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This week began with a promising recovery in the cryptocurrency market after a $19 billion market crash earlier in the month, as demand for the digital asset began to rise with a potential end to the rate wars on the horizon.
Crypto investors’ attention has largely been 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 sudden turn on Wednesday, when Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $470 million in outflows despite the US Federal Reserve decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points.
Fueling investor concerns, Thursday’s tariff meeting between the two presidents ended without significant announcements regarding import tariffs, resulting in more uncertainty for global and digital asset markets.
Saylor says Bitcoin can rise to $150,000 by the end of 2025
Michael Saylor, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, the largest Bitcoin (BTC) Treasury company for holdings, predicts that Bitcoin will reach $150,000 by the end of 2025.
“I think these 12 months have probably been 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 approves stablecoins to protect the dominance of the dollar and the overall regulatory pivot in the US as reasons to be bullish. He said:
“Our expectation right now is that by the end of the year, it should be around $150,000, and that’s the consensus of equity analysts who cover our company and the Bitcoin industry.”
The forecast came amid depressed crypto asset prices, following a market crash that was ignited by US President Donald Trump. announcing 100% additional tariffs on Chinaraised investor fears of macroeconomic instability.
Standard Chartered sees $2 trillion in tokenized RWA by 2028, matching stablecoins
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) may reach a cumulative value of $2 trillion over the next three years as more global capital and payments migrate onto efficient blockchain rails, according to investment bank Standard Chartered.
The bank said in a Thursday report shared with Cointelegraph that the “trustless” structure of decentralized finance (DeFi) was poised to challenge the dominance of traditional financial systems (TradFi) controlled by centralized entities.
The growing use of DeFi in payments and investments may push tokenized non-stablecoin RWA to a market capitalization of $2 trillion by 2028, the investment bank has predicted.
Of the $2 trillion, $750 billion was projected 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” segments of private capital, including commodities, corporate debt and tokenized real estate.
“Stablecoin liquidity and DeFi banking are important prerequisites for a rapid expansion of tokenized RWAs,” said Standard Chartered’s global head of digital asset research, Geoff Kendrick, who added:
“We expect exponential growth of RWA in the coming years.”
Reaching a market capitalization of $2 trillion implies a growth of more than 57 times for RWAs 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, altcoin investment ETF: K33 Research
The expected approval of the altcoin ETF may not bring the massive inflows that investors expect without participation from the 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 total Bitcoin ETF inflows to a cumulative $26.9 billion.
Excluding the BlackRock fund, spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded a cumulative net inflow of $1.27 billion year to date, according to to K33’s head of research, Vetle Lunde.
Inflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs were the primary driver of Bitcoin’s price boost in 2025Standard Chartered’s global head of digital asset research, Geoff Kendrick, told Cointelegraph recently.
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset management firm, with $13.5 trillion in assets under management as of the third quarter of 2025.
Solana ETFs can attract $6 billion in the first year when SOL joins the “big league”
Investors are eyeing the launch of Solana’s first staking ETF, a move expected to inject billions of dollars into Solana and the broader altcoin market.
At least three altcoin ETFs was scheduled to launch later on Tuesday: Bitwise’s Solana (SOL) Canaries ETF and Litecoin (LTC) and Hedera (HBAR) ETF, according to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas.
The SEC’s approval of the first staking ETF Solana was a “transformational” milestone that can attract new capital of $ 3 billion to $ 6 billion in the altcoin in the first year, according to the chief analyst of Bitget exchange, Ryan Lee.
“Solana could now attract between $3 and $6 billion in its first year.”
The ETF’s new staking feature introduces an additional 5% passive income for its holders, a dynamic that may bring more institutional capital into the broader altcoin sector beyond the ETF, 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 may propel underlying altcoins to all-time highs. For Bitcoin, ETFs accounted for approx 75% new investment when Bitcoin regained the $50,000 mark on February 15th, less than a month after spot BTC ETFs debuted on January 11th.
The DYdX community to vote on the $462,000 payment proposal after the break
Decentralized exchange dYdX has released a post-mortem and community update detailing plans to compensate traders affected by an on-chain outage that paused operations for about eight hours during last month’s market crash.
The exchange he said On Monday, its governing body will vote on compensating affected traders with up to $462,000 from the protocol’s insurance fund.
DYdX wrote that the October 10 outage was “due to misordered code processing, and its duration was exacerbated by delays in validators resuming their oracle sidecar services.” According to the 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 on the chain, but some traders suffered liquidation-related losses during the outage.
The dYdX governance community will vote to decide whether affected traders should be compensated with funds taken from the protocol’s insurance. background.
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 by more than 18% marking the biggest decline of the week in the top 100, followed by DoubleZero (2Z), more than 17% during the past week.
Thanks for reading our roundup of this week’s most impactful DeFi developments. Join us next Friday for more stories, insights and education regarding this dynamically advancing space.
