Latest cryptocurrency news may 2025
Our 2025 cryptocurrency forecasts are directionally bullish. In this article, we share forecasted highs and lows for +20 cryptocurrencies. These crypto predictions for 2025 focus on leading cryptocurrencies the red and the black.
Based on research and analysis, the cryptocurrency market in April 2025 presents diverse opportunities. Projects like Qubetics, Binance Coin, Sonic, Bitcoin Cash, Bittensor, Chainlink, and Monero each offer unique value propositions, catering to various aspects of the digital economy.
Monero (XMR) remains a leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, emphasizing transaction confidentiality and fungibility. The project’s commitment to privacy continues to attract users seeking enhanced anonymity in their digital transactions.
Cryptocurrency market trends 2025
More than half the top 20 publicly traded Bitcoin miners by market cap will announce transitions to or enter partnerships with hyperscalers, AI, or high-performance compute firms. Growing demands for compute deriving from AI will lead Bitcoin miners to increasingly retrofit, build, or co-locate HPC infrastructure alongside their Bitcoin mines. This will limit hashrate YoY hashrate growth, which will end 2025 at 1.1 zetahash. -Alex Thorn
Tether’s long-standing market dominance will drop below 50%, challenged by yielding alternatives like Blackrock’s BUIDL, Ethena’s USDe, and even USDC Rewards paid by Coinbase/Circle. As Tether internalizes yield revenue from USDT reserves to fund portfolio investments, marketing spend by stablecoin issuers/protocols to pass-through revenue will convert existing users away from Tether and onboard new users to their yield-bearing solutions. USDC rewards paid on users’ Coinbase Exchange and Wallet balances will be a powerful hook that will boost the entire DeFi sector and may be integrated by fintechs to enable new business models. In response, Tether will begin to pass through revenue from collateral holdings to USDT holders and may even offer a new competitive yielding product like a delta-neutral stablecoin. -Charles Yu
Onchain governance will see a resurgence, with applications experimenting with futarchic governance models. Total active voters will increase by at least 20%. Onchain governance has historically faced two problems: 1) lack of participation, and 2) lack of vote diversity with most proposals passing by landslides. Easing regulatory tension, which has been a gating factor to voting onchain, and the recent success of Polymarket suggests these two points are set to improve in 2025, however. In 2025, applications will begin turning away from traditional governance models and towards futarchic ones, improving vote diversity, and regulatory tailwinds adding a boost to governance participation. -Zack Pokorny
The election of Donald Trump has already provided a significant boost to the cryptocurrency market, with his administration appointing crypto-friendly leaders to key positions, including Vice President JD Vance, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams, and HHS Secretary RFK Jr, among others.
Total stablecoin supply will double to exceed $400bn in 2025. Stablecoins have increasingly found a product-market fit for payments, remittances, and settlement. Increasing regulatory clarity for both existing stablecoin issuers and traditional banks, trusts, and depositories will lead to an explosion of stablecoin supply in 2025. -Alex Thorn
The S.E.C. will open an investigation into Prometheum, the first so-called “special purpose broker-dealer.” The abrupt emergence of a previously unknown broker-dealer that happened to specifically agree with the totality of S.E.C. Chair Gensler’s views on the securities status of digital assets raised eyebrows in 2023, particularly when the unknown firm was granted the first of a new class of broker-dealer licenses. The CEO was berated before Congress by Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee, and according to FINRA records, Prometheum’s alternative trading system (ATS) has yet to conduct any trades. Republicans have called on the DOJ and SEC to investigate Prometheum for “ties to China,” while others have noted irregularities in their fundraising and reporting. Whether or not Prometheum is investigated, it’s likely that the special-purpose broker-dealer license is abolished in 2025. -Alex Thorn
Cryptocurrency market trends april 2025
In the US, 31% of investors who own both memecoins and traditional cryptocurrencies report that they purchased their memecoins first, followed by 30% in Australia, 28% in the UK, 23% in Singapore, 22% in Italy, and 19% in France. Globally, 94% of memecoin owners also own other types of crypto, suggesting memecoins are an onramp to broader crypto investments.
In the medium term (6-12 months), if ecosystem activity significantly increases after the upgrade (such as DeFi TVL growth, Layer 2 transaction volume doubling), ETH may start a new cycle; conversely, if competing public chains continue to squeeze market share, prices may face pressure.
As regulatory clarity emerges, issuers will need to adopt institutional-grade controls, governance structures and compliance practices. Forward-looking firms that invest now in building audit-ready infrastructure and financial transparency will be best positioned to lead in a maturing market where trust, not just technology, is the differentiator. This Act marks a major step toward mainstream adoption and federal recognition of stablecoins, while demanding the same level of transparency and safety expected of traditional financial institutions.
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