Why is the altcoins market so dry lately

[Ojima-ojo]

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.

[NewRanger]

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.

[MArsland]

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.

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.

[Emikoyumi]

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.

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.

[TravelMug]

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.

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.

[passwordnow]

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.

[Accardo]

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.

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.

[beveryu778]

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.

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.

[Nahl]

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

[Ojima-ojo]

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.

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,.

[livingfree]

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.

[Churchillvv]

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.

[Pandorak]

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.

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.

[Odusko]

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.

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.

[TastyChillySauce00]

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.

[Iranus]

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.

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.

[Bushdark]

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.

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.

[Futurexxx]

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:



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

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.

[Odusko]

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.

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.

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.

[VirDolorum]

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/