Plus: Vitalik Buterin's advice to Elon Musk
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GM. Rise and shine for our first fruit haul of 2025 - the Daily Squeeze is stacking the juiciest blockchain berries right on your plate.
🪄 2025 crypto predictions.
🎇 Firework flashes: Hive Digital moves to Texas, Vitalik Buterin tells Elon Musk to calm down + more
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🕛 Market countdown today
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Bitcoin BTC | $97,122.38 | 3.40% | 1.75% |
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Ethereum ETH | $3,462.80 | 3.73% | 4.04% |
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XRP XRP | $2.40 | 4.01% | 11.48% |
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BNB BNB | $705.88 | 0.39% | 2.16% |
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Solana SOL | $206.12 | 7.90% | 9.18% |
| Prices as of 14:00 EST. Click here to see live data. |
New year, new vibes - but the crypto market isn't exactly handing out resolutions yet. It's more like a calm before… something 👀
The Fear and Greed Index kicked off 2025 in Greed at 70, while Bitcoin is coasting in the $93K–$95K range with no huge shocks. However, we might see more action soon as everyone comes back from holiday mode.
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Over at CryptoQuant, contributor Mac_D spotted that the Coinbase Premium Index - which tracks the price gap between Bitcoin on Coinbase (popular with US investors) and Binance - is at its lowest since January 2023.
This means that Bitcoin is cheaper on Coinbase, hinting at weak demand from US traders. But in the past, this has often been followed by big buying pressure and a price surge.
Mac_D says that $90K is the hot spot to watch - if bulls defend it, we could see the market pump higher. If not? Bears might crash the party for a bit.
And investor Jelle thinks the market feels a lot like it did this time last year - so the next big move up might be just around the corner.
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So, what's this calm hiding? A rally? A dip? Or just more calm? Either way, we'll find out soon enough - 2025 isn't here to play it safe 💥
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🍾 Poppin' memecoins
Still got a hangover? Well, sucks to be you - these memecoins are popping bottles like the party never ended 🥂
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Check out these memecoins and plenty more here.
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👋 Hello, 2025
An exciting year ahead, right? We are all gonna be so different this year 😃 The best versions of ourselves frfr 😃 As if I haven't already forgotten every single resolution I made 😃 But hey, 2026? That's definitely gonna be my year.
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Who needs resolutions anyway? The real tone-setters for the year are analysts and their 2025 crypto predictions.
And, spoiler alert: it's lookin' bullish 😏
1/ Bitcoin
Analysts are expecting BTC to hit new highs:
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Bitwise: $200K;
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Galaxy Research: $185K;
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VanEck: $180K;
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Steno Research: over $150K.
2/ Ethereum
2025 might also hold something good for ETH:
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Steno believes it'll hit $8K;
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Bitwise: $7K;
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VanEck: $6K;
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Galaxy: $5.5K.
3/ Solana will reach…
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Bitwise says $750;
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VanEck: $500.
4/ Bitcoin ETFs
Bitcoin ETFs crushed expectations in 2024 with $33.6B in investments. Analysts think 2025 will go even harder:
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Steno's take: $48B inflows for BTC ETFs, $28.5B for ETH ETFs.
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Galaxy predicts total BTC ETF assets will pass $250B.
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5/ Crypto IPOs
Bitwise expects these companies to go public this year:
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Circle (USDC issuer);
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Figure (a crypto lending platform);
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Kraken (one of the largest US-based crypto exchanges);
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Anchorage Digital (a crypto infrastructure service provider);
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Chainalysis (market leader in blockchain compliance and intelligence).
6/ AI agent era
Bitwise expects tokens launched by AI agents to ignite a memecoin mania even wilder than 2024.
And VanEck believes that over 1M new AI agents will be created in 2025.
7/ Strategic Bitcoin reserve in the US
Will the US government buy Bitcoin?
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VanEck says it'll happen, whether at the federal or state level;
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Galaxy thinks there will be no new purchases, but they'll create a stockpile with coins they already hold.
8/ More countries holding Bitcoin
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Bitwise thinks the number of nations with BTC reserves will double;
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Galaxy: at least five countries will add Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
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9/ Coinbase + MicroStrategy level up
Bitwise predicts Coinbase could join the S&P 500 and MicroStrategy could make it to the Nasdaq-100. This means your grandma's retirement fund might soon have crypto exposure - without her even knowing.
10/ Stablecoins
Stablecoins are expected to see massive growth:
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Bitwise: assets will double to $400B as US lawmakers pass clear regulations.
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VanEck predicts $300B in daily stablecoin transactions;
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Galaxy expects at least 10 new TradFi-backed stablecoins to launch.
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So yeah, that's the vibe for the year. Will all these predictions come true? Nobody knows. But one thing's certain - they've got a much better shot than my three-year (and counting) plan to finally start eating healthy.
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🎇 Firework flashes
😮💨 The IRS is giving crypto holders a breather with temporary relief from a new reporting rule. Normally, if you don't pick a specific accounting method, brokers default to FIFO, which assumes you sell your oldest crypto first - often hiking up your capital gains bill.
⛏ Bitcoin miner Hive Digital is packing up and moving its HQ from Vancouver to Texas. Reason? Donald Trump's pro-crypto stance and Texas' business-friendly climate, strong energy infrastructure, and skilled workforce.
💬 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin had some advice for Elon Musk: chill out. Buterin praised Musk's commitment to free speech but suggested he cool his tone and go easy with the "banhammer" on X.
🤑 Speaking of, Musk's name change to Kekius Maximus on X turned someone into a millionaire. Starting with just $66 of ETH, a trader flipped it into $3M in 18 days by betting on KEKIUS.
⚖️ Celsius is appealing a judge's rejection of its $444M claim against FTX. The bankrupt crypto lender says FTX gave unfair perks to some creditors, speeding up its collapse.
🪂 Solana is kicking off January with some airdrops! Sonic is dropping 7% of its SONIC tokens on January 7. Meanwhile, Jupiter plans to airdrop $625M worth of JUP tokens later this month.
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✨ New year, new memes
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