Why Ethereum Has Soared Over the Past 7 Days: Bernstein

EthereumLast week, a dramatic increase was derived from the increasing embrace of the usefulness of digital assets as more than the value of the value and increased institutional and retail acceptance of Blockchain and the payment of Stablecoin, according to Bernstein research analysts on Wednesday.

Analysts have noticed the growing acceptance of stable cross-border payments, the potential of brokerage houses, such as Robinhood, to offer tokenized shares on their own blockchains-built on Ethereum-i variable perception among investors about the token in the midst of a recent Cripto market.

“As the narrative moves in favor of the institutional adoption of blockchain and stabiblotic payments, except for the simple storage of value, it may be difficult to justify the ETH as a relative weaker teacher,” read Gautam Chhugani, Mahika Paper and Sanskar Chindalia.

Ethereum was Recent trading Just below $ 2,600, 42% gain in the last seven days that far outweighed Bitcoin and other main Altcoine – part of the wider crypto market. Bitcoin rose about 6% in the same period while Saltworks has jumped 21%. Ethereum started pointing the last next Thursday flawlessly Pectra An upgrade that should help deal with criticism on the speed and efficiency of blockchain.

The second largest cryptocurrency per market capitalization hovered between $ 1,500 and $ 1,700 most of 2025. More cryptocurrency of the American political environment has led to an increase in interest in digital assets, including Stablecoins, with federal legislators Now discussing the account that would regulate them.

Strip payment service provider recently debuted business customers with headquarters in Stablecoin and ended in February, the acquisition of Stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, while the Meta Social Media platform launched its own stablecoin venture, Bernstein analysts noted.

“Stablecoini return focus on basic blockchain networks become Platform Proxy for exposure to growth trend, “said the note, adding that the Ethereum has a dominant proportion of 51% in the kovan stabiblecoin supply.

Stabibeline Are digital tokens that are related to non-solid assets-the dollar dollars-who can use traders to perform a crypto transaction without the use of traditional banking rails.

The report was highlighted by Robinhood Buying a $ 179 million Crypto Exchange Wonderfi, which manages his own layer-2 net on Ethereum.

“Brokers like Robinhood could potentially offer tokenized shares on their own blockchain, built on layer 2 Ethereum. The medicines of 2 chains use ETH for gas fees as a fundamental currency, helping to distribute and demand for ETH,” Bernstein said.

“Layer 2 chains such as the base also pays gas fees in the ETH ETHEREUM Layer 1 basic network because they use it for security and settlement. This could become a template for property managers and institutional users who launch their own layer 2 chains on Ethereum.”

Bernstein noted that the rally ETH and non-Bitcoin assets would help crypts with exchanges and broker’s deputies, “as a wider set of crypto markets strengthens retail traders, which launched strong quantities of trading.”

“After the tariff has affected April, we expect that a stronger month may be for the retail quantities of crypto trading. Both coins and hoods should be users,” analysts wrote.

This optimistic tone led to the remarks of Carlos Guzman, analyst of research in Crypto Market Maker GSR, who said Decipher On Tuesday, although the data is yet to reflect the influence of tariffs, with the recent “optimism of starting risk assets, ETH is still surpassing given the constant shift in the feeling around it.”

Edited James Rubin