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2025 delivered at least four distinct \u201ccrypto is dead\u201d episodes: a January AI-induced flash crash, the October tariff liquidation that erased $19 billion in leveraged positions, months of altcoin carnage, and a fourth quarter slump that wiped out the year’s price gains.<\/p>\n
Mainstream outlets dusted off \u201ccrypto winter\u201d language each time. Bitcoin logged more obituaries by mid-year than in all of 2024, bringing the all-time tally past 470 since 2010.<\/p>\n
Yet, beneath the violent drawdowns and Twitter eulogies, the infrastructure kept building.<\/p>\n
Stablecoin legislation passed. Spot ETFs pulled in tens of billions. Major jurisdictions published actual rulebooks rather than issuing enforcement threats.<\/p>\n
The result is a year where crypto \u201cdied\u201d repeatedly on price charts but quietly became more entrenched in global financial plumbing than ever before.<\/p>\n
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The latest data from Bitcoin Is Dead show Bitcoin has \u2018died\u2019 431 times, with gold bug Peter Schiff topping the Bitcoin obituary list.<\/p>\n
Aug 24, 2025<\/span> \u00b7<\/span> Christina Comben<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
DeepSeek and the January flash crash<\/h2>\n
The first \u201ccrypto is dead\u201d chorus arrived in late January, courtesy of Chinese AI model DeepSeek. On Jan. 27, a cross-asset sell-off hit tech stocks and bled into digital assets.<\/p>\n
A single session erased roughly $269 billion from the total crypto market cap and wiped out about $850 million in leveraged positions. Bitcoin dropped by more than 10%, from around $105,000 to below $98,000 in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n
AI-linked tokens fell up to 70% in a day. Analysts suggested that DeepSeek had punctured not just the AI bubble but the entire \u201crisk-on\u201d trade, with Bitcoin singled out as the bellwether whose rally suddenly looked fragile.<\/p>\n
The timing, barely a month into the year, gave the sell-off extra weight.<\/p>\n
The crash took Bitcoin only back to late-December levels, not into a bear market regime. Prices later set new all-time highs above $124,000 by July, then another peak in October.<\/p>\n
Market microstructure analyses framed it as the first major stress test of a more institutionally plugged-in crypto market rather than an existential failure, since the crash was driven by macro and AI repricing.<\/p>\n
The January episode looked scary in real time, but in hindsight, it played out like a violent shakeout inside a still-bullish tape.<\/p>\nBitcoin dropped from approximately $109,000 to below $98,000 during the January 27-28 DeepSeek flash crash before recovering above $105,000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The \u201c10\/10\u201d tariff crash and record liquidations<\/h2>\n
The biggest \u201ccrypto is dead\u201d moment came on Oct. 10. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of a 100% tariff on Chinese imports during the thin weekend liquidity triggered what CoinGlass calls the largest liquidation event in crypto history.<\/p>\n
Estimates cluster around $20 billion of leveraged positions erased in under 24 hours, with more than 1.6 million accounts liquidated.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin fell from $121,000 to near $107,000 within hours, Ethereum plunged below $4,000, and many altcoins printed near-zero wicks as market makers pulled orders.<\/p>\n
The episode proved that crypto leverage and market structure were still dangerously fragile, despite the new ETF era. Policymakers explicitly used the event to argue that pending US market structure bills underestimated the systemic risk posed by crypto.<\/p>\n
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How crypto-native leverage drove Bitcoin sell-off while ETFs barely flinched<\/h3>\n
JPMorgan identifies crypto-native leverage unwinding as the primary driver of the Bitcoin and Ethereum market downturn.<\/p>\n
Oct 18, 2025<\/span> \u00b7<\/span> Gino Matos<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
The scale of the liquidations was larger than anything seen in prior cycles, including Terra\/Luna or FTX, which made it easy to frame as a reckoning.<\/p>\n
Yet, prices didn’t collapse to prior-cycle levels. Even after the rout and subsequent fourth-quarter slide, Bitcoin mostly traded in a $80,000-$100,000 band into year-end, well above the 2022-23 lows. Structure changed, not vanished. Derivatives open interest dropped by roughly 25% in a single day, but spot ETFs, custodians, and on-chain markets continued to function.<\/p>\n
Inflows into regulated products remained positive year to date, even after October. CoinShares tallies around $46.2 billion entering crypto ETFs in 2025, and BlackRock alone reports $74.8 billion in inflows to its digital asset ETFs as of Dec. 31.<\/p>\n
The October liquidation was the largest in history, but the institutional rails passed a stress test. Custodians didn’t blow up. Exchanges stayed online. ETFs continued to process creation and redemption baskets.<\/p>\n
The plumbing worked, even as the speculative superstructure got demolished.<\/p>\nCrypto ETFs recorded $46.3 billion in year-to-date inflows through 2025, with Bitcoin ETFs leading at $26.8 billion despite late-year outflows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Altcoin, AI-token, and memecoin carnage<\/h2>\n
Another thread in the \u201ccrypto is dead\u201d narrative is the destruction in higher-beta sectors.<\/p>\n
AI tokens and memecoins took repeated beatings throughout 2025. During the January DeepSeek episode, many AI-linked coins fell 20% or more in 24 hours, with some recording intraday losses of up to 70%.<\/p>\n
