HashKey predicts bitcoin to break through $300,000 in 2025
2025-01-15
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Hong Kong-based regulated digital asset financial services provider HashKey Group has put forward 10 crypto predictions for 2025, with around 50,000 community members voting on the likelihood of forecasts compiled by HashKey researchers, analysts and traders.
Leading the 2025 predictions is for bitcoin to break through the $300,000 level and ether to exceed $8,000, with the total crypto market cap trebling to $10 trillion. Bitcoin is currently trading for $96,560, according to The Block’s Prices Page, while ether sits at $3,188.
According to HashKey, the second most likely event to occur in 2025 is for DEXs to leverage AI agents and memes to increase their market share while CEXs embrace more DeFi strategies to attract capital via high-yield investment products.
Rounding out the top three predictions, HashKey expects the market cap of U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins to increase from around $215 billion to more than $300 billion this year, driven by increasing demand for compliant, yield-bearing and real-world asset-backed digital dollars. Tether’s USDT currently dominates the market, accounting for around $138 billion or 64% of the total circulating supply, while Circle’s USDC accounts for nearly $46 billion (21%).
Bitcoin strategic reserve, XRP and SOL ETF approvals and regulatory clarity
Other predictions for the year ahead include security token offerings, exchange-traded funds and central bank digital currencies adding $3 trillion to the crypto market, AI agent applications witnessing explosive growth and the Layer 2 landscape splitting into two main categories of application-specific versus general-purpose chains.
Furthermore, HashKey predicts the incoming pro-crypto Trump administration to establish a bitcoin strategic reserve in the U.S. and the approval of the FIT21 Act, which would grant more power and funding to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to oversee crypto spot markets and "digital commodities," particularly bitcoin, and set parameters for the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
Finally, the predictions outlined expectations for the approval of new crypto ETFs, including XRP and SOL, “crypto-concept” stocks to flock to the Nasdaq and mining and infrastructure stocks to gain significant investor attention.
"2025 marks the gateway to what we call the 'Golden Decade of Web3,'” HashKey Group Chairman and CEO Dr. Xiao Feng said on Wednesday. “With regulatory compliance taking center stage, a surge in traditional capital inflows, and accelerating technological breakthroughs, the cryptocurrency market is poised for extraordinary growth."
HashKey’s growing crypto services
HashKey Group offers trading, asset management, custody and blockchain ecosystem solutions. In December, the firm launched its Ethereum Layer 2 HashKey Chain on mainnet as part of the Superchain — a network of interoperable chains built using Optimism's OP Stack.
In collaboration with Bosera Asset Management, HashKey was also among the issuers that launched Hong Kong-based spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in April 2024. HashKey's spot Bitcoin ETF has generated over $70 million in net inflows since launch and more than $18 million with its spot Ethereum ETF, according to data compiled by The Block. Hong Kong is the first and only region in Asia to list spot crypto ETFs so far. 
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