2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31 ·
top 500 coins by market cap · measured with smma-15-29
11.1%. At the quarter's low on 2026-01-01, just 11.1% of the top 500 coins were trending up.
The share of the top 500 coins in an uptrend, day by day. It peaked at 19.8% (2026-01-24) and bottomed at 11.1% (2026-01-01), ending the quarter at 17.2%.
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How often coins flipped between up- and downtrend over the quarter. Fewer flips means cleaner, more sustained trends; lots of flips means a choppy, whipsaw market.
A coin that never flipped simply held the same trend from start to finish. But with breadth stuck between 11.1% and 19.8% all quarter, that was far more often a held downtrend than a sustained rally. “Never flipped” here means steady, not bullish.
Number of coins (right) by how many times they flipped trend (left).
Share of each sector in an uptrend at quarter-end, and how that moved across the quarter.
Sectors are mapped from CoinMarketCap tags; stablecoins, tokenized fiat and tokenized equities are excluded. (n) is the number of coins in the sector; the quarter-over-quarter change is hidden where n is under 15, since a single coin would swing it.
The share of altcoins whose Bitcoin-denominated trend is up — i.e. actually outperforming BTC. This is the alt-season read. It peaked at 39.7% on 2026-02-20.
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Uptrend share among the top 100 versus the rest of the universe. Large caps leading while small caps lag is risk-off within crypto; small caps leading is the classic risk-on signal. At quarter-end, 19.0% of the top 100 and 16.8% of smaller caps were trending up.
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| Coin | Flips | Longest uptrend |
|---|---|---|
| Sky SKY | 0 | 90d |
| JUST JST | 0 | 90d |
| Kite KITE | 0 | 90d |
| MindWaveDAO NILA | 0 | 90d |
| SKYAI SKYAI | 0 | 90d |
| SUPERFORTUNE GUA | 0 | 90d |
| Wibegram WIBE | 0 | 90d |
| Mango MNGO | 0 | 90d |
| Stable STABLE | 0 | 87d |
| ADI ADI | 0 | 85d |
| Coin | Flips |
|---|---|
| BUILDon B | 5 |
| Lombard BARD | 5 |
| Jelly-My-Jelly JELLYJELLY | 5 |
| Huma Finance HUMA | 5 |
| Gnosis GNO | 4 |
| Terra Classic LUNC | 4 |
| Convex Finance CVX | 4 |
| CoW Protocol COW | 4 |
| Wrapped Flare WFLR | 4 |
| Solstice USX USX | 4 |
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Trends come from the smma-15-29 indicator: two smoothed moving averages of daily
closing price (periods 15 and 29). A coin counts as in an uptrend on a given day when the faster
SMMA-15 sits above the slower SMMA-29, and a downtrend when below.
The universe is the top 500 coins by market capitalisation as of 2026-03-31; stablecoins, tokenized fiat and tokenized equities are excluded, since their trend signal is meaningless or out of scope. 500 coins had enough price history to produce a trend series over 90 trading days. Sectors are mapped from CoinMarketCap tags.
This report is descriptive of past trends over a closed quarter. It is not predictive and not financial advice. Figures are frozen as of publication (2026-06-09).
A quarterly, data-driven snapshot of how crypto markets trended, built from Squarito's own smma-15-29 trend signal across the top 500 coins by market cap. The Q1 2026 edition covers 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31. Every number is frozen at publication so it can be cited reliably.
By the smma-15-29 indicator: two smoothed moving averages of price (periods 15 and 29). A coin is in an uptrend when the faster SMMA-15 is above the slower SMMA-29, and a downtrend when it is below. This is the same signal used across Squarito.
The top 500 coins by market capitalisation as of 2026-03-31. Pegged and non-crypto assets are excluded entirely, because their trend signal is meaningless or out of scope: stablecoins (including yield-bearing and bond variants), tokenized fiat, and tokenized equities such as tokenized stocks. Of the universe, 500 had enough price history to produce a trend series.
No. The report is descriptive of past trends, not predictive, and is not financial advice. It tells you how the market trended over a closed quarter — nothing about what happens next.