ahead.

All coins are performing poor including bitcoins. This is because of the news related to Google also banning crypto ads after Facebook.

I am also confuse about the stagnant movement of Ether even when Bitcoin is moving up to 10% change Ether will be hovering around 0 -2% change. It think may be all the ICO are using ether smart contract and their payout both to

It is good that ethereum was just stable. I think the reason for this is that no one had invested so much on ethereum during as there is no significant changes was observed except that as you have noticed it drops in value. Perhaps some other coins turns out to be more investing than ethereum like bitcoin so they used there money to buy it instead.

There are problem with most of cryptocurrencies. After Google banned promoting of Bitcoin the whole market go down. That’s nice we see now like the prices are recovering. But would it be constant tendency I don’t know.

That should only be temporary. Unless the Government wanted to censor the Internet -Google and all the other social media websites will find that they can't stop anything.

I think this is temporary because of decreased profitability of the ICO, thus many investor dont want to invest on ICO. Also it is affected by the google crypto ads ban. Hoping all the coins recover after this situation, just keep your trust on ethreum. It will recover soon.

I think etheurem decline is not because of its cause because many investors switch on ICO and also google and facebook prohibit its advertisement cryptocurrency.

Stagnancy is part of the investment. If there is lot of investment then it will spike in the market value and if it is less then obviously the coins will decrease in the value. On the other hand we can not surely say that bitcoin will be overcame by the ethereum itself because it doesn't have that much volume as well as market Cap to cover the bitcoin first line of defence. It will take far greater efforts for Ethereum and if they kept it limited to ICO projects then they may not progress at specific point beyond. The reason is simple, more the ICO getting scam these days the more is the output of the ETH as well. SO it may or may not cross the bitcoin.

Ethereum the same like others crypto too, it will stagnan, drop and going up with high fluctuacion. The best idea to make money from it is doing swing trading, and now is good times to get it and hold  in a few month. The price will be going up again to the $1200, just wait patient for that moment.

yes indeed etheurium after experiencing a very far decrease now it stagnates without any development. this may be influenced by another coin. because the other coin is experiencing the same thing. now we can only be patient waiting for market reaction, going up or even down again.

This simply shows why does ethereum is very stagnant. The stability of ethereum price is good for those who want to have an investment in a long term.
I just want to clarify that there are many tokens that supported by ethereum and I think it may contribute for ethereum price to rise up but it seems it never happens. A lot of projects are made in accordance with ERC20 token. In fact, ethereum becomes the medium of exchange in lots of ICO that launch right now. How come that the price wouldn't move up even there are lots of investors joining in an ICO?

Ethereum is not only a coin in cryptocurrency has been stagnant for a weeks. Basically all cryptocurrency in digital currency are suffering a big decline of value this is because of supply and demand in market which are carried through previous big whales which the market can not adjust directly into investors.

this is because is the most favourite coin after bitcoin itself, lots of people liked it, so when its going down into current price i think it really give a big impact to ETH Holders
especially if the person is dependent on the ERC20 token which is connected to the ETH

some ICO even paused their tokensale after this condition of the market

i think it's because there are a lot of bad issues going on about cryptocurrencies and so many country that want to forbid their people using cryptocurrency as the payment method. i think that's the reason Ethereum is stagnant right now.

i think everyone is steadily waiting for the market to rise. no one wants to sell a big volume at the moment due to big dip of the market.

Maybe because the demand is too low while the supply is to high that resulting less volume in the market cap. There many factor on price movement nowadays and the one factor of that is the community support and investors trust. Since the value of ether is to stagnant and no progress for price hike investor are now diverting to other currencies that give an insurance to them to gain profit from their capital.

I think BTC still controls the market so all the coins including ETH follow suit. We need very good news for ETH so it can grow despite the general downtrend.

Ethereum is 2nd to Bitcoin. And Ethereum being the most consistent Alt Coin that exist in the market has the chance to steal the reign from Bitcoin. I agree to your observation that Ethereum became stagnant for the past few weeks. Being consistent is an advantage but cease to improve is quite a bigger disadvantage. But still we should remember not only Ethereum experience this, even Bitcoin and a large number of Alt Coins are affected by this. Let's just consider the market being down for the mean time and hope that it changes before the year ends.

