- Ethereum’s growth is being compared to early Amazon and Microsoft, highlighting its long-term potential.
- Despite a challenging market, experts believe Ethereum’s role in DeFi and tokenization will drive future dominance.
The market position of Ethereum has prompted comparisons from analysts in the industry, with DeFi Dad likening its trajectory to those of technology giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla.
He felt that Ethereum is generally overpriced as a value stock when, actually, its fundamentals and innovation are similar to those of high growth companies.
It’s a huge mistake I see many investors make, pricing ETH like a value stock against a long list of L1s who enjoy hyper-speculative growth valuations.
If you’re gonna price every other L1 like a growth stock, don’t be dumb and apply the same fair shake to valuing ETH, even… https://t.co/tZz2D7JOts
— DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth (@DeFi_Dad) March 17, 2025
Ignas further added that Ethereum is the only layer-1 blockchain valued on fundamentals, in contrast to speculative assets like XRP.
DeFi Dad emphasized Ethereum’s security-first approach, which has made it the institutionally favored choice. He said that BlackRock and other large institutions were not going to be tokenizing assets on an unreliable blockchain.
Ignas went on to say that Ethereum’s success relies on the widespread adoption of layer-2 solutions, which could drive a future spike in price.
In the meantime, ZyFi founder Gauthier stated that Ethereum’s achievements remain largely unknown to the masses. Ethereum has settled trillions of dollars in transactions, has surpassed Bitcoin in network activity, and is the backbone of DeFi, NFTs, and tokenization, he stated.
.@ethereumfndn and Ethereum is winning, but the world doesn’t know it.
Yesterday, a friend asked me, “Why should I buy Ethereum?” And I realized, he had no idea what Ethereum had accomplished and what it does.
– He didn’t know it had settled trillions in transactions. (more…
— Gauthier
(∎, ∆) (@goatv_bk) March 15, 2025
Gauthier called for wider media attention, urging Ethereum leaders to get it featured on mainstream media channels like CNBC, Bloomberg, and TED Talks.
Strategic Importance of Ethereum for the U.S.
Some industry figures argue that Ethereum should play a central role in the U.S. digital asset strategy. Ethereum supporter Adriano Feria outlined why America needs to have a strategic crypto reserve denominated in Ethereum.
He felt that Ethereum symbolizes free markets, capitalism, and economic independence and is, as such, a natural fit for American economic interests.
Feria also referred to Ethereum’s dynamic issuance mechanism, where subsidies adjust depending on network fees to provide security, something that Bitcoin cannot do because it has a fixed issuance schedule.
Feria pointed out that Ethereum holds the majority of tokenized real-world assets and USD stablecoins, which further solidifies dollar dominance. He also pointed out Ethereum’s staking, which provides on-chain yields and has the potential to generate passive income for the United States government.

Companies like Coinbase, Kraken, Sony, and Deutsche Bank already have projects in development on Ethereum’s layer-2 platform, proving its long-term viability.
Secondly, Feria highlighted the fact that Ethereum’s validators’ distribution is more decentralized compared to Bitcoin’s mining pools, reducing centralization threats.
He believed that an Ethereum strategic reserve is essential to maintaining the United States’ dominance of digital finance and technology.
ETH Struggles to Break $4,000 Resistance
Despite having strong fundamentals, ETH’s trading action has been tested severely. ETH is currently trading at $1,891.23, which is 52% off its December 2024 high of $4,107.
Since the start of 2025, ETH has shed 42%, which has made investors concerned about its future short-term direction.
Technical analysis is bearish, with the price not being able to breach the $4,000 level of resistance on several occasions. ETH is trading below key levels of support, increasing the possibility of a decline to $1,060 in the event of a continuation of the bear trend.

Some analysts foresee ETH to reach $2,500 again and attempt a second push to breach $4,000, but the short-term prospects remain ambiguous.
A Standard Chartered report recently dampened expectations further, lowering its year-end ETH price prediction to $4,000 from $10,000. The report cited reasons from falling transaction fees to increased net issuance and the advent of layer-2 solutions as the reasons behind ETH’s structural downturn.
Particularly, Base, a layer-2 solution constructed to make Ethereum scalable, has been reported to have drained $50 billion of ETH’s market capitalization by diverting fee revenue to Coinbase.
Despite these near-term challenges, long-term holders still consider ETH a foundational asset in the digital economy.