Altseason Sentiment Breaks Down as Bitcoin Holds Steady: Santiment

There was a pointy decline in altseason social engagement, with quantity and dominance each retracing to April ranges, based on Santiment.

The hunch comes regardless of robust July catalysts similar to regulatory progress, real-world asset tokenization momentum, Ethereum’s revival, and file ETF inflows. “But crowd consideration hasn’t rotated into altcoins,” noticed analyst Chyan on Wednesday.

“And not using a Bitcoin breakout and renewed threat urge for food, altseason stays on pause,” they said.

The chart exhibits spikes in social quantity in late February, late Could, and mid-July, however it has now fallen again considerably.

Altseason Hopes Fade

The analyst opined that market cycles when all altcoins went up are “a factor of the previous” because the hype isn’t even near the primary quarter of 2024 when the Bitcoin ETFs launched.

Nevertheless, Santiment did identify a couple of crypto property that had been trending in the meanwhile, together with Litecoin, Stellar, and USDC.

Altseason sentiment breaks down as $BTC holds vary — narratives fail to ignite rotation@Santimentfeed exhibits a pointy decline in altseason social engagement, with quantity and dominance each retracing to April ranges. This comes regardless of robust July catalysts — regulatory progress,… pic.twitter.com/gISOmJKoKI

— Chyan | chyan.base.eth (@Chyan) August 6, 2025

CoinMarketCap’s altseason index is a low 36 out of 100, which means that it stays a good distance off in the meanwhile. It topped 50 in mid-June throughout the market rally however has fallen again together with the costs of most altcoins.

The Blockchain Middle’s altseason index shows an analogous low ranking of 35, whereas Bitget’s altcoin season index is a good decrease 34. All three indexes report that the best-performing altcoins over the previous month are memecoins.

Bitcoin dominance can be an indicator of the strategy of altseason, and it stays excessive at 61.6%, according to TradingView. Its market share fell to a six-month low on July 21, however it has been uptrending once more since, because the asset holds round $116,000 whereas many of the altcoins proceed to bleed.

However, Ethereum normally leads altcoins right into a rally, and it too has been holding up and remaining inside its range-bound channel.

Some analysts are nonetheless earlier bull market cycles and predicting the identical once more this 12 months.

Altcoin market cap is following a transparent sample:

2017: Explosion
2021: Explosion
2025: Subsequent in line?

Historical past doesn’t repeat, however it positive does rhyme.

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— Crypto Captain (@CryptoCaptainCT) August 7, 2025