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XRP is the leading token by positive mentions in 2025

The strong July run secured the top spot for Ripple’s token, pushing it ahead of BTC, with SEI following.

On the negative side, MELANIA, BELIEVE, and KDA were anti-leaders due to poor performance and shutdowns.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/performance

2025 Crypto Recap: From Niche to Institutional

In 2025, crypto became more macro-driven and institutional than ever. From ETFs and RWAs to prediction markets and on-chain perps, this recap explains the shifts shaping crypto into 2026.

Read the full analysis:
👉 cryptorank.io/insights/reports/crypto-playbook-2025

📉 Market Overview

The market fell 2.6% over the last 24 hours, as Bitcoin recorded its largest daily ETF outflows since November at $486M. Crypto is now moving sideways, with rotation between majors and no clear new catalyst in sight.

Bitcoin: $90,215 -2.64%
Ethereum: $3,119 -4.08%

Wednesday ETF flows:
BTC ETFs: -$486M
ETH ETFs: -$98M

META token lost another 20%, while last year’s top performer, ZEC, is down 20% since the start of the year.

Market Cap: $3.17T
Liquidations: $440M
Fear & Greed Index: 28 (Fear)
Altcoin Index: 45/100

👉 Latest Research

- CryptoRank 2025 recap: Market Analysis
- CryptoRank 2025 Recap: Milestones and Events
- AI is becoming the energy threat

👉 Small Cap Gainers

World of Dypians +97.6%
Frax Finance +63.2%
zkPass +45%
Torch of Liberty +31.6%
United States Crypto Reserve +28.2%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Ubyx Strategic round backed by Barclays
- Babylon $15M Funding round backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)
- Tres finance $130M M&A round backed by Fireblocks

​​How 2025 Shaped Ethereum Price

2025 was a pivotal year for Ethereum, shaped by both internal developments and broader macro events. The network saw two major protocol upgrades, alongside legislative initiatives that influenced the wider crypto landscape, where Ethereum remains the core infrastructure for DeFi.

In the short term, Ethereum’s price movements were largely driven by macroeconomic and regulatory factors. Technical upgrades primarily play a long-term role, strengthening Ethereum’s scalability, resilience, and the overall maturity of its ecosystem.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/price/ethereum

Stablecoins Grew Up in 2025, Risk Did Too

Stablecoins became core financial infrastructure in 2025, but stress events revealed how much hidden risk sat behind “safe” yield. This piece breaks down what changed, what broke, and how top projects are redesigning yield with transparency and risk isolation.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/insights/analytics/stablecoins-grew-up-in-2025-risk-did-too

​​Perp volumes more than tripled in 2025

The sector shifted from a near-monopolistic setup dominated by Hyperliquid into a highly competitive field.

Mainly driven by liquidity rotation from memecoins, perps volume hit an ATH of $1.8T in October, retracing to $864M at the EOY.

Now, Lighter, Aster, and Hyperliquid is the leading trio with quite similar volumes. Meanwhile, past leaders, like Jupiter, dYdX, and GMX are currently behind in this race.

What's your main bet in the perps sector for 2026?

https://cryptorank.io/tags/derivatives

📈Market Overview

After a solid bounce earlier this week, the market turned choppy as sentiment slid back into Fear. Selling pressure came from faster BTC/ETH ETF outflows and renewed geopolitical risk.

Bitcoin: $90,913 +1%
Ethereum: $3,114 +0.1%

Thursday ETF flows:
BTC ETFs: -$400M
ETH ETFs: -$159M

The Altcoin Index jumped to a three-month high of 40 amid a rally in Chinese memecoins. Among major alts, the top gainers were POL (+17%), JASMY (+8%), and SYRUP (+5%).

