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Liquidity in the market is enough to bring the biggest altseason.

However, the market is still showing uncertainty and the price is staggering.

I've been waiting for real altseason but haven't seen the proper altcoin pumping yet.

I know there was massive pumping for some of the alt tokens but it looks completely different than 2021 or 2017.

What makes it different to those years?

It is different now because there are too many coins unlike that time. Also people talk more about memes this time which is what people are using to do their gambling. They will it pump and later dump it after some time. You can not compare it to when there were just few meme coins and in a way that people are focusing on all the altcoins, unlike now that the coins are too many.

Feels more like 2021 with the BSC Hype, now its the Solana Hype. We will see

It was so different back in 2017, you could pump even ETH with just 20 million and start a rally. Most tokens pumped with silly profits of a whale and you could barely miss one. Any token do 100x easy.
Now there are thousands of tokens, liquidity diversed on all of them. Now matter how much money you inject into the market, it's impossible for any of them to do 100x.
That time is gone

I usually oppose the idea that the altcoin season is going to kick off separately from the Bitcoin bull run. What some people have not understand yet is that things have changed with altcoins so much that we now have too many scam projects and not legit altcoin project like it was better years back. The altcoin season this year will still be determined by how far the price of Bitcoin can reach between now and the end of the year.

There is a lot of hype BSc because most altcoin were coming from the BSc chain and now attention is shifting to the Solana chain and one thing about the crypto space is that you can not really predict every step that it comes with and this is why when the attention starts shifting you start making the decision to follow the trend on time because if you don't start early you will not make anything tangible when it starts fading away. And crypto is always trend and that's does not mean you will still succeed because it's always a 50/50 chances that you will make money so we are suppose to prepare for the worst so that when your expectations is not meet you won't bother your self about winning or losing.

Bitcoin never dip below the previous ATH that’s why there’s no real altcoin season because the price just keeps up and down on new ATH and previous ATH.

Usually, A mega altcoin season happened when the market hits the floor way below the previous ATH with a stagnant market for a long time. Crypto market still didn’t experience this low market due to correction.

Be patient because big player will surely take profit that will create opportunity for good entry.

The sideways movement of altcoins this season under the control of Bitcoin is enough reason to let you and I know that this year, there won't be enough pump that would happen on altcoins compared with other bull run seasons when there was less number of altcoins, and now numerous altcoins are existing in the crypto space. The pump of previous seasons won't be the same as this year's bull run season.

Count yourself lucky if, before the end of the bull run, the altcoin you have invested in has a pump in price to about 10x or 20x.

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That's BS. In fact, the liquidity in the market is not increasing significantly. The total volume in the market is not that big, and not enough to give you biggest alt season ever.

People. who said that this year is gonna be the biggest altseason is just talking BS. They clearly abandon the fact that if majority of alts still remain closest to their ATL.

How can you said that it's biggest alt while majority of alts are still trading at the bottom? Don't be stupid enough in believing people without even knowing the stats of market.

Also, we have more than 15 millions of crypto in the market. I can't even believe 1/15 of 15 million crypto will pump.

The team behind those project then were more of making sure they bring out the best in them but there could be lack of funding to building more infrastructure and integrating more features into it, also, there was a lot selection on coins to be listed on major exchange which has to undergo some strict checkup before listing, mostly coins on major centralized exchange could possible do great during bull season.

You should expect the fragmentation of liquidity across so many altcoins to be impactful toward the altcoin rotation of this year.
Even if the bitcoin dominance dumped from 70% all the way to 35%, it doesn't guarantee your altcoin will go up.

The most logical scenario is that we'll be seeing another high FDV altcoin like ethereum and solana emerging and the rest of altcoin to be abandoned.
But here's the thing, does institutional investors and ETF buyers able to rotate to altcoin? It will be hard.

Well there’s only been one real Altseason since 2017 si there isn’t much to compare with. 2020/21 Altseason was quite good, many people made lots of money but it didn’t compare to the enormity of the 2017 bull market. Hopefully the second half of 2025 is really bullish & everything goes parabolic. 

Don't believe everything you hear:

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We might as well be going down next. Altcoins follow bitcoin and there's a huge change for double top M shape, or even a fakeout before it like last time.
I don't get why people think that huge altcoin season would happen, when many altcoins have already mooned.

We are on whole another level of marketcap, and expecting same kind of moves as before is just alarming delusionary, rather then realistic analysis.

What is the uncertainty in the market now? or what is it that makes you think that there is?

2024, you've missed the altcoin season. It has happened earlier than Bitcoin but if more pumps gonna happen for Bitcoin then, expect that there might be a second phase for the altcoin season. And that's what makes it different from all of those years. We thought that the sequence is going to be the same but it's no longer that.

Possibly the reason why there has not been an altseason so far is because people are too distributed. Too many coins that are not really that good in the first place and people are scattered all over different coins and tokens that don't really hit a particular price point. Altcoins may have now a more difficult image with memecoins existing. It definitely changed a lot of people's perception about altcoins, I feel like.

