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Bitcoin's 'realized cap' holds at record high over $1 trillion, casting doubt on four-year cycle

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Bitcoin's 'realized cap' holds at record high over $1 trillion, casting doubt on four-year cycle

A very supportive macro backdrop is being ignored for now, said Bitwise's Andre Dragosch.

By James Van Straten|Edited by Stephen Alpher
Dec 18, 2025, 5:53 p.m.
BTC Realized Cap (Glassnode)

What to know:

  • Bitcoin’s so-called realized capitalization is at a record $1.125 trillion, continuing to rise through this recent 36% price correction.
  • Bitwise’s Andre Dragosch argues bitcoin is underpricing a supportive macro backdrop, with resilient growth and a more dovish Fed potentially driving further upside and undermining the four-year cycle framework.

Bitcoin’s "realized capitalization" is at an all-time high of $1.125 trillion, suggesting that BTC remains in a bull market despite the near-40% plunge in prices over the past 10 weeks.


This on-chain metric, which values each bitcoin at the price it last moved, highlights actual capital inflows rather than speculative price action like total market capitalization.

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Glassnode data shows realized cap continued to rise through the 36% correction from the October all-time price high, even as it's stalled of late in the $1.125 trillion area. A similar pause was seen during the tariff tantrum in April 2025, when bitcoin bottomed near $76,000 before going on to make new highs.

During the 2022 bear market, realized cap fell from around $470 billion to $385 billion as investors capitulated and coins were sold at lower cost base — this sort of response is not being seen at the moment.

Four-year cycle narrative questioned

Andre Dragosch, European head of research at Bitwise, told CoinDesk that bitcoin could defy the four-year cycle narrative, with upside surprises in 2026. Dragosch pointed to resilient global growth combining with ongoing rate cuts to steepen the yield curve and expand liquidity — all conditions that could weaken the U.S. dollar which is an environment that has historically been supportive for bitcoin.


"In my view, bitcoin is materially underpricing the prevailing macro backdrop, to a degree last seen during the Covid recession and the FTX collapse, despite no signs of a U.S. recession and evidence of re-accelerating growth," said Dragosch.

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