This week began with a promising cryptocurrency market recovery after a $19 billion market crash earlier in the month, as demand for digital assets began to rise with a potential end to tariff wars on the horizon.
Crypto investor attention is largely focused on President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, which aims to secure a trade deal to avoid new import tariffs.
However, the positive momentum took a sharp turn on Wednesday, when Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) It posted $470 million in outflows Despite the US Federal Reserve decision to cut interest rates By 25 points basis.
Investor concerns, Thursday’s tariff meeting between the two presidents ended without significant announcements related to import tariffs, resulting in more uncertainty for the global and digital asset market.
Saylor says Bitcoin could advance to $150,000 by the end of 2025
Michael Saylor, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, the largest bitcoin (BTC) Treasury Company by holdings, forecast that Bitcoin will hit $150,000 by the end of 2025.
“I think these 12 months are probably the best 12 months in the history of the industry,” Saylor said CNBC at the Money 20/20 Conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
Saylor cited the US Securities and Exchange Commission Embracing tokenized securitiesUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent endorsed StableCoins to protect the dominance of the dollar and the general regulatory pivot in the US as factors to remain bullish. He said:
“Our expectation now is that by the end of the year, it should be about $150,000, and that’s the consensus of equity analysts who cover our company and the Bitcoin industry.”
The forecast comes amid depressed crypto asset prices, following a market crash fueled by US president Donald Trump Announcing 100% additional tariffs on ChinaThe sparking investors are afraid of macroeconomic instability.
Standard Chartered sees $2 trillion in tokenized RWAS by 2028, matching stablecoins
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAS) could reach a cumulative value of $2 trillion over the next three years as more global capital and payments move on the efficient rails of blockchain, according to investment standard Chartered.
The bank said in a Thursday report shared with Cointelegraph that the “trustless” structure of decentralized finance (Defi) is being challenged to challenge the dominance of traditional financial systems (tradfi) controlled by centralized entities.
The growing use of Defi in payments and investments could boost non-StableCoin tokenized RWAs to a $2 trillion market capitalization by 2028, the investment bank predicted.
Of the $2 trillion, $750 billion is expected to flow into money-market funds, another $750 billion into tokenized US stocks, $250 billion into tokenized US funds, and another $250 billion into “less liquid” private equity segments, including commodities, corporate debt and tokenized real estate.
“StableCoin Liquidity and Defi Banking are essential pre-requisites for a rapid expansion of tokenised RWAs,” said Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, adding:
“We look forward to exponential growth in RWAS in the coming years.”
Reaching a $2 trillion market capitalization implies more than 57-fold growth for RWAs over the next three years from their current $35 billion aggregate value, according to Data from rwa.xyz.
“No Blackrock, No Party” for Bitcoin, Altcoin ETF Investments: K33 Research
The long-awaited approval of Altcoin ETFs may not bring a massive influx of investors without participation from 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 inflows, pushing the total area Bitcoin ETF flows to a cumulative $26.9 billion.
Without BlackRock funding, the spot Bitcoin ETF recorded a cumulative net inflow of $1.27 billion year-to-date, according With the head of K33 research, Vetle Lunde.
Inflows from the bitcoin ETF areas are the main driver of the bitcoin price Momentum to 2025Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, told Cointelegraph recently.
BlackRock is the largest asset management firm in the world, with $13.5 trillion in assets under management as of the third quarter of 2025.
Solana ETF could attract $6 billion in first year as Sol joins “Big League”
Investors are closely watching the launch of the first Solana Staking ETF, a move expected to inject billions of dollars into Solana and the broader Altcoin market.
Somehow Three Altcoin ETFs is expected to launch later on Tuesday: Bitwise’s Solana (Sol) ETF and Canary’s Litecoin (LTC) and Hedera (Hbar) ETF, according to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas.
The SEC’s approval of the first Solana Staking ETF is a “transformational” milestone that could attract an additional $3 billion to $6 billion worth of new capital to the altcoin within the first year, according to Bitget Exchange’s chief analyst, Ryan Lee.
“Solana could now attract between $3-$6 billion in its first year.”
The ETF’s new staking feature introduces an additional 5% passive income for its holders, an innovation that could bring more institutional capital to the broader altcoin sector beyond just ETFs, the analyst added.
Staking It means locking your tokens in a proof-of-stake blockchain network for a predetermined period to secure the network and earn passive income in return.
New crypto-based ETFs could push the underlying altcoins to all-time highs. For Bitcoin, ETFs are worth about 75% of new investment When Bitcoin hit the $50,000 mark on Feb.
DYDX community to vote on $462,000 payment proposal following outage
Decentralized exchange DYDX has released a post-mortem and community update detailing plans to compensate traders affected by a chain that halted operations for nearly eight hours in last month’s market crash.
The exchange said on Monday its management community will vote to compensate the affected entrepreneurs with $ 462,000 from the protocol’s insurance fund.
Dydx wrote that the October 10 outage stemmed “from a process error, and its duration was compounded by delays in validators restarting their Oracle Sidecar services.” According to DEX, when the chain resumed, “The matching engine processed trades/liquidations at incorrect prices due to stale oracle data.”
Dydx said no user funds were lost onchain, but some traders suffered liquidation-related losses during the outage.
The DYDX management community voted to decide whether the affected traders should be compensated with funds drawn from the protocol’s insurance funds.
Defi Market Overview
According to data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and Tradingview, most of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization ended the week in the red.
The plasma token (XPL) fell 18% marking the biggest drop of the week in the top 100, followed by Doublezero (2Z), down more than 17% in the previous week.
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