The crypto market was steady early Wednesday, with bitcoin (BTC) bouncing back above $112,000. Smaller coins like IP, MNT and PUMP posted double-digit gains over the past 24 hours, lifting CoinMarketCap's altcoin season index to almost 60% in a signal that the season has probably started. Story Protocol's IP token rose to over $10 as Heritage Distillery, one of the companies to adopt altcoins as treasury assets, refined strategy to build IP reserves. Traders are looking to tomorrow's U.S. inflation data ...