Weekly Crypto Forecast | FED, DOJ, x402 & more!
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Hosts greet the audience, confirm audio quality, and set the tone for a broad weekly crypto recap.
Crypto market nudges higher as BTC hovers around 114k while CMC highlights macro moves and on-platform topics to watch this week.
Summary
CoinMarketCap’s Weekly Crypto Forecast with Gabriel Zani and Alice Sims offers a practical read on where crypto markets stand now and what to watch next. They note a hopeful rebound in the market with BTC price resilience around 114k–115k and a broader uptick in the top 100 assets. The hosts point to macro momentum from US-China trade discussions and ETF inflows supporting liquidity. They also spotlight notable events from last week, such as Kadena’s shutdown shock and Arster’s rocket-launch feature for early token access, framing them as signals of risk and innovation in play. Alice teases a busy end to 2025, with upcoming project announcements and year-in-review content. The segment also nudges listeners to use CMC’s daily topics to stay on top of breaking narratives, from mind-share dynamics to potential airdrops via platforms like Poly Market. Overall, the forecast blends price action, on-chain signals, and narrative catalysts to map a cautious-but-optimistic path through Q4.
Key Takeaways
- Bitcoin showed price resilience, hovering near 114,9k–115k with a current price around 114,92k as of the broadcast.
- Total crypto market cap sits at about 3.87 trillion USD with flat 24-hour change but rising liquidity as 24-hour volume hits ~162 billion USD.
- Altcoins have not yet entered a full season; the CMC Alcoin Season Index stands at 28/100 and BTC dominance remains around 59.2%.
- Last week’s headlines included Kadena’s shutdown (down ~60%) and Arster’s launch feature for early access to new tokens, signaling risk events and innovation runway in 2025.
Who Is This For?
Ideal for crypto traders and investors who want a concise, data-backed weekly pulse on macro drivers, on-chain signals, and timely narrative catalysts. Also useful for anyone tracking major project headlines and appetite shifts as Q4 2025 unfolds.
Notable Quotes
"The market is turning back up again."
—Alice notes a bullish tilt in the near-term price action.
"Bitcoin touched 115k, but now sits around 114,921."
—Concrete price level cited to anchor the week’s outlook.
"Kadena shutting down its operation, dropping more than 60% on that day."
—Highlight of last week’s risk event and its impact on sentiment.
"We want to prepare a good review for you guys for what actually happened for us in 2025."
—Alice signals upcoming end-of-year content and retrospective analysis.
"You can come here cmc.com/ community/lives. You find all the content there."
—Promotion of CMC’s live-content hub as a helper for staying informed.
Questions This Video Answers
- What macro drivers are currently pushing BTC and the broader crypto market in Q4 2025?
- How did Kadena’s shutdown affect market sentiment and liquidity last week?
- What is the significance of CMC’s daily topics for crypto traders and investors?
BitcoinBTC price analysisCrypto market capAlcoin seasonUS-China trade talksETF inflowsKadena shutdownArster launchPoly Market airdropsCMC daily topics
Full Transcript
You are sounding great. Like in the beginning a little bit robotic but I think it stabilized already just like first one to two seconds then everything seems fine for me. I'm able to hear you loud and clear. For everyone in the audience let let us know how you how good or bad can you hear us around here but I think everyone is just like is very much okay with the way that we are sounding. So without further ado, Alice, I think we can officially kick things off around here. I see almost 100 people already joining us.
So what is up for all the CMC fam that is joining us today? Warm welcome to all the jans, farmers, hollers, day traders. No matter what you are in the space, you are more than welcomed on the weekly crypto forecast. And you're now listening and maybe also watching the weekly crypto forecast by coin market cap. I'm your host Gabriel Zani. You all know me uh and you also know even better than me our co-host here Alice Sims research lead. Alice, how is it going for you? How has been the weekend and how are you feeling about the markets?
Yeah. So, for the market first, I'm very happy we're finally back up on. So, I I hope you guys are feeling the gloomy October is left behind us. We did not have an October just yet. We still have a few days, but the market is turning back up again. Uh for me personally, I kid you not, Gab, I'm having the busiest week for me in 2025. I don't know if I don't even know what is happening. There's there are so many things going on um at the moment. We have some exciting exciting project announcement uh coming out in a few weeks.
We are also uh yeah working really hard for end of the year content. We want to prepare a good review for you guys for what actually happened for us in 2025. So yeah, a lot going on. But I'm glad the market is back up in action again. Yeah, same feeling here. I think that everything that has been going on the last few days is kind of bullish for BTC and we are going to not just BTC of course but it's three crosses down to the whole market and we are going to unpack a lot of that on today's live talk about what what is the moment that we are leaving and I mean at this time in crypto like where we can go also the people that follow macro have seen gold falling a little bit in the last couple of days does it mean that that liquidity is going to come to crypto is going to come for BTC let's wait and see we're going to unpack that and much more on today's live and for Everyone that is wondering, maybe it's your first time here on weekly crypto forecast.