I think its common while the others price are dropped significantly. There always a time when the price will rise up but there are also a time when the price is sideways, enjoy the progress.

I think the demand for ETH has decreased. There are a lot of ICO's coming out and it may have an effect on the demand of ETH. As far as I know, demand really affects the price of an altcoin and it can be the reason why ETH is stagnant and sometimes decreasing. I am invested on ETH though so I am hoping for movement on its price and praying that it will be much higher than it is now.

Ethereum performance depends on the success of ICO. Fewer ICO projects the lesser the demand in ETH. I still believe in future that ETH will surpass the BTC in terms of price. It’s just ETH right now suffers a lot due to multiple hits of bad news in ICO. Maybe late or early next year the price of ETH will bounce back to ATH.

I also thought about it so, Why is now ethereum stagnant. the price of ethereum back to the price at the end of 2017. For this problem is there a solution? Do I have to hold my ethereum assets to wait for the price to go back up as before.

Ethereum is stagnant from some days because market is not going proper and the bitcoin is also down. According to me  Ethereum will grow up in end of half month.

With bitmain releasing ASIC's, how will ethereum get affected? A constant release of ethash ASICs will get to destruction of coins with poor security due to little hashing power.(ethash coins)

ETH in stagnation because ICO projects are under pressure. Still there is a reason: general fall of capitalization of the cryptocurrency market.

In stagnation there is a whole market, not only ETH. Just now the price has come down very much and many people have started to panic about it.         

Because many hedge funds have ceased to actively invest in the crypt. That's the answer to your question. There is no influx of new money, the stagnation begins.

So now you can see that stagtanion finished! We see many altcoins rised a lot! And waiting new heights! Hope ethereum will go to 1000$ till end of spring!

Ethereum is not stagnant to say the last, it simply just follows the market movement just like other coins and since the price of most coins depend on the price of bitcoin due to the trade pairs being mostly between the coins and bitcoin. Since bitcoin isn't moving a lot that means the price of ethereum isn't moving either because ethereum prices depend a lot on bitcoin prices

When this time happens in ethereum all i felt is revealed because while im losing in bitcoin that continues dropping,this top two coins stabilized its price for couple of weeks.

Though today or should i say four days ago ethereum price moves upward but later this day had slowly drops,its ok market turns red too ,so maybe theres just a small correction

If the market goes stable, it mostly means that soon it is going to be the time of back-wise period, which is if there was huge rise, it is going to be either huge loss or middle loss, and everything similar to it.

Etherium, like other altcoins strongly depends on the price of bitcoin and market conditions. Of course, its price can grow faster than the growth of the bitcoin price, such we have seen. But now, in order to get the momentum, it is necessary that the market starts to grow

The price of the Etherium depends on the price of bitcoin and the state of the market. The market is in a state of stagnation. Also, the ETH platform does not currently have any events that have a positive effect on its price

I believe Ethereum are becoming more popular due to their efforts to capitalize on the more useful capabilities of blockchain networks. However there are times that it is slow moving. This is common scenarios in the crypto world. Not all tokens are active. There are times that they still recovering from their fall down.

The recent increase in Ethererum rates is due to the current market downturn, leading to ETH, BTC and all of the cryptos in the market is affected. But I still hope ETH exchange rate will increase sharply and surpass the market cap of BTC to become the most popular crypto in the world.

personally, I think if I do not know the main reason but I think it is because of bubbles in the cryptocurrency market and the panic salespeople who have invested in Ethereum. But I hope in the next few days, Ethereum's value will increase, and We need very good news for ETH so it can grow despite the general downtrend.

I don't really think that a "good news" could do that much but instead it's always "regulation" that makes cryptocurrency pumped even in the bearish market but however really expecting that to come down and will see what will happen.
However talking about the truth, the crypto bubble has popped out, now all left is the normal market with a little bit spice of manipulation.

i think stagnan is good it is better than get pumped and dumped in a short time, that will decrease that value of the coin itself. and ETH is a good coin to keep it stable, with that ETH still have its value and people still use it

The whole market is as yet bearish. Also, no new cash is coming in. Everybody is watchful to know precisely where the market is before contributing. Until the point that the market settles and has a succinct upward development under the steady gaze of one can judge which coin is dormant and which isn't.

