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We are at the end of the year again, and with altcoins massive dump that happened along side Bitcoin,, but with recent recovery and winding out the Year 2025, alot is expected to have start happening with in the altcoins market, but recessed is the case lately, and no project have been lounced with success recorded in recent time, so I wonder what really going on with altcoins and how prepared we can be towards the coming year.

Crypto is now completely gambling.

Just check the Alpha trading (that is also called the on-chain trading) on some of the exchanges, you will see how tokens are manipulated.

See this recent manipulation on this coin that major exchanges kind of promoted recently:

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Altcoins are too many now also is another thing and people have turned them to full time gambling.

Yes because of the presence of multiple altcoins, the majority are now scam and this have killed investors motivation to look in the way of altcoins, but now they are focusing more on assets like Bitcoin which market is already established and could withstand any form of market manipulations that comes along the the with altcoins investments.

There are still plenty of projects launched with billions in fully diluted valuation but the general landscape of the altcoin market is indeed dry. It lacks hype and it lacks the rally we needed. The latest trend that is going on is privacy coins which honestly a good thing since we've seen privacy coins just dump all year round and finally there's a change but the scope is limited to that.

I don't expect much from the altcoin market for the simple fact that there is fragmentation of liquidity. Too much altcoin make pump hard to come by.

No wonder token trading on Alpha is manipulated a lot because some people just want to chase points so it wouldn't be strange for so many tokens to be manipulated in trading there.

Yeap crypto is now almost like gambling.
If it is profitable, it will be profitable --- if it is a loss, it is still a loss.
The altcoin market is now unpredictable and too many altcoins are only looking for profits for devs not for the community.

The market surely is unpredictable. The number of options might also be a reason why traders are confused. That's why its difficult for a legit new coin to be successful.
November to February always had been slow months but as we had another large fall in october, there is some correction now. Bitcoin is still below $110K. It has a large resistance above 100K but if anyway it broke that, the price would go tumbling and a 25% loss in Bitcoin means 50%+ for many alts.
But many news are positive. Just today the senate has forwarded the budget, the US government shutdown would end as the budget passes, even though the war in Russia and Israel are still ongoing, it has became more stagnant and we might see more negotiations in 2026. There's an increasing interest in crypto as people seek to look beyond fiat.
I'm not bullish for the Q1 but Q2 to Q4 could be the time crypto gets back to its glory.

I hope you are making mention of Q4 of next year, not of this year because this year Q4 is almost over. Crypto will see a mini glory if she is to(not certain).

That being said, Q4 of next year is very long. How many of the altcoins get to pick up in price during that time after they have fallen drastically in price in Q1, Q2, and Q3 before Q4? Let's not forget that next year should be the start of the bearish market. Any of us who fail to dump their altcoin this year or the beginning of next year will have themselves to blame for the mistake of not selling their altcoins on time.

As I see, it's a natural tendency from crypto market after the massive bullish run we have been seeing since the first quadrimester of 2024. As expected, after massive increasements in volume and price, the market's tendency is to cool down and to present movements of correction and crashes in prices.

The most affected ones will be, indeed, the speculative projects, the high risk altcoins' investments, so it's not an interesting moment to get engaged with them.

Because the main focus of lots of investor now are in Bitcoin and other top coins. This is the reason on why we have seen so good volatile movement of those coins on top since many people think that there are more better movement and profit to get from those coins compare to other shitcoins out there.

Maybe meme coin scams, also pump and dumps token contributes people for staying away with these type of alts.

We have seen people talk about many things on current progress happening on Bitcoin and this is the reason I think we didn't experience the alt season this year.

You didn't include if there was a volume spike on there. If there wasn't, this happens with exchanges that have fake volume.

Exchange bots are creating volume by listing fake trades that are happening between real buy and sell orders, so when real buy or sell orders are just thin walls, market buying or selling even low amounts can cause huge spikes without creating any volume, because actual gap between buys and sells is just that large.

