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Small Cap Altcoins Get Decimated In January Crypto Derisking

Keshav Verma
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During the January crypto derisking carnage, it seems small cap altcoins have come out as the losers as they look to end the month 35% in the red.

Small Cap Altcoins Suffer The Largest Losses In January Bloodbath

As per the latest weekly report from Arcane Research, it looks like the smaller the coins, the greater have been their losses during the January carnage.

Based on the market cap of each crypto, all the coins can be put into different groups. These “market cap weighted indexes” include mainly three divisions, the “large cap index,” the “mid cap index,” and the “small cap index.”

The below chart shows how all these major altcoin indexes performed over the month of January as compared to Bitcoin:

Altcoins Index Performance

Bitcoin seems to have been the crypto that has lost the least this month | Source: The Arcane Research Weekly Update - Week 3

As you can see in the above graph, all the altcoin indexes have observed double digit losses in the month of January so far.

While the other indexes have registered returns in the negative 20s, the small cap index has been even deeper in the red, observing losses of around 35%, making the index the clear loser for the month.

Related Reading | Bitcoin Whales Take Advantage Of Market Crash To Gobble Up Millions In BTC

Trailing the small cap index are the mid cap and large cap cryptos, both approaching the end of the month with 28% losses.

Bitcoin has been the “winner” this month as its value has fallen slightly less over the month, currently sitting at -26%.

BTC’s dominance has also seen a sharp increase over the past week, rising above 40% for the first time since November of last year.

The below table shows how the share of the market cap of the top cryptos has changed over the last seven days.

Crypto Dominance

BTC's dominance has risen more than 2% in the last week | Source: The Arcane Research Weekly Update - Week 3

The report suggests that with altcoins losing some of their share of the total crypto market to Bitcoin, it seems the altcoin season may have finally come to an end.

Related Reading | Market May Be Suffering But Bitcoin And Ethereum Will Pull Back Stronger, Bloomberg Analyst

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $37.9k, down 10% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has lost 25% in value.

The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days.

Bitcoin Price Chart

BTC's price seems to have recovered some over the last couple of days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView

Following the crash down to $33k, Bitcoin’s price has rebounded back with sharp uptrend to $38k in the last two days.

Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, Arcane Research
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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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