Market Cap: $3.19T
Liquidations: $236M
Fear & Greed Index: 27 (Fear)
Altcoin Index: 40/100

👉 Latest Research

- CryptoRank 2025 recap: Market Analysis
- CryptoRank 2025 Recap: Milestones and Events
- AI is becoming the energy threat

👉 Small Cap Gainers

我踏马来了 +498%
Oort +63%
Yei Finance +40%
World Mobile Token +34%
LimeWire +31%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Blackopal $200M Debt Financing round backed by MARS Capital Advisors
- Ubyx Strategic round backed by Barclays
- Babylon $15M Funding round backed by Andreessen Horowitz

​​Almost $2B in Stables Moved out of Core Chains in 24H

Amid market uncertainty and geopolitical risk, market participants are reallocating into lower-risk yield protocols on Ethereum, Arbitrum, or into CEX pools.

Overall DeFi inflows reached about $1.6M in a week, far outperforming any other sector.

Notably, Solana lost $1.3B in this rotation, with roughly 9% of its USDC supply burned in a day.

Read Our Recent Stablecoin Research👇
cryptorank.io/insights/analytics/stablecoins

BNB Chain Dethroned Tron by Stablecoin Active Addresses in 2025

Tron lost the leadership for the 1st time since 2021.

Monthly stablecoin addresses (Dec 2024 -> Dec 2025):

1. BNB Chain 7.8M -> 12.6M
2. Tron 8.5M -> 11.2M
3. Polygon 3.6M -> 5.1M
4. Ethereum 3.4M -> 5M
5. Solana 1.8M -> 3.4M

👉 https://cryptorank.io/blockchains

​​Why didn’t altseason come?

Many expected an altseason last year, but it never came. While some large-cap tokens did reach new ATHs (BNB, SOL, HYPE), most of them are now down 40–50%.

Let’s break down the reasons.

Reason 1 – Capital dilution

New narratives constantly replace old ones, and previous “runners” quickly become irrelevant. Every year, millions of new tokens enter the market, diluting attention and liquidity. A year ago, crypto aggregators tracked around 5.8M tokens; today, that number has grown to 29.2 million.

In this environment, even newly launched tokens struggle to hold their price. According to the research, only 15% of alts launched in 2025 are trading above their TGE price.

Reason 2 – Low float, high FDV launches

In 2025, launches of low-float, high-FDV tokens continued. There were fewer of them, but they still held back a broad altseason. With this launch structure, most of the upside goes to early and private investors, while secondary market buyers often end up as exit liquidity.

A small circulating supply at launch inflates valuations on thin liquidity, and later unlocks create constant sell pressure. VC sell pressure can be tracked using a dedicated dashboard on CryptoRank website.

Reason 3 – Competition with other instruments

A few years ago, altcoins were one of the few ways to grow capital quickly. Today, they are seen more as mid- to long-term investments and have to compete for liquidity with other instruments and sectors.

Early last year, a large share of retail capital moved out of altcoins, especially VC-backed tokens with high FDVs, and flowed into memecoins.

After a series of failures and scams, that liquidity left memecoins as well, but it did not return to altcoins, weakening the market further. While meme trading slowed, other sectors gained traction, most notably perps and prediction markets.

Their growing metrics show retail’s appetite for higher-risk instruments that offer faster returns when conditions are favorable. With this, altcoins are forced to fight hard for user attention and capital.

Can institutions help altcoins grow?

Yes, but only few of them. In 2025, institutional capital focused on targeted exposure to large, resilient assets. ETH, SOL, and XRP saw solid ETF inflows, while the emergence of DATs expanded regulated access to crypto assets.

ETF inflows supported the market from summer through October, but once outflows began, the trend reversed. In November, BTC ETFs saw $3.5B in net outflows, followed by another $1.1B in December.

Without renewed inflows of large capital, a recovery in altcoins and the broader market remains difficult.

Do you expect an altseason this year?

​​📈Market Overview

Commodities markets hit new ATHs as investors hedge geopolitical risk across several regions, while crypto just remains range-bound, with BTC and ETH trading near key support levels.

