Asset selection and timing have been the two critical components of the 2025 strategy.
With Gold surging past $4,000 and Silver trading at multi-decade highs, precious metals look overheated at these levels.
Historically, when gold starts to cool down, it passes the baton to Bitcoin.
Crypto investors are looking for Bitcoin to make a new all-time high and fuel the next leg of the bull market. But where to position, is the perp DEX narrative already over with Aster plummeting 14%?
Q4 is typically when rotations begin, and with capital flowing into crypto via DATs and Spot ETFS, the race down the risk curve could be violent this year.
If history is the guide, soon presales and small caps start to outperform, and Digitap ($TAP) appears to be in this cohort, raising an impressive $650,000 after releasing its non-KYC visa card.
Aster’s fall and the perp DEX wars
Aster is down nearly 14% in the past fortnight, falling to make a new all-time high since it hit $2.40 in late September.
A major reason for this underperformance and strong resistance at the $2.12 level is that the airdrop campaign finished on the 5th of October, leading lots of mercenary trading volume to leave the platform, not to mention stiff competition from Lighter and Hyperliquid.
Source: https://x.com/0xngmi/status/1974801402456051868
Backed by CZ and positioned as a next-generation perp platform, Aster aims to become the on-chain Binance.
But compounding its problems currently is the delisting from DeFiLlama and the uncertainty surrounding the actual trading volume taking place on the platform.
Still, the airdrop campaign closing, and reports about dubious trading volumes explain the current weakness for ASTER.
Why small caps could outperform in Q4
However, the conditions for small caps and presales look excellent with everything coming together to fuel a potentially euphoric sprint in classic late-stage cycle fashion.
Global easing is underway, the M2 Money Supply continues to expand, and stocks are at all-time highs.
Trump’s pro-crypto stance is another tailwind, but with the caveat that the focus has tilted towards projects solving real financial problems using blockchain solutions.
Digitap raises $650,000 with non-KYC Visa card
Digitap’s presale has passed $650,000 since launch, with its non-KYC Visa card being a primary driver.
Positioned as the world’s first omni-bank, Digitap aims to make crypto spendable and eliminate the line between fiat and crypto assets.
Anyone can sign up for a card today that allows users to spend crypto or stablecoins anywhere Visa is accepted (millions of merchants globally) with instant conversions handled in the app.
Digitap is bringing digital assets onto traditional payment rails and offers a single platform where fiat, crypto, and stablecoins can coexist on a single dashboard.
Digitap has already sold all its stage one tokens, with the $TAP token now trading at $0.0159, expected to jump 22% to $0.0194 in the next round.
Driving this demand in part are the $TAP tokenomics, with 50% of platform profits directed towards burns and rewarding stakers.
This link between platform success and token holders mirrors other successful projects like Hyperloquid’s buyback and burn campaign.
And it appears the market is skewing towards rewarding tangible results instead of roadmaps.
The excitement about Stablecoins as a gateway to global finance
Stablecoins are arguably the most successful product crypto has created, moving billions in monthly volume.
Digitap aims to become an interface for these digital dollars, allowing ordinary users to interact with them, with the comfort and usability of a standard neobank interface.
The interesting comparison between Aster and Digitap is that while Aster competes with Lighter and Hyperliquid for an already crowded DEX market share, Digitap targets global payment corridors, with cross-border payments alone expected to reach annual volumes of $290 trillion in 2030.
If it can capture just a percentage of these flows, it would equate to a multi-billion-dollar ecosystem and plenty of burn pressure for the $TAP token.
Discover the future of crypto cards with Digitap by checking out their live Visa card project here:
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Website: https://digitap.app
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