Bitcoin Makes New ATH Despite Low Retail Interest, When Will Altcoin Inflows Arrive? AllinCrypto May 22, 2025
Bitcoin made a new all-time high of $110,099 on May 22, with the token managing to maintain trading prices around $109k.
Despite Bitcoin’s climb to new highs, sentiment for altcoins and the wider decentralized world seems off balance.
Web searches for Bitcoin and crypto are low, yet prices for the top asset are making new records. Analysts believe these are signs of an extended bull run.
Bitcoin up but retail interest low as institutions fuel market surge
Compared to 2021 and past bull runs, searches for crypto topics and Bitcoin are low, with sentiments across the altcoin market even lower.
Despite Bitcoin hitting all-time highs, crypto just isn’t on the radar of the average retail investor, despite inflows into Bitcoin ETFs and altcoins interest spiking with traditional investors.
Reports suggest the distance between retail hype and Bitcoin all-time highs signals an extended bull run may be on the cards, signifying that the market is yet, still in an early bull phase.
During TOKEN2049 and Consensus 2025, crypto speakers and institutional investors called for capital to start flowing into crypto via decentralized finance, real-world assets, and exchange-traded funds.
All the while, most altcoins have failed to make new all-time highs since 2024 despite surging to strong local highs. For many, it seems the road towards an alt season is far away.
Advances with Ripple beating their SEC case and increased institutional adoption for alts such as Chainlink, Ondo Finance, Hedera Hashgraph, Sui Network, and more indicate that in the near future, inflows will indeed be coming to alts.
The question remains when altcoin inflows will arrive and from where. With Bitcoin making new all-time highs without wider retail interest, could altcoins start making new all-time highs from institutional interest alone, and forgetting real investments?
Could institutions spark next altseason?
If so, then the next alt season would be fueled by institutional inflows and not retail consumer buying like previous bull runs. Such a result would be an industry-first.
Whether altcoin inflows for altseason arrive from retail or institutions, one thing is for sure that the bull run is very much in its early phases.
Bitcoin’s recent all-time high of $110k indicates that the chart has even more room to grow with technical indicators, inflows, and macroeconomic events aligning with a ‘golden bull run’ of some sort.
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