Ethereum above … on August 10?

Platform comparison

Market context

Ethereum needs the Binance ETH/USDT 1-minute candle at 12:00 ET to finish above the strike for this market to pay out Yes, so the practical question is whether spot can hold a level that is comfortably within the cluster of short-term forecasts rather than whether ETH can post a large directional move. Recent modelled ranges for August 2026 mostly sit around the high-$1,700s to low-$2,000s, with Changelly calling for a month-end average near $1,867 and a maximum near $1,966, while PrimeXBT puts 2026 trading roughly in a $1,680–$2,090 band.[1][2]

That framing helps explain why the current crowd probability at 100% YES is less about a speculative breakout and more about the strike being set well below the prevailing forecast zone. Comparable short-horizon price calls from CoinCodex, CoinCheckup and MEXC also cluster around the low-$1,900s for 10 August, which suggests traders reading this programmatically would treat the market as a near-certain pass unless the underlying ETH/USDT tape sold off sharply into the settlement candle.[3][4][7]

For catalysts, the main inputs are ordinary crypto flow rather than a single dated event: US macro prints, ETF-related headlines, broader risk sentiment, and any Ethereum-specific network or regulatory news that changes intraday positioning. ETH is sensitive to liquidity conditions and cross-asset volatility, so a bot or copy-trading stack would usually watch Binance spot depth, perpetual funding, and the ETH/BTC relative move into the noon ET candle, because a brief wick is enough to matter only if it changes the candle close used for settlement.[1][2][6]

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Methodology

We track Ethereum above … on August 10? across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

Resolution & payout

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