Tom Lee Predicts ETH Above $5,000 by Year-End, $25K-$50K This Cycle

Lee's targets are striking mainly because they sit so far from where traders are pricing the odds, with prediction markets assigning only a 4% chance to ETH reaching $5,000 by end-2026. That gap is the real story: it frames the debate as one between a structural breakout thesis built on years of range-bound trading and a market that is not yet positioned for it. The open question is whether that divergence narrows through price or through expectations, and whether bitcoin's move above $100,000, which Lee ties to a higher ETH path, actually materializes.