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Story: Ethena Whales Load Up Near $0.10 but Retail Buyers Won’t Follow

By Bruce Buterin

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Whale Buying Runs Into a Stubborn Wall. Whale accumulation in crypto is usually read as a bullish signal.

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Weak Netflows Tell the Real Story. Exchange netflows are sending a similar message. When capital moves into exchanges in meaningful…

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What Has to Happen for Ethena to Break Out. For Ethena to push past $0.10 and hold above it, the math is pretty straightforward even if the…

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Ethena is stuck. Whales are buying, the price won't move, and the $0.10 level is holding like a wall nobody can knock down.

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The token's been drawing real interest from large-scale holders lately — the kind of accumulation that, in other market conditions, might spark a rally.

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Whale accumulation in crypto is usually read as a bullish signal. Large investors don't typically stack a token without some thesis behind it — they've done the math, they've…

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But the $0.10 resistance level is proving to be a real problem. Ethena's price has tried to push past it and hasn't managed. Not yet, anyway.

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The On-Balance Volume reading makes that hesitation visible. OBV tracks whether volume is flowing in or out of an asset, and a flat reading basically means the buying and selling…

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Exchange netflows are sending a similar message. When capital moves into exchanges in meaningful size, it can signal that traders are gearing up to buy — or sell, depending on…

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And that's kind of the core tension here. Whales are accumulating. Retail isn't. Those two things can coexist for a while, but eventually one side has to blink.

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See also: Amber-Linked Wallet Drops $3.58M on ENA but Buyers Dont Follow

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It's unclear which way it breaks. The indicators don't give a clean answer.

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What's clear is that Ethena needs something to change. A flat OBV and soft netflows aren't going to carry a token through a resistance level on their own.

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That's a lot of things that have to go right at the same time. It's not impossible. Whale accumulation does sometimes precede broader market moves, especially if those large…

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More context: Binance Bitcoin Futures Hit $57.82B — Eight Times the Spot Market Volume

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