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Zoom out, and the picture becomes impossible to ignore: altcoins aren’t topping… they’re coiling.
The macro backdrop, liquidity signals, and historical correlations all point to one conclusion — the altcoin cycle isn’t over. It’s loading.
Here’s the full breakdown ⬇️
🔥 1. The Key Indicator This Cycle Isn’t M2 — It’s the Russell 2000 (IWM)
Most people obsess over global M2, but this cycle the real signal is coming from US small caps.
And right now?
➡️ IWM just printed the highest monthly close in its history.
➡️ It’s pushing into its 2025 highs, right at the top of the range.
When small caps rip like this, it tells you one thing:
US liquidity is rising and risk appetite is returning.
Historically:
• When IWM breaks or retests major levels (2015, 2018, 2021)…
• BTC rallies shortly after, and
• Altcoins follow with a lag — but with bigger moves.
We’re seeing that same structure right now.
🔥 2. Altcoins Track US Liquidity — And Liquidity Is Turning Up
Altcoins and the Russell 2000 have always moved together because both thrive on rising liquidity.
Every cycle shows it clearly:
• Liquidity rises → small caps break out → BTC follows → alts explode last.
Today?
IWM is at the highs.
BTC and alts are still below theirs.
Exactly the same lag structure we saw before the massive 2020–2021 altcoin rallies.
🔥 3. No Multi-Year Bitcoin Bear Market Has Ever Started With IWM at All-Time Highs
This is critical.
Every big Bitcoin bear market began when:
❌ Small caps were weak
❌ Liquidity was tightening
Never when IWM was printing fresh highs.
Right now?
IWM is at record levels.
That’s not what the start of a long bear market looks like.
🔥 4. Bitcoin’s Higher Timeframe Trend Remains Bullish
Yes, some daily EMAs have broken.
Yes, sentiment is shaky.
But structurally?
✔️ Higher-timeframe trend from the 2022 lows is intact
✔️ BTC is re-coupling with equities
✔️ This drawdown looks mid-cycle, not end-cycle
BTC consolidating near highs while liquidity improves usually precedes… well, we all remember what happened in 2020–2021.
🔥 5. Macro Catalysts for 2025–2026 Are Insanely Bullish
📉 The Fed is already cutting rates
🏦 Big banks expect QE-like measures by 2026
🇺🇸 Trump is discussing removing income tax + $2,000 tariff dividends
💵 Funding pressure = more liquidity injections likely
Macro isn’t tightening.
Macro is warming up.
🔥 6. Analysts Increasingly See the Cycle Peak in 2026 — Not 2025
Multiple cycle models now point to a longer, extended bull cycle, with peak liquidity aligning in 2026.
That would mean:
✔️ BTC hasn’t topped
✔️ Alts are early
✔️ Current weakness = accumulation zone, not distribution
✔️ The biggest alt rallies are ahead, not behind
🚀 FINAL TAKE: This Does Not Look Like the Start of a Bear Market
When you connect all the signals:
🔸 IWM at record highs
🔸 BTC still structurally bullish
🔸 Liquidity rising
🔸 Mid-cycle drawdown behavior
🔸 Macro stimulus brewing
🔸 Cycle projections pointing to 2026
🔸 Alts historically lag BTC and IWM by months
You get one conclusion:
This is not the end of the cycle.
This is the loading screen before the next leg.
Altcoins aren’t close to topping — they’re close to launching.
The quiet moments before the loudest moves.
Prepare accordingly. 🚀🔥
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The idea that Bitcoin still runs on a clean, predictable 4-year halving cycle is falling apart.
Not because the bull market is over — but because it’s been delayed, reshaped, and overtaken by something far more powerful:
👉 Global liquidity.
Look back at the past decade.
The biggest moves didn’t come from halvings — they came from macro expansions. And right now, the same liquidity patterns that ignited previous mega-runs are starting to appear again.
Stablecoins are the first alarm bell.
Even with the recent correction, stablecoin supply keeps rising.
That tells us large players haven’t left — they’re sitting on capital, waiting for the macro floodgates to open.
And those floodgates are creaking.
🇺🇸 The U.S. Treasury is the biggest catalyst no one is talking about
The TGA is parked around $940B, roughly $90B above normal.
That excess cash must enter the system — and when it does, financing conditions ease and liquidity leaks into risk assets… including crypto.
Add that to:
Treasury buybacks
QT already halted (historically step 1 before QE returns)
And the setup turns even more bullish.
🌏 Globally, the shift is even more obvious
China has been injecting liquidity for months
Japan rolled out a ~$135B stimulus + eased crypto taxation
Canada is preparing to ease
The U.S. is quietly preparing for a policy pivot
When multiple economies synchronize liquidity expansion, risk assets usually move before stocks or broader markets respond.
🏦 Banks may get a green light too
A return of something like the SLR exemption — similar to 2020 — would let banks expand balance sheets and credit creation.
That’s another liquidity engine pointed straight at risk markets.
🗳️ And then comes the political wildcard
2026 could bring:
Tax restructuring
Tariff-based dividends
A more market-friendly Fed Chair
Policies openly supportive of crypto
ISM PMI pushing above 50 — or even 55, which historically triggers altseason
It’s a full macro reshuffle.
🔥 So what happens when you combine all of this?
Rising stablecoin liquidity
Treasury injecting capital back into markets
Global QE returning
QT ending in the U.S.
Bank-lending flexibility
Pro-market, pro-crypto policy shifts
Big players entering the space
Clarity Act approval
A more supportive Fed leadership
You don’t get a clean halving cycle.
You get a multi-year liquidity wave.
And Bitcoin has never moved against global liquidity.
🚀 This is why the next Bitcoin phase may stretch deep into 2026–2027
Not a sharp blow-off followed by a brutal multi-year winter…
but a longer, broader, liquidity-driven uptrend that breaks the old model entirely.
The 4-year cycle isn’t dying —
it’s being replaced.
The only question now is: How big does the next liquidity wave get? 🌊👀
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