One of the biggest questions in the crypto community throughout 2025 has been:
“Why didn’t altcoins pump when Bitcoin pumped — but dumped heavily when BTC dropped?”
The answer lies in the market’s Bitcoin Dominance Cycle.
🔶 1. BTC Pump = Liquidity Flows Out of Altcoins
When Bitcoin rallies strongly, major inflows—ETF demand, institutional bids, and whale entries—move directly into BTC first.
This causes:
Reduced liquidity in altcoins
Lower trading volume
Sideways or flat altcoin price action
This phase is often called the BTC-First Rally.
🔶 2. Altseason Only Begins After BTC Stabilizes
Altcoins usually start moving after Bitcoin cools down, consolidates, or its dominance starts to drop.
Only then does liquidity rotate from BTC into midcaps and lowcaps, triggering a mini altseason or a full rotation cycle.
🔶 3. BTC Dump = Altcoins Get Hit the Hardest
During market fear or sudden BTC corrections:
Altcoins are more volatile
Liquidity is thinner
Whales and retail panic-sell faster
So a -5% BTC drop can easily become -15% to -25% in many altcoins.
🔶 4. Why Altcoins Stayed Silent in 2025
Key reasons behind the lack of altcoin rallies this year:
Strong BTC ETF inflows directing liquidity to Bitcoin only
High BTC dominance suppressing alt performance
Oversupply of memecoins causing dilution
Global uncertainty keeping investors in “safer” BTC
Liquidity fragmentation across hundreds of new tokens
🔶 5. The Summary (One Line)
BTC pumps = Altcoins get ignored
BTC dumps = Altcoins absorb the worst pain
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