2025-12-30 11:30:53

Are we reaching a point where the only participants still actively trading altcoins are professional traders deploying institutional capital? This raises a critical question about market composition—if retail investors have largely exited the alt market, does that fundamentally change the dynamics of altcoin trading? When the majority of liquidity flows come from professional funds managing others' money, what does that signal about market health and sustainability?

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governance_lurker

· 22h ago

Retail investors have already left, now it's just institutions playing their own game... Is this still called a market?

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DustCollector

· 2025-12-30 15:49

Retail investors have already left; now it's just institutions taking turns to cut the leeks.

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ser_aped.eth

· 2025-12-30 12:00

Retail investors have left, and it feels like the market has become even colder…

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CoinBasedThinking

· 2025-12-30 11:59

Retail investors have long since left, and now only institutions are playing their own game there. Is this still called a market?

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ForkMonger

· 2025-12-30 11:56

lol retail exit just means the playground's finally getting cleaned up. when institutions are the only ones left holding bags, that's when protocol economics actually matter—not the emotional trading cycles. funny how everyone screams "market health" when really they just mean "where's my pump." watch the governance vectors shift once smart money stops subsidizing chaos.

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AirdropFatigue

· 2025-12-30 11:55

Retail investors have long since left; now only institutions are playing their own game... Is this still called a market?

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RugPullSurvivor

· 2025-12-30 11:49

Retail investors have all left, now it's just the institutions playing their own game.

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FUD_Vaccinated

· 2025-12-30 11:48

Retail investors have long since left, and now only institutions are playing their own game. To be honest, isn't this just a 2.0 version of cutting leeks?

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InscriptionGriller

· 2025-12-30 11:45

Retail investors are gone, institutions are taking over. This is the current altcoin market, brother—one round of liquidation after another.

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