Crypto’s 2025 Year in Review: A Rocky, Geopolitical Rollercoaster
Well, what a year 2025 was for a group of crypto traders and investors who thought they’d already seen it all. Cryptocurrency markets were defined less by internal industry drama and more by outside pressure from the global economy and world events. In earlier years, crypto was often viewed as a potential safe haven from inflation, political conflict, and traditional financial instability.
By 2025, however, price action increasingly reflected institutional positioning and macro-driven risk appetite, with digital assets reacting more like established financial markets during moments of stress and relief. Bitcoin’s price started the year reflecting the S&P 500 fairly closely, but ended the year trailing fairly significantly.
Markets spent…
