Most people said we won't gonna experience altcoin season!

[Rubuchi]

They are right ! Alts are done ! cartels and exchanges used those scam alts to extract as much they can ! stick to btc and wait for final pump to get out

I don’t think that Alts are gone like you lightly mentioned. Alts are also here to stay for long term and they will continue to remain the way they are only if the likes of Solana and other strong alts become bigger in the game but I don’t think there is a single alt that can still match up with the power of bitcoin in the next 50 years to come.

[Baki202]

They are right ! Alts are done ! cartels and exchanges used those scam alts to extract as much they can ! stick to btc and wait for final pump to get out

I don’t think that Alts are gone like you lightly mentioned. Alts are also here to stay for long term and they will continue to remain the way they are only if the likes of Solana and other strong alts become bigger in the game but I don’t think there is a single alt that can still match up with the power of bitcoin in the next 50 years to come.

Altcoin here to stay the only reason you will see that altcoins i no longer in a systems it will be the reason that bitcoin is no longer in existence also because they Foundation of Altcoin is Bitcoin so whatever Direction or whatever step bitcoin takes other coins follows and that is why even in the market one of the concentration that other developers look at in time of prediction is bitcoin because that is what will determine the price of other coins, this shoes are important bitcoin is to other coins even as stable as ethereum, BNB and solana another coins are they still depend on Bitcoin when you comes to increase and decrease in the market.

And at as far as bull is happening other coins will definitely follow every coin will experience this because it's a season and no coin is left out and this is why you see a lot of coins popping out of nowhere even  coins on a normal day that will not survive will definitely survive during Seasons like that and that is why when you are purchasing your a coin you should know the kind of coin you are buying if it is not Bitcoin there are other beautiful altcoins you can buy with your money and you will make your interest so I said Bitcoin they are still other beautiful coins out there also that are recommended.

[fullfitlarry]

They are right ! Alts are done ! cartels and exchanges used those scam alts to extract as much they can ! stick to btc and wait for final pump to get out

I don’t think that Alts are gone like you lightly mentioned. Alts are also here to stay for long term and they will continue to remain the way they are only if the likes of Solana and other strong alts become bigger in the game but I don’t think there is a single alt that can still match up with the power of bitcoin in the next 50 years to come.

Yes, altcoins are going to exists in the market, but the question is that we didn't see a bull run in this cycle as compare to previous cycles wherein altcoin has a big run, bigger than Bitcoin itself.

But in terms of longevity, most of the solid altcoins will continue to be here despite not getting into a big increased like LTC or Doge. And there will be a lot of altcoins as well that is going to be born in the next cycle.

[livingfree]

Now that the year is actually coming to an end do you still have this strong fate and believe that we would still experience the altcoin season this year or next year?

What do you think, are going to experience the altcoin this year or next year?

Not pretty much by next year.

That's the bear market that we're assuming to come and this bull run was already final and set. Maybe if some alts are going to blow up and skyrocket by next year, they're only few.

But the rest and the majority of them are not going to be as lively as how most of these altcoins did last year and for this year of 2025.

If you hold alts that never pumped, sorry about that. But that might be the final hope you've got and better to move on.

[Odohu]

They are right ! Alts are done ! cartels and exchanges used those scam alts to extract as much they can ! stick to btc and wait for final pump to get out

I don’t think that Alts are gone like you lightly mentioned. Alts are also here to stay for long term and they will continue to remain the way they are only if the likes of Solana and other strong alts become bigger in the game but I don’t think there is a single alt that can still match up with the power of bitcoin in the next 50 years to come.

You are missing the point of what they mean by altcoin season. In the past, after Bitcoin bull market, investor usually push their funds to altcoin which also so form of bullish momentum for the altcoins and this is what is usually called altcoin season. Why I'm skeptical about it happening like in the past is because Bitcoin do not also follow those predictable patterns. For instance, we don't know if the bull run of Bitcoin have ended or not which means we may not also be able to know what will happen when it is established to have ended.

[havok1998]

The short answer is no, not this year and likely not in early 2026. The Altcoin Season Index sits at 16 out of 100, meaning only 16 altcoins have outperformed Bitcoin in the last 90 days. To signal an official altcoin season, this index needs to reach 75 or higher. Bitcoin dominance is at 59.27%, and for altcoin season to truly begin, Bitcoin dominance typically needs to fall below 50%. You're looking at a 9-percentage-point gap that represents billions in capital rotation. Institutional money is flowing into Bitcoin ETFs, not altcoins. The brief August rally lasted just 31 days before Bitcoin reasserted control, and by December the index had crashed from 78 to 16. This tells you everything about the current market structure.
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The pattern in 2025 revealed something crucial: altcoin season is no longer a broad market rally where everything rises together. Instead, it's become brutally selective. Only specific altcoins with clear narratives outperformed, while hundreds of generic altcoins that people accumulated with hope remain down 50-90%. The investors who made money weren't diversifying across 50 altcoins. They were picking 5-10 projects with real infrastructure and real adoption. That's the new market dynamic.
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If altcoin season does return in 2026, it will likely be later in the year and only if Bitcoin consolidates (not crashes), clear new narratives emerge, and capital visibly rotates away from Bitcoin. Right now, none of those conditions exist. Bitcoin is still grinding higher, institutions are still accumulating it, and there's no macro catalyst pushing traders toward diversification. The hope you had in early 2025 wasn't really about "altcoin season." It was about believing in specific projects. That belief needs to be backed by analysis, not by waiting for a calendar event that may never come.
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[tech30338]

