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Altcoins Are About to Experience a Full-scale Explosion
The most prominent feature of the recent market is the overall surge of altcoins. From leading giants to low-market-cap small coins, capital is rapidly dispersing, and the market rhythm has entered the stage of “mainstream consolidation and altcoin frenzy.”
1. Mainstream Coins Fluctuate: BTC, ETH consolidate at high levels, capital searches for high Beta assets, and altcoins become the overflow window.
2. Sentiment and Capital Resonance: The square’s order shouting accelerates spreading, trading volume expands, and the market enters a sen

In this bull market, except for a few mainstream projects that performed reasonably well, most others didn't even reach the expected levels. Many projects in the bull market were forced into deep bear territory—not only failing to rise but actually hitting new lows. As a result, many people missed out on gains throughout the entire cycle.
Old categories like Sol, Okb, Zec, and others saw only a single surge—like a fireworks display—pumping up the price briefly, but never providing a real opportunity to get on board. After the spike, prices just kept falling. I mentioned around 760 for ZEC at

Interest rate cuts, but Bitcoin keeps declining
This time, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points. The market had already anticipated this, and the positive news was "priced in." When it actually happened, there were no surprises; instead, it became a reason for many to sell. Especially for investors entering through ETFs, encountering a bear market for the first time, when prices don't rise, they choose to take profits or cut losses.
Analyst Terpin believes: "Bitcoin has largely decoupled from the stock market throughout most of its history. It has only recently, due to liq

Trash knockoff projects going to zero is a good thing; the market needs this kind of cleansing. Valuable projects will stand out in this reshuffle, while those relying on hype have long since been cooled off.
The current issue is: everyone is waiting for a new narrative to emerge. The old tricks of DeFi, NFT, and GameFi are all played out.
Overturning and starting anew is also fine. The true alpha in Zhen is always in the hands of a few, while most knockoffs were born just to harvest profits from the beginning.
Old-school GameFi projects like YGG, do they just switch to a new direction w