Altcoins stage a mini-rally
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What’s up
Bevy Of Altcoins Bop Into Green
On a day when Bitcoin was observed stiffening its spine — but still barely budged — a slew of altcoins went ahead and made merry.
Perpetual DEX Aster (ASTER) surged by as much as 10% in the past 24 hours. A kindred platform, Hyperliquid (HYPE), gained 7% in that same span, showing that the doldrums for DeFi tokens need not necessarily persist.
Hedera (HBAR) also joined in the little burst of jauntiness, as there was finally some positive news for the native token of the institutional-grade-app-dev-focused platform. HBAR remains down 19% over a 30-day period. But it did shoot up 6% in the past day. (Don't think we weren't watching, HBAR; you are, after all, a Top 30 coin.)
Widening our lens, we spy an AI agent project, Pippin (PIPPIN), which has just now climbed into the Top 100 following a torrid stretch dating back to last week. In seven days, PIPPIN, said to be heavily insider controlled, has more than tripled in value from 17 cents to 54 cents.
As for the standard-bearer of crypto, Bitcoin, well, your big boy turned in a fairly standard performance for these grinding times. It slid below $66K on Wednesday but as of early Thursday looked like it might chase down $68K. BTC as of 9:45 a.m. (EST) was $67,883, per CoinGecko. Green enough — the $67.9K mark represents a 24-hour gain of 1%.
What's down
Zigging ZRO All Of A Sudden Zags
Not every altcoin’s humming a snappy tune. Take, for instance, Solana (SOL), completely flat at $81. SOL is down 9% over the past seven days, compared to a -4% week for rival ETH and a +2% week for another big-time altcoin, XRP.
Meanwhile, interoperability-focused LayerZero (ZRO), has gone sharply into the red (-12%) over the past 24 hours.
It’s worth noting ZRO’s spot price remains above $2 and is still up 32% on the week, one which has been punctuated by major announcements such as a new partnership with Google Cloud, integration into Cardano and, most ballyhooed of all, the launch of a new layer-1 chain, Zero, with backing from Citadel and Ark.
ZRO has a market capitalization of about $450M, making it the 104th-largest coin, per CoinGecko. ZRO’s apex of $7.47 came in December of 2024.
What's next
Intensely Scrutinized DeFi Player Aggressively Expands
Another altcoin scorching a decent-sized green trail today is World Liberty Financial (WLFI).
The Trump-family-tied crypto platform’s native coin gained 6.6% in the past 24 hours. WLFI has a market cap of nearly $3 billion. It’s CoinGecko’s 34th-largest digital asset.
Scrutiny levels for this asset are sky high these days, understandably, considering its connection to the U.S. president. Being under a microscope isn’t slowing growth. The Block has a story today stating how World Liberty Financial plans to launch a foreign exchange and remittance platform.
The expansion of Trump-tied crypto ventures has coincided with the Trump administration’s oversight of U.S. crypto policy, prompting a growing outcry, particularly by Trump’s opponents, about potential conflicts of interest. No such conflicts exist, the White House has continuously insisted.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently launched a probe into some of World Liberty’s cross-border financial dealings, specifically focusing on a previously undisclosed stake in it taken by a UAE sheik; Trump has said he wasn’t aware of the investment, which, per the Wall Street Journal, was made shortly before his inauguration.
World Liberty’s new platform, World Swap, plans to launch a remittance platform aimed at lowering the cost of cross-border money transfers, according to Zak Folkman, World Liberty’s co-founder. Folkman recently announced the initiative during an industry event in Hong Kong.
The platform, he said, will connect users directly to debit cards and bank accounts globally and settle cross-border remittances for a fraction of the cost associated with traditional providers, according to Reuters.
