Is Altcoin Season Heating Up? Ethereum Break $4.5K As Investors Look for Best Altcoin to Buy

For years, crypto traders have waited for the elusive altcoin season – a period when coins other than Bitcoin deliver the market’s strongest ￰1￱ data suggest the next cycle may already be underway; but with shifting market structures, regulatory uncertainty, and volatile liquidity dynamics, traders will need to tread ￰2￱ Counts as Altcoin Season? According to CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index , the threshold is simple: if 75% of the top 100 non-stablecoin tokens outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days, it’s officially altcoin ￰3￱ fewer than 25% outperform, the market is in Bitcoin ￰4￱ general, Bitcoin season is the default – with a massive $2.2T market cap, the rest of the crypto market is always playing ￰5￱ Altcoin Season Index offers a quantitative way to cut through ￰6￱ smooths returns across a rolling 90-day window, avoiding the noise of day-to-day ￰7￱ practice, though, it tends to lag behind sentiment shifts; altcoin rallies often begin before the index confirms ￰8￱ Market Momentum The past two months have seen notable ￰9￱ August, the Altcoin Season Index jumped from 39 to ￰10￱ dominance began to ease from its summer highs, historically a precursor to altcoin outperformance.

Large-cap altcoins led the ￰11￱ ($ETH) has closed the gap with Bitcoin, holding strong above $4K; it currently trades at $4.5K with a $500B market ￰12￱ tokens like Chainlink ($LINK), Uniswap ($UNI), and several exchange tokens ($OKB, $CRO) have also gained ￰13￱ coins also haven’t been left behind; the total meme coin market cap is up 8% over the ￰14￱ seasons rarely happen in ￰15￱ flows, political shifts, and macroeconomic conditions all play a role. But, as always with crypto, sentiment plays a huge ￰16￱ the Altcoin Season Index relies on technical analysis, the sentiment-based Crypto Fear & Greed Index sits exactly in the middle, perfectly balanced behind optimism and fear.

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It’s a meme coin trader’s best ￰33￱ out the presale page for the ￰34￱ index suggests that the market is somewhere in the middle of the Bitcoin-altcoin ￰35￱ it evolve into a full-blown altcoin season – and how high will $HYPER , $SOL, and $SNORT go if it does? Authored by Bogdan Patru, Bitcoinist — ￰0￱