On September 20, BNB slipped 1.12% as the Federal Reserve's rate hikes and a strengthening dollar reminded markets that capital, like water, flows toward the path of least resistance — and in this moment, that path led away from altcoins. The collision of elevated risk-free yields and dollar dominance prompted investors to seek safety in bonds and stablecoins, leaving speculative digital assets to absorb the weight of forced liquidations and profit-taking near technical resistance. Analysts read the decline not as rupture but as recalibration — a market pausing to find its footing within a lar