I was away from crypto for years and now I'm trying to get back into the game. I was really STUNNED that there is no exchange, even after many years since bitcoin started, that we can just deposit USD and start exchanging altcoins. I hope I'm wrong because this would be the single biggest hurdle for altcoins to be widely adopted by general public. There are just too many hurdles to jump over just to START trading.
each altcoin has it own community, depending on their strategy and the strength of the community, they can push the project further, despite the dip in market, we still see some projects that are high fliers with sucess and increase in adoption because of a working strategy