To be honest, there are only a few days left in 2025, and my biggest feeling is this: the market is specifically designed to kill old investors.
I have talked to quite a few veterans who have been in the game for more than ten years, and their states are surprisingly consistent—accounts have been ground down to just a fraction, and their mentality has completely collapsed. No matter if you are playing LTC, DOGE, or some trendy DeFi, the outcome is the same: chasing highs leads to being trapped, bottom fishing results in a decline, and new coins peak upon launch.
It’s no longer a matter of whether the technology is good or not; the market has welded shut the path to making money.
What’s even more frightening is that people’s hearts have truly scattered. Even if there’s a bull market urging you to buy altcoins, your first reaction would definitely be to avoid it—because the memory is etched in your bones: that place is just a high-end meat grinder, specifically designed to deal with all kinds of disobedience.
The market in 2025 is like a brutal 'cognitive upgrade' elimination round. It proclaims with facts: the crude play of relying on past 'altcoin is leverage' has failed; the behavior of purely chasing hot narratives while ignoring the essence of value is being systematically punished.
What this reflects, perhaps, is a disturbing maturation process in the crypto market: liquidity, attention, and opportunities are increasingly concentrating on a few assets that truly possess network effects, clear value capture, or robust infrastructure. The vast majority of tokens are losing their qualifications as 'speculative tools' because they cannot even provide the most basic 'trust' and 'liquidity expectations'.
As the logic of traditional altcoin games collapses, we must face a more fundamental choice: if most tokens are no longer worthy of 'gambling', should the core goal of our crypto asset allocation shift from 'pursuing hundredfold returns' to 'guarding value' and 'seeking stable growth'?
This shift in thinking draws our attention to those areas in the crypto ecosystem that do not rely on speculative cycles but are committed to building underlying certainty. In a market where 'people's hearts have dispersed', the greatest demand may be to regain a 'predictable, rule-based trust'.
This is precisely the area of focus for projects like @usddio. As the narratives of altcoins collapse one by one, the ideas represented by #USDD see faith in stability become even more solid and urgent:
Re-anchoring value: from 'speculative boom' to 'seeking stability'
After a year of torment from altcoins, many investors have begun to realize that a portion of their asset allocation must completely avoid directional gambling. USDD achieves this throughan on-chain over-collateralization mechanism, with a clear goal of pursuing stability anchored to the dollar. It does not promise to make you rich, but rather promises to provide you with avalue safe haven and reliable unit of account in a volatile market..Rebuilding trust: replacing broken narratives with transparent rules
The trust in altcoins is built on constantly changing 'stories', and these stories are all collapsing in 2025. The trust in @usddio, however, is based onopen-source code, on-chain real-time verifiable reservesand immutable smart contract rules. Its credibility does not rely on market sentiment or new stories from the team, but solely on mathematics and public data. This provides investors with a scarce, verifiable certainty.Repositioning roles: becoming the 'ballast' of asset allocation rather than a 'lottery ticket'
When the number of 'game targets' worth participating in the market dwindles to single digits, a rational strategy is to withdraw most funds from the 'gambling table' and instead build an asset portfolio centered on stability. Stablecoins like USDD can serve as thecore stability layer and safe assets, ensuring that amidst the tumult of the market, you always have a deck that won't sink.
The market in 2025 may herald the end of an era: the barbaric growth period where one could get rich by randomly buying altcoins may truly be gone for good.
But this may also mark the beginning of a more rational era: investors are starting to learn to distinguish 'noise' from 'value', to value 'rules' over 'narratives', and to build their safety baseline before chasing returns.
In such a new era, projects focused on building transparent, stable, and trustworthy infrastructure may have long-term value that far exceeds that of most fleeting altcoin narratives.
Do you also feel that this year's market is 'specializing in killing veterans'? In future allocations, will you completely steer clear of altcoins, or will you change your strategy? Do you think the 'demand for stability' in crypto assets will become increasingly important?
Looking forward to seeing your genuine feelings and thoughts in the comments.
#USDD sees faith in stability
As the clamorous stories fade one by one, we hold fast to the contracts written in code.
