alt season actually coming or we just coping at this point

[flipflop]

btc sitting around 88k for weeks now and my alts still bleeding. been hearing "alt season soon" since march. holding eth link and sol mainly. are we actually gonna pump or is everyone just coping hard?

 

[Trump_Coiner]

alt season always comes after btc pumps just need patience ffs everyone so impatient

 

[btcinfo891]

alt season always comes after btc pumps just need patience ffs everyone so impatient

btc been crabbing 85-90k range for how long now? where's the rotation then? past cycles money flowed btc > eth > large caps > small caps. so i guess institutional money just staying in btc this time

 

[sk8er]

my link bags down so much this is fine

 

[memehunter]

just woke up. charts still doing nothing i see

 

[Btcalysis]

Look alt marketcap dec 2025: $900 bil while Nov 2021: $1.52 tril so it's down 40% in 4 years and this is why alt season might not be coming this time.
Meanwhile BTC went $69k - currently $88k (and hit above $100k recently). Top 5 alts now control 78% of total alt marketcap. It was only 58% back in 2021. Money consolidating into ETH/SOL and maybe couple others while rest slowly dying.

 

[flipflop]

Look alt marketcap dec 2025: $900 bil while Nov 2021: $1.52 tril so it's down 40% in 4 years and this is why alt season might not be coming this time.
Meanwhile BTC went $69k - currently $88k (and hit above $100k recently). Top 5 alts now control 78% of total alt marketcap. It was only 58% back in 2021. Money consolidating into ETH/SOL and maybe couple others while rest slowly dying.

@Btcalysis fuck me those numbers killed my last hope bro

 

[sk8er]

Top 5 alts now control 78% of total alt marketcap. It was only 58% back in 2021.

78% huh? and which are those top 5 then?

 

[goldkingcoiner]

my link bags down so much this is fine

maybe shouldn't have ignored everyone saying link was overvalued at $50. but sure keep holding and crying about it

 

[bittersweet]

remember when we thought eth would flip btc lmao good times

 

[Timmy98]

maybe shouldn't have ignored everyone saying link was overvalued at $50. but sure keep holding and crying about it

ngmi anw

 

[CryptoDada]

The market structure fundamentally changed between cycles:

2021:
- Retail FOMO driving everything
- New projects launching daily
- Any alt with decent marketing pumped
- No institutional gatekeeping

2025:
- Institutions only touching BTC/ETH/SOL maybe few others
- ETF money stays in approved assets
- Regulatory pressure killed experimental projects
- Retail already burned by NFTs and meme coins

Most alts have been solving nothing for years while token supply keeps inflating. Network usage declining, no product market fit, just hoping for greater fool theory to work again.

 

[Tyrone]

maybe just maybe shoulda been in btc whole time instead crying bout dead alts jeez

 

[memehunter]

its saturday and im watching crab charts. what am i doing with my life

 

[hack3rcon]

most alts showing declining active addresses vs 2022 and with lower transaction volumes developer activity dropped significantly.. so no new users just same degens trading
projects not growing usage won't pump sustainably

 

[marshal]

ser most alts literal ghost chains check block explorers. ngmi
holding anything outside top 10 is to commit suicide

 

[root777]

link down 35% from 2020 high despi9te all those partnerships everyone keeps mentioning. see market doesn't care about partnerships. cares about token value accum

 

[Major]

Every cycle different but this one feels worst for alts honestly. Look in perspective:
2017: Everything pumped eventually even total garbage
2021: Selective pumps but still massive alt season
2025: BTC dominance increasing while alts bleed out

Think we're seeing final consolidation phase. Only survivors will be actual blue chips with real adoption not speculation.

 

[Fjodor]

you're kiddin right?? entire alt market was built on speculation not utility

 

[coinhunter]

some alts still doing well tho. xmr only like 10% from ath