Bitcoin has broken through the $78,000 level and is trading at $77,988, a daily gain of 2.14%, while the total market capitalization has climbed to $2.66 trillion on 24-hour volume of $97.9 billion. The market is green almost end to end, and Bitcoin dominance holds steady at 58.6%.
This was not a tank charge but a quiet operation in the style of Ocean’s Eleven: while Bitcoin kept watch at the head of the column, DeFi tokens slipped in from the shadows and walked off with most of the loot. Ethereum added 2.84% and stands at $2,506.64, with a market cap of $305.9 billion and daily volume of $15.7 billion. Its dominance sits at 11.45%, while the all-time high of $4,946 still looms like a distant Everest on the horizon.
The biggest surprise came from the corner that spent recent months on life support. Uniswap exploded 28.2% to $8.76 after closing the week up more than 45%. It is the kind of scene familiar from the final stage of the Tour de France, when an outsider suddenly breaks out of the peloton and leaves the favorites staring at his back. Its market cap has grown to $5.45 billion and volume roughly doubled from yesterday.
Arbitrum jumped 23.96% to $0.2048, NEAR Protocol 22.28% to $3.50, Injective 20.08% to $6.68, and Raydium 20.04% to $1.71. Worldcoin added 18.52% and now trades at $0.4413, while Aptos climbed 18.93% to $0.6797. Slightly more modest, though still notable: Ether.fi up 14.95%, Jupiter 14.42%, Stacks 14.07%. It is as if someone turned on the music in the locker room and the whole squad started dancing.
Solana led the heavyweights with a 5.71% gain to $105.66 and a market cap of $62 billion on daily volume of $4.48 billion. BNB added 3.48% to $748.49, XRP 1.98% to $1.32, and Dogecoin 5.41% to $0.0853. Stellar rose 2.22% to $0.1857, while TRON barely moved, up 0.94% at $0.3374.
The star among mid caps was Hyperliquid: up 12.84% to $89.87, just shy of its all-time high of $90.92. When something sits that close to a record, every tick up becomes a headline and every tick down a drama. The platform is now worth $20 billion — no small feat for a niche that was little more than small talk in crypto circles until yesterday.
Zcash added 7.06% to $1,458.90 and closed the week up a striking 32.8%, with a market cap of $24.7 billion. Monero followed with a 7.19% gain to $537.43. Privacy, it seems, is back in fashion — like vinyl records in the streaming era, where nobody expects a comeback and then everyone buys one at once.
Cardano rose 7.94% to $0.2139 and climbed back above $8 billion in market cap, Chainlink 5.87% to $11.81, while Litecoin enjoyed similar tailwinds. All told, among 21,296 active cryptocurrencies, the vast majority of today’s moves were to the upside — a rarity that does not come around every week.
Not everything was gold, of course. World Liberty Financial shed 1.90% to $0.0579, Rain 2.24% to $0.0128, Bitway 3.66% to $0.6686, Unibase 3.77% to $0.13, and Falcon Finance a hefty 10.57% to $0.125. LEO Token was nearly flat, down 0.15% at $8.91. Among the steadier decliners were several tokenized Treasury instruments, which posted only marginal corrections.
The story of the day is not a single star but the breadth of the market. When everything rises — from DeFi protocols to AI tokens to privacy and infrastructure — it is no longer a coincidence but a rotation. Investors are not fleeing risk; they are redistributing it from safe harbors into more aggressive positions. That is the difference between panic and a cool-headed shift of weight, and today it is clearly the latter.
Bitcoin dominance of 58.6% still keeps the market on a leash, but it is not stopping altcoins from running their own marathon. The only question is whether this is a warm-up before a grand final or just another first half after which the locker room empties out. For now, the light is green, the crowd is on its feet, and the game is being led by the ones least expected to do so.