I’d take stagnant any day than going down. The optimist in me takes stagnant as a sign of stability. Having a sunny disposition relieves stress. 8)

the way bitcoin market spiked  we have seen in 2017 so market prices went all times high now the market is consolidating the prices so once the market correction is over then we can see prices come back to previous all time high

It amazes me also that etherium is so strong and perspective, and yet we are seeing it only fall in the price. While in July all the market being recovered a little bit, Bitcoin and Ether are still sliding down... Something strange is going on here.

There is an opinion that the project EoS collected a huge amount in the Ethereum and within six months it sells it and dumping the price. And also the bear market greatly affects the price of the Ethereum.

it is like that ethereum is exploding when compared to bitcoin, but we can not if we have to see another coin that exceeds the bitcoin we know by ourselves now bitcoin is the mother of all coins so rich if ethereum exceeds the bitcoin price I think not yet , but maybe it could be if the bitcoin underneath even though the price is good.

It is obvious in my opinion that Ethereum would not grow, while all the market is in this bad condition. It is the time of overall falling, so most of the coins, they are falling along with Bitcoin, Ethereum is not an exclusion.

this is not stability. the real price for 1 such coin should be above $ 700. long-term price diagnostics at minimum levels. now the market is controlled by whales, and it is unknown when they will release prices. it's more like controlling the prices, than stability

Ethereum is stagnant now due to the price of BTC soon as it will rise ethereum will also follow. Ethereum still belongs to the top and it will be competitive as it is.

It’s not just that Ethereum has fallen. All the cryptocurrencies in this market have fallen a lot. At present, this market will continue for a long time in the low valley, so we need to have enough patience to wait, hope that the market can bring us good. news.

I think ETH still needs upgrading. Now it's too crowded. The procedure is too expensive, and no need to do anything, otherwise it will lead to other public chains, so we must improve the processing speed.

Not really anything wrong with it being stagnant, it's fairly big now so doesn't move around as fast as smaller coins.

every current coin will fight for the best position and become a coin that is very capable to be relied upon. in addition to being the main coin will make the coin value and has a lot of followers. so very lucky to have a coin like that. so Ethereum also includes coins that thrive for the position of the main coin.

Yes I see ethereum differ slightly with the movement of the bitcoin value is very unstable. ethereum more stable in the market, but the market and the ethereum bitcoin is no different so far. only the value they are indeed very much difference.

Today, the market is a little pleased us with the increase in the price of Ethereum by more than 5% ... As we see, stagnation is replaced by growth, it is very cool, because it means that the market lives and reacts to a positive news background!  :D

I am sure that as soon as the growth of bitcoin price starts, we will immediately see the growth of Ethereum.

This is a good sign that ethereum has no impact on other people's markets, especially bitcoins. Their market wants to stand on its own, and people love it, making it a very promising long-term investment. Do not hesitate to try ethereum, because this is the best coin after bitcoin, at least until now.

That's because the market is also experiencing stagnant, and this happens to other coins not just eth. The market is not yet stable, because there are still many traders have not continued their activities. If the market re-stabilizes its price, then everything will be fine, and happy smiles will be scattered.

Firstly Ethereum could only be considered "stagnant" from a price perspective as a great deal of development is definitely ongoing.My guess would be that rising ICO anxiety is causing enough flight from Ether to other currencies to suppress any hype-induced price bumps.

There is no limit on the supply of ETH, whereas there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in existence. It doesn't make sense to speculate on the price of ETH, because it's never going to be scarce. Even the current price of ETH makes no sense, except you need it to buy into ICOs.

In the near future, ETH will can not overcome Bitcoin, because they have many important issues which haven't been solved. Recently, they announced that they will delay Casper and Sharding. That makes their community lose more faith

Well mate your observation is very nice. I think for me Ethereum is stagnant because it's no longer profitable to mine with a GPU as it was during the summer. Bitcoin is rising because it's about to fork.

Currently the whole market is experiencing decline, and ethereum is also included. However, I believe that soon the market will soon rise again, many ICO, and the emergence of new investors in the crypto market and others. This will restore the market situation to be faster better, everyone is impatient.

