Based on consensus from multiple analysts and AI models.
Ethereum price predictions are as follows:
2025
Low: 4300
Average: 5500-6500.
High: 10000-15000
2026
Low: 4800
Average: 6000-8000,
High: 12000-17000
2030
Low: 7500
Average: 10000-15000
High: 40000.
As of the current crypto market dynamics on August 26, 2025, Ethereum's price has rebounded about 150% from the low point at the beginning of 2025, currently hovering around 4400, with an overall bullish trend.
Main driving factors include:
Institutional capital inflow, expansion of Layer-2 solutions, growth of DeFi and RWA, and potential regulatory tailwinds
The following analysis will focus on future trends from the perspectives of technical analysis, fundamentals, and market sentiment.
1. Technical trends
Upgrades and performance improvements: Ethereum's Pectra upgrade has been launched, which will increase data blob capacity and optimize Layer-2 performance, further reducing transaction costs and improving throughput.
Subsequently, the Fusaka upgrade (possibly in 2026) will be the largest upgrade in history, focusing on decentralized storage and AI integration.
This will strengthen Ethereum's position as the 'world computer' and promote the development of more decentralized applications and AI agents. Meanwhile, the mainnet gas limit may be raised to 50 million, and the total amount of ETH bridged to L2 is expected to exceed 10 million.
Price chart analysis: From technical indicators, Ethereum is forming an ascending triangle pattern. Since the low point of 1385 in 2025, it has tested the resistance at 2578 multiple times and retreated to the 1800-2578 range, even approaching the high of 5000 recently.
RSI shows short-term overbought signals, which may lead to short-term corrections to 3800-4200, but does not affect the long-term bullish outlook.
The ascending triangle pattern may drive ETH to rise to 8000-16500 in 2025-2026.
Trend prediction: Price corrections may occur in Q3-Q4 2025:
4066-3800 range, extreme 3353
However, Q4 will see a strong rebound driven by seasonal factors and institutional inflows.
In the medium term (2026), the decentralization process of L2s like Base and Arbitrum will accelerate, and some optimistic roll-up chains will transition to ZK roll-up chains, further enhancing efficiency.
2. Fundamental trends
Institutional and ETF adoption: Net inflows for ETH ETFs are expected to exceed $50 billion by 2025, currently under $10 billion. Institutions like BlackRock have launched tokenized RWA platforms based on Ethereum.
Multiple countries may include ETH as part of their treasury assets. Positive regulation for stablecoins (such as EU and US policies) will enhance Ethereum's on-chain activities, with RWA and stablecoins mainly deployed on Ethereum.
Ecosystem growth: DeFi TVL is expected to reach a record high.
AI agents will be a major trend in 2025. High-performance L2s like MegaETH and Rise will capture market share from high-performance L1s.
Base may split from CB and issue its own token.
Supply tightening and surging demand will support price increases.
Macroeconomic environment: The Federal Reserve's shift to an easing policy, recovery of risk assets, and Trump's friendly attitude towards crypto (about 91% of crypto holdings are ETH) will drive the overall market.
Compared to the last bull market, Ethereum has undergone comprehensive upgrades in staking, burning, ETFs, and L2, with potential gains far exceeding expectations.
Trend prediction: Strong fundamentals will dominate the mid-term trend. The prosperity of DeFi and expansion of RWA in 2025 may drive ETH's market share dominance.
Long-term after 2030, Ethereum as the core settlement layer may stabilize at a higher price level.
3. Market sentiment and risk
Sentiment analysis: Current sentiment is low (similar to before the last bull market), but whale accumulation and institutional optimism indicate a turning point is near.
X platform discussion shows:
Most users are optimistic about a short-term target of 5000-10000.
Some extreme predictions reach 20000-25000.
AI models predict 6000-15000 for 2025.
Risk factors: Regulatory uncertainty, macroeconomic recession, or the rise of competing chains may lead to corrections.
In the short term, the RSI overbought and wedge pattern suggest caution near the support level around 3800.
In addition, the ETH/BTC exchange rate has ended a 4-year parabolic phase, and ETH is expected to dominate the second half of the cycle.
Overall, Ethereum will enter a 'crazy bull market' in 2025, with a strong rebound after a short-term correction and long-term benefits from ecosystem maturity.
Based on the current trend, Ethereum is generally bullish, but there is a risk of a prolonged correction phase in the near term.
Opening strategy:
Bullish: 3380-4068 gradual accumulation.
Take profit: 5000-6000-7000-8000.
Stop loss: set below 3300.
Bearish: Gradual accumulation near 4650-4800.
Take profit: 4330-4068-3830-3380
Stop loss: 5000
Support levels: 4350, 4066, 3800, 3353.
Resistance levels: 3700, 5000.
Poor position management makes technical trend analysis worthless.
Leverage 5x:
2x trial position, 3x additional position, 4x confirmation, 5x full position.
The crypto market is highly volatile; the above is personal advice and not investment advice.