Despite the renewed weakness of the crypto market on Thursday, a new AI-driven market model developed by Sam Daodu of 24/7 Wall St. projects year-end high prices for Bitcoin (BTC), XRP, and Ethereum (ETH).
AI Model Sees Bitcoin Rising 42% By 2026
Daodu’s analysis, which used ChatGPT as a modeling engine, puts Bitcoin at the top of the three, predicting a roughly 42% gain at current levels and a year-end target near $105,000.
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The AI model identified institutional demand and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as the main drivers of its Bitcoin prediction. The model also identified a strengthened supply of BTC as a potential catalyst.
The latest halving reduced daily issuance from 900 BTC to 450 BTC, reducing the annual inflation rate to 0.83%. This week, it’s all together by buying an ETF and large owners, the purchase of institutions exceeded the release of miners, which creates an imbalance in the demand-supply model that was presented as the main reason for putting Bitcoin first.
XRP Will Reach $2 By The End Of The Year
XRP is ranked second in AI predictions, with an expected return of around 32% and a year-end price close to $2.00.
ChatGPT noted the regulatory clarifications provided by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which classify the altcoin as a commodity. This classification is expected to reduce the main barrier to institutional participation.
The AI model also interpreted XRP’s most recent price divergence above the key $1.5 level as bullish, noting that continued gains could push holders to even positions and reduce selling pressure.
However, the model highlighted an important limitation: controlled transparency has yet to translate into meaningful institutional demand for XRP, as ETF flows hit a total of $28 million last week. In short, massive institutional buying will be required for XRP to reach its predicted value by the end of the year.
ChatGPT Decent ETH Rally Predictions
Ethereum is ranked third, with a moderate forecast of almost 20% to around $2,800 by the end of the year. ChatGPT argues that, without Ethereum developer ecosystem and extensive infrastructure, the token faces the weakest near-term demand picture among the three major commodities.
The main reason is the migration of work to the 2 (L2) networks—Base, Arbitrum (ARB), and Optimism (OP) now handle the majority of user work due to lower fees.
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That change is reported to have pressured the fees on Ethereum’s base layer; Weekly payouts recently averaged around $2.3 million compared to a weekly peak near $30 million.
Since the payments are now close to zero, the burning has effectively stopped, too Supply of ETH it grows slower than it contracts. ChatGPT concluded that, until premium income rebounds or institutional flows reverse, Ethereum’s value will have to reflect on other fundamentals.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $70,600, posting a 1% loss over the last 24 hours. XRP saw a similar drop of 0.9%, but still clinging to the 6% gain recorded last week while trading at around $1.45 per token.
Surprisingly, Ethereum outperformed Bitcoin during this period as well, with gains of 4.2%. However, in the past 24 hours, the market-leading altcoin has retreated 2.3%, to around $2,148, according to CoinGecko. data.
Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
