Cryptocurrencies and the digital asset market have gone a long way since an anonymous person or person nicknamed “Satoshi Nakamoto” published the White Bitcoin 2008 Paper, named “Bitcoin: a peer electronic cash system”. Over the years, the future of Crypto has never seemed certain: there were exchange hacks like HT. Gox Hack 2014 (the biggest Bitcoin exchange at the time), which led to ~ 650,000 Bitcoin. Then there was the silk road market, an online black market that sold drugs and used crypto as a means of exchange. Finally, there was the FTX exchange, which collapsed due to the mismanagement and the abusive use of customer funds. Between each of these cases, there have been several smaller but devastating moments.
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However, the cryptography industry has proven to be resilient. Today, there are 250 digital assets listed on Coinbase (COIN). Overall, there are more than 15,000 cryptocurrencies listed on more than 1,000 exchanges. Although the crypto industry remains a “far west” in many fields, 2025 will remain in the memories as a record year where the crypto has entered the political, institutional and general public lexicon due to generalized access and formal regulation.
This week, President Donald Trump has signed an executive decree which will open the way to the authorization of cryptocurrencies in 401 (K) and other retirement plans. The OUT orders the Ministry of Labor to “re -examine” the past guidelines that did not allow other assets such as basic products, real estate and crypto. If digital assets are authorized in the retirement accounts in the workplace, he will open cryptography retirement plans to more than 70 million Americans, more than half of the American workforce.
After a lot of anticipation, Bitcoin ETF finally made its debut last year. Since then, Blackrock’s (BLK) Ishares Bitcoin Etf Trust (Ibit)) had the best debut of all ETFs in the history of the United States and continues to obtain massive trading volumes in 2025. In fact, according to Ainvest, in the second quarter of 2025, almost 60% of the institutional portfolio had allocated 10% of that with Bitcoin or other digital assets. Carrying out the immense success and the potential of Crypto ETF, ETF managers have expanded their offers to meet the demand for Wall Street with “Alt Coin” offers as the Solana ETF (Solz)) and the Etf Ethereum (Etha).
Strategy (MSTR) opened the way in the space of the cryptographic treasury, earning more than 3,000% in the past five years after adopting a Bitcoin cash strategy. In the past year, several other listed companies have followed the example of MSTR and added Bitcoin to their balance sheets. Meanwhile, the treasure of the alt-coin crypto alt-coin. For example, Bitminal immersion (Bmnr)) has become the largest Ethereum treasure in the world.
