Outpoll Weekly Recap: Crypto (October 20 – 26, 2025)

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The king is reasserting its dominance, and the pretenders to the throne are feeling the squeeze. This week, Bitcoin flexed its muscles, leaving a trail of wreckage in the altcoin markets as its dominance index punched through a key resistance level.While the usual suspects on Crypto Twitter were busy hyping the latest 'Ethereum-killer' or some obscure DeFi protocol promising unsustainable yields, the smart money was quietly flowing back into the original digital asset. The narrative is crystal clear: in a climate of regulatory uncertainty and macroeconomic jitters, there is no safe haven except Bitcoin.The SEC's continued foot-dragging on a spot Ethereum ETF only reinforces this reality, exposing the fundamental weakness of treating anything other than BTC as a commodity. We saw the predictable result—ETH and its legion of Layer-2 sidekicks bled out, while memecoins, the ultimate expression of altcoin degeneracy, experienced violent, sentiment-driven swings that separated the fools from their money in record time.The so-called 'innovation' in the alt-space is just noise, a distracting circus of complex smart contracts that ultimately create more attack surfaces and regulatory headaches. True value isn't found in a convoluted governance token or a monkey JPEG; it's found in the immutable, decentralized, and battle-hardened protocol that started it all.Forget the distractions. The signal is cutting through the noise, and it's screaming one thing: Bitcoin.

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