"Altcoins will never pump 🤡"
Permabears are saying this and they’ll be dead wrong.
I just did 100+ hours of research and found something VERY interesting.
5 major liquidity events that will pump our Altcoin bags.
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In the crypto world, what truly determines victory is never code, but the interplay between liquidity, power, and regulation. The rise and fall of BUSD is not merely a tragic tale of a stablecoin, but a financial war waged by exchanges attempting to "unify the world."

When BUSD was thrust onto the historical stage, it carried not only a compliance narrative, but also Binance's ambition to reshape the stablecoin order through coercive measures—by manipulating exchange rates and merging trading pairs, directly swallowing competitors' liquidity into its own ledger.

The "automatic conversion" of 2022 was a textbook example of a blitzkrieg; and 2023...

The Rise and Fall of Binance's Dominance: From BUSD's "Unification" to $U's "Conquering the World"—The Stablecoin Wars

Source: Galaxy Research; Translation: Jinse Finance xz
Bitcoin's closing price in 2025 is expected to be roughly the same as the level at the beginning of the year.
The cryptocurrency market experienced a genuine bullish wave in the first ten months of this year. Regulatory reforms continued to advance, ETFs continued to attract funds, and on-chain activity became increasingly active. Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $126,080 on October 6th.
However, the market failed to deliver the expected breakthrough after the initial frenzy; instead, it experienced rotation, repricing, and rebalancing. This was driven by factors such as unmet macroeconomic expectations, a shift in investment narratives, leveraged margin calls, and massive...

Galaxy: 26 Predictions for the Crypto Market in 2026

In the final months of 2025, a bearish atmosphere began to spread.

Bitcoin plummeted from its high of $120,000, ETF inflows ceased, various cryptocurrencies diverged in performance, and Memecoin, which had once ignited market sentiment, became largely ignored. Compared to the end of 2021, there were no sudden regulatory crackdowns this time, and apart from the massive crash of October 11th, there didn't seem to be a serious liquidity crisis, yet something still felt off.

If the crypto world in 2025 was a recalibration of true and false value, will 2026 be better for crypto?

This article...

No price surge, no memes: As crypto moves into the real world, will 2026 be the year of "on-chain Wall Street"?

3. $5T+ in ETF Liquidity
The Bitcoin ETF launched in 2024 and has already attracted over $50B in inflows.
As of 2025, the top 100 US ETFs have a combined AUM of $5.7 trillion.
And alts are about to tap into this liquidity

Ethereum has already seen glimpses of this, and now large cap alts will experience it too.
My guess is that at least 5 Altcoin ETFs will be approved this year, which will send them to new highs.
And what do people say about large-cap alts?
When they pump, the entire ecosystem pumps.