Application of CNN-BiLSTM Algorithm for Ethereum Price Prediction

The volatile and dynamic Ethereum (ETH) market demands an accurate predictive model to support investment decision making. The complexity of ETH time series data and the influence of various external factors make price prediction a challenge in itself. This study aims to develop an ETH price prediction model using a combined architecture of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and also Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM). CNN is used to extract local features from historical ETH closing price data, while BiLSTM models bidirectional temporal patterns. The dataset used includes ETH daily price from January 2020 to January 2025, which are obtained from Yahoo Finance and have gone through a normalization process and transformation into sequential form. The model is trained for 100 epochs with an early stopping mechanism to prevent overfitting and evaluated using the MAPE and coefficient of determination (R²) metrics. The evaluation results show that the CNN-BiLSTM model is able to predict ETH prices with a MAPE value of 2.8546% and an R² of 0.9415, indicating high performance in capturing actual data trends. This study shows that the hybrid CNN-BiLSTM approach is effective for Ethereum price prediction.