Las altcoins se desploman: las búsquedas de ’temporada de altcoins’ en Google caen más del 50%
El mercado de criptomonedas secundarias muestra señales de agotamiento mientras el interés de los inversores se evapora. Los datos de Google confirman lo que los gráficos ya gritaban: la euforia especulativa se enfría rápidamente.
El desplome del interés
Las consultas sobre 'alt season' se hunden más del 50%—los inversores retail parecen haber perdido la fe momentáneamente. Los grandes jugadores institucionales mantienen posiciones, pero el pequeño especulador claramente capitula.
Patrón técnico preocupante
La mayoría de altcoins registran caídas de dos dígitos mientras Bitcoin mantiene relativa estabilidad. Este desacople sugiere una rotación de capital hacia activos más seguros dentro del ecosistema.
El factor regulatorio
Las recientes advertencias de la CNMV sobre volatilidad en activos digitales parecen estar surtiendo efecto entre los inversores menos experimentados. Como siempre, la regulación llega tarde—justo cuando los incautos ya están dentro.
Perspectivas a corto plazo
Los volúmenes negociados en exchanges españoles caen consistentemente durante la última semana. Los soportes críticos se prueban ahora—si no aguantan, veremos liquidaciones forzosas.
Los tiburones de Wall Street siguen acumulando mientras los pececillos retail venden por pánico. La historia de siempre en los mercados—solo que esta vez con tokens y memes.
Google Search Index chart for Alt Season and Bull Run. Source: Google Trends
Searches for “bull run” also pulled back after reaching 86 on Monday, sliding down to 57 yesterday, possibly caused by selling pressures stemming from negative price corrections.
Bitcoin retreated from its all-time highs and wiped over $10,000 in profits in the last six days, now consolidating at around $113,800 at the time of this publication. Its fall from the top caused a marketwide correction across altcoins, which are currently trailing behind the world’s largest crypto by market cap.
Altcoin performance under pressure
The CMC Altcoin Season Index stood at 41/100 as of early Wednesday morning. The index shows Bitcoin outperforming most other tokens, with BTC dominance holding at 58.98%, down just 0.01 percentage points in the past 24 hours.
By contrast, altcoin leader Ethereum (ETH) fell 8.43% over the past week, while Dogecoin (DOGE) dropped 13.91% and Shiba Inu (SHIB) lost 11.53%. The overall crypto market cap slipped 1.08% to $3.84 trillion.
Over the past 24 hours, every token in the top 10 by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins, Tron, and Solana, has been hemorrhaging value, recording declines north of 0.3%.
Just about a week ago, search volumes for “altcoin” hit their highest levels since 2021. Interest in “Ethereum” also rose to its strongest point in two years, against the backdrop of rallies in most of the large-cap tokens.
Dogecoin, Solana and XRP rose around 19% in the two weeks leading up to August 13, buoyed by renewed trading activity and market momentum. Both have since surrendered most of those gains, each losing roughly 9% over the past seven days, according to CoinMarketCap data.
Chart analysis mulls Q4 alt season window
Despite the market tanking in the past week, the crypto community is still seeing signs of an altcoin rally coming soon. Last week, Cryptopolitan reported that Coinbase research head David Duong, alts could outperform Bitcoin within the next 90 days.
Analysts also insist that the alt season could still materialize later this year, pointing to similarities in the current market with cycles seen in 2020 and 2021 when alts experienced a correction in March 2020 before consolidating for four months. Market capitalization then accelerated upwards from $50 billion in December 2020 to $422 billion by May 2021.
Analysts have noticed a similar setup in 2025, with altcoins having corrected by 60% in April. They have since been trading sideways for four months, currently sitting around $300 billion.
If there is an encore of the same sequence, a breakout above the 2021 high of $492 billion could fuel a rally toward $1 trillion in total altcoin capitalization, with a stretch target of $2 trillion by 2026.
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