Bitcoin Cash Surges Over 30% in 2025, Surprising Crypto Investors
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: 2h ago
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Source: Fool
- Bitcoin Cash's Strong Performance: In 2025, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) surged over 30%, significantly outperforming Bitcoin, indicating investor interest in its potential as a long-term store of value for digital transactions, despite its historical underperformance against Bitcoin.
- Rise of Privacy Coins: Privacy coins like Zcash and Monero saw increases of over 700% and 125%, respectively, showcasing a strong market demand for transaction privacy through advanced cryptographic techniques, which may drive future developments in privacy-focused technologies.
- DeFi Winners: Despite Ethereum's lack of annual growth, OKB and MYX Finance surged by 125% and over 3700%, respectively, suggesting a growing investor interest in emerging DeFi projects, potentially reshaping perceptions of traditional DeFi platforms.
- Success of Gold-Backed Stablecoins: Gold-pegged stablecoins such as Pax Gold and Tether Gold rose nearly 70% in 2025, reflecting the strong performance of gold prices, which may attract more investors to the stability offered by gold-related assets.
Analyst Views on BCH
Wall Street analysts forecast BCH stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for BCH is 31.67 USD with a low forecast of 27.00 USD and a high forecast of 35.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
3 Analyst Rating
0 Buy
2 Hold
1 Sell
Moderate Sell
Current: 40.460
Low
27.00
Averages
31.67
High
35.00
Current: 40.460
Low
27.00
Averages
31.67
High
35.00
About BCH
Banco de Chile is a full service financial institution, which is engaged in providing credit and non-credit products and services in Chile. The Bank offers a range of banking services to its customers, ranging from individuals to corporations. The Bank's segments include Retail, which focuses on individuals and small and medium-sized companies, where the product offering focuses on consumer loans, commercial loans, checking accounts, credit cards, credit lines and mortgage loans; Wholesale, which focuses on corporate clients and companies, where the product offering focuses on commercial loans, checking accounts and liquidity management services, debt instruments, foreign trade, derivative contracts and leases; Treasury, which includes the associated revenues to the management of the investment portfolio and the business of financial transactions and currency trading, and Subsidiaries, which corresponds to companies and corporations controlled by the Bank.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
