Bitcoin Adoption Makes 2025 A ‘Watershed Year’ For Crypto, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley Says
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says 2025 marks a “watershed year” for crypto as regulatory clarity, institutional adoption and mainstream political support converge to reshape the investment landscape for digital assets.
What Happened: Speaking with CNBC at the Bitcoin Conference 2025, Horsley emphasized that the most significant overhang on crypto markets, regulatory uncertainty, has flipped from a headwind into a tailwind.
“2025 is a watershed year… it’s absolutely the beginning of a new chapter for the space,” he said, pointing to regulatory support from the White House, Congress, and financial regulators as a turning point.
For years, ambiguity from U.S. regulators prevented institutional investors from meaningfully participating in crypto. “It’s finally an asset class that they can engage in,” Horsley said.
The result: mainstream investors are now entering the space in force. In Q1 alone, 190 new wealth firms invested in Bitwise products for the first time.
This changing backdrop has fueled Bitcoin’s latest all-time high near $112,000, but Horsley argues the real significance lies beneath the surface.
“The …
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