The Black Monday crash many traders feared this week never happened. Prices finished above Friday’s levels, and the fourth quarter is now being tipped as a strong one for altcoins.
According to an analyst who tracks altcoin cycles, fear is still keeping many investors out of the market. Most still expect this cycle to deliver smaller gains than the last one, and that lack of agreement leaves room for a much bigger rally than expected.
Where The Market Stands
- Bitcoin: after its first push from $58,000 to $88,000, it is now consolidating between $80,000 and $83,000.
- The low: Bitcoin’s bottom appears to be in, based on a bullish divergence on the weekly chart similar to the one seen in 2022.
- Altcoins: many altcoin charts show the same divergences that appeared months before earlier breakouts.
Headlines about war, oil prices or interest rates make a weak basis for investment decisions, the outlook argues, since markets have often done the opposite of what those fears suggested.
Skip The Crowded Trades
The biggest names in today’s hottest narratives, including NEAR, Venice and Zcash, have already become consensus trades with limited short-term upside. The better opportunity lies in tokens whose fundamentals keep growing while their prices stay flat.
The Four Narratives And The Picks
1. AI Meets Crypto: Bittensor (TAO)
Bittensor’s ecosystem keeps growing, with more revenue coming from its subnets, while the token has traded sideways for two to three years. It has also held its value against Bitcoin through the 2025 bear market, one of the strongest charts in crypto. As AI attention spreads, money could rotate from NEAR into Bittensor.
2. The Agentic Economy: SUI
SUI is the pick for payment systems used by AI agents. Fears about upcoming token unlocks look overblown, since early investors usually hedge their positions well in advance. SUI’s weekly chart shows a bullish divergence that has been building since the start of the year, and the RSI and MACD indicators are starting to turn higher.
3. The Ethereum Ecosystem: Optimism And More
Negative sentiment around Ethereum is driven by price alone, while the network itself has improved steadily. ETH has spent about five years in a range between $2,000 and $4,500, and a breakout could lift the whole ecosystem. Optimism is named as one of the Ethereum-based tokens to watch.
4. Real-World Assets: Plume And Ondo
For tokenization, Plume stands out. It is breaking out of a range it has held since November last year, backed by a bullish divergence on the MACD. Ondo is also mentioned as an option in the same narrative.
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