Not just ethereum, but almost all coins fall worse than the highest price at the beginning of the year. There are other important reasons, some ICO teams have sold their resurrected ethereum a few months ago. Stay calm, situations like this will quickly pass and return to normal.

I think that there are too many potential pennies and they are more profitable than ETH, which will take a large number of investors away from investing in eth.

I hope the primary reason is the rise of crypto showcase, every one of the coins dropped over half contrasted with the most astounding cost on January. There is another critical reason, some ICO dev group are offering their ETH raised a couple of months prior.

Ethereum is a coin that is very reliable to be able to believe I am able to move forward and increase in the future. With more and more that supports the development of Ethereum is able to bring Ethereum into a peak of coins. so that Ethereum will not drown and be left with other coins.

No, Ethereum is not stagnant, this is part of ethereum strategy according to previous predictions. Currently all altcoin follow the Bitcoin trend, but Ethereum wants to change that culture. Bitcoin prices are rising and Ethereum will also follow in the footsteps in a few days is my prediction. I think Ethereum will continue to move slowly to the top.

I think that this ETH's being stagnant is a pause before its price's great jump. ETH is the promising alternative cryptocurrency so I di nor see any problems here.

 Here is the article: https://icoguide.com/en/blog/what-is-erc20-and-how-does-it-affect-tokens it shows how the ETH made a great influence over crypto world.

Because many ICO projects use Ethereum to build the project. After getting the funds, they will sell the Ethereum. The is done by the developer to build the project according to the specified roadmap. Therefore, prices are now less stable.

ETH is in stagnation because now summer and the main investors have a rest. There will come the fall and investors to return from rest and will continue investment.

Ethereum is a great product. But it has been on the market for a long time and it needs to support a large amount of code. And the market is not in the best condition now. I am sure that Buterin will solve the current problems of scaling Ethereum and everything will be fine.

hopefully it can happen because we all can not know for sure the future crypto currency will be what is most important now is to take advantage of opportunities that exist to get the benefits

It is a feature of ETH that makes ETH to be able to survive on the cryptomarket. I hope that ETH will have the same trend of developing as it has now.

Try not to stress excessively over the present estimation of Ethereum since the whole market has been bearish for at some point and it appears as though it is recouping right now. Ethereum can possibly reach $3000 before the current year's over and it will keep on surging in an incentive after some time on account of their tremendous network and energetic engineers. I have not sold any of my coins including Ethereum right now and will keep on hodl them for future increases. My recommendation is to HODL your coins until the point that the market mobilizes later on.

Because currently Bitcoin is the trend, like a year before. Everyone is buying Bitcoin now because there is a hype regarding ETF and so on.
After Bitcoin bull run all altcoins will be more attractive and people invest their BTCs into altcoins ;).

There is an opinion that Ethereum is held back in its price. Only I do not fully understand how this can be done in practice.

by and by, I think in the event that I don't have the foggiest idea about the fundamental reason yet I think it is a result of rises in the cryptographic money showcase and the frenzy salesmen who have put resources into Ethereum. Yet, I trust in the following couple of days, Ethereum's esteem will increment, and We require uplifting news for ETH so it can develop in spite of the general downtrend.

money that come to cryptomarket mostly used to buying bitcoin.if we look bitcoin dominance it is very high , around 47,7 % .evenmore there is hype regarding etf in september.so it is normal why ethereum still stuck.

Ethereum has great potential and I see it reaching $1000 this year and even go higher in 2–3 years. It will come closer to the BCT prise

ETH price vs BTC is really struggling lately... is that because of inflation?

The Main reason would be airdrops completely failed , ico is giving loss and even some most successful ico giving very less profit even some became disaster . Most of the ico and airdrop were happening based on erc20 or above ethereum token. Even trx , eos moves from ethereum network their own blockchain .

ETH stagnant according to me there are many reasons:
- Due to market fluctuations, ETH decreased following the general trend
- Due to the discount BTC leading to the Altcoin discount, including ETH.
- Investors mainly use ETH to invest ICO. And ICO is no longer an interesting investment of investors in this period, Since then led the ETH stagnation ...

mainly it is the ETH bubble bursting.
but also we are now finally seeing the effects of having an unlimited supply can have on an altcoin. there is just too much ether available in the market and there are so many ICOs that received a lot of free money that are now cashing out of it and that all crashes the price like what you see these days.