Altcoins are dead already because we see different shitcoins in the market and tomorrow, they're no more. Altcoin is for gamblers that feel there's a golden opportunity to get rich quick from them. It ends up the opposite because the dev are smarter than you and their main aim of creating the project is to scam the public.

I will advise the OP, to forget about putting your hope on altcoin price pump because investors have understand the trick behind these projects. Only BNB have achieved success recently.

Privacy coins are doing well right now, but the vast majority of altcoins are still struggling, likely in part due to market saturation and not having real utility. There was also the situation with Stream Finance, which was essentially a ponzi that has now collapsed.

Due to lending market curators not doing proper due diligence and wanting to inflate their TVL, it's had an effect on the wider ecosystem. There is many markets with bad debt and yield bearing stablecoins are trading for a few cents because Stream Finance borrowed all the backing collateral and are unable to repay.

Honestly, alts seems likely a trap. I don't blame it's wrong to put the money into the alts, but almost all of alts are facing the same issues. They're not even moving even when Bitcoin crazily pumped to the roof.

There might be some reasons why alts getting stuck.

1. Uncontrolled supply of alts, more alts, and same demand. This obviouslly making alts to stay in the same place even getting a sell off during the dump.

2. Crypto is about a tech and narrative anymore, it's also about the political intention.

3. No more 4 years cycle anymore as there are too many alts in the market. It's now about finding alts that can fit the narrative that is happening now.

4. Money fully focising onto the Bitcoin, and not intending to rotating.

That’s wild, its price was $10 at its all-time high, and then in less than 24 hours it suddenly crashed to $0.59. I feel bad for the investors who bought in at $7–$9. A rug pull clearly happened there; you can plainly see the price was manipulated. A lot of investors FOMO’ed in.

This is what’s alarming about brand-new altcoins or meme coins entering the crypto space: their volatility makes unexpected events like this almost inevitable. That’s why it’s still better
to invest in cryptocurrencies that have at least some proven track record.

I hate MMT ;D they released wave2 and it's still not worth what the community has sacrificed in the ecosystem. So this is a pretty bad project for me, btw what OP said the situation of altcoins now is quite predictable even if they succeed it will only last for a while because the speculation of new projects especially this year is quite diverse. As a result liquidity is spread to different types of projects just to take the initial share and after that investors go to withdraw their funds.

Throughout this cycle, this is how altcoins have been reacting.if Bitcoin price drops, altcoins dump heavily. When Bitcoin starts to recover, altcoins hardly recover  only a few manage to bounce back.So, even with this recent Bitcoin dump, as Bitcoin is trying to recover, I don’t really expect many altcoins to recover. Many of those projects are just pump-and-dump schemes; their aim isn’t to stay long in the crypto industry but to scam people. That’s why crypto is starting to feel more like gambling, and altcoins nowadays aren’t really worth investing in.

There’s not much hope for crypto recently, with how the market has been reacting. Now that everything about altcoins isn’t going as planned, the best preparation for next year should be to expect both the good and the bad  because investing in altcoins now is basically a 50/50 chance.

It is because of coins like MMT that I fear altcoin markets sometimes. There can be sudden moves but also when it comes to dumps, the markets can quickly dump and after that it takes months or even years for the markets to show us any promising returns again. Most people will loose everything in such coins because after this massive dump, they would hardly trust a coin like MMT and would just sell all of their holdings so they can invest the money elsewhere.

It always makes it difficult to have promising returns when it comes to altcoins. Sometimes we might get lucky and have profits coming our way but this happens rarely and in most cases we wind up losing all the gains. A through market research is very much important when it comes to altcoins and specially coins like MMT.

As of now, all focus was on bitcoins and maybe that is one of the reason why altcoin markets seems a bit dry but eventually altcoins will start rallying again.

We need patience when it comes to altcoins because even in a bull run altcoins will take some time to show us any growth. Altcoins are always considered as a second choice and bitcoins will be given priority but as we see bitcoins are somewhat stable now so people can eventually start moving funds towards altcoins which will make them grow again.

