Ethereum $10,000? Tom Lee's Call vs the $103M ETF Exodus
Tom Lee Just Called Ethereum $10,000 in 12 Months — But the ETF Money Is Running the Other Way Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan As the chief editor of ethdan.me, I have seen a lot of price predictions fly across my desk. Most of them are noise — anonymous accounts on social media throwing out seven-figure Bitcoin targets like confetti. But every now and then, a serious voice with a serious track record says something so bold that the whole market has to stop and do the math. On October 19, 2026, Fundstrat's Tom Lee did exactly that: he told CoinDesk that Ethereum could trade much higher than $10,000 within twelve months . Now, here is the part that makes this story worth telling: while Lee was making the most aggressive institutional Ethereum call of the year, the actual money was moving in the opposite direction. On Monday, October 20, spot Ethereum ETFs posted their fourth straight day of outflows — roughly $103 million in a single session, on top of abou...