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Bitcoin is leading the crypto rally once again, surging to a new all-time high of $123,000 earlier this month. So far in July, BTC has gained 9.79%, and in the last seven days alone, it jumped by 8.8%, reigniting investor excitement across the market.
But with Bitcoin dominance rising, the big question now is: Will altcoins follow—or is this another fakeout?
Bitcoin Breaks $120K, Is It Time for Altseason?$BTC just hit a new ATH at $123,000. But where are the altcoin pumps?
I’ve gone back through the last 3 $BTC breakouts to find patterns and the signs are finally lining up.
Here's what to expect next for $ETH, $SOL, $XRP, and…— VirtualBacon (@VirtualBacon0x) July 14, 2025
Bitcoin Breaks Out to $123K
Bitcoin’s bullish momentum continues, marking a 15.9% gain between June 23 and July 15. This rally pushed BTC from $107K to $123K, a 14.95% jump, making it the biggest breakout of Q3 so far.
In Q2 2025, Bitcoin recorded an impressive 29.9% return, supported by:
April: +14.2%
May: +11.1%
June: +2.40%
So far in Q3, Bitcoin is already up 9.69%—and counting.
Also Read : Bitcoin Price Prediction After $123K Peak – Is $130K the Next Target?
Altseason or Just a Short Window?
Popular analyst VirtualBacon shared a detailed thread on X, analyzing BTC’s current breakout and what it means for altcoins.
According to him, this may not be a full-blown altseason, but rather a short “altcoin rotation window”. Historically, after each major BTC breakout since mid-2023, altcoins typically rallied for 3–5 weeks before Bitcoin resumed dominance.
Also Read : From $4 to $10, This Altcoin Could Explode 3X in Crypto Bull Run 2025
Current BTC Dominance: A Warning Sign?
At present, Bitcoin dominance sits at 64.34%, up from 57.59% at the start of the year. This continued rise suggests money is still flowing into Bitcoin first. The only pullback was a 4.83% drop in May, which quickly recovered.
VirtualBacon emphasizes that a sustained altcoin season needs BTC dominance to decline, something that hasn’t happened yet. But short-term opportunities may still exist.
Altcoins to Watch Now
VirtualBacon highlights several altcoins with breakout potential:
BNB: Near cycle lows
LINK: Undervalued with strong fundamentals
ADA: Forming a macro double-bottom
TRX: Quiet strength
DOGE: Known for rallying post-BTC breakouts
He also notes Solana ecosystem tokens are showing strength:
Bonk: +110.9% (14 days)
PENGU: +112.9% (14 days)
Emerging Layer-1s and smart contract platforms are also on the radar:
SUI, Aptos (APT), and Avalanche (AVAX)—with AVAX yet to rally since October 2023.
Meanwhile, narrative-driven tokens like TAO (14x in 5 months) and PEPE (6.6x in 3 months) have shown what’s possible during strong Bitcoin uptrends.
What Happens If Bitcoin Hits $150K?
VirtualBacon predicts that if BTC touches $150K, the top 20 altcoins could explode in value, as institutional and retail investors look for the next big opportunity.
While Bitcoin leads the charge, altcoins may have a short-term window to rally. Whether this turns into a full-scale altseason will depend on Bitcoin dominance, overall market sentiment, and how investors rotate capital in the coming weeks.
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📢Announcement on Adjusting the Parameters of the sTRX & Energy Rental Market
To lower energy rental costs for users, JustLend DAO reduced the rental APY on Jul 13, 2025 (SGT), while maintaining the energy recovery fee mechanism. This update significantly cuts the total cost of energy rentals and enhances yields for #TRX stakers in the #sTRX protocol.
JustLend DAO will continue to monitor market dynamics and adjust parameters in real time to ensure long-term sustainability and safeguard user assets.
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#JustLendDAO #EnergyRental #TRON #DeFi
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Why does TRON have more potential than Bitcoin? Strong mobility, more ecological live!