Not this year but maybe the start of 2026 can begin the altcoin season and we can start making profits out of altcoins again. It is not really recommended to hold altcoins for a longer time so I would instead look for an opportunity when they start growing and will make profits our of trading instead of holding.

There should be another altcoin that has a good usecase, not those niche native coins of their own chain or whatsoever. We need an innovative way or good narrative of a new token and in that way, a new generation will soar high. That's why the only blue chips I'm trusting is ETH, BNB and SOL which has a lot of utilities inside the chain and of course have a massive community and usecases. The volume is also good, people are always having transactions within the chain for different purposes and that's why they always pump at the right time.

People making alts with same narrative and it'll turn out to be sht, and of course please avoid political tokens, those will just ruin your portfolio. Trust the blue chips and embrace the purpose of crypto.

Privacy projects have recently seen significant success and seen strong gains. I can say it's also provided some hope for other altcoin projects. The market has generally dried up considerably as we're nearing the end of the year, with altcoins at their lowest levels in the last few years. Investors are losing hope one by one, and I suspect that's exactly what market makers want.

We are at a scary time in the altcoins market, no one can tell which direction a coin will go and how the team will act when the project starts to pick tractions, most of the time the new projects that are getting launched have not meet the previous attempts that by old projects that made altcoins to gain the popularity their currently enjoying.

Lately the altcoins market is nothing but a gambling ground, where investors have nothing to hold onto, and at some point lose almost everything.

This is a rather unpredictable time for the market direction, and it's very volatile. But, we also know that holding altcoins requires in-depth research and understanding their behavior compared to Bitcoin's price movements. Even though we know the coins we are holding are major coins and they are still quite strong but finding the best entry point is important to in this moment.

Given today's market sentiment, selling pressure remains quite strong, with occasional price spikes. We should wait until the price reaches support or a demand zone on a lower time frame. I mean, don't rush into buying now.

Personally, I still see a chance for altcoins to rise and the whales are also looking to profit.

With the altcoin market situation that is very difficult to guess the direction, it is not surprising that people focus more on bitcoin to avoid losses that are quite troublesome. For this reason, I also began to reduce my interest in new types of altcoins launched in 2025, the trend of RWA and AI with many choices actually made the market even more messy.

People nowadays do not want to take risk like before. Everyone trades hoping for profit no one wants to take a loss on purpose. But many time even very good alt tokens end up turning into scams. This has become a big threat for new traders. That is why people now prefer buying bitcoin eth or other token coins that have a lower chance of loss. If fewer people were buying Bitcoin and the demand for alt tokens was higher then the bull run would already have started.

What we have seen could be what we can call "micro season', just short burst of meme coins and not so with solid altcoins and that's it. And it's the obvious reasons that Bitcoin dominance is so high, meaning money is flowing on that market alone. And even if it goes all new all time high, it doesn't trickle down to altcoins like ETH and other strong altcoins in the top 10-20.

And another could be the institutions and ETF's entering the market. Again, it just chase Bitcoin and Ethereum and not on some low market cap altcoins. Or maybe investors with this unrest and global market are unstable, prefer safe haven or just wanted to be safe with Bitcoin only.

By continually in accumulation. That's how we can prepare if ever the market does something good out of these drops that we're experiencing. These massive drops is disappointing for many altcoin holders but we can't blame the market for that. Because if we're prepared to these unexpected events that we're experiencing, there is no problem at all that we'll be thinking of how it will be doing the next month or so.

Altcoins grew larger than investors in the recent market changes and no way it's expected to be fruitful. Diminishing returns happened to the alt market, not all of their projects could stand major financial shifts before thinking of rugpulling. Imagine a market where some developers can decide to leave with people's money, it's killing the ecosystem, investors won't trust the system for its deviousness coupled with the presence of lots of the coins.

Well, the altcoin market has not been that hot of late. The majority of the liquidity is taken back to Bitcoin as investors watch the risk because it is safer and new projects remain pending before going to the market.

