CryptoQuant CEO Predicts Selective Alt Season: Which Coins Will Soar in 2025?

• CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju predicts that only select altcoins will thrive in 2025, unlike previous broad market rallies.
• Altcoins with ETF applications, strong developer activity, and sustainable revenue models are expected to perform best.

Ki Young Ju, the CEO of CryptoQuant, has recently made a prediction that raises the prognoses about a shift in the traditional altcoin market cycle. He believes that the future altcoin season is most likely to start in 2025 and will be a selective altcoin season, where only some coins will surge.

Altcoins Likely to Outperform in 2025:

1. Potential ETF approvals
2. Sustainable attention drivers
3. Revenue-generating projects

The era of everything pumping is over. It’s a selective altseason—most altcoins won’t make it.

— Ki Young Ju (@ki_young_ju) February 25, 2025

Ju said that the altcoins associated with ETF applications will have a higher growth rate than the overall market. He further indicated other tokens that have applied for the ETF include XRP, Solana (SOL), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Hedera (HBAR). These financial products could probably boost institutional investors and demand, just like Bitcoin ETF in 2024.

Sustainable Attention Will Be Crucial

Ju also said that good altcoins that will always sustain the interest of the long-term investor are those backed by ETFs. Most emerging coins and tokens see a short boom and, hence, experience a rapid downturn as soon as the market cools down. He also pointed out tokens that currently have very little use, such as TRUMP and MELANIA, whose value dropped 90% within weeks of launch.

Altcoins, with a dedicated developer community, constant updates to their products and services, and investors’ trust, will have a better shot at surviving the next few months. Ju also noted that tokens without clear use cases within the infrastructure might face some challenges.

Ju also pointed out that in 2025, altcoins with sound economic models would be most apparent. He opines that projects with practical use cases and integrating with businesses will be the best-performing tokens. The investors may focus on portfolio holdings with definite applications, sound essential, and independent of a bubble-free environment. The shift indicates that market sentiment is changing for the better, where more preference is given to projects with longer holding periods instead of shorter-term gains. 

The End of an Era

Ju also stated that the old capital flow cycle that earlier fueled the altcoin pumps is obsolete. He likened altcoin’s previous season to a notion of a ‘rainy season’, indicating that the phenomenon of large-scale alts moving up across the board will not repeat itself.

Redefining “Altseason” pic.twitter.com/wVIeUu0eoF

— Ki Young Ju (@ki_young_ju) February 21, 2025

Recent regulatory changes and tripping institutional investment have affected the crypto market perspectives. The capital inflow is not equally distributed but now largely enters stable coins or already recognized crypto coins. This shift mainly insinuates that only a few altcoins are likely to grow significantly in the succeeding years.

Recent market data supports this perspective. A recent CoinShares report showed that Bitcoin witnessed $ 571 million in outflows, and altcoins like XRP recorded an inbound of $ 38.3 million. This trend shows that investors are now investing in specific altcoins with good fundamentals instead of diversifying their funds in the altcoin market.

Ju also discussed the further consolidation of the current funding situation in the market as a kind of “PvP Fight”, as capital circles between the already present assets. The sentiment has persisted, with BTC performing better than 78% of top-ranked cryptocurrencies to keep with the idea that this market cycle is quite selective.