{"id":65882,"date":"2025-12-31T17:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65882"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:31:31","slug":"why-even-xrp-surging-beyond-3-couldnt-deliver-a-2025-altseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65882","title":{"rendered":"Why Even XRP Surging Beyond $3 Couldn&#8217;t Deliver A 2025 Altseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto analyst <strong>Benjamin Cowen <\/strong>says 2025 reinforced a hard truth for the market: macroeconomic forces, not hype-driven cycle narratives, continue to dominate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/bitcoin-price-prediction-oct-14\">crypto price action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In his 2025 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jus1K0YHE3A&amp;t=1s&amp;pp=ygUOYmVuamFtaW4gY293ZW4%3D\">Reflections<\/a>&#8221; video, Cowen argued that while the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle still technically held, with a post-halving peak forming in Q4, the drawdown that followed looked far more like 2019 than the sharp crashes seen in prior cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a blow-off top, the market experienced a slow, grinding decline driven by tightening liquidity and macro headwinds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Altseason That Never Arrived<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cowen addressed one of 2025&#8217;s biggest disappointments: the absence of a broad altcoin rally.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The cause:<\/strong> Retail investors never meaningfully returned. Social interest made lower highs, while institutional capital stayed almost entirely focused on Bitcoin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The reality:<\/strong> Altcoins continued bleeding against BTC. <strong>Solana&#8217;<\/strong>s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/SOL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"SOL\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>) valuation &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49652120\/why-even-xrp-surging-beyond-3-couldnt-deliver-a-2025-altseason?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Why\" even xrp surging beyond couldn deliver a altseason>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says 2025 reinforced a hard truth for the market: macroeconomic forces, not hype-driven cycle narratives, continue to dominate crypto price action. What Happened: In his 2025 &#8220;Reflections&#8221; video, Cowen argued that while the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle still technically held, with a post-halving peak forming in Q4, the drawdown that followed [&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-65882","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\/65882","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=65882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}