It is a silent period, though the salvages in the past have usually resulted in powerful recoveries as soon as trust is rebuilt. 2026 can be the set up year of the subsequent altcoin cycle.

People look very excited when they see some altcoin such as Ethereum or BNB can reach to new peak and this makes the investors has starting to invest at these coins because they were expect the prices still possible to reach to another peak but unfortunately people have to dissapoint to see altcoin market now because when we are expected altseason happened but in fact the market gradually dumped and now i think we shouldn't expect more for altcoin because in this year the market won't be recover anymore i think that's why altcoin market so dry lately because the traders looks pesimistic and lost their trust to altcoin

Lately the market have been unstable for all assets the recent sharp drop in the price of Bitcoin have forced a lot of altcoins to follow down with the market crash which is something that we have to play along with and nothing the risks that comes with altcoins.

If you must invest in altcoins, you should do so knowing the risks that comes with them, compared to Bitcoin investment,.

That's true.

Despite that Bitcoin is lower than $100k again, it's still the better investment of them all compared with the altcoins. I hold some altcoins too but if it's with Bitcoin, I am more confident holding it.

Because of the volatility that we're getting from it, the altcoins are more and higher in volatility. We got used to that and even the top altcoins, they're also more volatile than of Bitcoin.

And they're all simply going wherever Bitcoin is heading.

Bitcoin not being as bullish as people expected this period is also something to worry about as much as altcoins being boring as hell in 2025, it’s probably that the market has changed its pattern but it’s yet to be known, even know we like bitcoin yet there is enough reason to worry about altcoin low infact very poor performance this year.

I think this cycle is worse for altcoins than the previous cycle, with a lot of bad news impacting the market. yet if you look at the news itself, it's not that bad. The problem is that the people who convey this information are the main cause of market volatility., fear is spreading among traders who are afraid of incurring losses. Looking back at previous times when bad news came, prices dropped significantly, so when it comes again, traders rush to exit first. Compared to Bitcoin, altcoins have naturally fallen more, by as much as tens of percent in a short period of time, which is tantamount to market manipulation.

What do you expect when we should already know that Bitcoin is a volatile assets and for that reason, is very hard for us to be able to speculate the price, so when we expect the price to be bullish Bitcoin will disappoint us and go the other way, that we never thought Bitcoin will go, and this have affected a lot of us in the most negative way, so we advice that we reduce our uptrend expectations sometimes and be at a position that lower our risk constantly.

Money sucked to shitcoins and new overhyped project. As a result the old projects and altcoins in general have no money to pump or in other words we are running out of fuel for altcoins market.

What do you expect when ruggers are making millions out of innocent retailers through shitcoins and projects doing max extracting to retailers through IDO. It's a mess for these past few months.

If you are talking about worthless coins with no reputation or development history, I agree. But if you say all altcoins are dead including top altcoins, projects that survived 1 or 2 bear seasons, I disagree.

Not only BNB, many other altcoins also brought good returns in this cycle. For example, SOL has increased from $8 to $290 and is currently trading at $140. Those who invested in it since 2022 are still making huge profits. In addition, SUI, HYPE or exchange tokens like OKX, BGB also grew significantly in the past 2 years.

Don't invest in shitcoins and assume all altcoins are dead.

Don't you think that the dip in the price of Bitcoin that has affected the Altcoins market can be responsible for the dryness of the market?
Don't be surprised that many of the altcoins tokens have fell severe and their is no way they can go up a little without the price if Bitcoin moving first before we can see altcoins doing so too. We have to wait for Bitcoin to start at positive movement before we can see price of altcoins doing so to halt the dryness in the market. We might be in the bear season and there is no way we can for cast this until the price of Bitcoin continue to dip before the confirmation becomes clear.

You are actually not wrong bro, all that you said here are true, alt and meme coin are more of gambling than investment, though their are some few coin that are a bit trustworthy, like bnb, Ethereum and Solana, but because the market is sinking presently, no coin out there will be spared, and it's during this period you will get to know how shitty most alt and meme coin are in the market.
So no sane or knowledgeable person will risk so much on them presently considering how they can fall if the asset in question is full of shit.

