Hood Sword Inu ripped 139.19% in 24 hours to $0.160921 and closed the session sitting on its all-time high. Bitcoin added a modest 1.34% to $84,086 over the same window, Ethereum 0.96% to $2,470.86. A memecoin with a sword in its name outran the entire crypto establishment in a single day — the equivalent of someone landing a Turbo Fatality in the middle of a quiet chess match.
From $0.0669 to $0.1628 in twenty-four hours
The intraday range tells the story better than the percentage does: low at $0.066941, high at $0.162802. The token more than doubled inside a few hours and finished 1.16% off its record, which in practice means the record was set essentially at the bell. Market cap reached $160.9 million on $27.99 million of turnover — roughly 17% of capitalization changing hands in one session. Tokens inside the top fifty rarely see rotation like that.
Supply is fully circulating: one billion tokens, no locked allocations, no unlock calendar hanging overhead. For a memecoin that cuts both ways. There is no inflation pressure, but there is also nothing holding the price together once enthusiasm cools. From an all-time low of $0.01086989 the token is up 1,380%, and the trip from floor to ceiling took less time than the average streaming series season.
AltLayer: turnover bigger than market cap
Second place goes to AltLayer, up 29.08% to $0.01291961. What makes this move more interesting than a standard memecoin pop is the ratio: $126 million of volume against $95.5 million of market cap, meaning 132% of capitalization turned over in a day. Rollup infrastructure is not exactly glamorous social-media material, but when liquidity wakes up, the narrative stops mattering.
The context, however, is merciless. Even after this jump AltLayer sits 98.09% below its all-time high of $0.676743. The token was a 2024 favorite of the modular-chain story and then took the path crypto has a precise name for — a correction that outlasts the patience of its holders. The rally looks more like a buyer appearing at those levels than the start of a new cycle. The daily band of $0.0095068 to $0.0155291 means there was 63% between the floor and the ceiling of a single session.
AI Rig Complex and the quiet strength of the AI hive
Third is AI Rig Complex, up 22.14% to $0.063137 with a $63.1 million market cap. Volume of $12.49 million against a cap that small means a thin order book where any sizeable order moves price like a stone dropped in a bathtub. The close at $0.0631, just under the session high of $0.064349, is technically the best possible outcome — buyers stayed until the final whistle.
Still, the cold shower applies here too: 89.87% below the all-time high of $0.623197. A decentralized AI infrastructure token trading at a tenth of its peak value, with a 22% bounce, reads more like a resit exam than a graduation.
The wider tape: 148 of 250 in the green
The rally was not isolated. Of the 250 most liquid tokens, 148 finished higher. Prom added 17.48%, Magma Finance 15.51%, Pearl 13.40%, Lighter 11.47% on $147.5 million of volume, Collector Crypt 9.86%, Aethir 9.24%, Convex Finance 9.14%, and Ethena 8.65% on a hefty $508 million of turnover — the largest print among top-tier gainers.
The structure of the leaderboard is a familiar pattern: memecoin at the front, infrastructure in the middle, large-cap DeFi at the back. When a market rises and the most speculative segment leads, it signals risk appetite — and serves as a reminder that such rotation usually has short legs. Bitcoin at $84,086 remains 33.31% below its $126,080 record, which means big capital has not yet moved into euphoria.
For Hood Sword Inu the statistics are unforgiving: tokens that gain 139% in a day and close at record highs frequently surrender between a third and half of that move within the next few sessions. There is no overhead resistance because the ground above is new, but there is no support either — below $0.10 the space is effectively empty. What looked like a knight’s crusade today can be just another episode of a series nobody remembers tomorrow.
Financial data (October 22, 2026)
| Metric | Hood Sword Inu (HOODINU) | AltLayer (ALT) | AI Rig Complex (ARC) |
| Price | $0.160921 | $0.01291961 | $0.063137 |
| 24h change | +139.19% | +29.08% | +22.14% |
| Market cap | $160,896,200 | $95,549,721 | $63,145,307 |
| 24h volume | $27,994,008 | $126,024,967 | $12,487,187 |
| 24h range | $0.066941 – $0.162802 | $0.0095068 – $0.0155291 | $0.04874214 – $0.064349 |
| Circulating supply | 1,000,000,000 | 7,367,187,496 | 999,982,057 |
| Total supply | 1,000,000,000 | 10,000,000,000 | 999,982,057 |
| ATH | $0.162802 (-1.16%) | $0.676743 (-98.09%) | $0.623197 (-89.87%) |
| ATL | $0.01086989 (+1,380%) | $0.00536566 (+140.78%) | $0.00987155 (+539.59%) |
| FDV | $160,896,200 | $129,696,334 | $63,145,307 |
Source: CoinGecko, October 22, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Prices are spot values across exchanges and may vary by venue.
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