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If popularity guaranteed profits, meme coins and AI tokens would have been the top-performing crypto assets of 2025. Instead, they became a clear reminder that attention does not equal performance.
Throughout 2025, speculative narratives such as meme coins and artificial intelligence-related tokens captured a disproportionate share of investor focus. Social engagement, trading volume, and online discussion were heavily concentrated in these sectors. However, recent data shows that this popularity came at a significant cost to returns, particularly during a volatile Q4 that forced investors to reassess risk exposure.
Weak Performance Across Meme Coins and AI Tokens
According to CoinGecko’s latest research, meme coins posted an average year-to-date loss of -31.6%, while AI-related tokens performed even worse, declining -50.2% YTD. Most major meme coins recorded losses ranging from -44.6% to -82.5%, with only a single outlier managing to outperform the broader trend.
AI tokens followed a similar trajectory. Apart from a small number of exceptions, the sector experienced drawdowns between -49.8% and -84.3%, highlighting how early optimism around AI narratives failed to translate into sustainable price appreciation.
This underperformance extended beyond speculative assets. DeFi tokens declined -34.8% YTD, decentralized exchange (DEX) tokens dropped -55.5%, and Layer 2 projects fell -40.6% for the second consecutive year, despite their long-term importance for blockchain scalability.
RWA and Layer 1 Narratives Stand Out
In contrast, Real-World Assets (RWA) emerged as the strongest-performing crypto narrative in 2025, delivering an average gain of +185.8% YTD among major tokens. This growth was driven by strong fundamentals, institutional participation, and explosive performances from select projects, even though overall returns remained below the exceptional levels seen in the previous year.
Layer 1 networks ranked second with an average gain of +80.3%, supported by privacy-focused blockchains and established infrastructure networks. Notably, RWA and Layer 1 were the only narratives to remain profitable for two consecutive years, reinforcing a clear shift toward utility-driven and balance-sheet-relevant blockchain use cases.
Conclusion
The 2025 market has made one message clear: speculative hype alone is no longer enough. Capital is gradually rotating away from attention-driven narratives and toward sectors with measurable adoption, real cash flows, and institutional relevance. As volatility persists, investors appear increasingly selective — favoring structure over speculation.
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📅 December 27 | 🎄 Crypto Markets
While many investors are already switching off for the holidays, the crypto market continues to send unsettling signals. Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, the two most representative memecoins in the ecosystem, remain trapped in narrow ranges, lacking the strength to rebound and without narratives capable of reigniting speculative appetite.

💬DOGE retreated to the $0.123 area, while SHIB fell to approximately $0.000007165, reflecting a market dominated more by microstructure than by news. Memecoins have continued to behave like high beta assets, amplifying the indecision that dominates the major tokens.
Every attempt at a rebound has been quickly sold off, a clear sign that traders are prioritizing reducing exposure before the end of the year.
The immediate macro context doesn't help. Bitcoin fails to consolidate intraday gains and its lack of continuity hinders any rotation towards more speculative segments.
At the same time, the persistent weakness of Ether has limited flows into assets considered riskier, leaving memecoins without the support they historically need to take off. With fewer active participants and emptier order books, prices are overreacting around visible technical levels.
From a structural perspective, Dogecoin remains trapped in an increasingly tight consolidation, with repeated rejections at the upper end of the range and a base that is beginning to be tested.
Shiba Inu, on the other hand, shows a more fragile configuration after losing a key support level, which has shifted market attention to lower levels where real demand could emerge. This divergence does not suggest selective strength, but rather a general fragility of the memecoin sector.

Topic Opinion:
Without volume, without a narrative, and without leadership from Bitcoin or Ethereum, memecoins are reduced to simple charts reacting to technical levels. In these contexts, the risk lies not in a sudden, large crash, but in a slow erosion, marked by failed bounces and constant selling.
💬 Can the memecoin market revive without the impetus of Bitcoin and Ethereum?

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