Altcoins are emerging as diversification tools for investors looking beyond bitcoin, with CoinShares International offering entry points as institutional adoption of blockchain infrastructure grows. During October 2025, when trade war threats between the U.S. and China triggered a market sell-off, bitcoin fell 14%, according to Reuters data cited in the report. By comparison, the Avalanche protocol dropped 70% during the same period. More than 50% of nearly 7million coins listed on CoinGecko since 2021 have ...