🚀 Standard Chartered Doubles Down: Ethereum to Hit $7.5K in 2025, $25K by 2028

Brace for impact—Standard Chartered just dropped a bullish bomb on Ethereum’s price trajectory. The banking giant’s latest forecast? A moonshot to $7.5K this year, with a staggering $25K target by 2028. Forget "cautious optimism"—this is a full-throttle endorsement.

Why the surge? Institutional adoption, deflationary mechanics, and yes, the usual cocktail of hype and FOMO. Traders are already recalculating their exit strategies—assuming they had one to begin with.

Meanwhile, Wall Street quietly mutters about "asset bubbles" while scrambling to onboard clients into ETH staking. Irony tastes better with a side of 10% APY.

One thing’s clear: Ethereum isn’t just flipping the script—it’s rewriting the entire financial playbook. Whether you’re a maxi or a skeptic, grab popcorn. This show’s just getting started.

Why the moonshot? Three words: institutions, regulation, upgrades. Kendrick’s report reads like a love letter to ethereum adoption metrics. Since June, ether treasury companies and spot ETFs have hoovered up 3.8% of the entire ETH supply. That’s double the fastest institutional buying rate ever recorded for Bitcoin. This is what happens when Wall Street finally gets a taste of staking yields, on-chain cash flows, and programmable money.

Kendrick even predicts ETH will keep outperforming BTC, with the ETH/BTC ratio climbing from 0.039 to 0.05. Translation: for every Bitcoin, expect ETH to buy you more Bitcoin than before — the ultimate crypto flex.

Ethereum is closing in on $5,000, source: Ethereum Liquid Index

Regulation Just Handed Ethereum a Gift

The passage of the U.S. GENIUS Act in July might be the most bullish legal MOVE for Ethereum since the SEC finally learned what a blockchain is. The law greenlights mainstream stablecoin adoption — and over 50% of stablecoins run on Ethereum’s rails. Considering stablecoins already account for 40% of all blockchain transaction fees, this isn’t just tailwind — it’s a hurricane at Ethereum’s back.

If you think stablecoins are boring, remember: they’re basically the crypto equivalent of the dollar — and Ethereum just became the Federal Reserve’s unofficial plumbing.

The Tech Play: Scaling for Serious Money

Ethereum’s devs aren’t resting on LAYER 1’s laurels. A 10x throughput boost is in the works, which means Ethereum could soon handle not just more transactions, but higher-value, institution-sized transactions without breaking a sweat. Layer 2 networks will be the spillover playground, and the more they grow, the more fees Ethereum skims off the top.

In a cheeky note earlier this month, Standard Chartered even hinted that companies directly buying ETH for their treasury — à la MicroStrategy’s bitcoin play — might be the better investment bet than just buying a vanilla spot ETF. Think of it as “corporate diamond hands” vs. “ETF tourist money.”

The Take

Ethereum’s fundamentals are hitting an alignment you rarely see in crypto — the tech is scaling, the regulators are actually helping, and institutions are buying like it’s going out of stock. If Kendrick’s right, $7,500 ETH in four months and $25K ETH in three years could make today’s $4,700 price look like the clearance bin.

Of course, this is crypto. $25K ETH in 2028 could also be followed by $800 ETH in 2029. But right now, the momentum is undeniable — and Ethereum just got a green light from both Wall Street and Washington.

Finally, technical analyst Rekt Capital wrote on X that “Ethereum has reached its final major Weekly resistance before new All Time Highs. Ethereum will need to turn ~$4631 (black) into new support to confirm upside into Price Discovery. The last time ETH was at these highs, price upside wicked beyond black for 3 weeks before rejecting. Therefore the sooner ETH reclaims black, the better because in the event of a failed reclaim, price could reject into its Weekly CME Gap at $4k, with scope for wicking into ~$3.75k  If that rejection occurs, it WOULD be a weaker one compared to 2021, with the downside being much shallower to evidence a weakening resistance. 

Which will it be – reclaim for new Ethereum All Time Highs soon or one last pullback before new ETH All Time Highs later? Source: X