Altcoin Boom May Never Come Back: How Crypto Trading Has Changed in 2026

On October 10 last year, a Friday, a tariff headline hit an over-leveraged market, and roughly $19 billion in positions were liquidated within 24 hours, most of them longs, most of them retail. Bitcoin fell from above $120,000 to around $105,000. Solana lost 40% before finding a bid, and more than 1.6 million accounts went