Bitcoin: $90,788 +0.2%
Ethereum: $3,116 +0.7%

Last week ETF flows:
BTC ETFs: - $681M
ETH ETFs: - $69M

Market participants keep watching privacy narrative, with coins in this category holding among the top gainers for an extended period. In a day, XMR gained 19%, CC gained 10%, and ZEC gained 6%.

Market Cap: $3.19T
Liquidations: $199M
Fear & Greed Index: 27 (Fear)
Altcoin Index: 29/100

👉 Latest News

- X will launch a new feature to track token and stock prices directly from the news feed.
- Trump said there could be another government shutdown on January 30.
- Monero hits an 8-year record high, rising above $550.

👉 Small Cap Gainers

Gleec +81%
Pirate Chain +39%
Sol The Trophy Tomato +36%
Shit Piss Skin Can +34%
Frax Finance +31%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Photonpay Series B round led by IDG Capital
- Rain $250M Series C round led by ICONIQ Capital
- Blackopal $200M Debt Financing round backed by MARS Capital Advisors

​​🔓 Top 7 Token Unlocks of the Upcoming Week

The following tokens with the largest unlock amount will be unlocked next week:

Ondo Finance - $759.91M
Aster - $55.11M
pump.fun - $23.80M
Aptos - $19.93M
Arbitrum - $18.72M
STBL - $16.87M
Sei - $11.40M

👉 https://cryptorank.io/token-unlock

​​ICYMI: Weekend Recap 🗞

Here's a quick look at the key headlines from this weekend:

Markets & Macro

🇺🇸 Trump warns of another potential US government shutdown on Jan 30
🇷🇺 Tether registers Hadron tokenization platform trademark in Russia
🇮🇳 India tightens KYC requirements for crypto user onboarding

Projects & Community

⏸️ Tennessee orders Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.cоm to halt sports betting contracts
🔄 Pump.fun says creator fees ‘may have skewed’ incentives, plans revamp
🔎 Starknet publishes post-mortem report after temporary network outage

Institutions & Capital

💼 DWF Labs completes initial $1 million Seed investment in DeFi project
🏦 a16z raises $15B, projects crypto growth through markets and infrastructure
📊 Nasdaq and CME Group rebrand joint crypto index to expand exposure

Drophunting weekly:

— DataHaven - Tournament on Xeet
— Fluent - Check your reputation
— Based - Observer role
— Inference Labs - Zealy tasks
— D3 - Doma mainnet
— Polarise - Genesis program
— Brevis - Claim & TGE
— Zama - Claim your OG NFT

Explore other news on CryptoRank:
👉 https://cryptorank.io/news

​​Key crypto Events This Week🚀

🔹 January 12:
- Optimism: Founders Discuss Token Buyback Proposal on X Space
- Qtum: Network Hard Fork With Bitcoin 29.1 and Ethereum Pectra Upgrades
- Turbo: Community Discussion and Open Mic Session

🔹 January 13:
- TON: OFF Script Interview Series Launch With Web3 Experts
- Polkadot: Decentralized Networks and Institutional Adoption Discussion
- Recall: Airdrop Claim Deadline Approaches

🔹 January 14:
- Mantle: Mainnet Upgrade v1.4.2 to Support Ethereum Fusaka

🔹 January 15:
- MANTRA: OM Token Migration From ERC20 to MANTRA Chain
- Ravencoin: Network Halving Reducing Block Rewards
- Reserve Dollar: Community Call to Discuss 2026 Operating Plan

🔹 January 16:
- Arbitrum: 92.65M Token Unlock (1.86% of supply)

🔹 January 17:
- Flare: Community Meetup in Osaka

🔹 January 18:
- YZY MONEY: 12.5M Token Unlock (3.57% of supply)
- OFFICIAL TRUMP: 50M Token Unlock (11.95% of supply)
- Ondo: 1.94B Token Unlock (57.23% of supply)

Did we miss anything? Reply in comments to let others know! 🔥

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​​📉 Market Overview

The crypto market can’t find a catalyst and is consolidating in the same range. Spot volume has now been in a three-month downtrend signaling lower interest in long-term buying.