I tend to agreed with that, privacy projects have increased significantly lately and to some extent we have seen all the movement in their market which somewhat point us to the technical aspect that have come with centralized involvement in some decentralized projects such as ETFs and government reserves, this have made it mandatory for cryptocurrency users to move towards privacy tokens which enhance they privacy in the long run.

Not enough liquidity for them all, just some of them performing, like strk, zec etc. Even Hayes started to selloff his bags, which is weird since he was super bullish: https://btcusa.com/arthur-hayes-dumps-major-crypto-holdings-as-market-sentiment-shifts/

The crypto market is now almost 15 years old and we are now in a position to tell where our focus should be. Every year we see a new trend emerging in crypto market which attract people money. After sometime the trend changes and people move to new trend. ICOs, NFTs, AI and RWA are few noticeable trends of past and present. I do agree with your thought that it's better for us to focus our attention on Bitcoin and invest less on new projects. Because new projects rarely give it's investors a good return.

Majority of us, with the knowledge of how the market have acted in the past are already taking informed decisions such as not jumping on projects just because of the hypes around them, we have recorded alot of loses in the pasts that have thoughts us lessons and now we can take better decisions as regards which coin to invest on or which to avoid and not jiat following their hypes.

Following the hype is temporary. We have seen these hypes ending quite soon and some other coin will be hyped which will not last as well. I will not say that investing in these hyped coins will never give us profit instead these can give us quick profit if we know how to buy rumors and sell the news. This is something which required good research and experience as usually these hyped coins can eat up all of our profits or even make our accounts worthless.

I will mostly ignore investing in these hyped coins until and unless I see there is strong backing for that hype. If the project is really worth hype than yes, investing early can make us earn profits but we should also know when and how to exit. Sticking around with these hyped coins is never a good choice.

If you want to invest in crypto then Bitcoin must be our first choice and if someone want to go for alts then choose from top 10 on coinmarketcap.com like Eth or BnB. The new concepts like meme coins, NFTs keep emerging with time and one can invest in such coins for short duration only i.e. you invest and exit as soon as you see good profit. Such coins are never recommended for long term because if there price went down then we can't say with confidence that they will rise up in future.   

I think market has never been predictable but if I can speculate on the current market, I would say that the coins are likely to dip more, since the market condition is negative already.

Before one starts indeed that a an in-depth knowledge is a must to know the do's and don'ts but if in terms of movement in general, BTC is more volatile that in alts, so BTC must be more risky than them. It is given that the market is in a bad shape, so if there is a strong pressure, that should come from buyers and only a few from sellers which can come from the weak handed people.

I wonder if anymore potential projects will come forward lately. We did see some really good project emerging in the past, few of them succeed while some lost their value over time which made people think are altcoins really worth investing. The same money invested in bitcoins can give really good profits so is it really worth taking risk investing in altcoins?

For me, yes I think few altcoins still are worth investing and we can watch the markets closely as the recent dump can create a surge for these altcoins. Usually in dump, people tend to move money out of bitcoins. The same money needs to be invested elsewhere so people will look forwards towards altcoins and this can increase prices for altcoins so I think this might be a good time to invest in altcoins.

And since the market is controlled by Bitcoin, and since the market is controlled by Bitcoin, and the Bitcoin price is coming down, what are we expecting? The price is going to go up, as far as the price of Bitcoin is concerned. As it is coming down, so is the price of other cryptocurrencies, and this is not the first time that something like this has happened, so everyone who knows the market should not be panicking about anything because this is not the first time, and before, when things like this happened, the next step they took was to sell.

But people no longer sell because they are scared of selling due to the condition of the market, so anyone who is selling now is selling at a loss, and everyone is trying to keep their funds safe from the slaughtering in the market, and there are the worst market conditions. And everyone survived, so this is nothing compared to what has happened in the previous years. so this is where the patience of people will be tested if they are selling or not. and the only thing they can do is to even buy more in this condition.