Despite the 30% correction from its peak since the beginning of the year, institutional giants like BlackRock maintain an optimistic macro-level outlook, citing long-term hedging characteristics against the rise in US debt and deficit. On the speculative side, predictive AI models like Grok point to a major institutional convergence that could lead to a significant multi-quarter reversal toward $200,000 by late 2026 or early 2027 once liquidity returns.