Top Crypto Catalysts for 2025: What Will Trigger the Next Bull Run?

"with luck most of the tariff uncertainty will be gone by the time the current 90-day pause expires something that's expected to happen by early July"

"the Fed's most recent interest rate forecast notes that it will be lowering interest rates below 4% by the end of the year"

"There is currently no launch date for GPT5 but it's expected to be released in the coming months"

"the release of Tesla's quote unsupervised full driving in June"

"this could change in the coming months now that the company has begun gathering user data for AI training purposes"

"the 11.4 billion that will be returned to FTX institutional creditors starting at the end of May"

"Borrowing against BTC and XRP could create tens of billions of dollars of cryptonative liquidity that would find its way into altcoins and connected ecosystems such as Ethereum Salana and indeed Cosmos"

"there are around a dozen spot altcoin ETF applications pending the recent confirmation of Paul Atkins as the SEC chair could speed up the approvals of these and subsequent applications"

"A timelimited conditional exemptive relief framework for registrants and non-registrants could allow for greater innovation with blockchain technology within the United States in the near term."

"Congress passing stable coin regulations something that could reportedly come as soon as May"

"in the short term the answer seems to be more uncertainty at the macro level and this means that we're likely to continue to see more of what we've seen in recent weeks specifically choppy price action from BTC and larger altcoins while small altcoins continue to grind lower"

"in the medium-term the answer seems to be volatility in either direction because of the upcoming macro and crypto catalysts such as the Fed's interest rate decision in early May and stable coin regulations which could come later in the month"

"by the summer however there should be much more clarity on the macro front related to things like tariffs inflation and unemployment"

"if we do and we start to see a recovery sometime over the summer this could result in investors doubling down on both asset classes going into the autumn and that's simply because the end of the year has historically been a very bullish period for stocks and crypto"

"there's a risk that the finalized tariffs will cause inflation that starts to feed into the economy and you'll recall this effect may not be felt at first due to all the inventory stockpiling in recent months if the economy is still weak or getting weaker we could end up in a stagflationary recession that central banks and governments will have a hard time getting out of"