The short answer is no, not this year and likely not in early 2026. The Altcoin Season Index sits at 16 out of 100, meaning only 16 altcoins have outperformed Bitcoin in the last 90 days. To signal an official altcoin season, this index needs to reach 75 or higher. Bitcoin dominance is at 59.27%, and for altcoin season to truly begin, Bitcoin dominance typically needs to fall below 50%. You're looking at a 9-percentage-point gap that represents billions in capital rotation. Institutional money is flowing into Bitcoin ETFs, not altcoins. The brief August rally lasted just 31 days before Bitcoin reasserted control, and by December the index had crashed from 78 to 16. This tells you everything about the current market structure.
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The pattern in 2025 revealed something crucial: altcoin season is no longer a broad market rally where everything rises together. Instead, it's become brutally selective. Only specific altcoins with clear narratives outperformed, while hundreds of generic altcoins that people accumulated with hope remain down 50-90%. The investors who made money weren't diversifying across 50 altcoins. They were picking 5-10 projects with real infrastructure and real adoption. That's the new market dynamic.
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If altcoin season does return in 2026, it will likely be later in the year and only if Bitcoin consolidates (not crashes), clear new narratives emerge, and capital visibly rotates away from Bitcoin. Right now, none of those conditions exist. Bitcoin is still grinding higher, institutions are still accumulating it, and there's no macro catalyst pushing traders toward diversification. The hope you had in early 2025 wasn't really about "altcoin season." It was about believing in specific projects. That belief needs to be backed by analysis, not by waiting for a calendar event that may never come.
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We might or we might not experience it, but every year there is a sign that alt season will start its when an almost dead coin come back to life and give people a profit of a lifetime, when every altcoin follow that is for sure altcoin season, but sometimes those old coins are just part of history and never come back , while they are being replace by a new one, we can predict it will happen but knowing when is a different story, but i hope it happens soon, so that we can all make profit for that.

[ultrloa]

The short answer is no, not this year and likely not in early 2026. The Altcoin Season Index sits at 16 out of 100, meaning only 16 altcoins have outperformed Bitcoin in the last 90 days. To signal an official altcoin season, this index needs to reach 75 or higher. Bitcoin dominance is at 59.27%, and for altcoin season to truly begin, Bitcoin dominance typically needs to fall below 50%. You're looking at a 9-percentage-point gap that represents billions in capital rotation. Institutional money is flowing into Bitcoin ETFs, not altcoins. The brief August rally lasted just 31 days before Bitcoin reasserted control, and by December the index had crashed from 78 to 16. This tells you everything about the current market structure.
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The pattern in 2025 revealed something crucial: altcoin season is no longer a broad market rally where everything rises together. Instead, it's become brutally selective. Only specific altcoins with clear narratives outperformed, while hundreds of generic altcoins that people accumulated with hope remain down 50-90%. The investors who made money weren't diversifying across 50 altcoins. They were picking 5-10 projects with real infrastructure and real adoption. That's the new market dynamic.
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If altcoin season does return in 2026, it will likely be later in the year and only if Bitcoin consolidates (not crashes), clear new narratives emerge, and capital visibly rotates away from Bitcoin. Right now, none of those conditions exist. Bitcoin is still grinding higher, institutions are still accumulating it, and there's no macro catalyst pushing traders toward diversification. The hope you had in early 2025 wasn't really about "altcoin season." It was about believing in specific projects. That belief needs to be backed by analysis, not by waiting for a calendar event that may never come.
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We might or we might not experience it, but every year there is a sign that alt season will start its when an almost dead coin come back to life and give people a profit of a lifetime, when every altcoin follow that is for sure altcoin season, but sometimes those old coins are just part of history and never come back , while they are being replace by a new one, we can predict it will happen but knowing when is a different story, but i hope it happens soon, so that we can all make profit for that.

But I think that's the indicator of having an altcoin season since maybe this is just a small effect especially that maybe the value of dead alts rise because there's some major pump happening in the market.