As usual here, we cover from narratives to catalyst. We got everything covered. And if you want to catch us live every Monday, download CMC app, turn on notifications. You won't miss any of our content here. And in case you do, absolutely no worries. All episodes are waiting for you on many places across many different platforms. First, you can come here CMC website or app. You can go to cmc.com/ community/lives. You find all the content there. Not just weekly crypto forecast but also lives we do with projects with Koss with big people in the industry key voices you can go there listen to everything but also on Spotify Apple podcasts or your preferred streaming platform we are there as well just search for CMC weekly crypto forecast you'll find us but Alice let's kick things off now I mean you say you're a little bit bullish I'm a little bit bullish as well let's go through the details on the market overview on why we're feeling like that yeah let's look at some of the data points as we speak the total crypto market cap is at 3.87 trillion USD that is flat for the past 24 hours 24-hour trade volume is up at 162 billion USD market is back and active again so the volume suggests a very healthy liquidity at the moment dominance for Bitcoin is at 59.2% 2% ether is at 13%.
So ether is up in terms of market dominance and CMC crypto fair and greed index is giving us 42. We're finally moving into the yellow zone which is neutral. We are coming back from fair to neutral. So that is a good trajectory. And if we have uh CMC alcoin season index right now is at 28 out of 100. We just got out of BTC season guys. Altcoin season has not arrived yet. I know I know some of you guys are holding Zcash. Some of you guys are holding a few other like humanity protocols and whatnot.
Things are performing really well. So, let's look at some of the top performance for last week. If you rank on the CMT homepage by 70% uh performance, you'll see leading the pack number one humanity protocol ticker H up 145%. Virtuals is up 79%. Zcash up 38% for the past seven days. Jupiter up 20%, Hyperliquid up 19%, pump up 17.2%. And if we look by some of the top coins in this um uh right now as we speak, Bitcoin, I know it touched 115, it dropped back a little bit. Now, you see right now it's at 114,92172 for me right now.
it is uh giving us a very good price level placed for the rest of the week. So as you guys know everyone all eyes are on the latest US China trade talk and that over the weekend seems to generating some of the great momentum for us and not just BTC up we had the entire stock market S&P 500 up 0.9% NASDAQ up 1.5% and uh although that said gold dipped slightly back down for 3.3%. But coming back to crypto again, BTC as a push of the macro, as the push of uh inflows from ETF side is holding strong either is at 4,155, it is up 2.5% for the past seven days.
And uh following that XRP it's up um at 2.65, USD it's up 7%, B&B, Solana etc all had very good momentum going on. So overall coming back to this uh gap that is why I'm saying the market across the board is giving us a slight uptick across the top 100 projects. Yeah Alice agree with you. It's just good to see like even if you said like 3% as you mention for example like BNB Solana 3% like ETH BTC last seven days more or less in that same range we see for sure other tokens like XRP around 7% hyperlquid 20%.
Bitcoin cash with from I mean I think it's it's already became a memecoin somehow someway like at this point in time but like really cool to see it going up like 16% for the ones that have it from the hing like not from the h but from the fork a long time ago maybe this is just like interesting I don't know if you guys have held through it this long but anyways like who I mean whoever have it maybe did some I mean interesting gains on this last couple of days with it also as mentioned Zcash but Alice one thing that I want to show people here is like maybe you are wondering right now like hey okay last week I mean those that was a performance of many of the top tokens in the market but what actually led to that what triggered that kind of performance what happened last week and there's a way guy for you guys for you to be on top of everything that happens in the crypto space which is CMC daily topics I've mentioned this quite some times already here on this live but I mean I think now is the best time for you to be on top of that because let's face it we are now on Q4 2025 this is that moment in time what everyone is expecting like hey are we going to new alltime highs is the peak of the market behind us already are we starting a bare market no are we still going to go on a run throughout the end of this year maybe beginning of next year until when so every news every breaking thing counts right here for web BTC and the whole market is going to move and that is a place where you can be informed about all that whenever new topics live right now on my screen here you can see that we have weekly crypto forecast sitting here on the homepage there will be a topic right here and you will know just by going to cmc.com or to or by opening the app you know what is the daily topic but if you want to catch all of them you come to CMC community topics you click right here and you have all the topics so for last week for example if you guys remember well we started the week with the US China summit kind of like sparking the market a little bit we saw a little bit of a comeback the market started moving but then on the upcoming day we already saw saw everything going down again.
One of the highlights of the day or the low lightss, let's put it like this, of course, was Kadina shutting down its operation, dropping more than 60% on that day. Definitely the talk of the town in crypto. If you didn't know about it, maybe you're living on a cage or something like that on a cave. But anyways, I think that's the most I mean was the most important thing on that day. Then you have of course Arster launching rocket launch which is kind of like a gamechanging assess uh asset feature for I mean early access to new tokens.
So that's definitely the talk of the town at that point in time. Then of course everyone have heard about it. CZ predoning Trump like B&B is sharing a little bit other tokens benefiting from it as well. And as you guys can see these were like the top talks that we had in the last week. And to close out the week poly market like airdrop confirm it like what is the alpha to earn more poly for example. You can basically just come here click on it and you have a ton a ton of information on what is going on.
For example, what is the mind share? Like people talking about like mind share stuff, strategies to farm pose, like for example, what is the FDV could be looking like depending on how things are going to be different like cases of that, how that can play out and what you can do to actually farm more poly in case you were still watching from the sidelines. If you I mean if you have never used it poly market at this point in time, maybe there's a chance for you to learn a little bit on how to do it and be I mean part of this upcoming airdrop.
That's kind of like the alpha that you have here when you have like BNB going up which other tokens can benefit from it. People are talking about a lot of other tokens that can benefit from it here here as well. So you can actually learn from what other people are watching what other people are doing. Like for example, own the word limit.
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