{"id":98557,"date":"2025-10-24T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:10:09","slug":"altcoin-market-falls-800-billion-short-as-retail-traders-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98557\/","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":98558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4236,138,18506,19983,864,34288,246,220,111,139,69,644,53374,4790,643,145],"class_list":["post-98557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-bitcoin","tag-business","tag-c-suite","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-emerging-markets","tag-finance","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-retail","tag-retail-trading","tag-south-korea","tag-stocks","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}