Main notes
- The total secured value (TVL) decreased to 128.6 billion dollars from the Q4 2024 number of $ 177.4 billion.
- Bitcoin dominance increased to 59.1 %.
- Altcoins performed poorly compared to bitcoin.
At the beginning of 2025, encryption enthusiasts believed that the encryption market was in the upscale tour, especially with US President Donald Trump’s friendly policies. The end of the first quarter of 2025 tells different stories, as the total secured value (TVL) decreased to 128.6 billion dollars from the Q4 2024 number of $ 177.4 billion.
The total ceiling of the encryption market also followed a similar path, as it decreased by 18.6 % and lost 633.5 billion dollars in this process, which is far from what happened during the date of Trump’s opening.
Bitcoin performance
Although Bitcoin was a bad performance in the first quarter of 2025 behind traditional origins such as US Treasury and gold bills, Bitcoin continued to get a ground in comprehensive encryption dominance.
It increased to 59.1 % dominance by the end of the last quarter, which was different from what Altcoins witnessed, according to a report. Co Ringecko.
Ethereum TVL performance
This decrease is 27.5 % in TVL to Altcoins. Ethereum was one of the greatest losers TVL, as it decreased from $ 112.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024 to $ 72.7 billion in the last quarter. This made ETHEREUM ecological system threw 35.4 % of TVL.
Solana and other performance
Other reasons for this exciting loss at Defi TVL number is the decline in Base and Solana, as both decreased by 15.3 % and 23.5 %.
Brarachain has taken the opposite direction of its counterparts as it grew in Q1 2025 to $ 5.2 billion in Defi TVL, which strengthens the situation as the sixth largest TVL share.
Metal coins
Shortly after the opening of Trump, the launch of Trump and Meyla MIM coins increased the launch of symbols at Pump.fun. With this trend, the growth of the coins that were linked to various governments and officials including the scale, the Mimi currency associated with Javier Miley, the president of Argentina.
The developers withdrew the currency by the developers shortly after its launch. As a result, there was a decrease in the number of symbols released on Pump.fun at the end of the first quarter.
These transformations shed light on fluctuations in the Defi and Meme Coin sectors, which confirms the market sensitivity to both political developments and investor morale. With the start of the Q2, all eyes will be on whether Defi can regain momentum or continue to drop.
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