The first quarter of 2025 ended on a sour note, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) posting their weakest quarterly performance in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
Data from the crypto futures trading and information platform CoinGlass shows<\/a> that last quarter was the worst Q1 BTC and ETH have posted since 2018. On a monthly basis, March witnessed the highest losses BTC and ETH have seen since 2020.<\/p>\n Bitcoin began 2025 strongly, surging to its all-time high (ATH) of $109,590 due to optimism about United States President Donald Trump\u2019s crypto-friendly administration. Since peaking, the cryptocurrency has steadily declined, erasing almost every gain made between December and January.<\/p>\n This correction was fueled by several factors, including macroeconomic uncertainty and the failure of Trump\u2019s administration to make any substantial policy shifts to sustain<\/a> the market\u2019s bullish momentum. BTC fell as low as $76,700 within the last 30 days, and the past week has seen the asset trade in a tight range capped at the $89,000 resistance level.<\/p>\n Q1 2025 closed with an 11.82% decline for BTC, a significant deviation from the asset\u2019s average 51.28% gain observed across past years dating back to 2013. The last time BTC saw such negative quarterly returns was in 2020, when it fell 10.83%; however, a much worse plunge of 49.7% was recorded in 2018.<\/p>\n For the month of March, BTC recorded negative returns for the first time in four years \u2013 the asset lost 2.3% of its value. Bitcoin has not seen a negative March since 2020. So far this year, only January has posted positive returns; February ended with a 17.39% decline.<\/p>\n Analysts at the crypto exchange Bitfinex mentioned<\/a> that last quarter\u2019s correction is historically significant because it featured a 29% peak-to-trough plunge from the ATH of $109,590 to the March lows of $76,700.<\/p>\n Ether\u2019s performance last quarter was even worse than bitcoin\u2019s. The asset plummeted<\/a> by a whopping 45.41%, posting monthly negative returns of 18.69% in March. Notably, ETH has recorded negative returns consistently for the past three months, with the worst seen in February (31.9%).<\/p>\n Unlike BTC, ETH has posted only one negative first quarter since 2018 \u2013 in 2022, when its returns were -10.75%. Every other quarter since Q1 2018, when ETH closed with -46.61%, has been positive. The recent negative quarterly close can be attributed to ether\u2019s underperformance in this bull cycle and over the past few months.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Bitfinex analysts revealed that the most popular altcoins, especially meme coins, performed even more poorly than BTC and ETH; many are 80% down from their ATHs.<\/p>\n The post Bitcoin, Ether Post Worst First Quarter Performance in 7 Years<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first quarter of 2025 ended on a sour note, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) posting their weakest quarterly performance in nearly a decade. Data from the crypto futures trading and information platform CoinGlass shows that last quarter was the worst Q1 BTC and ETH have posted since 2018. On a monthly basis, March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":56043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bitcoin\u2019s Worst Q1 Since 2018<\/h2>\n
ETH, Altcoins Worse Than BTC<\/h2>\n