With Bitcoin’s consolidating in 2024 it seems clear that a big move is brewing in 2025. The secular uptrend in crypto is confirmed for as long as Bitcoin’s secular trendline holds. The long term BTC chart bodes well for crypto in 2025, here is our crypto 2025 outlook.
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Note that crypto markets are highly bi-furcated since 2022. We accurately forecasted back in January and October of 2023 that bi-furcation would continue to be a dominant dynamic in crypto markets.
Our crypto outlook for 2025 is based on a continuation of bi-furcated market dynamics. This will create a lot of confusion among market participants as it won’t feel like a real bull market even though BTC is likely to surpass $100k in 2025.
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With this forecast in mind and the expectation for a bi-furcated dominant market dynamic, we look at 5 leading cryptocurrencies to understand what may be in store for 2025.
Bitcoin in 2025 – leading indicator in an uptrend
Bitcoin remains the leading indicator for crypto markets.
However, BTC is very useful in a regular market. With an expected BTC uptrend in a bi-furcated market, it will become increasingly complex, over time, to understand the implication of Bitcoin’s trend on individual altcoins.
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As explained in our Bitcoin price prediction 2025, we are very bullish on BTC. Take-aways:
- A group of crypto experts have their BTC forecasts set above $100k as reasonable BTC price targets in 2025.
- Our own research suggests that BTC may rise to $120k in 2025.
BTC should respect its secular uptrend – that’s the only pre-requisite.
Ethereum in 2025 – relative weakness to turn around?
Mindful of bi-furcation it will be tough to understand what ETH will do in 2025.
One thing that truly stands out in 2024 is relative weakness of ETH when priced in BTC.
In other words, with every ‘dump’ in the price of BTC there is much larger decline in the price of ETH with a softer subsequent recovery in ETH.
While we believe that ETH will ultimately catch up again, consistent with our Ethereum price prediction 2025 in which we expect that ETH may set new ATH, there is a very important condition to be met here:
ETH must absolutely recover soon – when priced in BTC the price of ETHBTC must move back up above 0.05 for ETH to develop a bullish trend in 2025.
The next chart may be read in two ways:
- On the one hand, ETHBTC fell to an obvious point of support. It was an accident waiting to happen to see lower lows.
- On the other hand, ETHBTC below the 50% Fibonacci retracement (purple line) is concerning until it reclaims that level.
The most obvious outcome is that ETH will pick up again once BTC starts developing a bullish trend. So, while we are concerned about ETH relative to BTC in 2024, we believe that ETH should ultimately do well in 2025 (invalidation criteria mentioned above apply).
Solana in 2025 – a bullish cup and handle?
Solana, briefly the 4th largest token in terms of market cap in 2024, now back at the 5th place, was the star of the year. Will 2025 be as strong as 2024?
The answer is YES and NO:
- Yes – SOL is expected to do well – the predicted pattern as explained in our Solana price prediction 2025 is a bullish cup and handle. Pre-requisite: SOL must respect its rising trendline (see below chart).
- No – it is not reasonable to expect SOL to do another 10x in 2025.
We believe that SOL may benefit from an uptrend in BTC. We believe even more that Solana’s ecosystem will have 10-baggers in 2025, a forecast that is the basis for our hunt for 10-baggers (receive our premium crypto alerts and join us on our journey to find the next multi-baggers in Solana’s ecosystem).
XRP in 2025 – fireworks on the horizon?
XRP could be the ‘next Solana’ is what we wrote recently. Our thoughts from this article:
We observe several parallels between Solana’s situation in mid-2023 and XRP’s current standing in mid-2024:
- Significant fundamental growth.
- A legal environment characterized by uncertainty.
- Similarities in chart patterns.
Volatility in mid-2024 is likely to present new opportunities, as it often does. Based on our analysis, XRP could very well be “the next Solana.”
As per our XRP price prediction 2025, the key chart to watch is the XRPBTC which turned upward recently amid BTC weakness. Imagine what may happen when BTC sets new ATH.
Memes in 2025 – wait till the end of the next bull run
Last but not least, all is well in the world of memes except for the fact that prices are falling.
That’s how it should – memes tend to stage bullish momentum towards the end of a bull run.
With this in mind, we look at SHIB, one of the leading meme coins. Our Shiba Inu Coin price prediction 2025 is for a giant W-reversal to complete in 2025 and resolve higher. Invalidation: a drop below $0.000006 (which is highly unlikely but never say ‘never‘ in markets).
Shiba Inu Coin has a phenomenal following. With this long term bullish reversal in the cards (not confirmed yet) we may see fireworks in SHIB in 2025 provided Fibonacci levels hold and the $0.0000234 level is broken to the upside.
Crypto in 2025 – expect another bi-furcated bull run
The conclusions from our crypto 2025 outlook:
- Expect highly bi-furcated crypto markets to confuse bulls and bears alike.
- BTC should do well.
- XRP is the outlier – it might be the ‘next Solana’ (yes, 8x is possible).
- Memes will perform well towards the end of the bullish cycle.
- ETH – truly unclear.
In our crypto research service, we will be on the lookout to identify multi-baggers similar to the multi-baggers we tipped in 2023 and 2024.