I think this is a temporary phenomenon. And do not worry much. Do not forget that we only recently experienced a correction of the entire market of crypto-currencies. And it is possible that not everything has recovered completely.

Now there is less investment in ICO, so the popularity of Etherium is slightly lost, but I think everything will be all right soon.

People's interest in investing in crypto is decreasing due to the downtrend of market for quite a long time. Almost all ICO's are based on the ERC20 platform of Ethereum and most of them either have scammed or are running in loss, due to this they are now cashing Ethereum which they have with them.

Now the air is the main block for any start-up, which wants to launch the original offer of coins by ICO.

ETH has a little problem now but it is not forever. This current being stagnant will be replaced with future increasing soon and do not panic, everything will be ok.

I think the general market is as yet troublesome. No new cash in crypto as of late separated from informal investors. there are a great deal of dumps going on, individuals are freezing offering, purchasing better ventures and fascinating ICO con artists. in the meantime, tenderfoot financial specialists purchase and frenzy while keeping costs in a stale state.

With investing in the ethereum, now you have to be more careful, because he has a very significant competitor EOS, now i keep a minimum volume of ethereum in the my crypto portfolio.

The ether had difficulties with the speed of transactions on the network. I think it was because of outside influence, the same EOS.
I think after launch Casper and sharding, eth do not stop. EOS is a strong project, but it still has a lot to prove.

At the modern period of time it looks strange to talk about Ethereum like stagnated currency. There is whole market is stagnated. Situation is too unclear for making any confident actions. Price can go up and down within a short period of time.

Have been wondering the same thing too because for weeks now ethereum has been stagnant with no significant rise or reduction in price with prices of bitcoin and other crypto currency not really stable at all 

I think it's all because of EOS. There is a lot of news, although this is only a promotion. Nobody knows what will happen to this network in a week

The entire market is up 'til now bearish. Additionally, no new trade is turning out. Everyone is attentive to know correctly where the market is before contributing. Until the point that the market settles and has a brief upward advancement under the watchful eye of one can judge which coin is lethargic and which isn't.

It is a direct result of market stagnation, it is occurring to different coins not simply eth, showcase isn't yet steady, as more brokers have not continued preparing, when advertise stables there is no reason to worry.

Everything makes its financial hover, from tumbling to development. The cycle is shut and if the way toward falling is currently under way, at that point soon the procedure of development will happen. All that is currently important to be careful, and if conceivable, purchase, on the grounds that the rising will be precise, in the following couple of months.

It will not have happened until the bitcoin will have done with its ETF applications thas has already sent to the US security exchange commision. People are buying for that and if the ETF can be approved and there will be a big bullish to the all of the crypto and especially to the ethereum because it was following bitcoin right now consider it's not a security coin like another coin.

I don’t know actually but for me the etherium is a great blessing just like bitcoins
because they make the lives of every people more convenient and make them to obtained  a great future.

If I am not mistaken Eth has not restored after the dip. It will be changed so do not panic, wait and you will see its following increasing as well.

I av also been wondering why it is like that, bitcoin has been rising from 6300 dollars to 8200 dollars but ethereum refuses to rise from 430 dollars

Because there are so many bad rumors coming to this coin, so their prices are constantly decreasing, but I do not believe they will go down completely, they will rise again in the next few months.

Not only Ethereum, but the whole market has a negative atmosphere. Ethereum is a powerful coin.
When the market picks up, it will regain its old strength.

At present, the market is still at a low point. All cryptocurrencies are very low in price, so it is not only the price of Ethereum that is stagnant. You need to maintain enough patience. I believe the market will definitely pick up again, then you will see them. Erupted again.

There are many people asking about this reason, but now the main reason for ETH stagnation is that ETH coins are hacked by hackers, so investors are afraid of holding them. So they sold the coins out pretty much.

Why ETH stagnant ???

I think, because ETH is a popular coin and people love it.
And i think ETH now is based for a new token in crypto.
ETH now is so great and so many people trush it
That's why ETH is stagnant.

