Ethereum is new all time high while the crypto -bullmarkt continues – Moneysense

2025 has been the year of ‘hard assets’, including gold and Bitcoin (BTC), the latter is often called ‘digital gold’. As the monetary policy illuminated, investors rotated in this inflation-heding activa.

But that is not the whole story. If you were on Laser this year aimed at gold and BTC, you may have missed two even stronger artists: silver and Ethereum (ETH). Because gold and BTC have cooled in recent months, stable silver and ETH the spotlights.

The graph below compares the price valuation of these four assets. It is clear that while ETH remains behind the others until April, it has been shot since then to catch up.

Although Gold and BTC get the majority of the press and the spotlights, it is not surprising that the second largest assets in their respective asset classes (precious metals and crypto) are better achieved this year. In an earlier edition of this column, I even wrote that on the basis of earlier crypto market patterns ETH in 2025 could perform well than BTC – and so far that has been the case.

How high can BTC and ETH go in 2025?

In my previous column I had written that it would be reasonable to expect that BTC might hit $ 160,000 (all figures in US dollars unless otherwise indicated). Other large Wall Street analysts, including Citigroup and Tom Lee from Fundstrat, have suggested that BTC could reach around $ 200,000 or more before this bullmarkt is over. So what does that mean for ETH?

If earlier cycles are a guide, this crypto bull market could still have legs.

ETH is currently being traded at $ 4,496, but a move to $ 8,000 would not be unreasonable. From today, that would be a profit of 64% and still less than 2x are previous all times of $ 4,878 (set in November 2021). In every earlier bullmarkt since the launch of ETH in 2015, it has a new all time high with a profit of at least 270% compared to the previous one. A profit of about 100% compared to his last peak would actually be relatively conservative.

Ethereum ETFs lead the indictment of ETH rehearsal

ETFs did for Ethereum in 2025 in 2025 what BTC ETFs did for BTC in 2024: provided the legitimacy and resources for institutions and other large investors to allocate a percentage of their capital to ETH without exposing themselves to the risks related to direct exposure to the cryptocurrency itself.

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The graph below clearly shows how the inflow to ETFs was picked up in April-May 2025-with the start of ETHs 2025 Bull Run. July and August were bumper months for ETFs with a net inflow of $ 4.86 billion and $ 3.23 billion respectively.

Canadian investors who are bullish about ETH are spoiled with regard to ETFs. These ETFs are attractive for investors because they can be held on registered accounts such as tax -free savings accounts (TFSAs), registered pension savings plans (RRSPs), First Home Savings Accounts (FHSAs) and others.

More information: How to invest tax -free in a Bitcoin ETF

Do you have to invest in ETH Treasury companies?

After the success of the Strategy (MSTR), Michael Saylor’s Nasdaq-GenotaDe BTC Treasury Company, a new class of ETH-oriented treasury companies, originated. These companies follow a similar Playbook as MSTR: holding a significant part of their business reserves in ETH, aimed at collecting more over time through both price rating and strike rewards.

Ethereum expanding includes the locking of ETH to help secure the network and validate transactions. In exchange, strikers earn extra ETH – some resemble dividends in traditional equity investing.

Here is a comparison of the two most prominent ETH Treasury companies that are currently being traded on public markets that can buy Canadian investors:

So do you have to invest in an ETH Treasury company? It is still much too early to tell how this new category of ETH-oriented treasury companies will perform. Both BMNR and SBET have only announced their treasury strategies in June or July 2025 – that is hardly enough time for meaningful price discovery. Most individual investors in Canada may want to stick to ETH itself or to ETFs, of which Canada has a lot to offer.