Famous analyst: Ether will reach 12,000 USD by the end of the year!

Caixin Silicon Valley NEWS
August 28, 2025 14:10
Fundstrat Chief Investment Officer Tom Lee predicts that Ether will rise to $5500 in the short term and break through $12000 by the end of the year. Written by: Ma Lan
The market for Ether this year has been very strong, prompting Wall Street to gradually shift its bets from Bitcoin to the Ether track. Fundstrat's Chief Investment Officer Tom Lee has boldly raised the target price for Ether in his latest forecast, believing that the token will rise to $5,500 in the short term and break through $12,000 by the end of the year. Lee emphasized that Ethereum is the foundational blockchain infrastructure for traditional finance, currently supporting over $145 billion in stablecoin supply. This enormous market dominance makes Ethereum one of the largest macro investment opportunities in the next decade. This has also led investment managers and retail investors to systematically reallocate funds from Bitcoin to Ethereum, with an average daily rotation of about $900 million. Standard Chartered Bank analyst Jeff Kendrick also noted that, compared to Bitcoin peers, the capital flow scale of Ether funding companies is growing larger. He also pointed out that from a regulatory arbitrage perspective, these funding companies holding Ether have greater expansion potential compared to those holding Bitcoin.
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Lee set the final price of Ether between $12,000 and $16,000, stating that Ether is experiencing its Bitcoin moment from 2017. In 2017, the price of Bitcoin surged 13 times. Lee set a target price of $55,000 for Bitcoin that year, while Bitcoin was trading at only $2,000, and he gained attention as a result. Bankless cryptocurrency analyst Ryan Adams believes that Lee's current prediction for Ether is unusual. Previously, Lee provided investment analysis for Ethereum to BitMine and assisted in acquiring $21.28 million worth of Ether, increasing its total holdings to 1.72 million Ether, valued at $7.65 billion. Adams suggests that if the price of Ether reaches $12,000, BitMine will surpass Ether reserve manager Strategy to become the world’s largest listed digital asset financial company. Standard Chartered's Kendrick added that since June, Ethereum and Ethereum ETFs have absorbed nearly 5% of the funds, representing the fastest inflow rate in cryptocurrency history, outpacing Bitcoin's accumulation rate by the end of 2024. He noted that the recent surge in accumulation marks an early stage of a broader accumulation cycle, and fund management companies may ultimately control 10% of all circulating Ether. Given that companies like BitMine have announced a target of 5% circulation, there is still room for accumulation, which will provide strong support for the price of Ether.