$BTC
During the most recent crash from ~$126,000 to ~$80,000 — a ~36% drop — BTC dominance (i.e. share of total crypto market cap) fell instead of rising.
Historically, in previous ~30% corrections (e.g. the “tariff tantrums,” the 2024 yen-carry unwind) BTC dominance surged — from ~58% to ~65%, or from ~56% to ~60%.
This time, dominance dropped to as low as ~58.5% after briefly rising, and has only partially recovered to ~59% — far weaker rebound than prior corrections.
🔎 What it suggests: BTC got hit harder relative to altcoins
The fact that BTC dominance dropped even as BTC price plunged suggests that alternative cryptocurrencies (“altcoins”) held up relatively better — or at least didn’t fall as hard as BTC.
Some market observers interpret this not as a shift to an “altseason,” but rather as a sign of market-wide deleveraging, where investors liquidate risky positions broadly — including BTC — rather than piling into “safer” BTC.
On-chain data and liquidity metrics suggest the drop reflects forced deleveraging and broader sell-pressure, not a strategic rotation into altcoins based on bullish conviction.
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