Oh, ETH. You underdog. You lovable mess. You finished 2025 like a party guest who showed up late, spilled wine on the host, then quietly left before dessert. 🍷😬 Sentiment? Muted. Hopes? Slightly dented. Price? Down nearly 10%. Cute.
But hold up-before you write Ethereum off like your ex’s apology text-meet Kevin Rusher. Founder of RAAC, visionary, and possibly a prophet or just really good at PowerPoint. 🙃 He’s here to tell us that while we’ve all been staring at the price chart (again), Ethereum’s been out here quietly building, like a cryptobitch with a DIY podcast and a vision board.
Everyone’s Obsessing Over ETH’s Price. Meanwhile, ETH’s Secretly Winning IRL
Yeah, it dipped. Yeah, Q4 was rough. But January 2026 is giving us vibes-soft, subtle, like a rom-com meet-cute. ETH flirts with $3,000. Flirts! Then crosses it. 😘 BeInCrypto says it’s up 1.76% in 24 hours, trading at $3,030. Not quite “I’m rich” money, but enough to buy slightly better ramen.
But guess what? While we’re all crying over price action like it’s the last episode of Succession, institutions are doing the quiet hustle. They’re not talking about Ethereum-they’re using it. Like actual adults with budgets and spreadsheets. Wild, right?
“While some myopic pundits are hyper-focused on the price of ETH, they are missing the huge institutional adoption cementing Ethereum as the new king of crypto,” Rusher said-probably while adjusting his cufflinks.
Oh, and get this: During Christmas-yes, Christmas, when most of us were fighting relatives over who forgot the vegan gravy-stablecoin issuance on Ethereum blew past $59 billion. That’s 62% of the whole damn market. Bitcoin? Still figuring out how to spell “DeFi.”
Tokenized Assets: ETH’s Quiet Power Move
Real-world assets (RWAs)? Yeah, they grew in 2025. In a bear market. While we were all doomscrolling, Ethereum was like, “Cool, cool, I’ll just tokenize $12.5 billion worth of stuff.” That’s 65% of the RWA pie. 🥧
Binance Chain? $2 billion. Solana and Arbitrum? Barely a blip. Less than $1 billion. Cute effort. Cute.
“Indeed, over the festive period, we saw tokenized gold alone surpass $4 billion on Ethereum, up from just $1 billion at the beginning of the year. The huge gold rush we are seeing in tokenized gold is happening almost exclusively on Ethereum, and with Central Banks and investors scrambling to get in any way they can, this growth is going in only one direction,” he remarked-casually ignoring the fact that gold now has a blockchain group chat.
So yes. Central banks. Are. Zooming into Ethereum. Not FTX. Not Dogecoin. Ethereum. The network that once powered NFT profile pics and questionable metaverse land. Growth!
Capital Flows: Institutions Don’t YOLO, They Strategize
Here’s the tea: Bitcoin inflows in 2025? Halved. 🐻 Like, “oops, my bad” levels. Ethereum? Doubled. 💎🙌
State Street did a thing (again, actual institutions doing actual reports, not just Crypto Twitter yelling into the void) and found that 6% of asset managers have 5%+ of AUM in ETH. Compared to Bitcoin’s 5%. So yes-ETH now has more serious money than BTC. Mic drop. 🎤⬇️
And B2B stablecoin payments on Ethereum? Artemis says they grew non-stop from August 2024 to August 2025. No drama. No hype. Just receipts. Literally.
“In short, anybody still betting on Bitcoin as a growth asset for 2026 will likely be blindsided by the massive growth we are going to see on Ethereum, fuelled by stablecoins, tokenization and payments, all of which institutions are soaking up as if there were no tomorrow,” he mentioned-while probably sipping a martini named “The Fork.”
And no, Rusher isn’t out here alone, shouting into the void like a madman. Tom Lee-BitMine chairman, eternal optimist, possibly just permanently high on hope-says ETH could hit $7,000-$9,000 by early 2026. That’s a 130-200% gain. Hold my kombucha. 🫖
Look, 2025 was rough. ETH didn’t win the prom queen vote. But 2026? Oh, sweetie. It’s lining up its revenge arc. Institutions are in. Stablecoins are flowing. Gold’s getting a blockchain makeover. And we’re all just here, waiting for the click.
So yeah. Maybe stop staring at the price. Maybe start watching the real action. Or don’t. More room for the rest of us. 😏💸
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