Ethereum's significant decline from its August 2025 high suggests sustained selling pressure and weakness in the token despite institutional adoption efforts
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (2 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
Large holders moving substantial ETH positions to centralized exchanges — in this case roughly $26.9 million worth — are triggering cascading profit-taking behavior across the market. Sources frame this as evidence of sustained selling pressure that persists even as broader institutional adoption narratives attempt to provide a floor for prices.
When large holders route assets to exchanges, it structurally increases available sell-side liquidity and tends to suppress price recovery, as market participants interpret exchange inflows as a leading indicator of distribution rather than accumulation.
"a wallet linked to a large holder transferred roughly $26.9 million worth of Ether to a centralized exchange. The move triggered fresh profit-taking after Ethereum's recent recovery stalled just below a major technical resistance zone between $1,800 and $1,806."
"ETH trades near $1,766, roughly 64 percent below its August 2025 high of nearly $4,946 according to MetaMask."