Ethereum Could Outperform Bitcoin as Sentiment Cools
Market intelligence firm Santiment says Ethereum may have a short-term advantage over Bitcoin, as social media sentiment around ETH remains far less heated despite its strong performance.
Over the past month, the ETH/BTC ratio has climbed nearly 33%, reflecting Ethereum’s relative strength against the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
While Bitcoin briefly surged to a record $124,128 on Thursday before slipping more than 5% to around $117,900, Ethereum came within striking distance of its own all-time high of $4,878 from 2021. The token was just 1.94% short of that milestone before pulling back to roughly $4,448.
Santiment’s analysis suggests that Bitcoin chatter online became “frothy” as it hit new highs, with posts dominated by overly bullish language. In contrast, enthusiasm for Ethereum has been more restrained, with fewer calls to “buy the dip.” Historically, such differences in sentiment have given the quieter asset more room for upside moves.
Analysts have also been growing more optimistic on Ethereum’s long-term outlook. Standard Chartered recently raised its ETH price target for 2025 to $7,500, nearly doubling its previous forecast.
Meanwhile, independent trader Yashasedu argued that if Bitcoin climbs toward $150,000 — a widely discussed target in the current bull cycle — Ethereum could surge to over $8,600, based on its typical market cap relationship to BTC in past cycles.
With institutional interest rising and stablecoin adoption accelerating under new U.S. regulations, Ethereum’s fundamentals continue to strengthen. And with sentiment still cooler than Bitcoin’s, Santiment says ETH may have the healthier path in the weeks ahead.
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
