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Ethereum could capture most of the value held in Bitcoin and gold and trade as high as $250,000, according to Wall Street-focused Ethereum builder Etherealize.
Etherealize in a Tuesday X post said Ethereum is “productive money,” citing criteria laid out in a 2011 criticism of gold by legendary investor Warren Buffett.
“Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative,” Buffett said in a letter to Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK, BRK.B)) shareholders. “True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.”
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Etherealize said Buffett’s criticism could be applied to Bitcoin while claiming that Ethereum is different due to its staking returns. Ethereum staking is the process by which users lock up their tokens to participate in the network’s transaction verification process in exchange for rewards in new coins. It currently yields between 2% and 4%.
Etherealize said Ethereum’s ability to generate yield, combined with other monetary properties meant it could capture the approximately $31 trillion in Bitcoin and gold, resulting in the over $250,000 price target.
Ethereum beats Bitcoin and gold on every monetary property save for established history, Etherealize said, highlighting that the network is about seven years younger than Bitcoin and thousands of years younger than gold.
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The lack of a significant established history is why Ethereum is trading around $2,300, Etherealize said.
“This is where the opportunity lies,” the company said. “The market has priced ETH as a technology in flux; it has not yet priced ETH as money.”
Etherealize cited Ethereum’s annual issuance cap of 1.5%, which can be offset by token burns, ease of transfer and fungibility amid innovations such as zero-knowledge cryptography.
Etherealize also said that Ethereum had a higher floor compared to Bitcoin and gold, citing Ethereum’s active decentralized finance ecosystem with about $46 billion in total value locked. The company also cited the network’s dominance of the tokenized asset market.
However, when the Ethereum repricing will happen is “unknowable,” Etherealize said, adding, “what is knowable is the direction: productive money will outcompete dead capital.”
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Etherealize’s $250,000 Ethereum target falls significantly short of the $706,000 target it disclosed last July, calling ETH “digital oil.”
Etherealize is not the first to predict a $250,000 price for Ethereum. Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc. (NYSE:BMNR) Chair and Fundstrat investment chief Tom Lee in January also said Ethereum could reach $250,000.
Lee’s prediction, however, was based on Ethereum growing relative to Bitcoin, not swallowing it up. He cited the average Ethereum-to-Bitcoin price ratio over the past eight years and Wall Street’s growing interest in tokenization. He simultaneously set a Bitcoin price target of $1 million.
Bold price targets like $250,000 for Ethereum highlight the potential upside—but also the uncertainty in trying to pick a single winner. Instead of going all-in on one asset, some investors are exploring platforms like Public, where users can build AI-assisted, theme-based portfolios tailored to areas like crypto, innovation, or macro trends, offering a more diversified way to approach fast-moving markets.
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