BTC $200K, ETH $12K Into Year End As Liquidity Turns Supportive

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are on the cusp of a 2x minimum rally before the end of this year. This is a bold prediction that was issued by Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMex, and Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisor, during a recent interview..

According to Lee, the Bitcoin price will likely reach a range of between $200k and $250k before the end of this year. As for Ether, Lee issued a forecast of between $10k and $12k before the end of this year.

The popular Ethereum investors that ETH will be entering price discovery but not a blowoff top. As such, Lee noted that Ether will continue with its bullish outlook in 2026 fueled by its robust fundamentals.

A similar prediction was issued by Hayes, who noted that Bitcoin and ETH will hit $250k and $10k before the end of this year.

The crypto market will continue to record bullish sentiment as the United States pivots towards monetary easing. On Tuesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that the Quantitative Tightening (QT) will end in the coming months.

With the anticipated Fed rate cuts in the coming FOMC meetings, the crypto market will continue to enjoy bullish sentiment. , the crypto market will expand rapidly in the near future fueled by mainstream institutional adoption and a clear regulatory outlook.

After last week’s $20 billion crypto market crash, analysts have been comparing it with the 2020 Black Thursday, which yielded the parabolic rally in the subsequent months.

The macro bullish outlook for Bitcoin and Ethereum in the coming months is bolstered by the ongoing parabolic rally for Gold. Notably, the Gold price has recorded weekly new all-time highs since August 2025, but has since entered an overbought region.

As such, market analyst Aksel Kibar that the Gold price is bound to experience a sharp reversal after experiencing a parabolic rally in the recent past.

The demand for Bitcoin and Ethereum has remained high as a hedge against inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty. For instance, on-chain data analysis shows that BitMine, which is led by Lee, has purchased Ether valued at nearly $1 billion in the past few days.

Meanwhile, the U.S. spot BTC and ETH ETFs have been accumulating more coins, especially after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to enable 401k to invest in crypto assets.