The year 2025 has ended, and an unusual finding remains for the crypto market: Bitcoin ends the year with a loss of more than five percent.This means that 2025 marks a historic exception, as for the first time a year after a Bitcoin halving ended with a negative return.This development is particularly exciting given the last few weeks of the year.While global stock markets reached new highs and both gold and silver rose significantly, Bitcoin clearly lagged behind these asset classes.For many market participants, this raises the question of whether this is a temporary phase of weakness or a structural signal.

The target price of Bitcoin ($BTC) is the subject of numerous estimates, forecasts and speculations.Numbers like $100,000, which could definitely be reached this year, $500,000 or even $1 million, keep coming up.But now the well-known asset manager VanEck, which manages almost $90 billion and offers both a Bitcoin and an Ethereum ETF, has announced an incredible price target for the Bitcoin price.

This year, a new financial product appeared on the cryptocurrency market - a crypto ETF, which makes it easier for large investors to buy top coins through well-known investment funds. In the winter, the world began to invest in Bitcoin ETFs, in the summer - in Ethereum ETFs. There are also talks about the prospects of widespread adoption of Solana ETFs2024. This trend can be seen in the Bitcoin price, which has risen by about a third since the beginning of this year - from 42.2 thousand US dollars to 59.1 thousand US dollars.Therefore, our editors decided to find out whether the popularity of crypto ETFs will help pull the price of famous coins out of the correction triggered by the fall in the value of cryptocurrencies and the US stock market in August.

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