📈 Mid-August Trend Analysis

In the first half of August, coins in Google Trends were only from CMC’s top 100. This shows the audience’s attention is locked on large and trusted assets. Leaders are still the same – BTC and ETH – but the details carry important signals.

Bitcoin hit a new ATH, but its dominance is going down. Since the start of August, ETH is already up 42%, outpacing BTC’s 11%. This is a classic pattern where liquidity starts flowing into the second largest crypto, and later may move to altcoins. In the past, this often came before altseason.

In July, the trending list was mostly top 20 coins like BTC, DOGE, AVAX and XRP. Now the picture is wider. Alongside BTC and ETH, Solana, Dogecoin and XRP are in the top searches, plus a few niche altcoins.

It’s worth noting that three Google Trends spots are taken by AMM projects (RAY, AERO, CRV), which shows DeFi yield is coming back into focus. If we add IoT and meme coins here, we get the usual mix for the start of altseason – infrastructure plus hype sectors.

Historically, altcoin growth phases started with ETH/BTC, and the current price action supports this. The sequence looks logical: BTC growth → ETH rally → BTC dominance drop → top alts in Google Trends → DeFi, memes and IoT in the spotlight → altcoin impulse.

Our full article on altseason with past cycle analysis is coming soon. Google Trends data is already hinting at capital rotation, but whether history repeats we will see soon 🔜

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