{"id":142672,"date":"2025-10-24T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142672\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:05:10","slug":"altcoin-market-falls-800-billion-short-as-retail-traders-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142672\/","title":{"rendered":"Altcoin Market Falls $800 Billion Short as Retail Traders Vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The altcoin market is $800 billion smaller than past cycles would suggest \u2014 and retail traders may have killed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A new estimate from 10x Research argues that the complex of non-Bitcoin tokens has been starved of capital this cycle, largely because retail investors, especially in South Korea, have turned to crypto-linked equities instead, while Bitcoin boomed on institutional flows. The estimate lands just weeks after a record liquidation wiped out swathes of the altcoin market, amplifying fears that the speculative playground for digital tokens beyond Bitcoin and Ether may never recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The altcoin market is $800 billion smaller than past cycles would suggest \u2014 and retail traders may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[214,79,37911,12008,4035,18,8068,1729,19,17,188,3439,68259,2428,992,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-142672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-c-suite","11":"tag-chief-executive-officer","12":"tag-cryptocurrency","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-emerging-markets","15":"tag-finance","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-retail","20":"tag-retail-trading","21":"tag-south-korea","22":"tag-stocks","23":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115429056525279230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}