{"id":65825,"date":"2025-12-31T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65825"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:16:37","slug":"crypto-momentum-stalled-in-q4-but-the-next-quarter-will-be-better-grayscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65825","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Momentum Stalled In Q4, But The Next Quarter Will Be Better: Grayscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a new <strong>Grayscale<\/strong> report, crypto market momentum cooled in the fourth quarter of 2025 as investors digested earlier gains and positioned for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49616686\/bitcoin-2026-price-predictions-whos-bullish-whos-bearish-and-why#:~:text=Most%20optimistic%20forecasts%20cluster%20between,small%20but%20meaningful%20institutional%20allocations.\">the year ahead<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In its latest Crypto Sector Quarterly report, Grayscale <a href=\"https:\/\/research.grayscale.com\/market-commentary\/crypto-sectors-quarterly-a-preference-for-privacy\">points out<\/a> that all major crypto sectors posted negative returns in Q4 as investor caution increased amid regulatory uncertainty and evolving technology risks.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive positioning emerged during the quarter, with the currencies sector outperforming others, driven largely by privacy-focused tokens. <\/p>\n<p>Application-layer assets underperformed, while the AI crypto sector recorded the weakest performance, reflecting higher risk sensitivity and the early-stage nature of many projects.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the overall slowdown, some underlying metrics remained constructive. <\/p>\n<p>Transaction volumes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49644665\/crypto-momentum-stalled-in-q4-but-the-next-quarter-will-be-better-grayscale?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Crypto\" momentum stalled in q4 but the next quarter will be better: grayscale>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Grayscale report, crypto market momentum cooled in the fourth quarter of 2025 as investors digested earlier gains and positioned for the year ahead.\u00a0 What Happened: In its latest Crypto Sector Quarterly report, Grayscale points out that all major crypto sectors posted negative returns in Q4 as investor caution increased amid regulatory [&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-65825","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\/65825","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=65825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}