CT 2025 in one thread:
January:
- TRUMP memecoin launches days before inauguration
- Ross Ulbricht is pardoned
- MELANIA memecoin launches and rugs
- Total crypto market cap passes $4T
- Memecoin super cycle
February:
- Bybit hacked for $1.5B
- Bitcoin corrects over 20%
- LIBRA token crashes after Milei promotion
- Solana inflation controversy
- Security panic across exchanges
March:
- Trump announces US crypto strategic reserve
- BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP named publicly
- RedStone TGE and major listings
- Binance Wallet activity explodes
April
- Tariff fears starts a market crash
- BTC drops below $100k
- Extreme fear in crypto market
- Jesse Pollak starts the tokenize everything narrative
- Mantra collapses
- Peak InfoFi
May:
- US states approve Bitcoin reserve laws
- Bitcoin hits $112,000 ATH
- Ethereum Pectra upgrade goes live
- Trump hosts TRUMP memecoin dinner
- Coinbase joins S&P 500
- Sui Network biggest LP provider gets hacked
- Movement Labs collapses
- L0udio experiment
June
- DeFi TVL recovery accelerates
- Aave goes past $24B
- Polymarket partners with X
- HYPERLIQUID FOMO
July
- GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act signed
- Bitcoin hits $118,000 ATH
- Ethereum turns 10 years old
- Solana ETF launches
- James Wynn gets liquidated
- Aave becomes DeFi king
- Adin Ross vs FaZe Banks (MLG)
August
- Ethereum hits $4,948 ATH
- DeFi TVL explodes across protocols
- Hyperliquid and perps go mainstream
- PumpFun token sale
- BNB reaches new ATH
- Kanye West launches his token
September
- Fed rate cuts resume
- Crypto avoids typical September dump
- SEC and CFTC signal regulatory alignment
- Bitcoin OP_RETURN debate divides CT
- Creator Capital Markets
- Prediction Markets War
- massive supply chain attack hit JavaScript
- ASTER launches
October:
- Bitcoin breaks $126,000 ATH
- Trump tariff comments crash markets
- 4Chan Prediction
- Massive liquidations across crypto
- USDe briefly depegs on Binance
- CZ receives presidential pardon
- Zcash narrative returns
- x402 Narrative
November
- Bear market memes start appearing
- Altseason hope resurfaces
- Mega ETH sale
- LINK ETF speculation grows
- Market sentiment is cautious
- Coinbase buys theUpOnly NFT
- Monad TGE
December
- ETF inflows return
- Robinhood launches altcoin perps in EU
- Perp DEXes named narrative of the year
- Bittensor halving hits
- Kalshi co-founder becomes youngest female billionaire
- Kabuto King and Pokemon Cards
- Stablecoins reach record usage
How was the 2025 for you?