As we head deeper into 2025, Bitcoin remains at the forefront of financial headlines. With the cryptocurrency trading near $95,000 in April, momentum continues to build as investors weigh the potential for even higher prices. Several influential voices in finance are now forecasting that Bitcoin’s price could climb significantly higher, with new predictions ranging from $120,000 to as much as $210,000 before the end of the year.
Let’s take a closer look at the three key forecasts currently shaping market expectations for Bitcoin’s price in 2025.
Standard Chartered Bitcoin Forecast
Head of digital asset analysis at multinational banking behemoth Standard Chartered, Geoff Kendrick recently changed the company’s Bitcoin projection to show a more positive attitude. Driven by a mix of macroeconomic instability, changing investor attitude, and rising institutional interest, Kendrick projects Bitcoin might hit $120,000 by the end of the second quarter of 2025.
Rising geopolitical tensions, higher tariffs, and doubts about the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve are, he thinks, lowering investor trust in conventional financial assets such as Treasury bonds. More money is therefore pouring into alternative assets such as Bitcoin, which is progressively seen as a hedge against conventional market volatility.
Kendrick also notes that regulatory clarity is a beneficial stimulus. Stablecoin laws and more flexible crypto rules passed in the United States could give institutional investors—who have been on the sidelines—a green signal. Future SEC filings, he expects, will reveal significant asset managers and sovereign wealth funds raising their Bitcoin allocation.
The year-end estimate from Standard Chartered? If suitable market conditions exist, a strong $200,000 per Bitcoin.
Scaramucci’s Bitcoin Forecast
Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital and a long-time crypto bull, echoes similar optimism. He projects that Bitcoin could reach $200,000 by the end of 2025, and perhaps sooner if the pace of adoption accelerates.
Scaramucci attributes his bullish outlook to the 2024 halving event—which cut the supply of new Bitcoin in half—and the increasing acceptance of Bitcoin as a mainstream investment vehicle. He argues that the halving, combined with a surge in institutional buying, is laying the groundwork for a supply-demand imbalance that will push prices dramatically higher.
He’s also advocated for the creation of a U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve, calling for bipartisan support to treat BTC as a long-term digital commodity, much like gold. While the idea is still conceptual, it reflects growing interest in the token as a national strategic asset.
SkyBridge’s crypto-focused ETF saw a 74% return in 2024, lending further credibility to Scaramucci’s investment thesis. With institutional flows accelerating, he sees $200,000 as a realistic—and possibly conservative—target.
Bullish Bitcoin Outlook
Not all analysts are entirely euphoric, but the outlook is still bullish. Gareth Soloway, a veteran trader and market technician, sees Bitcoin hitting somewhere between $150,000 and $200,000 before the end of 2025. While acknowledging that Bitcoin is in a strong uptrend, Soloway warns that corrections and consolidation phases are likely along the way.
He predicts short-term stabilization around the $90,000–$95,000 level before a rally toward $108,000. After that, the market could experience a temporary cooling-off period before resuming an upward trend.
Soloway also suggests that while Bitcoin Market will perform well, certain altcoins may outperform it on a percentage basis due to their smaller market caps and higher volatility. Still, Bitcoin remains the flagship cryptocurrency and is likely to benefit most from large-scale institutional inflows.
His advice to investors is to stay disciplined, watch technical indicators closely, and not be swayed by euphoria.
Factors Driving Bitcoin Growth
Driving these positive projections are several basic and technical elements:
Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Investors are reassessing the function of Bitcoin as a digital hedge against conventional markets under persistent inflation concerns, interest rate swings, and fiscal instability.
Rising participation from sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and pension money is giving Bitcoin prices long-term support and great liquidity.
Bitcoin Halving: As demand surges—usually a formula for higher prices—the 2024 halving greatly slowed the rate of new BTC issuing, therefore constraining supply.
Reducing long-standing obstacles to widespread crypto adoption by improving information from U.S. legislators and financial authorities removes
Final thoughts
Although Bitcoin is still a very erratic asset, projections for 2025 show a broad but somewhat hopeful range. One thing is evident: whether it peaks at $120,000, $150,000, or even breaches $200,000, Bitcoin is moving into an era of more institutional trust and wider market acceptance.
While market dangers should always be known to investors, the future of Bitcoin in 2025 is quite clear. Major players’ bets and the evolving infrastructure surrounding cryptocurrencies point to the next leg of Bitcoin’s journey maybe being its most transformative one.
