Analysis Crypto by Thebittimes.Com

Wall Street banking giant Citigroup has issued a new forecast for Ethereum (ETH), noting that the second-ranked cryptocurrency by market cap is likely to face a correction toward the end of the year. The bank projects Ethereum will trade at around $4,300 by the close of 2025, calling this the most likely outcome given current market dynamics. In a bullish scenario, where adoption and inflows accelerate, Citi sees Ethereum climbing as high as $6,400. Conversely, if network usage lags behind investor enthusiasm, prices could fall to $2,200. At the same time, Citi’s Analysis focused on how much value Ethereum captures from its expanding ecosystem.  Despite booming rollup and scaling activity, the bank estimates only 30% of this growth contributes directly to ETH’s valuation, suggesting the token may be trading ahead of its fundamentals. The rise of Layer-2 networks has boosted usage and utility, but limited value flows back to Ethereum’s base layer. Citi’s mo...

The release of the novel Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) DeepSeek model – along with making many of the underlying processes open source – unleashed a tempest upon the American markets and had a strong spillover into the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin (BTC), as the prime representative of digital assets, itself experienced a rapid and sharp drop during the weekend and on Monday, falling as low as $98,000 at one point on January 27. Still, the effect on cryptocurrencies proved short-lived – much like the impact on more closely related assets such as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock – and BTC, by press time on January 29, recovered to $102,646. Picks for you Trading expert sets ultimate target for the crypto market this cycle 16 hours ago ...

Financial experts and cryptocurrency industry analysts predict that the leading digital currency, Bitcoin (BTC), will see significant price growth throughout 2025.  At press time, the price of Bitcoin had reached $104,110, after mounting a 10.28% rally since the beginning of the year. BTC price year-to-date (YTD) chart. Source: Finbold The 25 polled respondents set an average price target of more than $160,000 by the end of the year and more than $400,000 by the end of 2030, according to findings published on January 16 by Richard Laycock for Finder and shared with Finbold. Picks for you ChatGPT predicts Ethereum price as Trump’s World Liberty Financial buys ETH 26 mins ago Jellyverse unveils jAssets Protocol for synthetic assets o...