Ethereum Bulls Charge: Can ETH Shatter the $4,000 Ceiling in 2025?
Ethereum's relentless rally faces its ultimate test—the psychological $4,000 barrier. Here's why this battle matters.
The Gas Guzzler Meets Its Match
ETH's latest surge puts it within striking distance of a level that's crushed bullish dreams twice before. But this time, staking yields and layer-2 adoption might fuel the breakout.
Wall Street's Watching (And Probably Getting It Wrong)
Traditional finance analysts still can't decide if ETH is 'programmable money' or a 'digital oil'—meanwhile, degens keep building the future while banks debate semantics.
Will Ethereum flip Bitcoin's market cap before the SEC figures out how to regulate a smart contract? Place your bets.
Market picture
The crypto market lost 1%, falling back to a capitalisation of $3.9 trillion. This was a natural pullback against the backdrop of the dollar's impressive strengthening the day before. However, on Tuesday, the bulls were back in charge, bringing the market back to a level above Monday's opening but not yet reaching its peak.
Bitcoin is trading NEAR $118.7K, unable to break through the resistance at $120K. This indecision to break out of the range is likely to continue until the market sees the Fed's key rate decision on Wednesday evening.
Ethereum ROSE to $3,930 at the end of the day, fell back to $3,700 on Monday, where it found interest from new buyers and rose to $3,830 at the time of writing. The last seven days have seen a fairly sharp upward trend, and if this trend continues, the price will rise above 4,000 by the end of this week.
News background
According to CoinShares, global investment inflows into crypto funds last week amounted to $1.908 billion. Investments in ethereum increased by $1.595 billion, Solana by a significant $312 million, XRP by $190 million, and Sui by $8 million. Investments in Bitcoin decreased by $175 million.
Japan's Metaplanet announced the acquisition of 780 BTC ($92.5 million) at an average price of $118,600. The company's total reserves now amount to 17,132 BTC, worth over $2 billion.
According to Blockware, Bitcoin will no longer show ‘parabolic’ rallies or ‘devastating’ bear cycles, as institutional investors have changed the market dynamics and reduced volatility.
According to Strategic ETH Reserve, the volume of the second cryptocurrency on the balance sheets of public companies has reached 2.32 million ETH (~$9.11 billion) — 1.92% of the total Ethereum supply. Bitmine Immersion Tech, associated with Fundstrat founder Tom Lee, pursues the most aggressive strategy. The company has ~566,800 ETH ($2.23 billion) on its balance sheet.
BNB, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by capitalisation, updated its historical high above $860 on Monday. Against this background, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's estimated fortune exceeded $76 billion. According to Forbes, Zhao owns 64% of the BNB supply — about 89.1 million tokens.
