One year after 10/10, bitcoin and ether liquidity have rebuilt, but other altcoins still face risks
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One year after 10/10, Bitcoin and Ether liquidity has rebuilt, while altcoins remain more fragile. The split in market depth points to a market where BTC and ETH are again easier to trade, but smaller tokens still show higher risk and less room to absorb selling.
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What it means
Bitcoin and Ether holders, as well as traders who rely on deeper order books, notice that those two assets are described as having liquidity back again today. That matters most in ordinary trading conditions, because those markets can absorb activity more easily than smaller tokens, while altcoins are still described as facing risk.
Before this shift, the market was not described in the same split way, and now Bitcoin and Ether are singled out as the assets with institutional appeal. In practice, that leaves the larger coins in a different position from altcoins, which are still described as volatile and as having limited growth potential.
Market reaction i
The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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Where this sits in the Bitcoin series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 years ago | BTC at $115,227 high | today it sits -34.3% from there |
| 4 months ago | BTC at $58,566 low | today it sits +29.3% from there |
From what we have stored, starting 1.1 years ago.