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Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) are dominating sentiment right now.  Millions have been wiped out, key support levels have broken down, and overall risk appetite has pulled back. With capitulation risk resurfacing, the “expected” Q4 tailwind is slipping deeper into negative territory. All in all, December is kicking off with a clear bearish bias. For Ethereum [ETH] upgrade, the timing is far from ideal, with the Fusaka launch set to go live on the 3rd of December. The question now is: Does this set the stage for the classic “buy the fear while others panic-sell”? Pectra upgrade sparked Ethereum’s mid-year rally Despite some technical weakness, 2025 has been a big year for Ethereum. The Pectra upgrade went live in the first half of the year. The goal? Make the network faster and more efficient, especially for Layer‑2 scaling. Notably, you could see the impact both on-chain and on the charts. After the launch on the 7th of May, ETH shot up 40% in just three days, reclaiming $2,500 for the first time since early March. Even with all the FUD since then, ETH is still around 38% higher than its pre-upgrade level. Source: TradingView (ETH/USDT) To put that into perspective, Bitcoin [BTC] is trading roughly 10% below the $95k range it was in during that same period, marking a pretty clear sign of ETH’s relative outperformance, even if it has been trailing BTC so far in Q4. In simple terms, the launch marked a real inflection point.  Ethereum’s daily transactions (7DMA) were around 1.25 million before the upgrade, and by mid-August that number had climbed to roughly 1.75 million, with active addresses jumping by 243k over the same stretch. Ethereum upgrade arrives amid strong on-chain conditions The Fusaka upgrade will boost Ethereum on both the front and backend. On the…

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