{"id":1293,"date":"2024-10-17T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:30:52","slug":"this-coin-is-the-middle-child-of-crypto-and-will-make-a-strong-comeback-in-2025-as-contrarian-play-says-bitwise-cio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"This Coin Is The &#8216;Middle Child Of Crypto&#8217; And Will Make A Strong Comeback In 2025 As &#8216;Contrarian Play,&#8217; Says Bitwise CIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A leading industry expert predicts a resurgence for <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) in 2025, as does <strong>Bitwise <\/strong>Chief Investment Officer <strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong>, who sees the second-biggest crypto as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/ethereum\">contrarian play<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AltcoinDailyio\/status\/1846613437960671726\">interview<\/a> on Altcoin Daily, Hougan expressed his confidence in Ethereum, calling it the \u201cmiddle child\u201d of crypto\u2014not as groundbreaking as <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) or as trendy as newer blockchains like <strong>Solana<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>), <strong>Sui<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">SUI<\/a>) or <strong>Aptos <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">APT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While Ethereum faces challenges such as fee compression and a shift to Layer-2 solutions, Hougan believes it remains the leading blockchain for critical applications like stablecoins, decentralized finance (DeFi) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41384398\/this-coin-is-the-middle-child-of-crypto-and-will-make-a-strong-comeback-in-2025-as-contrar\" alt=\"This\" coin is the child of crypto and will make a strong comeback in as play says bitwise cio>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading industry expert predicts a resurgence for Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) in 2025, as does Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan, who sees the second-biggest crypto as a \u201ccontrarian play.\u201d What Happened: In a recent interview on Altcoin Daily, Hougan expressed his confidence in Ethereum, calling it the \u201cmiddle child\u201d of crypto\u2014not as groundbreaking as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}