New These Three Altcoins Came Back From The Dead In 2025
Crypto markets got more institutional and more regulated in 2025, but the familiar “altcoin season” many traders expected never fully arrived.
Bitcoin (BTC) hit fresh highs earlier in the cycle, yet much of the rest of the market lagged. Bitcoin was down approximately 7% year-to-date after an early-October sell-off, while the total market capitalization of altcoins declined by more than 46% from its 2025 peak, according to TradingView data.
XRP was among the winners of the 2025 crypto market, outperforming most cryptocurrencies despite the absence of an altcoin season.
XRP surged over 35% in July, topping at a yearly high of $3.60 on July 23, recording an eight-fold price increase from the previous year’s low of $0.43 recorded on Aug. 5, 2024, TradingView data shows.
The token received significant tailwinds from growing regulatory clarity, including the initial reports about the end of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) long-standing lawsuit against Ripple Labs.
Ripple and the SEC ended their long-running dispute on Aug. 8, according to the company’s court filing, after submitting a joint letter asking the court to dismiss the SEC’s appeal and Ripple’s cross-appeal, with each side bearing its own costs and fees.
“The market is clearly rotating toward assets that regulators can classify, institutions can model, and compliance teams can sign off on. XRP fit that profile better than most altcoins this year,” Alex Davis, Founder and CEO at blockchain ecosystem Mavryk Dynamics, told Cointelegraph.
He said the lifting of a multi-year regulatory cloud helped reopen the door to institutional participation.
The SEC sued Ripple in December 2020, alleging the company raised $1.3 billion through unregistered XRP sales.
The debut of the Canary Capital XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Nov. 13 sent another strong signal for institutional investors looking for altcoin exposure, according to Isaac Joshua, CEO of crypto startup platform Gems Launchpad.
Source: CoinTelegraph
