2025 was brutal for Layer-1
Bitcoin dominance stayed elevated
Altseason indicators barely moved
Layer-1 2025 REWIND ⏪
> Key Price Moves
$APT -80%
$INJ -77%
$SEI -71%
$SUI -65%
$TAO -48%
> New Launches
$KTA
$PI
$IP
$CC
$XPL
$BERA
$PLUME
Even positive catalysts like ETFs, regulatory clarity, and institutional interest failed to lift prices meaningfully.
The market sent a clear signal.
Narratives alone were no longer enough.
• Oversaturation became impossible to ignore.
Too many L1s were competing for the same users, liquidity, and developers.
Fragmentation hurt everyone and capital concentrated instead of rotating.
• New chains struggled to justify existence.
Many launches relied on airdrops, emissions, and incentives without sustainable activity.
Validator failures, security incidents, and stablecoin issues only accelerated skepticism.
This gave rise to a harsh but necessary theme.
Altcoin elimination.
👉 Fundamental developments from popular Layer1s
While L1s suffered in price, building never stopped from some top layer-1s in the game
• SUI leaned into payments, stablecoins, and Bitcoin DeFi bridges, growing users and ecosystem depth.
• APT positioned itself as a trading-focused chain, expanding integrations and infrastructure with strong stablecoin market cap
•SOL matured institutionally, with ETF inflows, stablecoin growth, and major technical upgrades.
• SEI carved a niche across finance, RWAs, and AI-linked use cases.
• KAS improved throughput and developer participation through consensus upgrades.
• TAO stood apart by tying incentives to real AI subnet activity and supply discipline.
But still, new Layer1s are struggling after their launches.
👉 Why 2026 looks selective, not expansive
The Layer-1 trade is changing.
The market no longer rewards “new" and we need resilience, differentiation, and usage.
2026 is unlikely to be about dozens of competing L1s with a focus on Privacy
It will be about a few winners absorbing liquidity as weaker chains fade out.
Layer-1s are consolidating.
And for the first time, that is a healthy sign.
On 21 November 2025, on reported presence of khwarij, a joint intelligence based operation was conducted by the Security Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies in Bannu District.
During the conduct of operation, own troops effectively engaged the khwarij location and after an intense fire exchange, eight khwarij belonging to Indian Proxy Fitna Al Khwarij were sent to hell.
Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from killed Indian sponsored Khwarij, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the Security Forces, Law Enforcement agencies and target killing of innocent civilians.
The operation underscores the strengthened collaborative efforts between Law Enforcement Agencies and Security Forces, who have significantly intensified intelligence-driven operations in the region. These meticulously coordinated and synchronized security measures are designed to constrict the operational mobility of Khwarij elements, systematically dismantle their facilitation networks, and curtail their capacity to reorganize. Operations are producing substantial and measurable success with continuous efforts to achieve more peace and stability.
Sanitization operation is being conducted to eliminate any other Indian-sponsored Kharji found in the area, as the relentless Counter Terrorism campaign under vision “Azm-e-Istehkam” (as approved by the Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan) by Security Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies of Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.