3. Third phase (little to no pumps): this is the final phase where people move on to other and newer shitcoins so this one has a hard time getting the same big pumps as before.
ETH is currently in the third phase. As a shitcoin, it had its big pump (second phase) back in 2017 when it reached 0.15BTC but ever since that pump, it has been going lower and lower (currently 0.02BTC).
In this phase (3rd) they can only pump it a little because people are no longer interested in this shitcoin and they prefer newer shitcoins that are in their 1st and 2nd phases that can give them the highest profit.
In 2017 bull run, there were many altcoins with their unbelievable ATHs in
BTC values, not only Ethereum made it. There are other altcoins like DASH, Monero, Obyte and more but such times for altcoins are no longer existing.
In a last bull run, I remembered one altcoin, YFI and perhaps you knew this one too. It rose to about 4
BTC for 1 YFI and from $3,000 to $95,000 even when Bitcoin did not make its bull run toward $20,000 in that time.
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/YFI_BTC?type=spothttps://www.binance.com/en/trade/YFI_USDT?type=spotNow it is dying in this bull run and it's easily to guess how it will fall down more in a coming bear market.