2 Cryptocurrencies Tom Lee Expects to Deliver Massive Gains

One Wall Street dependable is telling Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holders that its terms volition extremity the twelvemonth adjacent $250,000, and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) holders that its terms volition beryllium successful the ballpark of $12,000. From today's prices for these assets, adjacent $63,000 and $1,800 respectively, that's a spot hard to believe.

That dependable is Tom Lee, Fundstrat co-founder, erstwhile J.P. Morgan main equity strategist, and, since June 2025, president of BitMine Immersion Technologies, the proprietor of the largest firm Ethereum treasury. Let's excavation into his predictions astir these 2 coins and measure whether they're apt to travel true.

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Bitcoin astir apt won't deed the people

Lee past reiterated his 2026 terms people of $200,000 to $250,000 per Bitcoin connected CNBC successful January. He argued that the four-year halving rhythm that governs the coin's terms is breaking down, and that spot exchange-traded money (ETF) request is present the ascendant determinant of its price.

His rationale is that October 2025's flash crash, which coincided with Bitcoin's astir caller all-time precocious of astir $126,000, reset the market's positioning, and besides that a bull tally for golden (like what's happened implicit the past mates of years) has historically been a improvement that preceded large Bitcoin growth. Lee's presumption successful August 2025 was for Bitcoin to beryllium supra $200,000 by the extremity of the year, but that didn't happen.

Most of the organization estimates for Bitcoin's terms are a batch person to today's prices than to those ceilings. Standard Chartered has chopped its 2026 Bitcoin people from $300,000 to $100,000 crossed 2 revisions since December, citing weaker firm buying and outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs. More troubling for Lee, Fundstrat's ain interior 2026 outlook, written by strategist Sean Farrell, coached its clients to expect a pullback to the $60,000 area, which has mostly played out.

Ethereum isn't astir to multiply successful worth either

Evangelizing a precocious terms people for Ether portion managing its biggest organization Ether bargain programme isn't an accident.

Lee's Ethereum terms people is nuanced successful that it's calibrated into respective imaginable tiers, which are based connected the ETH-to-BTC ratio.

His $12,000 level assumes Ether returning to its eight-year mean ratio against Bitcoin astatine his $250,000 BTC target. The $22,000 target, successful contrast, assumes the ETH/BTC ratios seen during the highest of the 2021 bull market's levels. The highest (and astir unrealistic) people of $62,000 successful the adjacent word assumes a ratio to Bitcoin that the token has ne'er approached nether immoderate conditions.