Gemini AI sees ETH at $4,150 as Glamsterdam hard fork nears

Google Gemini AI projects Ethereum at $4,150 by late 2026, a 73 percent gain from current levels, as the Glamsterdam hard fork approaches. The AI model called the upgrade "Ethereum's most significant protocol change since The Merge," targeting a baseline of $3,800 to $4,500 for ETH by year-end.

The projection comes from Google's Gemini AI model, which analyzed the Glamsterdam upgrade's technical scope and its potential impact on Ethereum's base layer economics. The upgrade bundles three EIPs. EIP-7928 brings parallel execution, scaling throughput toward 10,000 TPS. EIP-7904 reprices gas, cutting Layer-1 fees by roughly 78.6 percent. EIP-7732 adds Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation, reducing MEV extraction by up to 70 percent.

ETH closed at $2,398.90, up 3.13 percent, after breaking out of a long base above $1,850. Support sits at $2,300, then $2,100 and $1,850; resistance at $2,450, $2,800 and $3,000. A failure to deploy on mainnet by Q4 2026 risks a breakdown below $2,100 toward $1,850.

ETH RSI at 86.13 as Price Tests $2,450 Resistance

The daily chart shows ETH breaking out of a long base. ETH peaked near $4,950 last August before a sustained decline. October and November cut the price from $4,700 toward $2,800. February brought the sharpest break, dropping ETH near $1,780. Spring recovered to $2,450 by May, before June erased it. The low arrived at around $1,480. July and August built a slow base above $1,850. The past two sessions have exploded through it, lifting ETH near $2,400.

The close reads $2,398.90, up 3.13 percent, with a daily range of $2,324.20 to $2,446.80. RSI reads 86.13 with its signal line at 59.55, a gap of more than 26 points reflecting a violent repricing. The oscillator is deeply overbought, though readings this high rarely extend without consolidation.

Gemini's mid-case of $4,150 requires a further 73 percent move from current levels. The fork itself is the event that decides whether this breakout becomes a trend. The bear case is a timing failure: further technical delays pushing protocol execution past Q4 2026 would trigger prolonged consolidation, risking a breakdown below $2,100 support toward $1,850.

The Sepolia test network is scheduled to fork on September 28, 2026 at 14:44:48 UTC, with the Hoodi test network following on October 26, 2026, according to the Ethereum Foundation's planning repository. The mainnet date remains unconfirmed, with the next All Core Devs call on September 3, 2026 expected to confirm the testnet schedule.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.