Anthony Sassano, widely recognized in the Ethereum community as an educator, angel investor and the founder of The Daily Gwei, recently presented his ambitious visions of Ethereum in 2025. As this platform nears its 10-year milestone anniversary celebrations, Sassano’s visions predict significant advancement and growth for it and its native currency ETH (Ethereum).
Looking Ahead to 2025
Sassano forecasts a remarkable milestone: Ethereum will mark its tenth year of operation and, according to Sassano’s predictions, is anticipated to see its price soar past $15,000 before year’s end. He expects this tremendous growth will be supported by increased institutional investments with net inflows exceeding $50 billion coming through Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) that invest in Ether (ETH). He also anticipates staked Ether ETFs being approved under Donald Trump as president which could further increase demand significantly.
Sassano foresees greater integration between traditional finance companies and institutions and Ethereum. He specifically notes how BlackRock, along with their partners, may launch an Ethereum layer 2 tokenized Real World Asset platform (RWA) platform, opening up institutional involvement on this blockchain technology.
Sassano also touches upon government involvement with Ethereum, forecasting that several nation-states will disclose having Ethereum assets within their treasuries as evidence of wider acceptance and recognition of Ethereum on an official level.
Technically speaking, he anticipates the launch of Pectra around March or April 2025 and Fusaka sometime thereafter as major updates that would greatly expand Ethereum’s capabilities and scalability. Furthermore, an increase of mainnet gas limit to 50 million is anticipated to improve transaction throughput and scalability substantially.
Sassano anticipates significant advances in Layer 2 (L2) advancement, such as MegaETH and Rise which would outshone current high-performance Layer 1 networks in terms of efficiency and adoption rates. He also expects significant strides forward with regards to decentralizing rollups – with Arbitrum One leading the charge toward stage 2 decentralization.
Regarding ecosystem developments, Sassano anticipates that Base, incubated within Coinbase, will emerge as an independent entity, unveiling plans for tokens and decentralization. He sees this move as strategic move granting more operational freedom while maintaining support from Coinbase. Furthermore, new based rollups should rank in the top five according to Total Value Locked (TVL), while optimistic rollups may transform into zk rollups over time.
Sassano sees infrastructure upgrades as essential, anticipating that total ETH bridged between L2s will surpass 10 million, as well as AI agents playing an influential role throughout 2025.
Sassano expressed unshakeable confidence in Ethereum’s future, asserting that its 10th year would mark its most bullish phase yet. He highlighted its potential as “the world computer” while affirming ETH as money; at the time of his forecast it was trading at $3,415.
