Explosive 2025: What will the next year be like for cryptocurrencies, according to betting platform users?

2024 turned out to be a good period for earning on cryptocurrencies. The day before, we made a list of the best investments for the outgoing year, and it turned out to be quite serious.

For example, one of the best investments in the meme token category was PEPE. The asset based on the popular frog brought its holders at least a thousand percent in profitability.

There were also good investments among serious projects. However, the market growth story will clearly not end there.

What to expect from 2025?

This week, bettors on Kalshi are putting the odds of BTC and ETH rising to at least $125,000 and $5,000, respectively, in 2025 at over 60 percent. Meanwhile, Polymarket users are putting the odds at 50 percent for BTC to hit $120,000 by the end of March, Cointelegraph reports .

As of today, Bitcoin’s all-time high is $108,353, while Ethereum’s is $4,868. However, it’s important to note that ETH set an all-time high during the previous bull run in 2021.

Meanwhile, Polymarket users expect US regulators to approve ETFs for XRP, Solana, and Litecoin by July 31 with a 75 percent, 69 percent, and 51 percent chance, respectively. The prospect of Dogecoin ETF approval by that date is estimated at 22 percent, which is significantly lower.

Additionally, Kalshi users are counting on a 59 percent chance that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will create a national strategic crypto reserve during his term. Polymarket gives him only a 29 percent chance of doing so in his first 100 days in office.

Let us recall that Polymarket and Kalshi gained great popularity ahead of the US elections in November. The volume of bets on the election results at one point reached $4 billion.

Decentralized betting platforms work in a fairly simple way. They allow users to trade contracts tied to specific events, with the prices of the latter changing dynamically depending on the expected outcomes. Accordingly, the more confident users are in the outcome of a certain event, the less money they will earn from betting on its implementation if it is successful.

What is especially important is that betting platforms turned out to be more accurate than traditional polls. After all, the already mentioned Polymarket platform predicted not only Trump’s victory, but also his party’s victory in the US House of Representatives and Senate. It is funny that shortly after the elections, the creator of this platform was visited by FBI agents, which we reported in mid-November.

Traditional futures markets, however, predict a more modest growth of cryptocurrencies in the first quarter of 2025. In particular, traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) expect prices in the region of $98,000 for BTC and $3,500 for ETH by March 2025. Accordingly, according to their version, the situation on the market will not change much over the next few months.

Crypto venture funding has been a rollercoaster this year. According to Robert Le of PitchBook, there was a slowdown in funding in Q3, but that could be due to the summer holidays. Here’s a quote from him, as cited by Blockworks .

There was a lot of momentum and positivity at the beginning of the year, and then there was a slowdown in investment in the summer. I think venture capital funds that focus exclusively on cryptocurrencies have really slowed down their investment. They haven’t really stepped up their game. And that includes people with a lot of free cash.

However, since the election, their activity has begun to pick up again, which is not yet confirmed by the full data. However, Le believes that preliminary reports for the last quarter hint at an increase in many indicators.

The expert suggests that next year could be a remarkable one for venture capital activity. According to his forecasts, the industry will receive more than $18 billion in investments from major players, and in some quarters the inflow will amount to more than $5 billion.

By comparison, total investment in 2023 was about $9 billion, and the figure for 2024 is expected to reach $11 billion. Of these amounts, Le said, each quarter accounted for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.


Overall, most cryptocurrency investors expect a positive 2025 for the industry. Their expectations are based not only on the typical length of the coin growth cycle, but also on fundamental factors. After all, next year the US will have a president who supports the cryptocurrency industry. And the key financial regulator, the SEC, will get new adequate management, which is also very important for digital assets.