🚀 Altcoin Season EXPLODES Back: Cronos & Numeraire Surge While DOLO Tanks - August 28 Crypto Update

Digital assets roar back to life as altcoins steal the spotlight from Bitcoin's dominance.

Market Momentum Shifts

Cronos and Numeraire defy gravity with sustained rallies—outperforming major benchmarks while speculative tokens like DOLO get crushed under selling pressure. Trading volumes spike across secondary markets as retail flocks back to altcoin positions.

Institutional Whispers

Hedge funds quietly accumulate selective alt positions behind the scenes—because nothing says 'contrarian play' like chasing pumps after a 200% run-up. Meanwhile, regulatory chatter intensifies as lawmakers scramble to keep pace with innovation they still don't understand.

Bottom Line: Alt seasons print life-changing gains until they don't—ask anyone who bought the last top.

(Altcoin season index, source –)

Analysts are pointing to Fed rate cut hints and China’s stimulus as market’s fuel. Institutional whales has been adding $2.2 billion into ETH, and are now controlling 9% of supply, while small-caps volumes lag.

Is it bad? Likely not, it’s a perfect path to a classic early altseason run.

DOLO crypto could be dropping, but Solana with Jupiter and Raydium dominate with fresh liquidity as memecoin heats up.

Numeraire, DOLO, and Cronos Dominating Headlines

Cronos stole the spotlight with a 56% jump in 24 hours, blasting to $0.35 on $2 billion crypto volume. As we know, Trump Media’s $6.4 billion crypto pivot has add another $1 billion into CRO chart. In addition to that, a $5 billion credit line for Truth Social integrations is pushing CRO up 141% weekly.

(CRO/USD, source –)

Numeraire is no slouch either; the crypto is rocketing by 74% to above $21 after JPMorgan’s  $500 million bet on Numerai AI hedge fund. Assets under management doubled to a big $1 billion, with 784,000 NMR staked in data models. Numeraire could be the coin that restart AI crypto run.

Today, Numerai reached a major milestone: one of the largest allocators to Quant strategies has secured $500m capacity in Numerai’s hedge fund.

Learn more: https://t.co/CZEQDmIY95

— Numerai (@numerai) August 26, 2025

However, Dolomite DOLO is the odd one, tanking 15% to $0.26 despite Binance and Coinbase crypto listings. A whale was dumping 20 million DOLO crypto pre-launch, raising rug-pull eyebrows amid $116 million volume. Security exploits aslo drained $165K, HYPE and headaches for holders.

(DOLO Crypto, source –)

DePIN projects are also in the headlines after hitting $17.9 billion cap, while its stablecoins launch in Wyoming and Japan. Biotech firms eye crypto for funding, and Trump’s “American Bitcoin” tease will be debuting next month.

BTC at $110,000 feels like the calm before alts explode, once dominance below 55%, the real fireworks will begin.

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