{"id":646878,"date":"2026-08-22T08:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Blockchain.News\/news\/20260822-price-prediction-ton-primed-for-a-long-squeeze-152"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:52:17","slug":"ton-price-prediction-primed-for-a-long-squeeze-1-52-before-1-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/ton-price-prediction-primed-for-a-long-squeeze-1-52-before-1-75\/","title":{"rendered":"TON Price Prediction: Primed for a Long Squeeze \u2014 $1.52 Before $1.75"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timothy Morano<\/a> Aug 22, 2026 08:52<\/span> <\/p>\n

TON is parked at $1.60 with overleveraged futures longs sustaining an inflated 0.35% funding rate while spot volume collapses \u2014 the technicals favor a flush to $1.52\u2013$1.55 before any genuine recove…<\/p>\n

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Market Context: Why TON is Moving Now<\/h2>\n

That 0.95% green candle on the day? File it under noise. TON is grinding in a $1.58\u2013$1.64 band with the conviction of a trader hoping nobody notices the position. In the current crypto landscape, Layer-1 tokens without fresh catalysts are dead weight, and TON is no exception. The Telegram-backed blockchain had its moment \u2014 but the narrative heat that drove it is no longer the dominant market story. Without a new DeFi breakout, a meme supercycle pulling retail into the ecosystem, or a regulatory green light on the Telegram integration front, TON is just drifting in the current.<\/p>\n

The broader altcoin market remains tethered to Bitcoin’s mood, and in a sideways BTC regime, speculative capital doesn’t rotate toward languishing L1s with no fresh story. On-chain liquidity in the TON ecosystem hasn’t shown any meaningful pickup \u2014 there’s no TVL explosion, no institutional narrative being freshly priced. Traders tracking the regulatory storyline around Telegram should keep Blockchain.news<\/a> on their radar, because that angle \u2014 Telegram’s legal exposure and its direct knock-on effect on TON’s perceived legitimacy \u2014 is still live, unresolved, and could detonate in either direction.<\/p>\n

Indicator Alignment<\/h2>\n

The chart is telling a clear story once you strip out the noise: TON is in a bearish trend structure, full stop. Price sits below its 20-day SMA, 50-day SMA, EMA 12, and EMA 26. The only averages it’s trading above are the short-term 7-day and the 200-day SMA at $1.55 \u2014 the latter being the last line of structural defense for bulls, not a sign of underlying health.<\/p>\n

Momentum has run out of ideas. The MACD histogram printing dead flat at zero while both the line and signal remain deeply negative isn’t a reversal \u2014 it’s deceleration on a downtrend with no buying pressure to capitalize on it. RSI hovering in the mid-40s confirms neither camp is committing capital. The one micro-bullish signal \u2014 Stochastic %K crossing above %D from the low 30s \u2014 sounds better than it is. These crossovers in the lower range, unconfirmed by RSI pushing above 50, are textbook fakeouts that burn impatient longs.<\/p>\n