Altcoins Analytics 16th March 2026

This week's edition of our Crypto Altcoins Analytics.

DeFi

Crypto

BTC & Altcoin Dominance

Bitcoin and Altcoin Dominance – Bitcoin dominance continues to move sideways, with altcoin dominance showing a similar trend. This is analogous to the broader crypto market, where spot prices have largely moved sideways.

BTC Dominance

Altcoin Dominance

Altcoins / BTC Spot Crosses

Altcoin spot prices denominated in BTC: XRP

Altcoin spot prices denominated in BTC: ETH

Altcoin spot prices denominated in BTC: SOL

Altcoin spot prices denominated in BTC: BNB

Altcoins performance vs BTC

Altcoins vs BTC – XRP, ETH, and SOL continue to closely track Bitcoin’s daily movements, with their returns largely converging over the past week. On most days, their performance has differed from BTC by less than 1%.

Today, 16th March, stands out as an anomaly. While Bitcoin is up around 3% over the past 24 hours, these altcoins are outperforming, with returns over 2% higher than BTC’s providing a more leveraged exposure to the move.

Daily relative simple returns vs BTC

Altcoin Performance vs BTC

Daily relative simple returns vs BTC: XRP

Daily relative simple returns vs BTC: ETH

Daily relative simple returns vs BTC: SOL

Daily relative simple returns vs BTC: BNB

ETF Flows: BTC, ETH & Altcoins

ETF Flows – Over the past week, BTC ETFs recorded $568.45M of net inflows, while ETH ETFs saw roughly $23.56M of net inflows.

Activity in altcoin ETFs was largely muted, with flows staying close to zero across recent sessions.

The only altcoin ETFs to record flows over the week were XRP and SOL: SOL ETFs posted a net inflow of $24.04M, while XRP ETFs saw a net outflow of $4.08M.