After a $ 19 billion crash in market value earlier this month, the week saw a positive recovery of the cryptocurrency market. As demand for digital currencies began to rise with the possibility that the tariff wars could be ending soon.
Investors in crypto were largely focused by US President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping’s recent meeting, which was aimed to secure a new trade agreement that avoided import tariffs.
The positive trend took a sudden turn Wednesday when Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded fund) were launched. posted $470 million in outflows US Federal Reserve despite decision to cut interest rates By 25 basis points
The tariff meeting on Thursday between two presidents was not able to make any significant announcements regarding import tariffs. This has led to more investor concern and uncertainty in the global markets as well as digital assets.
Saylor claims that Bitcoin could surge up to $150,000 before 2025
Michael Saylor was the cofounder of MicroStrategy (the largest Bitcoin exchange)BTCBy holdings, a treasury firm predicted that Bitcoin will reach $150,000 at the end of 2025.
“I think that these 12 months have probably been the best 12 months in the history of the industry,” Saylor told CNBC’s Money 20/20 Conference in Las Vegas, Monday.
Saylor quotes the US Securities and Exchange Commission embracing tokenized securitiesUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent endorsed stablecoins to protect dollar dominance He said: “The overall regulatory shift in the US is a reason to stay bullish.” He stated:
“Our expectation right now is that by the end of the year, it should be about $150,000, and that’s the consensus of the equity analysts who cover our company and the Bitcoin industry.”
This forecast was made amid the depressed prices of crypto assets, which followed a crash in markets that US President Donald Trump had sparked. announcing 100% additional tariffs on ChinaInvestors are now fearful of possible macroeconomic instability.
Standard Chartered will tokenize RWAs worth $2 trillion by 2028 to match stablecoins
Standard Chartered, an investment bank, estimates that tokenized real-world asset (RWAs), which are based on actual assets in the world today and have been digitized to create a digital representation of them over time could reach a value as high as $2 trillion within three years. This is because more capital will be moving onto blockchains for efficient payments.
Cointelegraph received the report from the bank on Thursday. “trustless” Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a new financial system, was set to take on the traditional (TradFi), centralized systems.
The investment bank said that the growing usage of DeFi in payment and investing could boost tokenized RWAs with non-stablecoins up to $2 trillion by 2028.
Out of the projected $2 trillion, $750 million was expected to be poured into money market funds. Another $750 millions into tokenized US stock, $250 in tokenized US fund, and $250 more into “less liquid” Private equity segments include commodities, corporate bonds, and tokenized real property.
“Stablecoin liquidity and DeFi banking are important pre-requisites for a rapid expansion of tokenised RWAs,” Geoff Kendrick is Standard Chartered’s head of global digital assets research.
“We expect exponential growth in RWAs in the coming years.”
According to the report, RWAs will grow by 57 times in three years. Their current cumulative value of $35 billion is expected to reach $2 trillion. data RWA.xyz
“No BlackRock, no party” For Bitcoin and altcoin ETF investment: K33 research
Market data suggests that the long-awaited approval for altcoin exchange traded funds may not result in massive flows of capital as investors expected without BlackRock.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF has received investments of $28.1 billion, making it the only ETF with a positive annual inflow. This brings total spot Bitcoin ETF investment to a combined $26.9 Billion.
BlackRock’s fund was necessary to prevent the cumulative outflows of Bitcoin spot ETFs. according Vetle Lunde, K33’s director of research.
Bitcoin’s price was primarily driven by the inflows of Bitcoin spot ETFs. momentum in 2025Geoff Kendrick is Standard Chartered’s head of global digital asset research. He spoke to Cointelegraph in a recent interview.
BlackRock was the biggest asset management company in the world, managing $13.5 trillion of assets as of third quarter. 2025.
Solana ETFs could attract $6 Billion in the first year of SOL’s membership “big league”
Investors closely monitor the launch the first Solana ETF staking, which is expected inject billions into Solana as well as the wider altcoin markets.
Minimum three altcoin ETFs Bitwise Solana was expected to debut later in the day:SOLCanary’s Litecoin ETFLTCHederaHBARBloomberg’s Eric Balchunas is an expert on ETFs.
SEC approval for the first Solana ETF was an important milestone. “transformative” According to Bitget exchange’s chief analyst Ryan Lee, this milestone may bring in an extra $3 to $6 billion of altcoin capital within the first 12 months.
“Solana could now attract between $3–$6 billion in its first year.”
This new ETF feature, “staking”, introduces a passive 5% income to its holders. The analyst believes that this dynamic may encourage more institutional money into the altcoin industry beyond ETFs.
Staking This is the process of locking tokens on a network that uses proof-ofstake for a specified period in order to earn passive income and secure it.
The new crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may push altcoins up to record highs. ETFs made up about 75% of new investment Bitcoin reached $50,000 again on the 15th of February, less than one month after BTC spot ETFs were launched on 11th January.
The DYdX community will vote on a $462,000 payout following an outage.
dYdX decentralized exchange has released a report and community update that details plans to compensate those traders impacted by a halt in the chain of operations which lasted for eight hours last month during a market crash.
It is important to exchange currencies. said The protocol’s governance group will vote Monday on whether to reimburse affected traders for up to $462,000 of its insurance fund.
DYdX stated that the October 10th outage was caused by a faulty DYdX. “from a misordered code process, and its duration was exacerbated by delays in validators restarting their oracle sidecar services.” When the DEX chain was resumed. “the matching engine processed trades/liquidations at incorrect prices due to stale oracle data.”
DYdX stated that no funds from users were lost, however some traders experienced liquidation losses due to the halt.
The dYdX Governance community will vote on whether or not to compensate affected traders with money drawn from the protocol’s insurance fund.
Overview of the DeFi Market
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro TradingView shows that most of the largest 100 cryptos by market cap ended the week on the downside.
DoubleZero 2Z token dropped over 17% in just one week, and was followed by Plasma (XPL), which fell more than 18%.
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Source: cointelegraph.com
