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Time to Swap Your Bitcoin Holdings With Ethereum? ETFs in Focus
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Citigroup recently raised its year-end price target for ether to $4,500 from $4,300, due to strong flows from exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and digital asset treasuries, per a Reuters article, as quoted on Yahoo Finance. Meanwhile, the brokerage cut its bitcoin forecast to $133,000 from $135,000.
Ethereum (ETH) is skyrocketing this year, outperforming Bitcoin. Ethereum has gained 32% this year while Bitcoin has added about 27% (as of Oct. 1, 2025). Ethereum continues to dominate due to growing interest in staking, tokenization and institutional adoption.
Ethereum’s rising dominance is pulling money into the wider crypto market. Analysts are turning more bullish on ETH. Standard Chartered raised its year-end target to $7,500, due to institutional adoption, as quoted on the above-mentioned tradingnews.com article.
CoinCodex expects ETH to surge above $7,200 before the end of the year, as quoted on the same tradingnews.com article. With strong ETF demand, staking yields, and Layer 2 scaling, Ethereum’s fundamentals are stronger than in the 2021 bull run, the very tradingnews.com article indicated.
Ethereum to Beat Bitcoin Ahead?
ETFs like Vaneck Ethereum ETF (ETHV - Free Report) and iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA - Free Report) added about 1.5% each over the past month. Meanwhile, bitcoin ETFs like iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT - Free Report) and Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC - Free Report) have advanced about 6% each during this timeframe.
This could be because of the profit-booking in Ethereum. Now that some of richer valuation has been corrected in Ethereum over the past month, investors might jump into this segment in the short term.
The Fed is also likely to cut rates ahead. An easy money policy is beneficial for high-risk investing areas like cryptocurrencies. Plus, the Fed rate cuts are also likely to cut the value of the U.S. dollar. A decline in the value of fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar may put upward pressure on cryptocurrencies.
At Korea Blockchain Week 2025, Fundstrat’s co-founder Tom Lee, predicted Ethereum could reach $7K–$12K this year, as quoted on Coin Central. He sees ETH entering a decade-long “super cycle,” thanks to AI adoption, applications in finances, and growing trust from Wall Street and policymakers through stablecoins and tokenized assets, as quoted on the same Coin Central article.
Ethereum has received a new-found momentum in October due to a spike in spot ETF inflows of $674 million over the past two days (as of Oct. 1, 2025), led by Fidelity ($202M) and BlackRock ($154M), per a tradingnews.com article.The article noted that analysts estimate that every $100M of ETF inflows can boost spot prices by 0.3%–0.7%.
Bottom Line
If you are risk-averse in nature and still want to stay invested in cryptocurrencies, you can bet on both Ethereum and Bitcoin simultaneously. ProShares Bitcoin & Ether Equal Weight ETF (BETE - Free Report) and CoinShares Bitcoin and Ether ETF (BTF - Free Report) are some such products.
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Time to Swap Your Bitcoin Holdings With Ethereum? ETFs in Focus
Citigroup recently raised its year-end price target for ether to $4,500 from $4,300, due to strong flows from exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and digital asset treasuries, per a Reuters article, as quoted on Yahoo Finance. Meanwhile, the brokerage cut its bitcoin forecast to $133,000 from $135,000.
Ethereum (ETH) is skyrocketing this year, outperforming Bitcoin. Ethereum has gained 32% this year while Bitcoin has added about 27% (as of Oct. 1, 2025). Ethereum continues to dominate due to growing interest in staking, tokenization and institutional adoption.
President Trump’s GENIUS Act — the country's first major national cryptocurrency legislation (per BBC) — has also favored the crypto rally this year.
Behind the Drivers
Whale and institutional buying have been a driving force behind Ethereum’s rally. Companies are also holding Ethereum in their treasuries. Bitmine now owns 1 million ETH, following a strategy similar to Bitcoin’s early adoption. Even large Bitcoin holders are now rotating into Ethereum, as quoted on a tradingnews.com article issued in late August.
Ethereum’s rising dominance is pulling money into the wider crypto market. Analysts are turning more bullish on ETH. Standard Chartered raised its year-end target to $7,500, due to institutional adoption, as quoted on the above-mentioned tradingnews.com article.
CoinCodex expects ETH to surge above $7,200 before the end of the year, as quoted on the same tradingnews.com article. With strong ETF demand, staking yields, and Layer 2 scaling, Ethereum’s fundamentals are stronger than in the 2021 bull run, the very tradingnews.com article indicated.
Ethereum to Beat Bitcoin Ahead?
ETFs like Vaneck Ethereum ETF (ETHV - Free Report) and iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA - Free Report) added about 1.5% each over the past month. Meanwhile, bitcoin ETFs like iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT - Free Report) and Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC - Free Report) have advanced about 6% each during this timeframe.
This could be because of the profit-booking in Ethereum. Now that some of richer valuation has been corrected in Ethereum over the past month, investors might jump into this segment in the short term.
The Fed is also likely to cut rates ahead. An easy money policy is beneficial for high-risk investing areas like cryptocurrencies. Plus, the Fed rate cuts are also likely to cut the value of the U.S. dollar. A decline in the value of fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar may put upward pressure on cryptocurrencies.
At Korea Blockchain Week 2025, Fundstrat’s co-founder Tom Lee, predicted Ethereum could reach $7K–$12K this year, as quoted on Coin Central. He sees ETH entering a decade-long “super cycle,” thanks to AI adoption, applications in finances, and growing trust from Wall Street and policymakers through stablecoins and tokenized assets, as quoted on the same Coin Central article.
Ethereum has received a new-found momentum in October due to a spike in spot ETF inflows of $674 million over the past two days (as of Oct. 1, 2025), led by Fidelity ($202M) and BlackRock ($154M), per a tradingnews.com article.The article noted that analysts estimate that every $100M of ETF inflows can boost spot prices by 0.3%–0.7%.
Bottom Line
If you are risk-averse in nature and still want to stay invested in cryptocurrencies, you can bet on both Ethereum and Bitcoin simultaneously. ProShares Bitcoin & Ether Equal Weight ETF (BETE - Free Report) and CoinShares Bitcoin and Ether ETF (BTF - Free Report) are some such products.