With Q4 of 2025 approaching, things are looking up for the crypto market.
The meme coin market is up for the quarter and has gained 36% in its market cap over the past year. Stablecoins – one of crypto’s recent darlings – have seen their market cap climb from a little over $200B to nearly $300B this year.
Recent days have highlighted some exhaustion with Bitcoin and Ethereum, which have sagged back a bit. Still, analysts increasingly point to three interlocking forces that could drive performance in the final quarter of the year:
The upbeat mood goes beyond those three issues; a recent Grayscale report shows growth in all six core crypto sections.
Here’s how the pieces align – and how PEPENODE fits in.
Here are some things investors can watch for as October draws closer.
Stablecoins may become foundational infrastructure. Analysts highlight that chains heavily used for stablecoin activity – Ethereum, Solana, Tron, BNB, and others – could benefit disproportionately.
That builds on other reports that saw steady growth in stablecoins in the year’s third quarter.
Tokenization of real-world assets, including tokenized money market funds, deposits, and ETFs, continues to gain traction. That follows a steady increase in the RWA market cap over the past month.
Following the Fed’s September rate cut, a ‘Uptober’ rally is widely anticipated. Renewed momentum in Bitcoin could cascade into altcoins, continuing a pattern of market rotation where assets cycle from large caps to smaller, more speculative tokens.
That trend is likely already underway, as the DeFi sector roared back in the past months with a focus on platforms specializing in perpetual futures contracts.
But there’s another token lurking that could see similar gains. Will PEPENODE power up the green frog meme market once again?
$PEPENODE token holders gain access to their own virtual mining node. At first, the node is a blank space. Users spend $PEPENODE to upgrade their nodes, adding additional mining rigs and boosting their ability to mine memes faster.
