Bitcoin's status as a relative safe haven is reinforced by its performance compared to other large-cap tokens.
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
Still mostly niche and specialist coverage — not yet picked up broadly by mainstream press.
"Jan3 CEO Samson Mow believes that Bitcoin has been vindicated as a safe-haven asset. He claims that BTC surged higher because the market 'smells blood.'"
"markets treat Bitcoin as the cleanest institutional collateral asset, with Ethereum carrying more exposure to DeFi borrowing, altcoin liquidity, and broader risk appetite. That distinction changes what a trader does when reducing risk, since cutting exposure to ETH or HYPE can still mean staying in crypto, just rotated into Bitcoin or stablecoins, a pattern that leaves Bitcoin holding steadier as everything riskier around it takes the larger hit."
"Bitcoin now commands a 64.2% share of the roughly $1.88 trillion total crypto market and carries a 77.4% weight inside the Bitwise 10 index, cementing its status as the sector’s relative safe haven even in a broad selloff."