Mantle gears up for major ecosystem updates in Q2 this year – can MNT price reverse to the upside?

Despite Mantle announcing major ecosystem updates, the MNT token remains in a bearish trend—though it has established a new, major support level managed to hold it for the past few weeks.

On March 2, Mantle ( MNT ) released a letter to MNT token holders, outlining the project’s plans for Q2 of this year. The key highlights include upcoming launch of Mantle Banking, a unified fiat-crypto neobank, and Mantle Index Four (MI4), a tokenized, institutional-grade crypto fund.

Additionally, the letter outlined key achievements as the project moves into Q2. Notably, Mantle has integrated EigenDA on mainnet to enhance data availability, attracted over 27K cmETH in its fixed yield vault, and secured Mantle Network ’s modular architecture with 162.9K mETH. FBTC surpassed $1.2 billion in total value locked and expanded across multiple EVM chains. The project has also made strides toward becoming the largest ZK rollup offering institutional-grade security, with OP-Succinct development now live on testnet.

Despite these developments , MNT has been in a clear downtrend since Feb. 3, when the price started to consistently make lower lows and lower highs. Around that time, the price also started trading below both the 20-day Exponential Moving Average and 50-day Simple Moving Average. However, it broke above the 20-day EMA for about two weeks in March, while still trading below 50-day SMA. On March 30, MNT dropped back below the 20-day EMA ($0.79) where it continues to hover, currently trading at $0.74.

The Relative Strength Index is at 38.60, trending downward but not yet in oversold territory, meaning there’s room for more downside. The MACD indicator remains bearish, with both the MACD line and the signal line below zero. Overall, the bearish pressure dominates for now.

On the bright side, the price has been holding a major horizontal support zone at around $0.72 since mid-March. The first major resistance is at $0.80, aligning with the 20-day EMA. A stronger resistance level is at $1.00, where the price consolidated in February before resuming the downtrend.

A move above $0.80 would be the first sign of potential recovery, but for a chance of trend reversal, MNT would need to break above $1.00 with strong volume and hold.