Standard Chartered Bank Lowers Ethereum Year-End Price Target to $4000

BlockBeats News, March 17th, Standard Chartered Bank stated in a research report on Monday that Ethereum's structural decline is expected to continue, significantly lowering its price target for the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by the end of 2025 from the previous $10,000 to $4,000. At the time of writing, Ethereum's trading price is around $1,903.

The report pointed out that "Ethereum is at a crossroads," although it "still dominates on multiple metrics," but this dominance has been declining for some time. Layer 2 blockchain was originally intended to improve the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain, but Standard Chartered Bank estimates that Coinbase's Base has reduced Ethereum's market value by $50 billion and anticipates that this trend will continue.

Geoff Kendrick, Director of Digital Asset Research at Standard Chartered Bank, wrote that market forces may ultimately prevent this structural decline, "especially if the tokenization of real-world assets sees significant growth," as "Ethereum's security advantage implies it should retain an 80% market share."

Standard Chartered Bank expects that by the end of 2027, the ETH/BTC ratio will drop to 0.015, the lowest level since 2017. The bank still predicts that the Ethereum price will recover from its current level of around $1,900 as Bitcoin's rise is expected to boost all digital assets, but Ethereum's underperformance will continue.