I am still confusing why ethereum are still stagnant even if the bitcoin today are increasing.

simple. a recent Poll done by Wells Fargo/Gallup revealed that 75% of investors contacted said that it was very risky to invest in BTC. 23% said somewhat risky.

The market could not go up and traders are solving positions.

This market is dead. But people still believe in this. Big error.

ethereum is the best coin in my humble opinion it's not stagnant just work with the motto slowly but surely good luck bro in your investment in this taught days

I agree ethereum the coin itself and its course do not please me. I keep a lot of tokens on ethereum and their cost drops every day and I think it was better to go to fiat for a long time at the peak. On technological progress, a coin of news is a lot and there are no real actions and it seems to me that the development team led by Buterinu works very poorly.

Yes, I also noticed that since most of the Bounties that I joined are on the Ethereum Blockchain and I wa ssurprised why the price is so low and my eyes hurt seeing the market price. I also noticed some problems in the Ethereum Blockchain few months ago and it affected also the market price. I hope Ethereum will be better and fix some issues and let's just give them the chance to improve their blockchain.

This is only the beginning of the second half, but it seems that Ether will not approach Bitcoin. Ethereum stag because maybe not many new communities are coming in, and when
Bitcoin is pumped, partially swapping altcoin for Bitcoin, rather than buying it with fiat. So maybe all Altcoin will experience the same thing, until the community grows significantly.

As at last year, many people were rushing to buy icos (especially lending coins) using Ethereum. I believe this is what spiked up the price back then. But today, the value of ico have dropped and so less people are buying Eth. Not surprising I guess.

As at last year, many people were rushing to buy icos (especially lending coins) using Ethereum. I wonder why Etherium has been stagnant over the past few weeks without any significant rise in price.

I think that is the general trend of the market. At present, the capital is too little, there are not many organizations and individuals really interested in this market. Inevitably, there is no breakthrough in them

With the low demand in the market for Etherum, definitely its price would drop in the market as well.

With the decrease in the ICO profitability of which the ICO demand for Etherum decreased also, its market value tends to decrease amd the price go down.

Ethereum purchase requests dropped as the amount of investment collected by ICO projects decreased. Therefore, the price of Ethereum fell due to the negative effect. When I look at the general situation of the market, I understand that it is a mixed period.

All digital asset will be have times for bullish,  bearish and side away.  And i believe after stagnan the price will back with high volatility. Currently demand of ETH down because many FUD on the crypto market and many trader sell ETH for BTC. 

This is not an Ethereum problem. Look, the whole market is stagnating. Of course the Ethereum can't go against the market. As soon as the capitalization begins to grow, people will be more willing to invest in the ICO and the price of Ethereum will grow.

actually the ethereum is not stagnant because it still operating and provide a great quality of service which the public looking for to obtained a better version of their life in future.

It is stagnant because it is too crowded - buggy, expensive, slow, full of shortcomings - simply terrible! Instead of Ethereum, I have been recently following Stellar that is generally on the rise and the tokens issued on the Stellar platform - now there is a bump like in any cryptocurrency over the past few days, but generally Stellar is on the rise because of the prospective Coinbase listing and other advances. This will also boost tokens issued on the Stellar platform...

My most recent find among alts is AXU, "Argentas Exchange Unit" token issued on the Stellar platform and listed and verified on the Stellarport decentralized exchange, now only at its pre-distribution, or pre-ICO phase. A true hidden diamond, with low profile so far. Experienced people clearly, and cool tech for decentralizing and revolutionizing global banking - their website at argentas.io (http://argentas.io).

The pre-ICO price is 50% cheaper than the ICO price, a sure winner IMO, and I will certainly get some. They also have an ANN thread, I think here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4431900.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4431900.0). I dug really deep in their content, and it is really cool stuff ;D But don’t forget your own research!

ETH is in regular seasonal stagnation because the investors using it are on vacation. I think in the fall we will see its growth.

The price of Ethereum still depends on the price of bitcoin. Bitcoin fell in price, and the price of Ethereum fell behind it. The ico began to invest less, the demand for enh decreased, this also affected its cost.

