## VanEck's Top 10 Encryption Predictions for 2025

### 1. encryption market high point
- **Forecast**: The encryption market will reach a mid-term high in the first quarter of 2025 and reach a new historical high in the fourth quarter.
- **Indicator**: The expected price of BTC reaches $180,000, and the price of ETH exceeds $6000.
- **Indicator**: encryption market-oriented indicators (such as high funding rates, MVRV ratios).
### 2. Deep Interaction between the US and BTC
- **Key Points**: The United States positions BTC as a national financial asset with governance and regulatory support.
- **Solution**: The United States guarantees BTC reserves and promotes secure asset standards.
- **Impact**: Deeply enhance the position of the United States in global encryption finance.
### 3. Tokenized Securities
- **Prediction**: The total value of global tokenized securities is expected to reach 500 billion US dollars.
- **Prospect**: Both public and private chains will provide solutions for the implementation of securitization.
### 4. Daily settlement volume of stablecoin
- **Data Earnings**: The daily settlement volume of stablecoins reaches 300 billion US dollars, accounting for 5% of the current private trading volume.
- **Best Position**: Visa, Mastercard, and ApplePay facilitate the application.
### 5. AI intelligent agent
- **Quantity Progress**: Expected to reach 1 million intelligent agents, and will adopt DeFi and media environment in multiple ways.
- **Project**: AI architecture around the blockchain.
### 6. BTC Second Layer Solution
- **Important Result**: The total lock-up value of BTC L2 is expected to exceed 100,000 BTC, affecting the level of DeFi enabled by BTC.
### 7. Ethereum Blob Space Revenue
- **Looking forward to**: The market provides space for ETH Blob content and through the application of warehouse provision and total content.
### 8. DeFi Now
- **Predictive Quantification**: The total trading volume of DEX is expected to reach a high of 40 trillion US dollars, with a total TVL of 2000 billion US dollars.
### 9. NFT Returns to the Market
- **Repetition**: NFT's existing innovation and dynamic entry into professionalism and economic advantages.
### 10. DApp Target
- **Market Value**: Application-oriented, and improve Layer-1 encryption and partition acceleration mechanism.