Might not look like much but $ETH has been able to defend $2500 vigorously lately.

This is opposite of what it has been the entire past year before.

Every time there was weakness in the market and Bitcoin even sneezed or tumbled a bit, Ethereum would do it twice as hard (or more).

ETHBTC ain't really dropping anymore lately and the reason why Ethereum is not going up right now in $ value is because the market is tumbling a bit.

(which because of this means it is theoretically going up against the market).

It also suggest that as soon as the overall market displays strength again, Ethereum might be doing it twice as hard as well.

If only this trend would also follow through to its on-chain activity (which it hasn't yet so far sadly).