Later coverage turned to \u201c2025 meme and AI altcoin crash\u201d angles, describing how sectors that led the early-year euphoria had given back most of their gains and, in some cases, round-tripped to pre-cycle prices.<\/p>\n
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Trump-themed and election-related meme tokens saw heavy drawdowns as the year wore on.<\/p>\n
The memecoin wreckage was real and brutal, with hundreds of tokens that had spiked 10-fold or more in early 2025 finishing the year down over 90% from their peaks.<\/p>\n
This is the perennial story of speculative layers getting decimated while underlying rails consolidate. Chainalysis noted that DeFi TVL recovered significantly from 2023 lows even as hack losses and protocol blow-ups stayed below prior peak levels.<\/p>\nDeFi total value locked rose from approximately $120 billion in early 2025 to peak near $170 billion before declining to $120 billion by year-end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The altcoin carnage was a feature, not a bug, consisting of a violent sorting mechanism that punished purely speculative bets while leaving infrastructure plays relatively intact.<\/p>\n
The Q4 slump and \u201cCrypto Winter 2.0\u201d headlines<\/h2>\n
From mid-November into December, mainstream outlets wrote Bitcoin’s obituary again. By mid-November, Bitcoin had fallen about 30% from its October record and given back its year-to-date gains.<\/p>\n
Mainstream finance publications framed it as erasing 2025 gains and asked whether Trump-driven optimism had run its course.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the term \u201ccrypto winter\u201d was back in usage, which is the richest vein of \u201ccrypto is dead\u201d language.<\/p>\n
99Bitcoins data show Bitcoin had already logged more \u201cobituaries\u201d in 2025 by mid-year than in all of 2024, with at least 11 separate death declarations tracked by summer.<\/p>\n
The fourth-quarter slump gave critics ammunition. If the year started with euphoria over Trump’s strategic Bitcoin reserve and ended with prices lower than where they began, what was the point?<\/p>\n
Yet, the counterpoints are strong.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin ETFs are still $22 billion in inflows this year, and the historically hostile Vanguard reversed course in December, allowing clients to trade third-party crypto ETFs, citing market maturation.<\/p>\nU.S.-listed crypto ETPs held $153 billion in total assets across 130 products by year-end, with Bitcoin ETFs commanding $125 billion. Image: James Seyffart\/Bloomberg Intelligence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dec 2, 2025<\/span> \u00b7<\/span> Oluwapelumi Adejumo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
Besides, Wall Street moved as generic SEC listing standards opened the door to multi-asset crypto ETFs, including products holding XRP, Solana, and even Dogecoin.<\/p>\n
For price context, Bitcoin’s sub-$90,000 prints in November-December 2025 still leave it multiples above its 2022-23 lows and above its previous cycle top of roughly $69,000. That makes the \u201cdead\u201d label look more like exhaustion after a huge run than genuine collapse.<\/p>\n
Regulation, rails, and usage kept moving<\/h2>\n
To understand why crypto wasn’t actually dead, it is necessary to zoom out from price.<\/p>\n
Elliptic’s Global Crypto Regulation Review 2025 says governments shifted \u201caway from enforcement-led approaches\u201d toward comprehensive frameworks that prioritize innovation, highlighting moves like the US GENIUS Act stablecoin law and broader global alignment.<\/p>\n
Yellow’s \u201cCrypto Regulation Heatmap\u201d tracks how MiCA in Europe, Hong Kong’s licensing regime, the UK’s reopening to exchange-traded crypto products, and a friendlier US stance collectively made 2025 the first year in which major markets had actual rulebooks rather than pure uncertainty.<\/p>\n
The SEC’s generic listing standards, issued in September, streamlined the launch of new crypto ETFs across Nasdaq, Cboe, and NYSE Arca, allowing multi-asset products like Grayscale’s GLDC to clear more quickly.<\/p>\n
Crypto ETFs registered billions in net inflows into crypto ETFs globally in 2025, even though late-year performance was poor.<\/p>\n
Away from trading, payment, and settlement rails, work continued to move forward. Visa and other large processors expanded stablecoin pilots on USDC rails for cross-border settlement, while stablecoins captured a growing slice of cross-border flows, particularly in emerging markets.<\/p>\n
The tension at the heart of 2025: the year produced more Bitcoin \u201cdeaths\u201d on paper, record liquidations, and a sickly fourth quarter tape.<\/p>\n
However, it also established the first genuinely global regulatory frameworks, turned crypto ETFs and stablecoins into mainstream plumbing, and kept usage metrics well above those of any prior cycle.<\/p>\n
Crypto died four times in 2025, and each time it came back more embedded in the financial system than before.<\/p>\n
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2025 delivered at least four distinct \u201ccrypto is dead\u201d episodes: a January AI-induced flash crash, the October tariff liquidation that erased $19 billion in leveraged positions, months of altcoin carnage, and a fourth quarter slump that wiped out the year’s price gains. Mainstream outlets dusted off \u201ccrypto winter\u201d language each time. Bitcoin logged more obituaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91,223,627,622,349,624,625,626,623,589],"class_list":{"0":"post-5178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethereum","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-boom","10":"tag-completely","11":"tag-died","12":"tag-hidden","13":"tag-infrastructure","14":"tag-proves","15":"tag-skeptics","16":"tag-times","17":"tag-wrong"},"yoast_head":"\n
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