Citing institutional inflows and stablecoin expansion, Standard Chartered lifts Ethereum price objective to $7,500 by year end 2025.

Standard Chartered has raised its price forecast for Ethereum (ETH) for the end of 2025 from $4,000 to an ambitious $7,500. A big rise in institutional funding, the fast expansion of firms using Ethereum's treasury, and the accelerating acceptance of stablecoins all contribute toward this upward revision. Further supporting this trend is the recent adoption of the GENIUS Act in the United States, which establishes a defined legal framework for stablecoin adoption. Stablecoins, particularly, account for around 40% of all blockchain expenses; more than half of them are issued on the Ethereum network, so fueling strong demand for ETH.

Upcoming infrastructural improvements to the Ethereum network help to justify the optimistic perspective of the bank as well. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has drawn out plans to tenth fold boost Ethereum's layer 1 throughput. This major improvement will help a higher volume of high-value transactions directly on the main chain, while offloading more little transfers to layer-2 solutions like Arbitrum and Base. The upbeat projection is founded on this scalability development combined with greater engagement throughout the Ethereum environment and consistent corporate and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) accumulation.

By the end of Q3 2025, Standard Chartered projects that ETH will surpass its earlier all-time high of about $4,866. Moreover, the bank predicts a rise in the ETH-BTC Valuation Ratio fueled by improving fundamentals of the Ethereum network. Their long-term price forecasts are also positive; their year-end 2028 ETH aim is now at $25,000, a considerable increase from their previous estimate of $7,500. This updated projection emphasizes the bank's great faith in Ethereum's ongoing expansion driven by institutional adoption, developing real-world uses, stablecoin integration, and significant technical improvements.