What is Bitcoin dominance?
Bitcoin's share of the total market capitalisation of all crypto assets, expressed as a percentage.
If dominance is 55%, Bitcoin accounts for 55% of the value of the whole market. It moves both when Bitcoin’s price changes relative to other assets and when new assets are created or collapse.
Why it matters: it is a rough gauge of whether capital is concentrating in the largest asset or spreading into smaller ones — often described as risk appetite. It is easy to over-read: dominance can rise because Bitcoin gained or because everything else fell harder, and those are very different situations. We show it live in the market pulse.
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