If 2026 brings an alteason, will ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL and DOGE be the top performers?

Charts suggest the bulls will try to defend the support levels in ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, and DOGE, but higher levels are likely to attract sellers.

The cryptocurrency market witnessed pockets of outperformance from select altcoins in 2025, but a broad-based altcoin rally failed to materialize. According to CoinMarketCap data, Bitcoin (BTC) did not breach its yearly low dominance of 55.5% hit on Jan. 5, 2025, signaling that traders did not abandon BTC and rush into altcoins.

Glassnode said in a recent post on X that nearly all crypto sectors had underperformed BTC over the past 3 months, signaling “a market environment where capital concentration favors BTC.”

Could the major altcoins make a comeback in 2026? Let’s analyze the charts of the top 5 major altcoins to find out.

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