Crypto’s $3.8T Juggernaut Rewrites the Rules of Global Finance

The $3.8 trillion crypto market isn't knocking on finance's door—it's kicking it down.

How digital assets bulldoze old systems

No more begging for Wall Street's approval. Bitcoin and its peers now move faster, cheaper, and—let's be honest—with more swagger than legacy banks clinging to their 9-figure bonuses.

The new power players

From DeFi protocols outpacing commercial lenders to CBDCs forcing central banks to innovate (finally), the crypto revolution cuts out middlemen like a hot knife through bureaucratic butter.

Finance won't ever be the same—and the suits are scrambling to catch up.

In brief

• The crypto market reaches a new historic record with 3.8 trillion dollars in capitalization.
• This valuation places the crypto ecosystem on par with the UK GDP, the world’s 6th largest economy.
• Crypto surpasses Microsoft’s capitalization and catches up with Nvidia, the world’s top company.
• Analysts identify an inverse head-and-shoulders bullish pattern, with a target of 4.45 trillion dollars.

The crypto market exceeds 3.8 trillion dollars, a historic record

While Bitcoin joins the top 5 most powerful assets this Monday, July 1, 2025, the total crypto market capitalization reached an unprecedented level of 3.8 trillion dollars according to TradingView data. This rapid increase, +16 % over the last five days, marks a new historic high, surpassing the previous record of 3.76 trillion set in December 2024.

This symbolic threshold now places the crypto market just below the GDP of the United Kingdom, estimated at about 3.84 trillion dollars according to Statistics Times.

Here are the key facts illustrating this surge :

• Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high of 123,000 dollars at the start of the week ;

• The capitalization of Bitcoin alone now exceeds 2.4 trillion dollars, more than Canada’s GDP, and only 22 billion less than Italy’s ;

• The entire crypto market surpasses Microsoft’s market capitalization and is close behind Nvidia, currently the top global company by valuation according to CompaniesMarketCap ;

• If considered as an economic entity, crypto would now be the seventh largest power in the world, behind the United States, China, Germany, Japan, India, and the United Kingdom.

This progress is seen by analysts as a strong signal sent to traditional markets, illustrating the sector’s structural growth and its ability to compete with national economies and established tech giants.

Technical signals announce a new bullish phase

Beyond the raw numbers, technical signals confirm a strengthened bullish bias, according to several analysts. The Supertrend indicator, used to capture momentum changes, turned green last week on the weekly chart of the TOTAL index (the aggregated capitalization of all cryptos), confirming a significant buy signal.

“Total capitalization has just triggered a buy signal on a macro chart. This is a major signal,” commented analyst Mikybull Crypto in a post published Monday on X. The same indicator had previously anticipated a 1,000 % rally in 2021, then a 300 % rise between 2023 and 2024.

TOTAL CAP JUST SIGNAL "BUY" ON A MACRO CHART.

THIS IS MASSIVE pic.twitter.com/2uBJmkMjI7

At the same time, analysts observed the confirmation of a classic bullish reversal pattern, with a theoretical target set at 4.45 trillion dollars, or +19 % above the current level. Added to this is the analysis by Daan Crypto Trades, who estimated a few days ago that breaking through 3.7 trillion dollars WOULD rekindle “momentum and risk appetite”.

The $TOTAL Crypto Market Cap has broken its local resistance and made a higher high.

But it is still yet to break the all time high from late 2024 which is of course due to altcoin underperformance relative to $BTC since this point.

A break above the ~$3.7T level should get the… https://t.co/fQ2611dXcz pic.twitter.com/KTJhnaYfTt

Since this threshold was crossed, daily closes above this level seem to reinforce this technical reading. This configuration suggests continued upward momentum in the coming weeks, provided major support levels are maintained.

As technical signals converge towards a continued rise, several implications emerge: such valuation levels could strengthen calls for stricter regulation, notably in Europe and the United States. Conversely, it could also attract more institutional capital, seeking exposure to an asset perceived as resilient to inflation and the stagnation of traditional markets.

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