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    Bloomberg: As Bitcoin Weakens, Stablecoins and RWA Continue to Drive Expansion in Crypto Businesses

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    These shifts point to a clearer split in the market: pricing remains heavily driven by the Bitcoin cycle, but industry revenue and institutional resources are increasingly concentrating in sectors that are practical, settlement-ready, and compliance-friendly. Unlike the previous bull cycle, which relied on token issuance, narrative-driven speculation, and retail trading enthusiasm, the current expansion is more focused on payment clearing, stablecoin transfers, on-chain asset issuance, and institutional-grade underlying services. In other words, falling prices have not compressed every business line in parallel; some of the more commercialized segments are actually growing.

    The growth areas highlighted by Bloomberg each have fairly clear demand drivers behind them. Stablecoins have gradually evolved from trading instruments into tools for cross-border transfers and on-chain dollar settlement; RWA is absorbing demand for putting traditional assets such as Treasury bonds and fund shares on-chain; and the expansion of payments and infrastructure is being driven more by institutions making real investments in custody, clearing, compliance access, and on-chain settlement efficiency. This also explains why, even as token prices remain under pressure and liquidity in long-tail assets shrinks, the most commercially valuable parts of the industry can still maintain growth.

    That said, the idea that “growth is decoupling from token prices” is, for now, better viewed as a structural observation rather than a broad conclusion. Bitcoin still determines overall market risk appetite, and the decline in altcoin trading volume shows that most on-chain assets have yet to establish stable demand. A more accurate description at this stage is that the crypto industry is accelerating its internal stratification: speculative assets are under pressure, while business lines with payment, settlement, and asset-carrying functions are attracting more capital and institutional attention.

    ## Why It Matters

    The importance of this development is not simply that “token prices are falling,” but that the crypto industry’s growth engine is shifting from token valuations to financial infrastructure. If stablecoins, RWA, and payment networks continue to expand, the industry’s valuation logic will shift in part from “trading sentiment” toward “real usage, settlement volume, and institutional adoption,” which would represent a meaningful change in market structure.

    For institutions, these sectors are also clearly more attractive than long-tail tokens. That is because they are easier to fit into compliance frameworks and can connect with existing systems for payments, custody, and asset management. Still, the information currently available is not enough to prove that the industry as a whole has fully broken free from the Bitcoin cycle; it is more a case of a few highly commercial segments diverging first.

    ## WEEX View

    The core question is no longer whether crypto is growing, but where that growth is actually accumulating. If incremental growth continues to concentrate in stablecoin settlement, RWA representation, and institutional-grade infrastructure, then profits and influence will increasingly flow to issuers, custodians, clearing channels, and leading trading platforms, rather than being distributed evenly across the long-tail token ecosystem. For frontline CEX operations, this directly affects listing logic and liquidity allocation: assets without real payment use cases, stable market making, or institutional settlement demand will only face narrower arbitrage margins and thinner depth going forward.

    Another, more practical conflict of interest is that Old Money reallocating into the space does not automatically benefit most Crypto Native projects. Traditional capital tends to prefer auditable yield, dollar-denominated assets, regulated custody, and counterparties with manageable downside risk. That raises the priority of stablecoins, short-duration debt RWA, compliant custody, and settlement networks on major chains, while also squeezing the capital allocation room available to highly volatile altcoins. What matters next is not the slogan-like claim of “institutions entering the market,” but whether stablecoin settlement share continues to concentrate, whether RWA can generate sustainable secondary-market liquidity, and whether leading platforms direct more resources toward payment rails, fiat on- and off-ramps, and institutional matching, instead of continuing to subsidize long-tail assets.

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