{"id":5231,"date":"2025-01-02T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2025-01-02T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:18:12","slug":"xrp-rockets-11-as-bitcoin-starts-new-year-with-bullish-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=5231","title":{"rendered":"XRP Rockets 11% as Bitcoin Starts New Year With Bullish Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto majors zoomed higher in the past 24 hours as the market entered a widely expected bullish year, with bitcoin (BTC) inching above $95,000 to shake off losses from last week.<\/p>\n<p>A CoinDesk analysis from Tuesday flagged unusually high trading volumes for XRP stemming from South Korean exchanges, which has historically acted as a harbinger for price volatility with a bias to the upside.<\/p>\n<p>XRP surged 11% to lead growth among majors as of Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/exchanges\/upbit\" target=\"_blank\">led by $1.3 billion worth<\/a> of trading volumes on Korea-focused exchange UpBit.<\/p>\n<p>Among other majors, Cardano\u2019s ADA, Solana\u2019s SOL and Chainlink\u2019s LINK added as much as 8%. Ether (ETH) and BNB Chain\u2019s BNB rose 3%, while memecoins dogecoin (DOGE) and shiba inu (SHIB) added 5%.<\/p>\n<p>The broad-based CoinDesk 20 (CD20), a liquid index tracking the largest tokens by market capitalization, minus stablecoins, <a href=\"https:\/\/indices.coindesk.com\/indices\/cd20\" target=\"_blank\">rose 5.8%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The anticipation of a more crypto-friendly administration under incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, who has made campaign promises for crypto friendly policies and a strategic bitcoin reserve, is largely fuelling optimism for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin halving event in 2024 historically led to a bullish trend in the following year due to the reduced supply of new tokens entering the market. The broader crypto market also tends to follow a four-year cycle influenced by the halvings \u2014 with memecoins, AI and real-world assets expected to be market leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Predictions aren\u2019t limited to mere cycles, however. Firms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2024\/12\/30\/bitcoin-to-hit-record-around-185-k-in-2025-as-nation-states-buy-galaxy-research\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Research predict<\/a> large-scale institutional, corporate, and nation-state adoption in bitcoin investments, with at least five Nasdaq-100 companies and five nation-states expected to adopt the asset.<\/p>\n<p>The firm targets a $185,000 level for bitcoin and $5,500 for ether (ETH) this year.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore-based QCP Capital mirrors that sentiment: \u201cFor 2025, while optimism surrounds crypto-friendly regulations post-Trump inauguration, we think the key catalyst may come in January as institutions readjust asset allocations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith BTC now broadly adopted by a broad spectrum of institutions, allocations are likely to increase, strengthening Bitcoin dominance, stabilizing spot movements, and shifting volatility dynamics closer to equities,\u201d the firm said in a Telegram broadcast on Tuesday. \u201cExpect stronger demand for downside puts for hedging and more covered call selling on the topside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some say bitcoin becoming a mainstream asset may further reduce its infamous volatility, leading to even more adoption among institutional firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMainstream&#8217;s effect on crypto is most evident through BTC&#8217;s high correlation to the SPX, remaining the most correlated asset as we end 2024,\u201d Augustine Fan, head of insights at SOFA, told CoinDesk in a Telegram message. \u201cAnother sign of BTC heading towards being a mainstream asset class is its declining realized volatility, which would eventually add more diversification benefits and alpha to the traditional 60\/40 portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVolatility should continue to decline as an asset class matures, as our long-standing view is that crypto would be no different,\u201d Fan added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto majors zoomed higher in the past 24 hours as the market entered a widely expected bullish year, with bitcoin (BTC) inching above $95,000 to shake off losses from last week. A CoinDesk analysis from Tuesday flagged unusually high trading volumes for XRP stemming from South Korean exchanges, which has historically acted as a harbinger [&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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-5231","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\/5231","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=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}