ETH Will Never See $5K Again — So I'm Using It as a Hedge for My Bitcoin DCA Str

[Alpen]

The founder of the investment firm DFG points out that large investors and the traditional finance sector just don't trust ETH. James Wo blames Layer‑2 networks for that. Ethereum's main blockchain is losing economic activity, and as a result, ETH's value keeps falling. Wo believes Bitcoin will keep hitting new all‑time highs, but ETH has already peaked and will never see $5,000 again.

Personally, I think that's great news. I trade Bitcoin using a DCA strategy, adding positions on pullbacks to the lower Bollinger Band. According to HODL trading rules, I'm not supposed to sell BTC, but I'm seeing signs that crypto is about to drop. What if I opened a short position on ETH at that moment? That could offset some of the downside. If my prediction of an ETH drop turns out wrong, I'd end up with a position that's equivalent to shorting ETH/BTC.



As you can see on the ten‑year chart, Ethereum has fallen back to its lows after a failed recovery attempt back in 2021. The biggest altcoin has been losing ground to Bitcoin for four years now, which makes it a perfect candidate for a hedging strategy. What does everyone think about this? Is a new all‑time high for Ethereum out of the question?

[pooya87]

The reason why ETH is a failed experiment that will continue being dumped over the long haul is that it is a centralized shitcoin with unlimited supply and a fundamentally flawed protocol.

Like any other shitcoin, ETH also had its little moment in the sun back in 2017 during the largest altcoin pumping season of entire crypto market history. Back then the ETH centralized authorities aka the pumpers managed to pump it as high as 0.150BTC but like any other pumped shitcoin in history, that pump could not last forever and the dump part was inevitable. Which is what's been happening ever since that peak, a consistent dump every year to the current 0.026BTC

Everything else the same pumpers do will only create dead cat bounces and nothing more.

[philipma1957]

Pos hurt eth price.

And 30 million coins were staked in 2022  1200 or so.

This anchors the price.

So 1200 and all the stakers are fine

[_act_]

Ethereum will never see $5000? Ethereum has not gotten to $5000 before.

As you can see on the ten‑year chart, Ethereum has fallen back to its lows after a failed recovery attempt back in 2021. The biggest altcoin has been losing ground to Bitcoin for four years now, which makes it a perfect candidate for a hedging strategy. What does everyone think about this? Is a new all‑time high for Ethereum out of the question?

Altcoins like ethereum is very difficult to predict this way, this is the reason I prefer just only bitcoin. Just forget about using chart for the long term price speculation of the coin, it is very possible that ethereum may or may not get to $5000 or all time high, but I think it will get there.

[bitbollo]

After ICO and few months after launch, this coin was likewise dead.
Or at least I can't understand the reason on how it can become again competitive in such a current scenario. there are dozens of options...

Once in a big company I have even seen "executives" shilling for ETH = its the new bitcoin.
Around 10 years ago...I believe that this could be the real problem for such altcoins. You can't consider them as "new bitcoin".

[MadSl1m]

_act_ already caught the headline slip, ETH never quite tagged $5K, the ATH was about $4,950 in August 2025. The part nobody's questioned is the strategy itself. ETH isn't a hedge for a BTC position, it's a higher-beta version of the same bet. Their return correlation runs around 0.85, so they fall together and ETH usually falls harder, which is exactly what this selloff is showing. A hedge has to be uncorrelated or inverse to what it protects, cash, a short, something outside crypto beta. Pairing ETH with a BTC DCA doesn't offset the risk, it concentrates it.

[IjawMan]

The reason why ETH is a failed experiment that will continue being dumped over the long haul is that it is a centralized shitcoin with unlimited supply and a fundamentally flawed protocol.

Like any other shitcoin, ETH also had its little moment in the sun back in 2017 during the largest altcoin pumping season of entire crypto market history. Back then the ETH centralized authorities aka the pumpers managed to pump it as high as 0.150BTC but like any other pumped shitcoin in history, that pump could not last forever and the dump part was inevitable. Which is what's been happening ever since that peak, a consistent dump every year to the current 0.026BTC

Everything else the same pumpers do will only create dead cat bounces and nothing more.

The ico explosion was unprecedentedly in the cryptocurrency market that generally saw a peak in all altcoins to which ethereum was not exempted and after that came about the theatry act of almost a 4,900 dollars  all time high price reached in 2021.

Since the last all time high to this day this altcoin has continued to experience a progressive net outflows since the bear market of 2022 that plummeted down the price,

which anchors that investors are now sourcing for other alternatives as from what can be seen that the coin future looks gloomy with rapid selling pressure in spite what effort it developers are making to pump it.

[asriloni]

As you can see on the ten‑year chart, Ethereum has fallen back to its lows after a failed recovery attempt back in 2021. The biggest altcoin has been losing ground to Bitcoin for four years now, which makes it a perfect candidate for a hedging strategy. What does everyone think about this? Is a new all‑time high for Ethereum out of the question?

It seems too hard for us to expect ethereum to record new ATH again. If someone has been holding ETH since 5 years ago. He's ended in losing his asset instead getting capital gain. I think ethereum is already lost its grip. So many resources wasted just to fix its scalability problem. The existence of L2 is also dividing the money that should be centered in ethereum blockchain.

