BTC Dominance Hits 56.3% — Altcoins Are Getting Absolutely Wrecked

Bitcoin dominance just climbed to 56.3% and altcoin holders are in shambles. The king is consolidating its grip on the market while everything else gets sold into oblivion.

The Altcoin Massacre

Let's look at the carnage: SOL is down 3.7% to $80.72 — barely hanging onto double digits in the top 10. LINK dropped 2.4% to $8.51. TIA got slapped for -2.9%, now sitting at $0.31. ARB is at $0.09 — yes, nine cents. The modular thesis, the L2 narrative, the alt-L1 play — all getting destroyed.

Why BTC Dom Is Climbing

In a $2.36T market with Extreme Fear at 5, capital flows to safety. And in crypto, safety means Bitcoin. Institutional money — what's left of it after $415M in ETF outflows last week — isn't rotating into Celestia or Arbitrum. They're either in BTC or they're out entirely.

ETH dominance already hit 9.9%, the lowest since 2020. The flippening narrative is dead. The altseason narrative is on life support. The only narrative that's working is BTC maximalism.

When Does Altseason Return?

Historically, altseason kicks in when BTC dominance peaks and starts declining — usually after BTC makes a new ATH and consolidates. We're nowhere near that. Until BTC reclaims $70K+ with conviction, alts are just expensive lottery tickets with negative EV.

Stack sats. Ignore the noise.