As predicted, there has been a recent rise in price. This is also predicted to continue on into next year. There is a very good chance we'll see a new all time high on ETH again. With the Bitcoin halving coming up, what looks to be a big bull run, and the ETH updates, I think it's a no brainer that we'll hit a new all time high.
Sure ETH will reach another ATH this year.
The 1 billion dollar Defi milestone is a big success for ethereum and the recovery of bitcoin value is attractive for liquidity now. If more progress continues we could see more breakthrough. I also believe the ethereum team are more experienced than before , larger community and security, they got improved use cases and more effort will now be put into tokenomics as the second leading coin in the space.