Today’s crypto market saw a shake-up as Ocean Protocol officially exited the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI).
The move sent OCEAN soaring while its former partner Fetch.ai (FET) tumbled in response.
The big question now is whether OCEAN’s breakout momentum will last or be a short-lived spike.
Earlier today, the Ocean Protocol team announced that it will leave the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI) and regain independence of its OCEAN token.
The ASI alliance was previously made between Fetch.ai (FET), Singularity NET (AGIX), and Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) under the ticker FET.
The process was finalized in July 2024, but risks breaking down with Ocean Protocol’s recent departure.
Ocean Protocol confirmed that its development funding is now fully secured and will use profits from spin-outs to buy back and burn OCEAN tokens.
Following the FET merge, 81% of OCEAN’s supply has been converted, though about 270 million tokens remain unconverted across 37,334 holders, with swapping still optional.
The team said that OCEAN can now be relisted on the previously delisted exchanges.
On the news, Ocean Protocol surged 30% to $0.35, while FET dipped 6% to $0.48.
One potential reason for the FET decline is that the Ocean Protocol team dumped their entire bags of FET before leaving the alliance.
The OCEAN price surged after the news, hitting a high of $0.345 before falling slightly.
Despite its rally, the OCEAN price still trades below its diagonal resistance trend line.
Additionally, OCEAN trades inside the $0.300 horizontal area, which has acted as both resistance and support.
To confirm its bullish trend reversal, the OCEAN price must break out from its diagonal resistance and validate the $0.300 area as support.
OCEAN could rally toward the next resistance at $0.700 if that happens.

Momentum indicators are gradually turning bullish. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is almost above 50, while the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) is near 0.
So, if the OCEAN price breaks out, it will confirm its bullish prediction, taking the momentum indicators into bullish territory.
While the OCEAN price surged, FET went in the opposite direction.
Before the new, the FET price had traded inside a descending wedge and at the horizontal and Fibonacci support of $0.57.
However, the news caused a breakdown from both, invalidating the bullish pattern in the process.

In addition, the RSI invalidated a bullish divergence, while the MACD made a bearish cross (black circle).
As a result, the most likely future FET prediction is bearish, suggesting a decline to $0.346 is likely.
OCEAN’s resurgence takes the price to a critical level, with a possible bullish trend reversal if a breakout happens.
Conversely, FET looks set for more downside after losing its critical support.
So far, OCEAN has been the clear winner of the ASI alliance breakdown.