This past week has been quite complicated for those in the crypto market. It feels like we're in some kind of global apocalypse, or like some kind of eclipse is affecting the world economy. Besides the very low cryptocurrency prices, when we zoom out to other assets, we see gold, which was supposed to be one of the most stable assets in the world, fluctuating in the tens of thousands, and silver, for example, falling by 40%. This week of declines impacted crypto, the stock market, precious metals—everything was falling, a true definition of apocalypse. Let's understand the CRYPTOCALYPSE in more depth!
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CRYPTOCALYPSE
Since the entire crypto market is ultimately greatly influenced by Bitcoin's movements, analyzing what happened to it can provide us with some interesting insights for other altcoins. In the case of cryptocurrencies, even though they fell sharply this week, it's worth remembering that they were already in a fall/recovery scenario after what happened in October 2025. The fall on that day continued to impact the market, which was struggling to stay above $90,000.
After spending a good amount of time in the $85,000-$90,000 range, Bitcoin, on January 30th, at the end of the first month of the year, began to lose that support of $85,000, which it sometimes came close to, falling to around $82,000, as if predicting an impending fall. Since then, Bitcoin has continued to fall until it reached its lowest point below $60,000. Some say that this fall may be linked to quantum computing, since it continues to advance and there has been no network upgrade, but since it was a fall in several markets, the most likely reason may be the financialization of Bitcoin.
Source: Crypto Fear & Greed Index
This financialization would be the creation of securities that represent Bitcoin and leverage, which many speculate may have artificially increased "above" the 21 million unit limit through these securities. Now, since the price is determined by these securities, as with other assets, the drops end up being chained and amplified. The big problem with this drop is that liquidity left the markets very quickly, and in crypto, many projects end up holding their reserves in tokens, which harms the sustainability of several DAOs and projects that were caught off guard.
It's very interesting to think about scenario planning precisely for cases like this. Those who thought about what to do if prices fell end up always being prepared. This is precisely a topic I'm going to research further: scenario planning. The first point is to understand the history and origin of the projects in depth. If something doesn't have a solid origin, it has a greater chance of collapsing, like a building without a solid foundation. Still talking about crypto, a very curious case that I didn't think was possible, that is, a scenario I didn't see as possible, was the fear and greed index becoming very negative, while cryptocurrencies are positive, which shows how large the impact was. This shows how important it is to think about the most diverse scenarios and possibilities; learning about history helps with creativity.
