Risk Appetite Hits All-Time High as Experts Eye $100K–$250K Bitcoin and $12K Ethereum by End of 2026!

Global risk appetite has hit a new all-time high, with the S&P 500 crossing 7,400 for the first time — adding roughly $10 trillion in market cap in just 29 days. Against that backdrop, three prominent voices are laying out aggressive crypto price targets for the remainder of 2026.

Galaxy Digital's Mike Novogratz says clearing the $83K–$84K resistance band is the key trigger, after which he sees Bitcoin running to $100K. Real estate billionaire Grant Cardone went unusually precise, calling $189,425 as his year-end Bitcoin target. Fundstrat's Tom Lee went furthest, projecting Bitcoin between $150K and $250K and Ethereum between $9K and $12K — framing the crypto winter as definitively over.

The Ethereum bull case is gaining institutional texture. VC Raman, who runs an Ethereum treasury company, argues ETH is the natural settlement layer for tokenized real-world assets: the…

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