{"id":26272,"date":"2025-08-20T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=26272"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:41:14","slug":"bitwise-predicts-bitcoin-surge-to-200000-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitwise-predicts-bitcoin-surge-to-200000-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitwise Predicts Bitcoin Surge to $200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inclusion of digital assets in U.S. retirement plans could propel the price of the leading cryptocurrency to $200,000 by the end of the year, according to Andre Dragos, head of European research at Bitwise, in an interview with Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is Bitcoin Headed for a 2025 Peak? Or is the 4-Year Cycle Dead? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DckFjvkJIx\">https:\/\/t.co\/DckFjvkJIx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cointelegraph\/status\/1957446061309751428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On August 7, U.S. President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-surges-past-117000-following-trumps-executive-order-on-pension-plans\">signed an order<\/a> granting Americans access to cryptocurrencies through 401(k) retirement plans. Dragos suggests this development could have a more significant impact on Bitcoin&#8217;s price than the approval of spot ETFs.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the initiative will bring in new capital amounting to $122 billion, based on a &#8220;conservative estimate&#8221; of 1% of the total $12.2 trillion retirement savings market.<\/p>\n<p>A Bitwise survey of financial advisors revealed that most are prepared to recommend a 2.5% or 3% allocation to their clients.<\/p>\n<p>Dragos anticipates that the first inflows from pension funds could begin as early as autumn. This is likely to coincide with the expected reduction in interest rates by the <span data-descr=\"Federal Reserve System of the United States\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Fed<\/span>, providing an additional growth driver for Bitcoin. According to CME FedWatch, market participants estimate an 82.9% probability of policy easing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXe73Ryp_ddhO2OiJtXFXT5IoKT_PAnzTr58buqQORMiehHVW1fGb_3j5BeVcb71-qBKMA1AEzXmm-t8hIKsJKroOHFOPN6Yf3_2_H-j-9_lik3NdcDHwgASWEZeVV-z8Uc2BH5G?key=UB3svaelcdvSTgY9LKSvJw\" alt=\"Bitwise Predicts Bitcoin Surge to $200,000\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/markets\/interest-rates\/cme-fedwatch-tool.html\">CME FedWatch<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Major retirement plan providers BlackRock and Fidelity are also issuers of Bitcoin ETFs. According to Dragos, they have a direct economic incentive to include these products in standard client packages.<\/p>\n<p>Back on August 18, Vincent Liu, Chief Investment Officer at Kronos Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/analysts-uncover-reasons-behind-bitcoins-drop-to-115500\">identified<\/a> concerns over the Fed&#8217;s future policy as the main factor causing market correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inclusion of digital assets in U.S. retirement plans could propel the price of the leading cryptocurrency to $200,000 by the end of the year, according to Andre Dragos from Bitwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Digital assets in U.S. retirement plans could push Bitcoin to $200,000 by year-end, says Andre Dragos of Bitwise.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,949,1146,26],"class_list":["post-26272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitwise","tag-cryptocurrency-market-forecasts","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"101","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Digital assets in U.S. retirement plans could push Bitcoin to $200,000 by year-end, says Andre Dragos of Bitwise.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26274,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions\/26274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}