Altcoin Meaning: What It Is and Why Altcoins Are Sliding

Coins Money (altcoin meaning)

The altcoin meaning is simple: any crypto that isn’t Bitcoin, now 40.04% of the market. CoinGecko data puts Bitcoin dominance at 59.96% today. That means every other coin combined, from Ethereum to Dogecoin to dollar stablecoins, adds up to roughly $1.02 trillion of a $2.54 trillion market, and over the past 30 days most of the big ones have fallen two to three times harder than Bitcoin.

What Is Staking? How Crypto Staking Rewards Actually Work

Five stacks of silver coins growing taller from left to right on white (crypto staking rewards)

Staking rewards pay you in the coin you stake, and ETH fell 10.37% in the 30 days to Nov 8, 2026. That one fact explains most of what beginners get wrong about crypto staking rewards: the yield is real, but it’s paid in an asset whose price can move far more in a month than the reward adds in a year.