2025 has passed, and I would like to make a brief summary of the year's investments, sharing the experiences and lessons learned. If I were to describe the investment behavior of 2025 in one Chinese word, it would be 'Buddhist'; if I were to express it in English, it would be 'hold'. There were very few trades made throughout the year, and the projects I initially believed in are mostly still held with some minor adjustments. There were also breakthroughs, as I entered the stock market, involving US stocks, Japanese stocks, and A-shares, but the performance varied greatly, and I also experienced the pitfalls of 'insufficient understanding.' Let's first talk about cryptocurrency. In the past two years, I have increasingly felt that the cryptocurrency market is undergoing a very different change, and this change cannot simply be explained in the same way as in the past with terms like 'bull market, bear market, cyclical rotation.' The old four-year cycle experience has been very effective in the past decade or so, to the extent that everyone subconsciously believed: as long as Bitcoin rises, money will inevitably flow into altcoins; it’s just a matter of time. However, in this round, you will find that things have not continued along this path. In 2024, Bitcoin surged, and many people naturally considered 2025 as the altcoin season, even expecting two rounds. But what actually happened was that the altcoin season did not appear, and instead turned into a continuous state of bleeding. Old altcoins are dropping one by one, falling deeply, with some prices even lower than the lowest point during the 2022 bear market; as for new altcoins, it goes without saying that not breaking even after going live is already considered a good performance. The era of tenfold or hundredfold gains right after launch is almost nowhere to be seen.
The bull that was once predicted seems to have come true (BNB surpasses a $100 billion market cap)
Yesterday, BNB first broke above $800, and BNB's total market capitalization surpassed $110 billion. The bull market predicted five years ago seems to have materialized today. On July 25, 2020, I first wrote about my long-term judgment on BNB in a public account, titled 'Long-term Judgment on BNB'; at that time, BNB's price was $18, with a total market capitalization of $2.7 billion. Subsequently, I wrote several articles supplementing the logic of a long-term view of a $100 billion market cap. In the 2021 bull market, BNB's total market capitalization exceeded $90 billion but did not reach $100 billion. This year, it has officially broken through. Looking back now, some of the logic has been validated, while some have been falsified, but overall, it can be considered a successful prediction. This article serves as a conclusion to the prediction made five years ago!
Brothers who play coins, don't envy investors in gold, silver, platinum, A-shares, Japanese stocks, or US stocks recently. Isn't it normal for everyone to have dumplings during the Spring Festival?
Especially A-shares, the current index hasn't even surpassed 2015, let alone 2007.
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Consensus, this concept is not discussed by many people anymore. Consensus is the foundation; only coins with consensus can sustain their rise and have community buying support during downturns. Traditional established coins ranked in the top 20 are basically all consensus-driven coins.
Old coins are still the kings of the market, none of the top ten coins by market cap are new coins. Among the top 20 coins by market cap, only one is hype. Coins are still better when they're old.
Binance's next major direction should likely be the tokenization of real-world assets similar to gold, silver, palladium, copper, etc., or launching contracts—there's probably much greater demand for this than for memecoins. Currently, gold contracts $XAU and silver $XAG already exist, and other assets will follow.
BTC is digital gold, ETH is digital oil? Wrong, the AI era has arrived, computing power is the digital oil.
Many haven't realized: the era when computing power is currency is coming earlier than we imagined. In the new cycle of the 'digital intelligence era', computing power and BTC will become the 'oil' and 'gold' of the new era.
Investing requires faith, especially for ordinary investors. Because everything beyond faith is calculable, and the smarter minds and institutions have already figured out the calculable parts. Ordinary investors can only profit from the part that cannot be calculated—the part of faith. As for the calculable aspects, they can't outsmart others.
In the crypto world, faith is in BTC, BNB, AR, and AO. The first two have already proven themselves; AR and AO are left to their fate.
After the New Year, liquidity has returned US stocks, Japanese stocks, A-shares, and cryptocurrency BTC have entered a phase of synchronized growth. $BTC
The Christmas and New Year holidays are over, and managers from various institutions have started work. Last year's performance has settled, and new layouts are beginning to take shape. It's time to start accumulating cryptocurrencies like BTC.
2025 Binance Summary: Over 95% of investors, known as Binance smart money. In fact, this year, the main trades were just BTC and BNB, with a bit of AR purchased at the end of the year. The trading frequency is basically at its historical lowest year, indicating that in an uncertain environment, being inactive or making fewer moves is rather the correct strategy. What about your annual bill?
Today is the last day of 2025, and BTC is about to close the annual line. Expected volatility will be relatively high. Whether this year is a rise or a fall depends on today's line.
Decentralized, permissionless finance, network effects, divisible, low friction costs, a complete financial system. Understanding these, you will understand BTC; the value of BTC is more than just today's price.