So i don't think it's good idea to use this as an hedging asset. Doing full DCA to the bitcoin sounds better instead of combining it by hedging ethereum. I don't say it's a bad coin, but this bluechip coin seems reached its peak.

Even when ethereum has Tom Lee to absorb many of its inflation, and it's still not moving to the somewhere. So imagine if Tom lee is dumping his ethereum to the market.

The risk involving is too big, and the demand most probably stuck.

[Odusko]

Ethereum have gone through alot of development, upgrades and all of that, but yet have not gained value from all of that, what I was expecting when Ethereum migrated to POS and ETH 2.0 network is to see the price jumping up running closer to bitcoin, bit the highest we saw at the last ATH was $3k+ after a very long time, we cant say that Ethereum will never reach $5,000 price because anything is possible as far as cryptocurrency market is concerned, but it going to take a long time time for Ethereum to reach that price benchmark.

[shinratensei_]

Can't expect forever rally from a coin that have uncapped max supply, and also the recent hacks has been hurting defi reputation so hard tvl flee the ecosystem.

Ethereum all time high might not be out of the question, but it's gonna be hard to achieve meaningful growth for sure.
Ethereum and the project in it really need to address security concern about their codes, people can't afford to lose money to hack like that anymore.

[dwyane36]

Can't expect forever rally from a coin that have uncapped max supply, and also the recent hacks has been hurting defi reputation so hard tvl flee the ecosystem.

Ethereum all time high might not be out of the question, but it's gonna be hard to achieve meaningful growth for sure.
Ethereum and the project in it really need to address security concern about their codes, people can't afford to lose money to hack like that anymore.

Frequent DeFi hacks are most often the fault of the projects themselves, and the current decline in TVL is not related to this. If you look at the statistics, you’ll notice that recently, a decline in TVL has been observed across virtually all popular networks, not just Ethereum. In other words, this outflow of funds is most likely directly linked to the bearish sentiment in the market, not DeFi hacks.

[jossiel]

A lot of factors hurt the Ethereum ecosystem that reflected to its price. Not a winner for the last bull run but I think that the holders of it are strongly attached to it and won't likely sell.

While the other networks that came from it that became stand alone and had their mainnet did better than it for the past years.

But it won't mean that ETH will not recovery, it will take longer this for it to see to at least reach back from its peak.

[shinratensei_]

Frequent DeFi hacks are most often the fault of the projects themselves, and the current decline in TVL is not related to this. If you look at the statistics, you’ll notice that recently, a decline in TVL has been observed across virtually all popular networks, not just Ethereum. In other words, this outflow of funds is most likely directly linked to the bearish sentiment in the market, not DeFi hacks.

After rsETH exploit and some other, there is recorded 17 day streak of ETH outflow from the institutional and AAVE deposits has also plunged. Bearish sentiment making it worse and amplify the run.

It's indeed the fault of the project and not Ethereum itself however the stain will stick on Ethereum's name because people don't understand the difference especially average people who don't want to dive deep into the ins and outs. We need more QoL update to avoid huge loss such as clear signing which they have already rolled out, but we need more. The good news is, Glamsterdam update will improve bridge security especially on the mint and burn mechanism sector.

[Dunamisx]

Impressions like this are what make it very possible doubt we advise people to invest on more than one coin in cryptocurrency, while bitcoin should be the major holding capacity of our assets in our portfolio, so that anytime you discover a poor performance from an alternative currency you invested, you are not going to be hurt so badly that you can't afford losing, because that was not your only investment you are making on that coin.

[safar1980]

All the altcoins I own have fallen in value, many of them are down 95% from their September 2025 prices.
Ethereum appears to be more reliable in this market than other coins. Diversifying the purchase of altcoins would not prevent losses. Usually all altcoins fall in price at about the same rate.

[o48o]

The founder of the investment firm DFG points out that large investors and the traditional finance sector just don't trust ETH. James Wo blames Layer‑2 networks for that. Ethereum's main blockchain is losing economic activity, and as a result, ETH's value keeps falling. Wo believes Bitcoin will keep hitting new all‑time highs, but ETH has already peaked and will never see $5,000 again.

Personally, I think that's great news. I trade Bitcoin using a DCA strategy, adding positions on pullbacks to the lower Bollinger Band. According to HODL trading rules, I'm not supposed to sell BTC, but I'm seeing signs that crypto is about to drop. What if I opened a short position on ETH at that moment? That could offset some of the downside. If my prediction of an ETH drop turns out wrong, I'd end up with a position that's equivalent to shorting ETH/BTC.



As you can see on the ten‑year chart, Ethereum has fallen back to its lows after a failed recovery attempt back in 2021. The biggest altcoin has been losing ground to Bitcoin for four years now, which makes it a perfect candidate for a hedging strategy. What does everyone think about this? Is a new all‑time high for Ethereum out of the question?

And how is layer 2 projects affecting to price when those have existed from the start?

Changing to eth2.0 changed fundamentals radically. I would say for the better, but if you are a holder looking for price growth, you might disagree.

Majority of the coins and tokens will eventually peak with their ath and don't go back, because every coin is valued by pure speculation until they aren't.
And because limitless growth isn't sustainable for utility coins. Eventually they find their true value range.