Ethereum to hit $250,000 first..."Bitcoin's #1 market cap position in jeopardy"

▲ Ethereum (ETH)

An unconventional scenario suggesting that Ethereum (ETH) could reach $250,000 before Bitcoin has been proposed, sparking a debate that is shaking the very foundations of market valuation standards.

According to crypto media outlet NewsBTC on April 24 (local time), Etherealize suggested that Ethereum could reach $250,000 in the long term, and in some cases, might even reach that level before Bitcoin.

This outlook is based on the assumption that Ethereum could absorb some of the approximately $31 trillion 'monetary premium' currently held by gold and Bitcoin. Etherealize explained that if Ethereum establishes itself as a core asset in global finance, beyond just a smart contract platform, its potential for price appreciation could significantly expand.

Institutional capital inflow has been identified as a key variable. The analysis suggests that if large institutional investors such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, banks, and listed companies adopt Ethereum as a long-term holding asset instead of Bitcoin, the demand structure itself could change rapidly.

Ethereum's structural characteristics were also presented as a basis for the bullish argument. The existence of diverse use cases such as revenue generation through staking, DeFi, stablecoins, and real-world asset tokenization was evaluated as a differentiating factor from traditional store-of-value assets.

However, this scenario is a long-term assumption that requires significant conditions for its realization, predicated on Ethereum establishing itself as a foundational layer of global finance and securing continuous institutional demand.

Analysis suggests that if Ethereum's role expands beyond simple payments or a platform to a store-of-value asset, it could become an inflection point that reshapes the power structure of the cryptocurrency market itself.

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