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Matthias Knab, Opalesque:

Despite regulatory shifts, rising market optimism, and several major coins reaching new all-time highs, 2025 still turned out to be a tough year for cryptocurrencies, marked by sharp price swings and more losses than gains for most coins. While short rallies kept hope alive throughout the year, corrections and market stress ultimately defined the trend, which brought a particularly painful downturn in the final quarter.

According to data presented by CryptoPresales.com, only ten of the top 100 coins ended Q4 in the green. Here are the biggest winners and losers among them.

Pippin Leads Q4 with Four-Digit Growth; Two Coins Saw Triple-Digit Gains, and Five Logged Double-Digit

2025 was a wild ride for cryptocurrencies. The year started strong, with institutional demand through spot ETFs and growing interest from corporate and government treasuries pulling crypto deeper into traditional financial markets. However, the first quarter still ended in the red, with Bitcoin posting its second-worst Q1 in a decade, dragged down by weak economic data and investor doubts. However, cryptos made a strong comeback in the summer, with BTC climbing to $112,500 in May and then soaring over $123,000 in mid-August. By early October, it even set a new all-time high of over $126,000, but things took a dramatic turn in Q4.

Tighter liquidity, profit-taking after earlier rallies, and broader macro uncertainty triggered sell-offs across major coins, c......................

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