Standard Chartered has issued a bullish projection for Ethereum (ETH), raising the cryptocurrency’s price target to $7,500 by the end of 2025.
The new forecast, which factors in Ethereum’s ongoing bullish run, represents an 87.5% jump from the bank’s previous estimate of $4,000. It also marks an increase of about 60% from the asset’s current trading value of $4,653.
The bank’s Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, also extended his outlook beyond 2025.
He now expects the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap to end 2026 at $12,000 (up from $5,000), reach $18,000 by the end of 2027 (up from $6,000), and hit $25,000 for both 2028 and 2029 (up from $7,500).
Standard Chartered also projects ETH will surpass its November 2021 all-time high of $4,866 before the end of Q3 2025.
Why Standard Chartered is bullish on ETH
According to Kendrick, the optimistic outlook stems from a dramatically improved backdrop for Ethereum. Institutional buying, he said, has accelerated to nearly twice the pace of Bitcoin accumulation during peak periods.
The analyst also pointed to the impact of pro-cryptocurrency regulation, specifically the U.S. GENIUS Act, which paves the way for stablecoin oversight, calling it a “pivotal change” for Ethereum.
On the technical side, the investment bank noted that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and core developers are working to scale Layer 1 throughput by tenfold.
The plan envisions high-value transactions settling on Layer 1, while smaller, high-frequency transactions are processed on Layer 2 networks such as Arbitrum and Base, a model designed to support large-scale real-world financial activity and reinforce Ethereum’s role as a cornerstone of decentralized finance.
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