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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-key-insights"><strong>Key Insights:</strong></h3>
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 <li>Bitcoin price dipped to 88K and remains below 90K, showing weak momentum after a volatile week driven by tariff headlines and risk sentiment.</li>
 <li>Altcoins broadly sold off, with ETH holding below 3K and major names like BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, LINK, and XLM in the red.</li>
 <li>Outliers diverged as RIVER surged again while HASH dropped the most.</li>
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<p>Altcoin season expectations took a hit this week after the BTC muted trading extended into the weekend, and Bitcoin price slipped back toward $88,000 earlier today. The move offered little support for the rest of the market.</p>
<p>Altcoins also weakened over the past 24 hours. Ethereum stayed below $3,000, reinforcing the risk-off tone. Among larger-cap tokens.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-why-altcoins-retreated-while-bitcoin-price-stabilized"><strong>Why Altcoins Retreated While Bitcoin Price Stabilized?</strong></h2>
<p>The simplest read of the week’s tape is that Bitcoin price dip to $87,000 did not pull the rest of the market higher afterward. Instead, the rebound largely stayed concentrated in the market’s bellwether.</p>
<p>That pattern tends to show up when traders reduce risk. They move toward the most liquid asset first. They also trim exposure to long-tail coins that can gap lower on thinner books.</p>
<p>It is one reason the Altcoin season can feel strong during momentum bursts, yet fade quickly when volatility returns.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-market-snapshot-bitcoin-retests-87k-as-eth-holds-below-3k"><strong>Market Snapshot: Bitcoin Retests $87K As ETH Holds Below $3K</strong></h2>
<p>The Bitcoin price returning to the $87K zone <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2025/12/23/will-bitcoin-price-dip-further-expert-shares-next-bull-run-timeline/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">is not a theoretical reference</a>. It showed up in spot pricing during the midweek dip, according to the heatmap.</p>
<p>That move followed a broader risk-off stretch earlier in the month, when Bitcoin daily swings widened, and traders leaned on key round-number levels.</p>
<p>ETH price does not regain the psychological $3,000 handle on a sustained basis after the sell-off. In fact, the heat map dataset shows ETH closing below $3,000.</p>
<p>The Ethereum line matters because many rotation cycles run through it. When ETH trends cleanly, it often pulls large-cap altcoins with it, then smaller tokens. When ETH stalls, breadth usually narrows.</p>
<p>Ethereum price fell sharply this month, then spent the following days mostly under $3,000, including a low of $2,867.89.</p>
<p>That is not a minor detail. It anchors why traders hesitated to call a renewed Altcoin season off the back of bitcoin’s resilience alone.</p>
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   Bitcoin &amp; Crypto Market Liquidation | Source QuantifyCrypto
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<p>Bitcoin price has shown it can revisit the lower of $87,000 and still recover without a deeper drawdown, at least so far.</p>
<p>Ethereum price has remained capped under $3,000 in recent sessions. And breadth has not produced the kind of synchronized upside that typically defines a convincing Altcoin season Index.</p>
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   Altcoin Season Index | Source: Coinglass
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<p>This leaves investors watching the same practical markers. For context, the traders are evaluating whether <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2024/09/03/whales-accumulating-ethereum-can-eth-price-reclaim-3k-in-september/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ETH price can reclaim $3,000 on the close</a> and whether large-cap Altcoins regain momentum alongside it.</p>
<p>Besides, they are also wondering whether the market’s “green” days start to include more sectors at once rather than one corner of the board.</p>
<p>This week’s price action put the Altcoin season narrative back on probation. Bitcoin price revisited the $87K area during January trading, then stabilized, while ETH continued to print sub-$3,000 closes.</p>
<p>Quantify Crypto’s heatmap <a href="https://quantifycrypto.com/heatmaps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">approach</a>, built to surface real-time strength and weakness while filtering out stablecoins and wrapped tokens that fit the moment, because it emphasizes breadth over slogans.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2026/01/26/bitcoin-price-hits-87000-again-altcoins-retreat-while-eth-stays-below-3000/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin Price Hits $87,000 Again, Altcoins Retreat While ETH Stays Below $3000</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Coin Republic</a>.</p>

Bitcoin Price Hits $87,000 Again, Altcoins Retreat While ETH Stays Below $3000

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