TRON (TRX) and Bitcoin (BTC) are somewhat "linked" in the crypto market, but TRON has greater potential. It has strong mobility, rich ecology, and a wider space in the future
1. TRON has super liquidity
1. Fast, cheap, and cool trading
TRON uses the DPoS mechanism to kill 7 TPS of Bitcoin in seconds for transaction speed, and produces blocks in 3 seconds, with fast confirmation. Fees are as low as they are almost none, and Bitcoin fees are ridiculously high when it's busy. This makes TRON the preferred choice for stablecoin transfers. In May 2025, USDT will be in circulation on TRON with more than $75.7 billion, accounting for more than half of the world's total
2. The "trump card" of stablecoins
TRON dominates the stablecoin market, with the issuance of TRC20-USDT exceeding 60 billion in July 2024 and an additional 13 billion during the year. The active addresses and trading volume on the chain have been leading all year round. Bitcoin is mostly used to "store value", with few daily transfers, and liquidity relies on speculation, which is not as practical as TRON
3. Cross-border payment tools
TRON is low-cost, fast to confirm, and cross-border payment and DeFi scenarios are very popular. USDT is more cost-effective than bank SWIFT or Bitcoin transfers on TRON, attracting a large number of users, and the network effect is getting stronger and stronger
Second, the TRON ecosystem is richer
1. DApps are blooming everywhere
TRON supports smart contracts and DApps, the virtual machine is compatible with Ethereum, and the cost of migration for developers is low. The ecosystem covers DeFi, NFT, games, etc., and the number of active accounts exceeded 50 million in August 2021 and is still rising.
Bitcoin has a single function, no smart contracts, and is scaled by Layer 2 (such as the Lightning Network), but it is far less popular than TRON
2. New tricks for content creation
TRON allows creators to skip platforms like YouTube and trade directly with users to earn more. After the integration of BitTorrent, the entertainment industry has great potential. Bitcoin doesn't have much room to play here
3. Bitcoin's Layer 2 ambitions
In 2024, TRON will enter the Bitcoin Layer 2, connecting TRON assets and the Bitcoin network through cross-chain bridges to leverage Bitcoin traffic. Bitcoin Layer 2 is still in its infancy, and TRON is taking the lead
Third, the technical hard core
1. Green and energy-saving
TRON's DPoS energy consumption is low, and Bitcoin PoW mining consumes electricity like an "electric tiger", which is often criticized. TRON's green attributes are more in line with future trends
2. Destroy the value
TRON burns TRX through transaction fees, reducing circulating supply and benefiting the price in the long run. In May 2025, the single-day revenue will exceed $12.4 million, and the annual revenue will be $2.81 billion, an increase of 125%. Bitcoin has a supply cap, but it is volatile, and there is no such mechanism
3. Flexible governance
TRON community governance allows users to vote for super representatives, and the response is fast. Bitcoin is slow to upgrade (e.g. Taproot takes years), and TRON is more able to keep up with the market
TRON relies on liquidity, stablecoin ecosystem, low-cost transactions, and diverse DApps to grow more than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is stable, but TRON's utility for payments, content creation, and Layer 2 makes it even more dynamic
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📢LAST WEEK IN #BitTorrent
✅ BTFS Protocol v4.0 Mainnet is officially launched.
✅ BTFS SCAN 4.0 Mainnet is now live.
✅ According to BTFS SCAN, the total number of created wallets on BitTorrent Speed is over 553M, and the total number of TRON addresses is over 6.30M
✅ The total number of transactions on BTFS exceeded 2.15M
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📢LAST WEEK IN #BitTorrent
✅ BTFS Protocol v4.0 Mainnet is officially launched.
✅ BTFS SCAN 4.0 Mainnet is now live.
✅ According to BTFS SCAN, the total number of created wallets on BitTorrent Speed is over 553M, and the total number of TRON addresses is over 6.30M
✅ The total number of transactions on BTFS exceeded 2.15M
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Tron price performance in USD
The current price of Tron is $0.29783. Over the last 24 hours, Tron has decreased by -1.44%. It currently has a circulating supply of 94,756,934,041 TRX and a maximum supply of 94,757,079,771 TRX, giving it a fully diluted market cap of $28.16B. At present, Tron holds the 8 position in market cap rankings. The Tron/USD price is updated in real-time.
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TRON (TRX) is a blockchain platform founded by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in 2014. It is focused on changing the landscape of the media and content creation industry. TRON helps media and content creators retain ownership of their work while being rewarded directly by consumers. With TRON, creators do not need to sell their work rights to big corporations to reach a large audience.
