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.
There's so much improvement, Ethereum community is more experience now and a lot is happening around ETH. Price increase is inevitable for ETH.