PANews reported on December 27 that, according to Cointelegraph, Tom Lee stated on the "Power Lunch" program that as Wall Street accelerates the tokenization of assets and puts financial activities on-chain, the price of Ethereum could climb to $7,000 to $9,000 by early 2026.

Tom Lee points out that as Wall Street experiments with on-chain settlement and tokenized securities, Ethereum's investment value is increasingly linked to its use as financial infrastructure. Lee cites the initiatives of Robinhood and BlackRock. He states that this shift can improve the efficiency of traditional finance while laying the foundation for the practical application of Ethereum. Lee adds that as Ethereum gains wider adoption, its price could eventually reach $20,000.