I'd rather look at overall stats of top coins in the market if there's more coins experience a bull run maybe in this situation we can figure out that alt season already starts.

We are near to close this year and maybe next to speculate if there's an altcoin season will happen in 2026.

[Gaza13]

There is always an alt season, but some people never realized it, they thought alt season is still far or maybe the next year without realizing it is already begun and they failed to realize it, sometimes you need to be cautious of the surroundings, stop looking at your holdings but look at other altcoins move because you might be looking at it in a wrong way, some of your holdings might not move because its already dead, better look for the top altcoins in the market for a signs.

Yes, what you said is true, in the last few cycles there will always be seasons or opportunities in altcoins. Indeed, no one realizes whether the altcoin season has arrived or not, just look at last September, there were several altcoins showing the potential for significant increases. In this case, don't speculate too much in choosing altcoins, many circles say this season is very different from the previous season.

Choose an altcoin that has a clear vision, a credible team, innovative technology from the project, and has survived various seasons. By choosing more selectively, of course we will not get trapped in these altcoins. In this case, all we need to do is be patient as we wait for the altseason to arrive. We can capitalize on any declines to accumulate, believing that altcoins will potentially rise early next year. And if the price reaches our desired level, don't forget to sell. And you can do it again when the bear phase arrives if you take advantage of that phase until the bull phase arrives, of course you will get much bigger profits than before.

[taufik123]

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I'd rather look at overall stats of top coins in the market if there's more coins experience a bull run maybe in this situation we can figure out that alt season already starts.
We are near to close this year and maybe next to speculate if there's an altcoin season will happen in 2026.

Only a few of the top altcoins in 2025 experience ATH such as
ETH: ATH $4,946 , Aug 24, 2025 
BNB: $1,369, Oct 13, 2025
XRP: $3.65, Jul 18, 2025
SOL: $293, Jan 19, 2025
SUI: $5.35, Jan 04, 2025

But for other altcoins, most of them are still not ATH and if it is said that it has entered the altseason, this has not fully happened, so it needs more altcoins to experience ATH.

Waiting for 2026 will the trend change, because the cycle of 2025 will not be the same as before, whether 2026 will be a surprise or even start with a deeper decline in Bitcoin and altcoins.



https://www.coingecko.com/en/highlights/all-time-high-crypto

[Emeraldo]

They are right ! Alts are done ! cartels and exchanges used those scam alts to extract as much they can ! stick to btc and wait for final pump to get out

I don’t think that Alts are gone like you lightly mentioned. Alts are also here to stay for long term and they will continue to remain the way they are only if the likes of Solana and other strong alts become bigger in the game but I don’t think there is a single alt that can still match up with the power of bitcoin in the next 50 years to come.

Yes, altcoins are going to exists in the market, but the question is that we didn't see a bull run in this cycle as compare to previous cycles wherein altcoin has a big run, bigger than Bitcoin itself.

But in terms of longevity, most of the solid altcoins will continue to be here despite not getting into a big increased like LTC or Doge. And there will be a lot of altcoins as well that is going to be born in the next cycle.

If the bull run does not appear now, it means that we might not experience the altcoins market because the price of Bitcoin is what will determine if we are going to experience am altcoins season or not. This is time for us to wait for the price of Bitcoin to at least reach 100k so that we can all benefit for the bull market. Many people have been saying that we are now in the bear market which is not far again by the day. We may likely experience a bull market but right now is like we are already in the bear and the bear has eaten the bull.

[nelson4lov]

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Only a few of the top altcoins in 2025 experience ATH such as
ETH: ATH $4,946 , Aug 24, 2025 
BNB: $1,369, Oct 13, 2025
XRP: $3.65, Jul 18, 2025
SOL: $293, Jan 19, 2025
SUI: $5.35, Jan 04, 2025

Ya, this is nothing compared to the alt season we had in the past, in years like 2021. The previous ETH ATH was 4.7k/4.8k (can't remember but it's close), so eth only added like $100 on top of the ATH it achieved in years where there were no liquidity like we have now in crypto and then, the market wasn't considered matured as it is now. I say this because ETH is usually leading the charge of t season given the fact that it's the number 1 alt. But instead, we didn't see 10k eth or at the very least, the 5k price.

[Kavelj22]

They are right ! Alts are done ! cartels and exchanges used those scam alts to extract as much they can ! stick to btc and wait for final pump to get out

I don’t think that Alts are gone like you lightly mentioned. Alts are also here to stay for long term and they will continue to remain the way they are only if the likes of Solana and other strong alts become bigger in the game but I don’t think there is a single alt that can still match up with the power of bitcoin in the next 50 years to come.

The next 50 years is a long milestone and what you see today as diversity and success can become a memory from the past. The alt season would remain always there but it might not to be the alts you see today. We are discussing a market with particular features.