Bitwise representatives often comment on what is happening in the world of crypto. For example, in October 2024, the company’s investment director Matt Hogan listed the conditions for the growth of Bitcoin to the level of 200 thousand dollars. According to him, the cryptocurrency should turn into a more mature asset and become more popular against the backdrop of gold with a capitalisation of $18 trillion.

The coin industry should also continue to be perceived by investors as a hedge against the actions of the authorities, which regularly lead to the depreciation of local fiat currencies.

Bitcoin’s potential

A little earlier, Hogan warned of Etherium’s ability to surprise crypto investors. Still, ETH at the current stage of growth turned out to be less profitable against other large capitalisation coins. In this regard, the project has faced criticism from crypto enthusiasts due to the lack of a clear narrative for growth.

Now, the fund’s representatives have published a detailed market forecast for 2025. And although they emphasise that the document can not be considered a financial recommendation, the point of view of analysts of such a level can not help but arouse interest.

What will be the rate of Bitcoin in 2025

Bitwise experts announced ten predictions for the crypto market for the next year, along with one bonus prediction. The first of them touches on the most popular topic – namely the rates of popular cryptocurrencies.

According to the experts’ version, Bitcoin will set a new all-time high of $200,000 in 2025. The peak for Etherium will be the mark of 7 thousand dollars, while Solana will rise in price to 750 dollars.

What is the rationale for the possible growth of BTC to the above mark? In general, everything is tied to the popularity of spot ETFs based on the cryptocurrency and the impact of the halving that took place in April. Here’s a quote on that.

Record investments in Bitcoin ETFs in 2024 have taken the cryptocurrency to new all-time highs. It looks like this is just the beginning. Combine this demand with a reduction in supply due to halving in April 2024, as well as new purchases by corporations and governments, and… we’ve seen this scenario before. Note: if the US government implements plans to create a strategic reserve of one million BTC, the 200k price will easily turn into 500k or even more.

Bitwise analysts admit that Etherium has not proved to be the most popular tool for investors: still, the ETH cryptocurrency only gave out 75 per cent growth in 2024.

Investment director of the Bitwise platform Matt Hogan

Next year, however, experts expect a shift in the perception of cryptocurrency. The reason for this will be the popularity of second-tier networks like Base and Starknet. Well, spot ETFs will attract billions of dollars in net inflows.

Another catalyst? The massive growth of stablecoins and tokenised projects based on Efirium.

Solana was described by Bitwise experts as “the phoenix that rose from the ashes of the coin market collapse in 2022.” SOL’s growth in 2024 was mainly triggered by the popularity of meme tokens based on this network.

According to analysts, Solana’s development is just beginning. Here’s their quote.

The catalyst for Solana’s growth in 2025 will be “serious” projects moving into this blockchain to complement its dominance in the memcoin sphere. We are already seeing early examples along the lines of the Render project transition. We expect this trend to only gain momentum in the next year.

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Cryptocurrency investors during the bullrun

Some of the positive factors for the crypto’s development included investments by institutional players, coin purchases by corporations, the possible creation of a national Bitcoin reserve by the US authorities, a decrease in new BTC supply due to the recent halving, scaling of second-tier networks, improving macroeconomics and an increase in the target investment in crypto by companies from 1 per cent to 3 per cent.

The cons could be disappointment due to congressional regulation of coins, coin sales by governments, a major meme token crash and subdued base interest rate cuts.

Cryptocurrency predictions in 2025

And here are the rest of the industry predictions for next year:

• Bitcoin ETFs will attract more capital inflows in 2025 than in 2024.
• Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will overtake Charles Schwab as the most valuable brokerage firm, and its shares will surpass the $700 level.
• 2025 will be the year of cryptocurrency IPOs. At least five blockchain “unicorns” will go public in the US.
• Meme tokens launched by AI agents will boost the popularity of memes to unprecedented heights.
• The number of countries that store BTC will double.
• Coinbase will enter the S&P500 index and MicroStrategy will be in the Nasdaq-100.
• The US Department of Labour will soften its attitude towards crypto, causing billions of dollars to flow into cryptocurrencies through pension plans.
• Stablecoin capitalisation will rise to $400 billion. This will happen on the back of the US adopting a legal framework for such tokens.
• The value of real-world tokenised assets (RWAs) will surpass the $50 billion mark as Wall Street improves its treatment of the coins.
• Bonus prediction: by 2029, Bitcoin will surpass gold in market capitalisation and trade at a million dollars per BTC.

Now such predictions may seem unrealistic. However, as the bullish trend of 2021 and 2017 shows, the crypto’s growth during periods of so-called euphoria turns out to be unpredictable and unexpected.

The growth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

In addition, it is important to consider that Bitwise is one of the most popular investment funds in the world. Therefore, the point of view of the company’s analysts is definitely worth listening to.

There is more interesting stuff in our crypto chat. We look forward to seeing you there today!

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