Bitcoin: $91,888 +0.2%
Ethereum: $3,125 -0.8%

Monday ETF inflows:
BTC ETFs: $117M
ETH ETFs: $5M

Among major alts, the privacy narrative is still leading, but with different coins. Today’s top performers are DASH (+21%) and XMR (+16%). Notably, LIT is down 30% this week after its recent TGE.

Market Cap: $3.21T
Liquidations: $217M
Fear & Greed Index: 26 (Fear)
Altcoin Index: 33/100

👉 Latest News

- Federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Powell.
- Dubai’s DFSA banned privacy tokens in the DIFC.
- Strategy bought 13,627 BTC last week, while Bitmine bought 24,266 ETH.

👉 Small Cap Gainers

DebtReliefBot +110%
PlaysOut +53%
Dolomite +49%
雪球 +45%
Dupe +31%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Distributed technologies research (dtr) M&A round backed by Bakkt
- Velafi $20M Series B round led by XVC
- Kolect $1.2M Pre-Seed round led by amber.ac

​​MetaDAO Launches Deliver the Highest Average ROI

MetaDAO has recently gained traction and become one of the most popular launchpads in the market, thanks to its new fundraising model, which includes elements of futarchy and STAMP.

With a focus on Internet Capital Markets, MetaDAO launches don’t deliver 100x returns, but they do deliver a stable average of 4-5x.

Moreover, interest in its launches appears strong, with average commitments of around $50M.

However, the last two launches have delivered negative ROI and are now trading slightly below breakeven, with one of them reaching an ATH ROI of just 0.99x.

👉 cryptorank.io/meta-dao

​​New Portion of Airdrop Campaigns: January Edition

Discover newly arrived airdrops campaigns and be among the first participants.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/drophunting

​​Lighter Saw Significant Metrics Decline After TGE

Lighter, a perp DEX platform that gained a lot of attention in 2025, particularly during its airdrop campaign in late December, has seen a significant decline in perp volume since its TGE.

Other metrics have also weakened, with LIT token down 35% over the past week.

👉 cryptorank.io/price/lighter

📈Market Overview

Amid softer U.S. CPI data, crypto bounced, with BTC above $95K and $594M in shorts liquidated. Institutions added exposure on the day as BTC ETFs saw $687M net inflows.

Bitcoin: $95,071 +3.4%
Ethereum: $3,335 +6.7%

Tuesday ETF inflows:
BTC ETFs: $754M
ETH ETFs: $130M

Privacy still leads among alts, with capital rotating between coins. Not long ago, ZEC led, then leadership shifted to XMR, and now DASH is up 32% in a day and 41% over the week.

Market Cap: $3.34T
Liquidations: $687M
Fear & Greed Index: 48 (Neutral)
Altcoin Index: 35/100

👉 Latest News

- Lighter Perp DEX launched a mobile app for iOS and Android.
- Pakistan will partner with World Liberty Financial on a dollar-pegged stablecoin.
- Zama is launching a token sale at a $55M minimum FDV via CoinList and its own auction app.

👉 Small Cap Gainers

黑马 +566%
Collector Crypt +41%
Luna by Virtuals +40%
The Official 67 Coin +39%
Kinetiq +34%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Instant coin bank M&A round backed by Bitcoin Depot
- Xmaquina $10M Funding round backed by MH Ventures
- Genius Funding round backed by YZi Labs (Prev. Binance Labs)

​​80% of privacy tokens are up in 2026

As privacy meta continues to shine, many tokens are reaching new highs.

Our data shows that 14 out of 18 privacy tokens with a $100M+ market cap have grown since January 1.

Top gainers:
XNC +102%
DASH +74%
XMR +60%

Find the next privacy runner on CryptoRank
👉 https://cryptorank.io/tags/privacy-coins