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Altcoins are no longer the only assets for making a profit in the short term. Retail investors are increasingly shifting interest towards speculation in stocks from the artificial intelligence and robotics sector, analysts at Wintermute said.
Prediction markets have also begun to take their share of interest and capital from altcoins. Platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi have already attracted billions of dollars from major Wall Street players, experts said.
In 2025, even the fierce competition between memecoin launch platforms like Pump.fun and LetsBonk.fun created only local noise, but did not lead to a sustainable recovery of altcoins.
“The era of quick profits on little-known altcoins is taking a long pause. Traders are increasingly ignoring small coins in favor of Bitcoin. If earlier a “medium-sized” pump could last from 40 to 60 days, then by the end of last year the duration of the rally decreased to 20 days,” Wintermute emphasized.
Since the fall of 2025, open interest in altcoin futures has dropped by 55%, leading to the liquidation of more than $40 billion. This indicates a fundamental shift in how investors manage their capital, experts concluded.
Earlier, the CEO and head of research at 10x Research, Markus Thielen, said that the shift in the attention of traders and investors from alternative coins to Bitcoin led to a capitalization deficit of $800 billion in the altcoin market.
