Bitcoin, ether post The worst performance in the first quarter in 7 years

The first quarter of 2025 ended a sour observation, with Bitcoin (BTC) and ETHEREUM (ETH) the weakest quarterly performance for nearly a decade.

Data from Crypto Futures Trading and Information Platform Coinglass He appears This last quarter was the worst Q1 BTC and published ETH since 2018. On a monthly basis, March has seen the highest losses in BTC and ETH since 2020.

The worst Q1 in Bitcoin since 2018

Bitcoin started in 2025 strongly, increasing its highest level (ATH) of $ 109,590 due to optimism about the administration of US President Donald Trump. Since its peak, the cryptocurrency has decreased steadily, erasing almost every gain between December and January.

This correction was supported by several factors, including total economic uncertainty and the failure of the Trump administration to make any major political transformations to maintain the upscale momentum of the market. BTC has decreased to $ 76,700 in the past 30 days, and last week the asset trade witnessed a narrow range at the resistance level of $ 89,000.

Q1 2025 closed with a decrease of 11.82 % for BTC, a significant deviation from the average profit of the original by 51.28 % observed over the past years dating back to 2013. The last time BTC witnessed these negative quarterly returns in 2020, when 10.83 % decreased; However, much worse than 49.7 % was recorded in 2018.

For the month of March, BTC recorded negative returns for the first time in four years – the original lost 2.3 % of its value. Bitcoin has not witnessed a negative march since 2020. February ended with a decrease of 17.39 %.

Analysts at Crypto Exchange Bitfinex Mentioned Correcting this last quarter is historically important because it included 29 % of the peak to the ATH from 109,590 dollars to the lowest levels of $ 76,700.

eth, altcoins worse than BTC

ETHER performance was the last quarter worse than Bitcoin. The original decreased by a huge 45.41 %, and deployed monthly negative revenues by 18.69 % in March. It is worth noting that ETH has constantly recorded negative returns over the past three months, with the worst seen in February (31.9 %).

Unlike BTC, ETH published only one negative quarter since 2018 -2022, when its revenues were -10.75 %. Every quarter since Q1 2018, when ETH was closed by -46.61 %, was positive. The last negative separation closure can be attributed to the ether performance in this bull cycle and over the past few months.

Meanwhile, bitfinex analysts revealed that the most dysentery, especially the Meme currencies, revealed a more vulnerable performance than BTC and ETH; Many 80 % decrease from ATHS.