Why Altcoins Might Run Ahead of Bitcoin in Q3 2025
With Bitcoin stuck between $68,000 and $72,000, an under-the-radar rotation is brewing-I keep seeing altcoins break out of their corners, and honestly, it feels like a 2019 dรฉjร vu. Now that BTC dominance has leveled off and Ethereum gas costs are easing, the chart clues hint we could enter a full-alt season by July.
Heres the rationale the pros are weighing:
- BTC Dominance Slide-Bitcoins share has lingered under 53 percent since early June, a classic tell that fresh money is drifting toward smaller caps.
[Source: TradingView, BTC.D chart, June 15, 2025]
- DeFi Comeback-Protocols like AAVE, LDO, and UNI reported 20 to 40 percent jumps in total value locked over the last three weeks.
๐ [Source: DeFiLlama โ DeFi TVL Dashboard, June 16, 2025]
- Layer-2 Surge-Both zkSync and StarkNet are chalking up over 35 percent weekly growth in unique wallets, breathing life into the scaling narrative.
๐ง [Source: L2Beat, Weekly Metrics โ June 14, 2025]
- Historical Edge-Data shows alts typically outpace BTC in early Q3. In 2019 and 2021 ETH along with top DeFi tokens ran up 30 to 50 percent while Bitcoin lagged.
๐ [Source: CoinMetrics Quarterly Review, July 2021 / July 2019 Editions
If these trends persist, Q3 2025 could well mark the third time in five years that altcoins steal Bitcoins thunder.
โก Pro tip: Instead of copying every hot trade, think ahead and set your position wisely. I've recently queued some low-cap Layer 2 networks on my personal watchlist, focusing on projects backed by DePIN use cases and an engaged community.
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๐ฌ Are you rotating into altcoins too? Share your favorite bet below; I'm keeping an eye on the thread.
Which Layer 2 alt are you holding right now โ $ARB, $MATIC, or $OP?
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