{"id":50779,"date":"2025-10-02T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=50779"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:46:42","slug":"citi-sees-bitcoin-hitting-181k-in-2026-as-etf-flows-drive-crypto-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=50779","title":{"rendered":"Citi Sees Bitcoin Hitting $181K in 2026 as ETF Flows Drive Crypto Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Citi (C) sees crypto heading into the new year with modest but meaningful momentum, projecting upside for both bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) into year-end and beyond, the Wall Street bank said in a report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>For year-end 2025, Citi now expects to peg bitcoin at $133,000, a slight trim from its prior $135,000 forecast, and ether at $4,500, up from $4,300. <\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s scenarios still span wide ranges: bitcoin could finish as high as $156,000 if equity markets rally and flows accelerate, or as low as $83,000 under recessionary conditions. Ether\u2019s upside bull case stands at $6,100, while its bear case remains considerably lower.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was trading around $119,550 at publication time, while ether was at $4,407.<\/p>\n<p>Looking 12 months out, Citi sets a bitcoin target of $181,000, with the call entirely premised on sustained inflows, particularly through exchange-traded fund (ETFs). The bank expects ether to hit $5,400 in a years time.<\/p>\n<p>Citi says bitcoin is better positioned to capture new inflows thanks to its scale and \u201cdigital gold\u201d narrative, while ether may benefit from staking and DeFi-linked yields<\/p>\n<p>Favorable regulation, particularly in the U.S., should act as a tailwind, but Citi cautions that macro risks such as recessionary pressures could still derail the bull case.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/09\/15\/wall-street-bank-citigroup-sees-ether-falling-to-usd4-300-by-year-end\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Wall Street Bank Citigroup Sees Ether Falling to $4,300 by Year-End<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi (C) sees crypto heading into the new year with modest but meaningful momentum, projecting upside for both bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) into year-end and beyond, the Wall Street bank said in a report on Wednesday. For year-end 2025, Citi now expects to peg bitcoin at $133,000, a slight trim from its prior $135,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-50779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}