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Friday 12 December 2025, global investment giant AllianceBernstein is not exactly being shy about its outlook, the firm still thinks Bitcoin (BTC) is on track for a $1 million price tag, and maybe faster than most people are ready to believe.
In its newest outlook, Bernstein puts BTC at $150,000 as soon as 2026, even though the wider market recently dragged the price down to $84,000 after hitting an all-time high of $126,000. And the project many investors now think could help push Bitcoin toward those targets is Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER).
Billed as the fastest Bitcoin Layer 2 in development, Bitcoin Hyper is trying to pull off something no other network has managed yet, letting Bitcoin flow through applications at close to Solana-like speed while still using Bitcoin’s base layer for final settlement and security.
For a lot of people watching the space, this feels like the missing piece that could push BTC toward the valuations Bernstein is calling for. If Bitcoin suddenly unlocks real transactional speed and a much bigger layer of economic activity, the demand side of the equation can shift up very quickly.
Investors do not seem keen on waiting to see how it all plays out either. HYPER, the token used to power the whole ecosystem, has already attracted $29.27 million in presale funds, with buyers treating the current price as a possible bargain compared to what they expect when it eventually lists on big exchanges.
Right now HYPER is trading at $0.013405 in the presale, but that price only holds for the next 39 hours before the sale moves into the next round at a higher level.
Bitcoin’s Settlement Layer Is Not Broken, The Missing Piece Is An Execution Layer
Bernstein says Bitcoin's 4-year cycle is dead
The firm also released new price targets:
$150K in 2026, $200K in 2027, $1M by 2033
The thesis is simple: sticky institutional buying created a structural bid that broke the cycle
ETF outflows stayed below 5% during the 30%… pic.twitter.com/yuwlNG5JlR
— Lark Davis (@TheCryptoLark) December 9, 2025
Bernstein is projecting Bitcoin at $150,000 in 2026, then $200,000 in 2027, and eventually at $1 million by 2033. From today’s level around $92,000, that would mean roughly a 63% move higher next year, another 33.3% into 2027, and about a 34.9% yearly return over the next eight years to get to the seven figure mark.
After the latest pullback in price, those kinds of targets can easily feel like they are drifting further away. But a big part of that feeling comes from the fact that Bitcoin, in its current form, is still heavily constrained. For years, a lot of people have treated BTC like a tooth under a pillow, something you stash away and just hope it magically becomes worth a lot more later on.
Basically, Bitcoin is mostly being held and barely being used. And even if the original whitepaper framed it as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, the slow throughput and extremely decentralized, security-first design mean the base chain works much better as a settlement network than a high speed day to day currency.
The problem is that even the best settlement layer in the world has only so much economic impact if the activity it settles is crawling along at a very slow pace.
This is exactly the problem Bitcoin Hyper is trying to solve. By running a high-throughput Layer 2 directly on top of Bitcoin, it keeps everything that gives BTC its value, decentralization, security, immutability, but adds a layer where Bitcoin can finally move and circulate at speeds and costs comparable with today’s leading smart contract chains.
The goal is to handle thousands of transactions per second on the Layer 2, with all of those eventually settling back onto Bitcoin’s base layer.
The Execution Layer
The core mission behind Bitcoin Hyper is to help Bitcoin behave like real money in daily use, not just a long-term store of value sitting in cold storage. It does this by leaving Bitcoin’s main chain in the role it does best, the settlement layer where all final confirmations live. On top of that, Bitcoin Hyper adds a high speed execution layer that lets BTC move and transact in ways the base layer alone could never realistically support.
This execution layer is fully programmable and built around the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), which is often talked about as one of the fastest execution environments in crypto. That means developers can roll out applications that feel like Solana dApps, ultra fast, cheap to use, and capable of powering everything from DeFi and trading platforms to games and real world use cases.
The key connection between Bitcoin and this high speed environment is Bitcoin Hyper’s canonical bridge.
The way it works is simple in concept, real BTC is locked on the Bitcoin base chain, and a matching wrapped version is created inside the Bitcoin Hyper ecosystem. That wrapped BTC is compatible with the SVM environment, so it can move around freely inside Bitcoin Hyper apps and act as the currency actually driving those products.
For the first time in Bitcoin’s 16 year story, this setup would let the orange coin properly circulate. Not just once every ten minutes on the base network, but thousands of times per second across applications that treat BTC as the main medium of exchange.
That is the main reason early investors are positioning themselves for what they see as a new wave of utility by picking up HYPER in the presale. All of those BTC transactions need something to actually run them, and HYPER steps into that role as the gas token. It is the second half of a dual engine system where BTC is the money and HYPER is the fuel that makes the whole engine actually move.
Here’s How to Buy HYPER
With the presale total now above $29.2 million, a lot of investors think Bitcoin Hyper is getting close to its final stages, which would mean the opportunity to grab HYPER at presale prices might not last too much longer. For now there is still a window for early buyers to secure tokens before launch and before the project enters open market price discovery.
To take part, you head over to the official Bitcoin Hyper website and buy HYPER using SOL, ETH, USDT, USDC, BNB, or even a standard credit card.
For smoother handling of everything, Bitcoin Hyper recommends Best Wallet, which is considered one of the leading crypto and Bitcoin wallets and already shows HYPER inside its Upcoming Tokens section, so users can buy, monitor, and later claim their tokens once HYPER goes live.
Investors can also stay plugged in through Bitcoin Hyper’s official Telegram and X channels, where the team posts the latest updates and key announcements.
Full details are available directly on the project’s website.
