Bitcoin Cash price outperforms major layer one tokens

The BCH price traded at about $579.8 on December 7, 2025, down roughly 0.5% on the day but up 6–7% over the past week and more than 33% year-to-date, according to recent market data. While one recent analysis framed the gain as “nearly 40%” for 2025, other trackers place the year-to-date increase at about 33–34%, still enough to put BCH ahead of most major base-layer networks over the same period.

The outperformance stands out against Bitcoin itself. One comparative study noted that Bitcoin Cash has outpaced Bitcoin year-to-date in 2025, with BCH up around 30% while BTC is down by double digits over the same span, even after both assets sold off in the first quarter and then recovered together from April onward. That relative strength has helped Bitcoin Cash climb back into the top tier of digital assets by size, with around 20 million BCH in circulation and a market capitalization that places it near 15th among all cryptocurrencies.

Analysts citing BCH’s “clean supply dynamics” point to several structural factors. Bitcoin Cash shares Bitcoin’s capped supply of 21 million coins and a similar halving schedule, which limits new issuance and makes the asset sensitive to changes in demand when circulating supply on exchanges is relatively tight. Recent market commentary links BCH’s 2025 performance to that constrained supply profile combined with a pickup in spot buying and a modest revival of interest in older proof-of-work chains.

Short-term price action has also turned in BCH’s favor. Exchange and analytics dashboards show Bitcoin Cash gaining between 5% and 7% over the past seven days and roughly 7–19% over the past month, depending on the baseline and venue, while many large-cap cryptocurrencies have traded sideways or posted small losses over the same window. That near-term strength follows a volatile year in which BCH, like the broader market, suffered a deep pullback in the first quarter of 2025 before recovering alongside Bitcoin in the second and third quarters.

Even after the recent rally, Bitcoin Cash remains far below the peak dollar prices seen in the years following its 2017 fork from Bitcoin, when the network split over block-size and on-chain scaling debates. However, the latest data suggest that in 2025 it has quietly outperformed many newer smart-contract-focused layer-1 rivals on a pure price-return basis, helped by its fixed-supply profile and a fresh wave of speculative and long-only demand.