Bitcoin printed fresh all-time highs around $124k on Aug 13–14, 2025, before easing toward $112–118k; Ether broke its 2021 record on Aug 24, pushing near $4.95k. Flows into spot ETFs and improving macro are driving bids—while on-chain/derivatives data show rising leverage and early retail re-engagement.
The latest sentiment snapshot on X (May 10–17, 2025), powered by Grok’s filtered data (excluding bots), paints a fractured narrative beneath the surface of bullish headlines. Bitcoin (BTC) sentiment slipped below bullish thresholds as fear resurfaces, while Solana (SOL) clings to fragile optimism propped up by institutional tokenization hype. Both tokens are testing critical levels.
The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has surpassed the $500 billion mark for the first time since February 2018 as the price of several altcoins is moving up, while BTC’s price is hovering around the $18,000 mark. At the time of writing the BTC price oscillated around $18,300 at CryptoCompare. Most crypto experts expect the BTC to break the previous all-time high of almost $20,000 from December 2017 in this bull run.