Ethereum Price Forecast: Whales Bet on ETH Hitting $5K Before Solana Crosses $300

Ethereum’s biggest holders are gearing up for a drive to $5,000 as Solana investors are obsessed with a run-up to $300. The price objectives are ambitious, yet the speed of capital rotation between the two smart-contract behemoths has astonished analysts throughout the year. Locked staking, spot-ETP inflows, and on-chain revenue continue to attract whales back into ETH whenever short-term buyers pursue the faster-moving SOL charts. With both chains flashing separate catalysts for Q3, market onlookers now ask a more specific question: which chain will fire first and can a nimble payments token called Remittix (RTX) outpace them both? Numbers Tell a Divided Story Ethereum is trading at approximately $1,792.74 while the daily volume at $15.11 billion is up by 32 % following fresh whale wallet activity. By contrast, Solana sits at $147.31 with volume jumping 88 % to $3.72 billion, a reflection that traders remain glued to its low-fee hub. Derivatives desks observe ETH open interest increasing 11 % week-on-week; funding rates across the major exchanges are neutral, showing leverage remains contained. Solana perp funding flipped positive on Binance for the first time in ten sessions, an early sign of speculative demand returning. Layer-one fee capture explains part of the divergence. Ethereum earned approximately $9 million in gas in the last 24 hours, per Ultrasound.money, compared to less than $800,000 in priority fees for Solana validators. That gap in revenue is the fundamental rationale for funds rotating back into ETH, particularly if a U.S. spot Ethereum ETF is passed this summer. Galaxy Digital places as much as $5 billion of inflows in the first 90 days, a lot of grist for a leg to the psychologically significant $5K mark. SOL bulls counter that an identical product filed with the SEC last week can close the distance much more quickly than mainstream expects. Catalyst Checklist: ETH Leads on Institutions, SOL Leads on UX BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust already appeared on the DTCC’s eligibility list, the only large-cap chain besides Bitcoin to have the distinction. That single data point is the foundation of the whale conviction on ETH. Add in Lido’s soon-to-launch dual-stacking module, which will increase liquid-staking yields by 20 basis points, and long-term holders get passive income, as well as ETF-fueled upside. Solana, however, is still the retail favorite. Worldpay-USDG integration allows merchants to settle stable-coin payments on Solana rails in less than two seconds, a headline which attracted no comparable ETH announcement in its wake. Meanwhile, DeFi Development Corp.’s $1 billion shelf filing to purchase SOL and operate validators follows the MicroStrategy playbook and provides Solana with a possible first institutional whale. If half the allocation comes to fruition this quarter, Messari analysts predict a staking yield compression that spot demand drives by as much as 15 %. Price Targets: $5K on ETH, $300 on SOL Both Feasible Options markets provide the purest probability measure. June-expiry ETH $3,200 calls are quoted on a 24 % implied probability, whereas December $5,000 calls are priced at only 8 %. For Solana, October $300 calls sit at an 11 % probability, that is, traders view nearly the same odds of SOL tripling as they do of ETH going on a 180 % run. Realised volatility skews confirm: SOL’s 30-day RV is 47 %, ETH’s at only 34 %. Additional vol favors earlier breakouts but penalizes late entries; therefore, whales like to accumulate ETH quietly and chase SOL momentum in smaller tranches. A cautionary note: ETH’s 200-week moving average sits at $1,650. Losing that level would invalidate the bull case until ETF flows are present. SOL’s major support is the $120–$126 area that capped January’s breakout. Invalidation below that area would likely shut down any talk of $300 until macro liquidity changes. Remittix (RTX): The Wild-Card Payments Play As blue-chip firms fight for institutional cash, Remittix is getting real merchants on board. Trading at $0.0757 today, investors have already purchased 530 million RTX and capitalized the protocol with more than $14.6 million. Its value proposition is brutally straightforward: insert BTC, ETH or even SOL and the recipient’s bank account is credited with local fiat in minutes. Daily active users grew 17 % last week as Lagos and Manila small businesses adopted the “crypto-in, cash-out” paradigm. Every trade consumes some RTX supply, establishing a feedback cycle between adoption and scarcity. Fee-splitting agreements split a share of conversion revenue to holders, so token value follows actual payment throughput rather than emissions. Future Solana Pay hooks and Q3 EVM bridge will open the rails to millions of wallets overnight. The management is already chasing an EU e-money license and U.S. MSB registration regulatory assets large-cap chains desire but seldom accomplish so early on. Should those corridors happen according to timeline, Delphi Digital strategists anticipate a trajectory into top-50 by market cap rank, a leap which would overshadow an ordinary ETH-to-$5K move. Verdict: Diversify Across Momentum and Utility Whale order books tell the story plainly: ETH is the institutional default trade, SOL is the high-beta momentum bet and RTX provides the cash-flow utility-backed asymmetric kicker. A diversified portfolio doesn’t have to pick winners and hold them in proportion to conviction. If Ethereum reaches $5,000, the blue-chip part roughly triples; if Solana breaks through $300, it quadruples and if Remittix only gets to $0.80, the early adopters have a healthy 10×. In a cycle where catalysts bunch up fast, that mix provides upside torque and downside protection precisely what seasoned crypto investors desire going into potentially explosive Q3. Join the Remittix (RTX) presale and community: Join Remittix (RTX) Presale Join the Remittix (RTX) Community Disclaimer: This is a sponsored press release and is for informational purposes only. It does not reflect the views of Crypto Daily, nor is it intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, or financial advice.