Polymarket Bets Big on Crypto’s Next Bull Run—Here’s Why

Prediction markets are flashing green for digital assets as Polymarket traders pile into bullish crypto contracts. The platform’s crowd-sourced odds now favor a 2025-2026 supercycle—despite Wall Street’s ’this time it’s different’ hand-wringing.

Key signals: ETH 2.0 staking yields beat Treasury bonds, Bitcoin ETFs swallow gold’s market share, and memecoins somehow keep printing millionaires. One contract even prices a 50% chance of Bitcoin smashing $100K before 2026.

The twist? These degens might be the canaries in finance’s coal mine—outperforming hedge funds again while traditional investors chase ’safe’ 2% yields. Just don’t tell the SEC.

Aside from Bitcoin, Polymarket bettors have also predicted the Hyperliquid token, HYPE (HYPE), could jump as high as $28 before June 2025. Around 62% of traders have placed bets worth a total of $1,349 in volume on HYPE reaching $28 before June. Meanwhile, another 38% of bettors believe it could reach $30 before June.

At the moment, Hyperliquid’s token stands at $26.73. In the past 24 hours, HYPE reached its peak at $27. The token reached its previous all-time high in December last year, when it rose to $34.96. Since then, the token has failed to recover past the $30 mark, plummeting as low as $10.27 in early April.

Lastly, another Polymarket betting pool predicted the AI-inspired Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) could reach $1.50 before June. Around 75% have placed bets on the meme coin hitting $1.50, while nearly 20% believe the token could reach $2 before June.

According to data from crypto.news, FARTCOIN has gone up by 0.17% in the past 24 hours. It is currently trading hands at $1.28, declining slightly from its daily peak at $1.35.

The last time the meme coin was able to reach $2 and $1.50 respectively was last January. It has since failed to climb back to its previous peak.

Polymarket airdrop predictions for Q2 2025

According to a Polymarket betting pool titled “Airdrops in Q2 2025,” trader placed bets on which projects they believe has the highest chance of holding an airdrop event for its holders by June 30 this year.

Polymarket now thinks Linea is the most likely project to hold an airdrop event by Q2 2025. It leads the charge with 40% of traders betting on an airdrop event. The second-most likely project to airdrop native tokens is the ethereum (ETH) wallet Rainbow at 34%, followed by the meme coin launchpad Pump.fun with 28%.

In early April, Linea’s product head, Declan Fox, said the project plans to wait for the bear market to pass before it will launch a Token Generation Event.