2025 Delphi Digital's Top 10 Predictions: DeAI Leading the Decentralized Finance Revolution, Solana Will Continue to Outperform Ethereum

Original text: Delphi Digital

Compiled by Yuliya, PANews

In the field of cryptocurrency, 2025 is considered a key year full of innovation and change. With the continuous development of technology and changes in the market environment, multiple areas are expected to experience significant breakthroughs and opportunities. From the bull market of Bitcoin to the rise of Solana, and the transformation of DeFi to DeAI, the cryptocurrency market in 2025 will present unprecedented trends. This article will explore the top ten market trends predicted by Delphi Digital, revealing the possible direction of the future development of the cryptocurrency industry.

1. Bitcoin (BTC) still has room to rise

Delphi Digital's cyclical model predicted that Bitcoin would reach a new high in the fourth quarter of 2024. The current trend of Bitcoin is consistent with the prediction.

Each new historical high is accompanied by a monthly RSI breakthrough of 70, and previous bull markets typically end after RSI exceeds 90.

According to the monthly price regression channel, Bitcoin is still below the 1-2 standard deviation range above the top mark.

The increased interest from institutions and relaxed regulatory environment may be the main driving force behind this bull market.

2. Solana emerges

Solana will continue to outperform Ethereum, mainly due to its excellent user experience and better content ecosystem.

No need for approval tokens or wrapped tokens, Solana's operation is simple and intuitive.

Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) is the fastest growing alternative virtual machine (alt-vm) ecosystem with continuously strengthening network effects. At the same time, Anza, Firedancer, and improved wallet infrastructure will further optimize the user experience.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko's vision is to maintain Solana's advantage even in the face of increasing competition by increasing bandwidth and reducing latency.

3. NFT makes a comeback

The NFT market will experience a strong recovery that is inconsistent with the fundamentals.

Although token trading is more convenient, NFTs can achieve on-chain uniqueness encoding, and heterogeneous assets (such as artworks, wines, etc.) may be tokenized as NFTs.

Some major wealth creation events (such as the airdrops of PudgyPenguins, Milady, and Azuki) may trigger other NFT projects to follow suit.

NFT is more user-friendly for retail users and is suitable for displaying culture and identity.

4. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) evolves towards DeAI

DeAI will fundamentally change the way users interact with DeFi.

The front-end interface will be replaced by smart agents, and users can complete transactions, exchange rates, and income searches through natural language processing.

In the future, most capital allocation decisions will be made by agents. Griffain is a pioneer in this area, but DeAI projects like HeyAnon are rapidly emerging.

5. AI agents become top cryptocurrency venture capitalists

The future of trading will be dominated by AI agents, not human opponents.

Agents can monitor the market around the clock and process more data, and trading will evolve into a competition for computing power and unique data sets.

By 2025, at least three agency frameworks will become unicorn companies with a market value of over 10 billion US dollars.

6. High-throughput chain drives innovation

High-throughput blockchain will bring more experiments and opportunities in 2025.

The main projects worth paying attention to include Hyperliquid, Sui, and Monad, but other chains like Berachain also have potential.

MegaETH is expected to compete for market share with the second layer network, rather than directly competing with the first layer network.

7. DePin welcomes recovery

If a large-scale DePin project can achieve self-sufficiency, it may trigger a re-evaluation of the entire field and promote a rebound in the 'fundamentals'.

DePin has disruptive potential in areas such as wireless services (Helium), network infrastructure (DoubleZero), mapping services (Hivemapper), healthcare, and power grid operations.

8.zkVM will usher in revolutionary development

zkVM technology will improve the interoperability among various Rollups and achieve seamless cross-chain interaction.

zkVM will also expand the developer market, enabling developers to build zk applications using other languages such as Rust.

9. AI opens up new opportunities for GameFi

AI development tools will enhance game developers' productivity.

Projects like InWorldAI are developing AI-powered NPC services.

Open source projects such as Virtuals.io game framework and the integration of Eliza with Unreal Engine and Unity could be a revolutionary breakthrough in the AI gaming field.

10. Consumer-grade DeFi is the next blue ocean

In 2025, blockchain-based finance will fully serve the indigenous people.

zkTLS will allow sensitive Web2 data to be brought onto the chain while maintaining privacy, enabling personalized proxies, credit scoring, and other applications.

The income-sharing stablecoin will continue to expand, and the incentive mechanism will better align between the issuer and distributor.

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