This week started with a promising cryptocurrency market recovery after a $19 billion market crash earlier in the month, as demand for digital assets started rising with a potential end to the tariff wars on the horizon.
Crypto investor attention was largely focused on US President Donald Trump’s meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, aimed at securing a trade deal to avert new import tariffs.
However, the positive momentum took a sharp turn on Wednesday, when Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $470 million in outflows despite the US Federal Reserve decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points.
Fueling investor concerns, Thursday’s tariff meeting between the two presidents ended with no significant announcements related to import tariffs, resulting in more uncertainty for global and digital asset markets.
Saylor says Bitcoin can surge to $150,000 by the end of 2025
Michael Saylor, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, the largest Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company by holdings, forecast that Bitcoin would hit $150,000 by the end of 2025.
“I think that these 12 months have probably been the best 12 months in the history of the industry,” Saylor told CNBC at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
Saylor cited the US Securities and Exchange Commission embracing tokenized securities, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent endorsing stablecoins to protect dollar dominance and the overall regulatory pivot in the US as reasons to remain bullish. He said:
“Our expectation right now is that by the end of the year, it should be about $150,000, and that’s the consensus of the equity analysts who cover our company and the Bitcoin industry.”
The forecast came amid depressed crypto asset prices, following a market crash that was ignited by US President Donald Trump announcing 100% additional tariffs on China, sparking investor fears of macroeconomic instability.
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Standard Chartered sees $2 trillion in tokenized RWAs by 2028, matching stablecoins
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) may reach a cumulative value of $2 trillion in the next three years as more global capital and payments migrate onto efficient blockchain rails, according to investment bank Standard Chartered.
The bank said in a Thursday report shared with Cointelegraph that the “trustless” structure of decentralized finance (DeFi) was poised to challenge the dominance of traditional financial (TradFi) systems controlled by centralized entities.
DeFi’s growing use in payments and investments may boost non-stablecoin tokenized RWAs to a $2 trillion market capitalization by 2028, the investment bank predicted.
Of the $2 trillion, $750 billion was projected to flow into money-market funds, another $750 billion into tokenized US stocks, $250 billion into tokenized US funds, and another $250 billion into “less liquid” segments of private equity, including commodities, corporate debt and tokenized real estate.
“Stablecoin liquidity and DeFi banking are important pre-requisites for a rapid expansion of tokenised RWAs,” said Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, who added:
“We expect exponential growth in RWAs in the coming years.”
Reaching a $2 trillion market capitalization implies an over 57-fold growth for RWAs in the next three years from their current $35 billion cumulative value, according to data from RWA.xyz.
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“No BlackRock, no party” for Bitcoin, altcoin ETF investments: K33 Research
The long-awaited approval of altcoin ETFs may not bring the massive inflows investors expect without participation from asset management giant BlackRock, according to market data.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF received $28.1 billion in investments in 2025, as the only fund with positive year-to-date inflows, pushing total spot Bitcoin ETF inflows to a cumulative $26.9 billion.
Without BlackRock’s fund, the spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a cumulative net outflow of $1.27 billion year-to-date, according to K33’s head of research, Vetle Lunde.
The inflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs were the primary driver of Bitcoin price momentum in 2025, Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, told Cointelegraph recently.
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset management firm, with $13.5 trillion in assets under management as of the third quarter of 2025.
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Solana ETFs may attract $6 billion in first year as SOL joins “big league”
Investors are closely watching the launch of the first Solana staking ETF, a move expected to inject billions of dollars into Solana and the broader altcoin market.
At least three altcoin ETFs were expected to launch later on Tuesday: Bitwise’s Solana (SOL) ETF and Canary’s Litecoin (LTC) and Hedera (HBAR) ETFs, according…
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