{"id":34657,"date":"2025-07-01T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34657"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:02:25","slug":"bitcoin-fartcoin-outperform-in-2025-but-how-did-xrp-eth-solana-fare-in-the-first-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34657","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Fartcoin Outperform In 2025, But How Did XRP, ETH, Solana Fare In The First 6 Months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The first half of 2025 has wrapped up with only a select few crypto assets posting meaningful gains, highlighting how fragmented and uneven the market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/bitcoin-price-prediction\">has been this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Despite maintaining a total market capitalization above $3 trillion for much of the period, the rally wasn&#8217;t led by usual suspects like <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>), or <strong>XRP<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Instead, <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and meme sensation <strong>Fartcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: FARTCOIN) managed to outperform many legacy names, securing spots in the top 20 gainers list, with 14% and 15% returns, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>XRP also held ground with modest 5% gains.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Ethereum traded mostly sideways, and Solana posted one of the steepest losses among major assets, down 22% YTD, despite commanding the largest share of trading volume across crypto markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Market Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Crypto Fear and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46205649\/bitcoin-fartcoin-outperform-in-2025-but-how-did-xrp-eth-solana-fare-in-the-first-6-months\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" fartcoin outperform in but how did xrp eth solana fare the first months>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half of 2025 has wrapped up with only a select few crypto assets posting meaningful gains, highlighting how fragmented and uneven the market has been this year. What Happened: Despite maintaining a total market capitalization above $3 trillion for much of the period, the rally wasn&#8217;t led by usual suspects like Ethereum (CRYPTO: [&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-34657","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\/34657","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=34657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}