Bitcoin and the broader crypto market lost steam after an early-week rebound, but a handful of tokens continued to climb.
BTC hovered around $65,800 on Tuesday as overall momentum cooled, while Hyperliquid’s HYPE, Uniswap’s UNI, and Worldcoin’s WLD extended their rallies, emerging as some of the week’s strongest performers.
HYPE surged up to 13%, hitting a fresh all-time high above $76 before trimming gains. The token is now up nearly 200% in 2026, placing it among the top-performing large-cap crypto assets this year.
Hyperliquid operates a blockchain-based exchange that enables perpetual futures trading via an on-chain order book. The platform is increasingly viewed as a credible challenger to traditional exchanges, with ambitions to expand into tokenized equities, commodities, and other real-world assets.
Investors have also highlighted Hyperliquid’s growing ties with Coinbase, particularly after adopting Circle’s USDC as its primary trading pair. As part of this structure, a portion of the yield generated from U.S. Treasury reserves backing USDC is used to purchase HYPE tokens.
Worldcoin’s WLD gained 12%, pushing its monthly rally to around 180%.
Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the project is widely seen as one of crypto’s clearest plays on artificial intelligence. Its recent gains have been supported by renewed enthusiasm for AI investments, following the strong debut of SpaceX — which also owns AI firm xAI — and rising expectations that OpenAI could eventually go public.
Uniswap’s UNI also jumped 18% after Standard Chartered initiated coverage with a bullish long-term outlook.
Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s head of digital asset research, said decentralized finance (DeFi) could become a major growth driver as traditional assets such as stocks and bonds increasingly move onchain.
The bank estimates that assets actively deployed in DeFi could grow 37-fold by the end of the decade, positioning Uniswap — the largest decentralized exchange — as a key beneficiary.
Standard Chartered set a $100 price target for UNI by 2030, implying roughly 30x upside from current levels.
