Crypto News: Pepeto (PEPETO) Nears 50,000 Holders as Ethereum Price Eyes $10,000 and Shiba Inu's Story Repeats

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The crypto news everyone is sharing this week belongs to Pepeto (PEPETO), the DeFi project nearing 50,000 holders as its platform launch enters the final stretch. The timing could not be sharper, because the Ethereum price is outrunning Bitcoin in this recovery with $10,000 on the table, and Pepeto's early curve is drawing eyes across the market. Investors are following every stage closely as the project clears its final rounds before listing.

Ethereum Price Prediction: Why ETH Is Outrunning Bitcoin Toward $10,000

As Pepeto closes in on 50,000 holders, the question its buyers keep asking sits over the whole market: can the Ethereum price really reach $10,000? The forecasts say yes, and history explains why: whenever the market turns up, ETH runs harder than Bitcoin, and it is doing it again, the Ethereum price climbing off its June low near $1,600 through its key moving averages around $1,920 per CoinDCX. The money agrees: Ethereum ETFs pulled in $71 million in one day per KuCoin, part of a $1.1 billion week across Bitcoin and ETH funds that flipped this year's outflows. And the targets are loud: InvestingHaven expects the Ethereum price to reach the $10,000 area next bull cycle, while Standard Chartered says Ethereum beats Bitcoin through 2030 per CoinGecko.