I think the reason why Etherium is stagnant is just because ETH is a popular coin and people are using it, another reason is because  of the market bearish and  because so may people are demanding  etherium, more especially now that the price is too low and waiting when it will rise for them so sell is and make profits,

It's time to forget about the stories in which Ethereum is catching up with Bitcoin. It's from the realm of fantasy.
You need to be objective and correctly assess the possibilities.
If the Ethereum repeats its success in 2017 by the end of the year - this is the top of my dreams!

Because Ethereum is buggy, slow, expensive and messy - that's why. There are much better ones around. I am excited about financial blockchains for the long term, I have been recently following Stellar that is generally on the rise and the tokens issued on the Stellar platform - now there is a bump like in any cryptocurrency over the past few days, but generally Stellar is on the rise because of the prospective Coinbase listing and other advances. This will also boost tokens issued on the Stellar platform...

My most recent find among alts is AXU, "Argentas Exchange Unit" token issued on the Stellar platform and listed and verified on the Stellarport decentralized exchange, now only at its pre-distribution, or pre-ICO phase. A true hidden diamond, with low profile so far. Experienced people clearly, and cool tech for decentralizing and revolutionizing global banking - their website at argentas.io (http://argentas.io).

The pre-ICO price is 50% cheaper than the ICO price, a sure winner IMO, and I will certainly get some. They also have an ANN thread, I think here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4431900.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4431900.0). I dug really deep in their content, and it is really cool stuff ;D But don’t forget your own research!

Ethereum is growing in terms of project been hosted on it's platform and many of these project are selling off ether raised to start their own chain!  It seem to me that there is a lots of backstabbing going on with project that are not loyal to the platform, they are only using ethereum platform to raise money!

and now the market is not particularly moving anywhere, I think in September will soon be growth. it should begin after the meeting in the usa on the account of cryptocurrencies and their future

There may be several explanations for the ETH stagnancy.

As you mentioned, ETH didn't fall as hard as BTC did from their respective ATH's the ETH drop was roughly 55% while BTC fell 70%. The parity is starting to return, as BTC is approaching the same level of retracement as ETH has already realized.

Finally, these markets are starting to really align with technical analysis (TA) - trend lines, ichimoku clouds, fibonacci retracements - if you run a TA on the ETH-Daily right now, it is remarkably in alignment with right where it ought to be.

I know this can be frustrating; yet, we may be entering a new era for cryptos, particularly large-cap cryptos, that reflects pragmatic money entering the space.

Since the market is always volatile it very hard or impossible for any one to predict the market and at that any attempt to predict the market will always lead to frustration and also ethereum can only rise in price when the demands for it increase and presently the crypto market is down but that doesn't mean it can not rise before the year end.

I think we'll soon see the price of 300$ for the Ethereum. Because the Ethereum as well as all altcoins is very strongly connected with the bitcoin price. If the price of bitcoin decreases, the price of almost all altcoyins will decrease.

If you really want to earn something in this market, then never listen to other people and always think with your head. Ethereum will continue to fall in price, because it does not show any new developments and its network is constantly loaded, why should it grow?

In my own opinion, the stable price of ethereum is just fine for today because it was steady at $400 dollars so you can still invest a huge amount and wait for its value to reach $1k dollars again.

Market is so bad for ethereum right now, even as bitcoin is fast rising in the market, ethereum keeps dipping. What do you think might cause it?

The demand of eth has reduced recently, reason for the stagnant price, and also most people stopped investing in ICOs because of the scam rate at which ICOs are trending, but I believe very soon we should see some positive effect and changes in price soon.

ethereum is stagnant even though currently the ethereum price is in a low position. but believe me if in the future when ethereum prices will return high. this happens because ethereum enthusiasts are large, and the ethereum platform is often used as a relationship for ico. so I think the cause of ethereum is stagnant is that.

The market keep on fluctuating,it cant remain stagnant , and when we talk about etherium,it has been stagnant from past few weeks.this is just fine for today. As soon as the capitalization begins to grow, people will be more willing to invest in the ICO and the price of Ethereum will grow

Some people are letting their coins go because the price is going lower.

The price of Ethereum has decreased at 4 times in comparison with January, when the price per ETH exceeded 1400$. Of course, the Ethereum network still has many technical problems, but I expect that in October most of the problems will be solved with the help of hard fork Constantinople.

