Following the U.S. presidential election, crypto’s headwinds have seemingly dissipated. Since early November bitcoin has reached $100K amid regulatory wins such as the nomination of crypto-friendly Paul Atkins to replace Gary Gensler as SEC chair, the naming of crypto advocate David Sacks as the incoming White House “AI and Crypto Czar,” and Congressman French Hill’s appointment to head the House Financial Services Committee. With election season coming to a crypto-favorable close in 2024, some are forecasting “altcoin” season, a period of outperformance for non-BTC crypto assets, to continue in 2025 — but is this the right way to characterize digital assets broadly?

Market commentators sometimes hastily sort the crypto economy into two oversimplified groups: 1) bitcoin (and now for some, ether) and 2) alternative or “alt” coins. In the early innings of digital assets, this dual categorization made sense as bitcoin was pioneering the use of blockchain technology and other use cases were still finding their footing. Nearly 16 years since bitcoin’s inception, an explosion of crypto innovation and sector-specific applications has pushed blockchain assets beyond the binary classification of bitcoin and “everything else.” Investors must now treat crypto as a diverse multi-sector asset class.

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Author: Max Freccia