ETH’s Unbreakable Floor: The One Metric Price Has Never Ignored
There’s one signal Ethereum has respected for over five years — and it isn’t hype, narratives, or influencer noise. It’s Application TVL.
Across every major cycle and every brutal drawdown, ETH’s price has never sustainably traded below the total value locked in its applications.
Today, that implied floor sits around $337B — a level ETH has repeatedly defended through both bull and bear markets. That’s not coincidence. It’s structural demand.
DeFi, staking, RWAs, and now large-scale tokenization all depend on ETH as core collateral and settlement infrastructure. As onchain activity expands, Application TVL doesn’t just support price — it pulls it higher over time.
That’s why the current disconnect stands out. With tokenization poised to accelerate, persistent mid- to long-term ETH bearishness looks less like rigorous analysis… and more like denial.
So the real question is: Are markets underpricing Ethereum’s most reliable signal — again?
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