2024 turned out to be a good period for making money on cryptocurrencies. The day before, we compiled a list of the best investments for the past year, and it turned out to be quite serious.

For example, one of the best investments in the meme token category was PEPE. The asset based on a popular frog brought its holders at least one thousand per cent of profitability.

PEPE is one of the most popular meme tokens today

Good investments among serious projects were also present. However, the market’s growth story clearly does not end here.

What to expect from 2025?

This week, betting writers at Kalshi estimate the probability of BTC and ETH growing to at least $125,000 and $5,000 respectively in 2025 at more than 60 per cent. Polymarket users, meanwhile, set the probability at 50 per cent for BTC reaching the $120,000 mark by the end of March, according to Cointelegraph.

Bitcoin’s current record price is $108,353 and Etherium’s is $4,868. However, it is important to consider that ETH set an all-time price high during the previous bullrun in 2021.

Kalshi platform users’ bets on Bitcoin’s growth prospects in 2025

Meanwhile, Polymarket users expect US regulators to approve ETFs for XRP, Solana and Litecoin by 31 July with a 75, 69 and 51 percent probability of approval respectively. The prospect of exchange-traded funds for Dogecoin being approved by that date is estimated at 22 per cent, meaning it is significantly lower.

In addition, Kalshi users expect a 59 per cent probability that US President-elect Donald Trump will create a national strategic crypto reserve during his term. Polymarket gives only a 29 per cent chance that he will do so in his first hundred days in office.

As a reminder, Polymarket and Kalshi gained a lot of popularity ahead of the US election in November. The volume of bets on the election results at one time reached the level of $4 billion.

Betting platform Polymarket users on the growth prospects of Efirium by 31 March 2025

Decentralised betting platforms work in a fairly simple way. They allow users to trade event-driven contracts, with the prices of the latter changing dynamically depending on the expected outcomes. Accordingly, the more confident users are in the outcome of a certain event, the less the bet on its realisation in case of success will allow them to earn.

What is especially important, betting platforms turned out to be more accurate than traditional polls. Still, the already mentioned Polymarket platform predicted not only Trump's victory, but also the victory of his party in the US House of Representatives and Senate. It is funny that shortly after the elections the creator of this platform was visited by the FBI, as we reported in mid-November.

But traditional futures markets are predicting more modest growth for cryptocurrencies in the first quarter of 2025. In particular, traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) expect prices around $98,000 for BTC and $3,500 for ETH by March 2025. Accordingly, according to their version, the market situation will not change much over the next few months.

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Venture funding for crypto has resembled a rollercoaster ride this year. According to Robert Le of PitchBook, a slowdown in fund inflows was noticed in the third quarter, but such could be due to the summer holidays. Here’s his quote, as cited by Blockworks.

There was a lot of momentum and positivity at the beginning of the year, and then there was a downturn in investment over the summer. I think venture capital funds that specialise solely in cryptocurrencies really slowed down the pace of investment. They haven’t really stepped up. And this also applies to owners of significant amounts of free funds.

However, after the election, their activity began to pick up again, which is not yet confirmed by complete data. However, Le believes that preliminary reports for the last quarter hint at an increase in many indicators.

Cryptocurrency buying by investors

The expert suggests that next year could be an outstanding year for venture capital activity. He predicts that the industry will see more than $18 billion in investments from major players, with inflows of more than $5 billion in some quarters.

By comparison, total investment in 2023 was about $9 billion, and for 2024, the figure will tentatively reach $11 billion. Of those amounts, Le said, each quarter accounted for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.


Overall, most cryptocurrency investors expect a positive 2025 for the industry. Their expectations are based not only on the typical length of a coin's growth cycle, but also on fundamentals. Still, next year the US will have a president who supports the cryptocurrency industry. And the key financial regulator SEC will have new adequate leadership, which is also very important for digital assets.
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