All crypto has times for bearish, sideaway and bullish. If will be not all the times stagnan, the price stagnan because volume buyer and seller is the same, and when any good or bad news the order book of buyer and seller will change dramaticly.

That's the reason why I love ethereum. Ethereum is really quality project, when we talk about the price of Ethereum, ethereum's price is quite good, not so expensive and not so cheap compare to Bitcoin. Reason the price of ethereum is stagnant it is because the market is the only decides it.

I think this is a temporary phenomenon. And do not worry much. Do not forget that we only recently experienced a correction of the entire market of crypto-currencies. And it is possible that not everything has recovered completely.

The Main reason would be airdrops completely failed , ico is giving loss and even some most successful ico giving very less profit even some became disaster . Most of the ico and airdrop were happening based on erc20 or above ethereum token. Even trx , eos moves from ethereum network their own blockchain .

Because the Ethereum and any altcoyin is very strongly associated with bitcoin. And through bitcoin you can influence the whole situation on the crypto-currency market. The main reason in bitcoin. Are there many projects now that are growing in price ?!

before long, I think if I don't have the foggiest thought regarding the central reason yet I think it is a consequence of ascends in the cryptographic cash feature and the free for all business people who have placed assets into Ethereum. However, I trust in the accompanying couple of days, Ethereum's regard will augmentation, and We require elevating news for ETH so it can create notwithstanding the general downtrend.

If you observe rhe whole cryptocurrency market you would see that all the altcoins have not made sgnificant improve in their prices for a while nw and ethereum is no exception. So there is no cause for alarm. Once the market gets better we would see increase in ethereum's price.

The ongoing increment in Ethererum rates is because of the present market downturn, prompting ETH, BTC and the greater part of the cryptos in the market is influenced. In any case, despite everything I trust ETH conversion standard will increment strongly and outperform the market top of BTC to wind up the most well known crypto on the planet.

The Main reason would be airdrops totally fizzled , ico is giving misfortune and even some best ico giving less benefit even some progressed toward becoming calamity . The majority of the ico and airdrop were going on in light of erc20 or above ethereum token. Indeed, even trx , eos moves from ethereum arrange their own blockchain .

Nothing terrible happened. Now everything is fine and the cryptocurrency is just depressed. It is possible as I can manage

Now the whole market is in decline and so do not worry about Ethereum. It takes time to finally stabilize everything for the better.

Not surprisingly, if that happens, now the market is in an unstable condition, all cointers are down, hopefully this won't last long, hopefully the market in the near future will stabilize

of course, if all ico are legit (no scam ico) investors will buy a lot of ethereum to buy when token generation event.

Can't answer this question but I know that the market will recover again. It is a normal situation ups and downs... that is why I advise hodl all your coins at the moment.

It should be understood that now the market stagnates not only the etherium, but all the crypto currency. Therefore, the problem is not specifically in the etherium. A prolonged decline in the price of the entire crypto-currency is associated with a loss of interest of large investors, who withdraw their capital into a currency. It seems to me that this will continue throughout 2018.

Ethereum appears more stable when compared to other Altcoins and even bitcoin. However, the present market situation is affecting all coins including ethereum. I do not think ethereum can overtake bitcoin this year as speculated.

Crypto market is about demand and supply, if the demand for eth is high in the market the price will surely go so high, right now the price of ethereum is so down because of bear market, also I don't seems to agree with you that ethereum will overpass bitcoin this year, In my own opinion, that can't really be possible, maybe it will in many years to come.

On the contrary, Ethereum is one of the most dynamic cryptocurrencies this year so far, although the market is red right now and its at its lowest pint for the year, aside from Bitcoin Ethereum still remains the most reliable crypto to bounce back from the current market situation.

The price of Etherium depends on Bitcoin. Even now, the Etherium shows very strong positions as a large-scale project of the future! Others do not yet see the konurent for Bitcoin.

i don't think it's like that, because the ICO in 2018 is very big and there are many kinds.
and more trending maybe because now the market is sluggish.

but maybe someday the market will recover and become green.

Ethereum has not stagnated, now the entire market is a bear market, Ethereum is also inevitably caught in a bear market, this is the law of the market, you only need to follow it, and then patiently wait for the next ATH.