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Altcoin season

Whether money is flowing into bitcoin or into everything else

An altseason is a stretch when coins other than bitcoin rise faster than it does. The gauge counts how many of the top hundred coins have outperformed bitcoin over the past 90 days: the higher the share, the broader the rally. A high reading says money is spreading across the market; a low one, that it is concentrated in bitcoin. This observes the state of the market rather than signalling a trade.

Altcoin season

34Neither one nor the other

How many coins out of a hundred beat bitcoin over 90 days. 75 and above is altcoin season, 25 and below is bitcoin season.

Beating the market over 24h

Lagging over 24h

Stablecoins and wrapped tokens are excluded: comparing them with bitcoin is meaningless — they are pegged to the dollar and to the price of the underlying coin.

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