Bitcoin Could Hit $150K This Year, Says Mike Novogratz—But Ethereum Might Outperform BTC

Crypto entrepreneur and billionaire Mike Novogratz thinks that Ethereum has the power to outperform Bitcoin over the following few months. 

Throughout a Thursday interview with CNBC, the CEO of digital property infrastructure firm Galaxy stated that institutional curiosity might push the second-biggest cryptocurrency increased after a latest surge.

Ethereum—or ETH—was just lately buying and selling at practically $3,730 per coin, in response to crypto information supplier CoinGecko, after hitting a 2025 report of $3,848 on Monday. The coin continues to be 24% beneath its all-time excessive of $4,878 that it hit in 2021, however has made a comeback. 

“I believe Ethereum in all probability has plenty of likelihood to outperform Bitcoin within the subsequent three to 6 months,” stated Novogratz. “The narrative of ETH is admittedly highly effective.”

“ETH has caught up so much,” he continued, including that the digital coin might hit $4,000 quickly.

Myriad customers at present imagine that Ethereum will set a brand new all-time excessive worth by the tip of 2025, with 55% of predictors anticipating the coin to beat the present excessive mark. (Disclosure: Myriad is a product of Decrypt’s father or mother firm, DASTAN.)



Novogratz stated that huge corporations shopping for the asset was serving to propel its rise. Publicly traded corporations are copying the Bitcoin treasury mannequin from publicly traded agency Technique (previously MicroStrategy)—however as an alternative of BTC, they’re shopping for ETH. 

Nasdaq-listed miner BitMine Immersion has aggressively snapped up over the cryptocurrency and now has $2 billion price of ETH, making it the present chief in that house. And the Nasdaq-listed SharpLink Gaming has additionally purchased over $1.3 billion within the asset since committing to the treasury technique in Might.

American buyers are additionally quick piling into ETH exchange-traded funds: The merchandise—accepted by the SEC final 12 months—obtained over $726 million in internet inflows in sooner or later final week, the most effective 24 hours of their buying and selling historical past. The funds collectively added greater than $2.1 billion over the course of final week.

Novogratz added that Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, might hit $150,000 per coin this 12 months. The main digital coin was just lately buying and selling for $118,628 per coin, down barely over the previous week however up practically 12% over a 30-day interval. Bitcoin just lately set a brand new all-time excessive mark of $122,838.