Ethereum’s 2025 Rally: The $4,000 Breakout Nobody Saw Coming

Forget cautious optimism—Ethereum’s gearing up to smash through $4,000 by end of 2025. Here’s why: Layer-2 adoption cuts fees to the bone, institutional money bypasses Bitcoin for smart contracts, and the Merge’s efficiency gains finally pay off. Critics still mutter about ‘overhyped gas fees,’ but the charts don’t lie. Brace for the FOMO—and maybe hedge with a reality check on those ‘ETH to $10K’ moonboys.

Strong Demand Zone Shows Ethereum Bottoming Out

Ethereum’s price action throughout 2025 has been bearish, marked by a series of structural breakdowns that have erased much of the bullish momentum carried over from Q4 2024. Since December 2024, the cryptocurrency has slipped through a series of key technical support levels, beginning with the breakdown of a fair value gap (FVG) NEAR $3,700 in early January. 

This was followed by a critical CHoCH (Change of Character) around $3,100 in February, signaling a definitive shift from bullish to bearish sentiment. The situation worsened in March, with Ethereum losing its $2,000 structural support level in the first week of the month, and then plummeting past a major liquidity pool at $1,700 by late March that triggered a further crash until it bottomed at $1,415 on April 9.

According to a TradingView analysis, all these movements have pushed the Ethereum price to its lowest support level, which could lead to a bounce. This support level is around $1,629 on the 3-day candlestick timeframe chart.

Looking at the 3-day ETH/USDT chart, Ethereum has retraced into this high-demand zone marked by multiple liquidity sweeps and previous order block confirmations back in 2023. This area triggered a significant bullish reversal in 2023, which eventually led to a surge over the ensuing year.

Three Major Targets On The Path To $4,500

Now that Ethereum has bounced around this order block, the next outlook is a bounce above $2,000 and beyond, with the TradingView analyst particularly predicting a surge to $4,500. According to the TradingView analysis, there are three key price levels Ethereum is expected to hit on its way toward a new all-time high around $4,500. 

The first target sits around $2,507, a level that corresponds with a bearish order block that led to the break of structure on March 2. The second level, at $3,708, marks a more prominent resistance and is sitting around the fair value gap that arose in January. Finally, the ultimate target lies just beyond $4,500.

At the time of writing, Ethereum is trading at $1,795, up by 10.7% in the past 24 hours and piggybacking off Bitcoin’s break above $90,000.