I remember the previous altseason – huge spikes followed by painful lessons. If we’re potentially entering another big altseason now, note what’s different this time. On one hand, the market and investors are a bit more mature (we have more institutional players, clearer regulations, etc.), but on the other hand, greed and FOMO never change. Many new traders weren’t around in the last altseason, so they might be chasing any coin that moves. I’d suggest everyone temper the hype cautiously: thoroughly research projects and watch out for red flags. Altseason breeds scams and weak projects that ride the wave. If this one will be bigger than the last one, let’s hope we also apply the lessons learned since then – e.g., valuing fundamentals and reputation of project teams, not just memes and marketing. Altseasons can create incredible opportunities, but also winners and losers very quickly.

No, it is not. It is bigger than in the previous cycles, but so is the number of altcoins. Ridiculously bigger. This is flaw in reasoning that comes from a lack of knowledge about numbers. If liquidity was 100 and there were 20 altcoins, that is 5 units of liquidity per altcoin. If liquidity has increased a lot, to 1000, but now there are 2000 altcoins that is 0.5 units of liquidity per altcoin. While liquidity increased tremendously, the fragmentation diminished its potential effects and the new situation is much worse than the previous one. What should be considered when looking at this is the liquidity per number of altcoin.

While there will always be individual extreme winners, factoring in the number of existing tokens, they can be considered similar to lottery winners.

Less fragmentation and less of the same. Did you know that several million tokens have been created since?

You can't seriously consider a slight positive movement an altcoin season. Absurd.

There is no real thinking involved. They are bagholding shitcoins and are hoping that they will make it.

I am pretty sure people could focus that amount into good ones and ignore the bad ones. So while the number of shitcoins is a lot more, we could also safely assume that the money grew and that money will not go to shitcoins mostly, it would go to top names. So, we can safely assume that altcoin season will happen soon. Will it be bigger than 2017? Or anyone before? I am not sure, we can never be sure, there is no reason to be sure about any of these.

But we can safely be certain that it is going to be a big one, and we can make some great profit from it. When we are capable of doing that then we are going to get a good result, so we need to get a greater result for this and we need to just make that much money and we should hold, because it will be a huge one when it happens.

Agreed, people didn't notice it but sui, sol, and some other coin already mooned so hard. the big whales dont wanna move their money outside of these altcoin because of rugs and manipulation.
so, although BTC is ripping for a new ATH, don't expect our low volume coins to go up. instead, focus on coin that already multiplied their FDV like sui. that's where all the money go and total2 can go down literally anytime.

Well I do think we will see some very big Bitcoin gains in this year. And we do know this the alts will follow when Bitcoin does go on a 'bull run'.

Yesterday we did see a new all time high for Bitcoin and still going up. Some of the alt coin are making gains but it is not alot like if you are hodling Bitcoin.

The difference is that right now, its more adopted and the geopolitics is very different during that time. The Gold and Debt crisis wasn't so evident during that time where people are not anxious of the futures but today, even states are buying Bitcoin.

However when it comes to altcoin season, the rise of token prices are slow and one dip of Bitcoin is like 5 dips in altcoins.  2017 bull market lifted the prices of altcoins so easy that even after an ICO prices shoots.

Every altcoin season though is very different and it could be attributed to

a. the current hype, perhaps there is no so called hype right now, tap2earn started early and died down for now
b. the supposedly leader of the altcoin, which is Ethereum, doesn't have anything to offer and investors has moved to SOL or any other of it's competitor
c. maybe altcoin investors are getting smarter now, and so they just go and invest on Bitcoin.

It's really unfortunate though that Bitcoin has reach another all time high while the altcoin market is suffering and bleeding and worst, there won't be any altcoin season for this cycle.

That is a good assumption, I never thought about it that way, I always assumed we are just not there yet, and we are going to eventually reach there with time. But you could be right, when you have less coins like back in the day, and you put some money in, only those would go up, and that would make the market go up, now there are too many, so if we put the same amount in, then it spreads to many other coins and tokens, and that causes a lot more trouble.

We need to do a better job and we need to make more money, so that because we have more coins and tokens, the spread wouldn't hurt since we would be putting in a lot more money in. Doing that is a great thing and we could actually get a greater thing to handle with time.

Right now, i have cancelled out altseason out of my mind because it’s partially impossible to reach it this cycle. Though some still believe there’s high probability. Too much of low-utility and memecoins are all over the crypto market. Investors attention is shifting, liquidity is shifting and demand is now diluted unlike then when focus was only on a few strong altcoins. The crypto market has to shake off the low-utility ones for us to get the big altcoin rally.

The difference is bigger then compared to now dude, though on the other hand I think it looks better these days when the alts season arrives not because I also have other alts that I hold but it seems like the crypto assets that are there now can be said to have more potential.

But the ones I'm referring to are those in the top listed market not the new cryptocurrencies that have only recently emerged in this crypto space industry so extra caution is still needed.