In addition to the influx of new money into the market, the sharp increase of $BTC and $ETH is also an important factor helping to pump altcoins, creating altcoin season!

There are many ways to turn $BTC and $ETH into pump coins:

1. **Directly use $BTC and $ETH as currency to trade altcoins**:

- **Onchain**: Directly use $ETH to swap to stablecoin and thereby trade with altcoins.

- **On the centralized exchange (CEX)**: Participate in spot and futures trading of Altcoin/ETH, Altcoin/BTC pairs.

2. **Use $BTC and $ETH as collateral to borrow money to buy altcoins**:

- This is the method many whales use when they want to bet on altcoins but do not want large buy orders to cause strong price fluctuations on /ETH, /BTC pairs.

3. **Sell $ETH, $BTC to convert to altcoin**:

- This is the simplest and most straightforward way to convert $BTC and $ETH to altcoins.

Therefore, for a coin season to begin, the initial phase of the uptrend will often witness stronger growth of $BTC and $ETH compared to the general average of altcoins on the market. According to this rule, if $BTC reaches 200k, the total of 3 reaching the 3 trillion USD mark and possibly even higher is completely feasible.

We have now gone through a year where the cash flow was mainly focused on $BTC. This shows that altcoin season is coming very close!