This week began with a promising rebound in the cryptocurrency market following a $19 billion market crash earlier in the month, as demand for digital assets began to rise with a potential end to the tariff wars in sight.
Cryptocurrency investors’ attention has largely focused on US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, aimed at securing a trade deal to avoid new import tariffs.
However, the positive momentum took a sharp turn on Wednesday, when exchange-traded funds (ETFs) traded bitcoin. Recorded $470 million in outflows Although the US Federal Reserve The decision to lower interest rates By 25 basis points.
Concerning investors, the tariff meeting between the two presidents ended on Thursday without any significant announcements related to import tariffs, creating further uncertainty for the global and digital asset markets.
Saylor says Bitcoin could rise to $150,000 by the end of 2025
Michael Saylor, co-founder of MicroStrategy, the largest Bitcoin cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) Treasury Company, in terms of holdings, expects Bitcoin to reach $150,000 by the end of 2025.
“I think those 12 months were probably the best 12 months in the history of the industry,” Saylor said He said CNBC at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
Saylor cited the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Embrace token securitiesUS Treasury Secretary Scott Besent supports Stablecoins to protect dollar dominance and the general regulatory pivot in the US as reasons to remain bullish. He said:
“Our forecast now is that by the end of the year, the amount should reach around $150,000, and that is the consensus of equity analysts covering our company and the Bitcoin industry.”
These expectations came amid a decline in crypto asset prices, following the market collapse sparked by US President Donald Trump. Announcing an additional 100% customs duty on ChinaWhich raised investors’ fears of macroeconomic instability.
Standard Chartered predicts $2 trillion in tokenized tradable assets by 2028, on par with stablecoins
Real-world token assets (RWAs) could reach a cumulative value of $2 trillion in the next three years as more capital and global payments migrate to efficient blockchain paths, according to investment bank Standard Chartered.
The “trustless” structure of decentralized finance (DeFi) is poised to challenge the dominance of traditional financial systems (TradFi) controlled by centralized entities, the bank said in a report released Thursday that was shared with Cointelegraph.
The investment bank predicted that the increasing use of DeFi in payments and investments could boost NFT token RWAs to a market value of $2 trillion by 2028.
Of the $2 trillion, $750 billion was expected to flow into money market funds, another $750 billion into token US stocks, $250 billion into token US funds, and another $250 billion into “less liquid” sectors of private equity, including commodities, corporate debt and token real estate.
“Stablecoin liquidity and DeFi decentralized banking are important prerequisites for the rapid expansion of token RWAs,” said Jeff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered Bank, adding:
“We expect tremendous growth in RWAs in the coming years.”
Reaching a market capitalization of $2 trillion would mean more than 57 times growth in risk-weighted assets in the next three years from their current cumulative value of $35 billion, according to Data From RWA.xyz.
“No BlackRock, No Party” for Bitcoin and Altcoin ETF Investments: K33 Research
The long-awaited approval of altcoin ETFs may not bring the massive inflows investors expect without the participation of asset management giant BlackRock, according to market data.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF received $28.1 billion in investments in 2025, as the only fund with positive year-to-date flows, pushing total spot Bitcoin ETF flows to a total of $26.9 billion.
Without BlackRock’s fund, Bitcoin ETFs have recorded cumulative net outflows of $1.27 billion year-to-date, According to to K33’s head of research, Vitel Lundy.
Inflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs have been the main driver of the Bitcoin price Momentum in 2025Jeff Kendrick, global head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, recently told Cointelegraph.
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with $13.5 trillion in assets under management as of the third quarter of 2019. 2025.
Solana ETFs May Attract $6 Billion in First Year as SOL Joins ‘Big League’
Investors are closely watching the launch of Solana’s first ETF, a move expected to pump billions of dollars into Solana and the broader altcoin market.
at least Three altcoin ETFs Expected to launch later Tuesday: Bitwise’s Solana (Sol(ETF and Litecoin from Canaries)ltc) and Hadera (HBAR) ETFs, according to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas.
The SEC’s approval of Solana’s first ETF was a “transformational” milestone that could attract $3 billion to $6 billion of new capital into the altcoin within the first year, according to Ryan Lee, senior analyst at Bitgate Exchange.
“Solana can now attract between $3 billion and $6 billion in its first year.”
The analyst added that the ETF’s new staking feature offers an additional 5% passive income to holders, a dynamic that may bring more institutional capital into the broader altcoin sector beyond ETFs.
Staking It means locking your tokens in a proof-of-stake blockchain network for a pre-determined period to secure the network and earn passive income in return.
New cryptocurrency-based ETFs may push underlying altcoins to all-time highs. For Bitcoin, ETFs accounted for approx 75% of new investments When Bitcoin reclaimed the $50,000 mark on February 15, less than a month after Bitcoin ETFs debuted on January 11.
The DYdX community will vote on a proposal to pay $462,000 in compensation after the outage
Decentralized exchange dYdX has issued a post-mortem and community update detailing plans to compensate traders affected by a chain downtime that temporarily halted operations for approximately eight hours during last month’s market crash.
Exchange He said On Monday, the management community will vote on whether to compensate affected traders with up to $462,000 from the protocol’s insurance fund.
DYdX wrote that the October 10 outage arose “from a faulty code operation, and its duration was exacerbated by a delay in validators restarting Oracle sidecar services.” According to DEX, when the chain resumed, “the matching engine processed trades/liquidations at incorrect prices due to outdated oracle data.”
DYdX said no user funds were lost on-chain, but some traders suffered liquidation-related losses during the downtime.
The dYdX management community will vote to determine whether affected traders should be compensated with funds derived from protocol insurance. finance.
DeFi Market Overview
According to data from Cointelegraph Pro Markets And TradingView, most of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market cap ended the week in the red.
Plasma Token (XPL) fell more than 18% to record the biggest decline of the week within the top 100 coins, followed by DoubleZero (2Z), down more than 17% over the past week.
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