The TRON blockchain does not charge any fees for using the network. Despite the lack of gas fees, the network still supports as many as 2000 transactions per second. The blockchain is maintained through a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism. In TRON's case, 27 Super Representatives are nominated to validate transactions and secure the blockchain. To reduce the possibility of such a small number of people conspiring to take down the blockchain, the Super Representatives are changed every six hours.
The TRX token is the native token of the TRON blockchain and is used to reward media and content creators. Although created as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, it is now a purely TRON-based token built according to TRON's TRC-20 token standard. Consumers use TRX to reward media and content creators on the TRON blockchain for their work.
Since moving TRX from Ethereum and the ERC-20 token standard to TRON's TRC-20 token standard, new wallets have had to be created for storing TRX tokens and interacting with the broader TRON ecosystem. While the TRON Foundation hasn't released any wallets, several TRX-compatible wallets, such as Tronlink and imToken have been developed by members of the TRON community and third-party organizations.
TRX price and tokenomics
TRX is designed to have a maximum supply of slightly more than 100 billion TRX tokens. Currently, 71.6 billion TRX tokens are in circulation, with a little over 28.4 billion TRX tokens set to be released in the coming years, giving TRX an estimated market capitalization of $5.75 billion.
In its initial coin offering (ICO), 40 billion TRX tokens were allocated to investors, 15.75 billion were channeled to private sale buyers, ten bullion to the TRON Foundation, and the remaining 35 billion were distributed to the Peiwo app.
The TRON network burns coins to deflate the currency and rewards its users. However, the maximum limit TRX is not fixed and could be subject to change in the future. The Super Representatives validate transactions and add blocks of transactions to the TRON blockchain. For each new block added, the validator who added the block is rewarded with 32 TRX tokens.
Ultimately TRX is a deflationary token since its supply is capped. All the remaining TRON tokens are distributed as mining rewards to the representatives securing the blockchain by validating transactions.
About the founders
TRON was founded by Justin Sun, a Chinese entrepreneur in the crypto space with a business executive background. Before founding TRON, Justin Sun had worked in the crypto space as a representative of the crypto payments and remittance infrastructure provider Ripple.
TRON was initially known as Tronix and rebranded to TRON in 2017 when the platform became a blockchain, and the TRON foundation was created to oversee the project. TRON started as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network. However, after alleged spats with Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's founder, the ERC-20 TRON token migrated to its own blockchain after the mainnet launch in 2018.
The TRON Foundation was dissolved in 2021, and the project is now run and maintained by members of the TRON community. Sun continues as the official ambassador of the project. Before starting with cryptocurrencies, Sun founded Peiwo in 2013, one of the biggest voice apps in China. The app is a mixture of Snapchat and a matchmaking site. It's currently functioning on the TRON network.
TRX developments
Over the years, TRON has been involved in various partnerships. In September 2022, Tron announced a partnership with crypto market maker Wintermute to boost the availability of TRX and other tokens on the TRON blockchain.
The partnership will see Wintermute become a member of TRON's decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), contribute to decisions on the platform's future, and acquire TRON's stablecoin USDD directly from the blockchain.
In exchange, Wintermute will provide liquidity for TRX and other TRON tokens on decentralized finance (DeFi) services like Uniswap, making accessing these tokens and the TRON ecosystem easier.
In September 2022, Tron launched the third season of its 2022 Grand Hackathon, with $1.2 million in prizes up for grabs. The contest is open to all developers and features challenges along six tracks, including DeFi, GameFi, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Number of posts mentioning a token in the last 24h. This can help gauge the level of interest surrounding this token.
Contributors
Number of individuals posting about a token in the last 24h. A higher number of contributors can suggest improved token performance.
Interactions
Sum of socially-driven online engagement in the last 24h, such as likes, comments, and reposts. High engagement levels can indicate strong interest in a token.
Sentiment
Percentage score reflecting post sentiment in the last 24h. A high percentage score correlates with positive sentiment and can indicate improved market performance.
Volume rank
Volume refers to post volume in the last 24h. A higher volume ranking reflects a token’s favored position relative to other tokens.
In the last 24 hours, there have been 7.4K new posts about Tron, driven by 1.2K contributors, and total online engagement reached 643K social interactions. The sentiment score for Tron currently stands at 89%. Compared to all cryptocurrencies, post volume for Tron currently ranks at 1916. Keep an eye on changes to social metrics as they can be key indicators of the influence and reach of Tron.
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