Market Highlights Jan 25: Bitcoin Poised to Recover, US Stocks Rally

The crypto market was largely in the red during the Asian morning session, with most of the top ten cryptocurrencies showing losses. Later in the day a reversal took place, and many coins moved into positive territory.

US equities erased earlier steep losses and staged a late comeback yesterday, with the SPX500 (+0.24%), DJ30 (+0.15%) and NASDAQ100 (+0.45%) closing higher.

Top Cryptos

Bitcoin was in the green, up roughly 5% and trading above $36,000 at the time of writing. Ethereum and XRP were down about 1% during the Asian session, while Cardano slipped roughly 3%.

A notable gainer among the top 20 was Cosmos, ranked No. 17. Its ATOM token rose 13% today. ATOM continued its rally after gaining as much as 8% yesterday morning as investors bet on further upside for the high-speed blockchain.

Drivers behind its growth include the implementation of a bridge between Cosmos and Polkadot and upcoming airdrops for Cosmos stakers.

Biggest Movers

Fantom rallied today. The robust Ethereum competitor token climbed 12% over the past 24 hours.

Elrond attempted a comeback. The EGLD token gained about 9% today, although it still shows a weekly decline of roughly 28%.

One standout within the top 100 was OKB. Ranked 61st by market capitalization, the token issued by the OK Blockchain Foundation and the Malta-based crypto exchange OKEx jumped 14% today.

Other winners included Loopring, up 14%, and Bora, rising 16%. Bora has reached the #90 position. Woo Network entered the top 100, gaining 16% in the last 24 hours to secure the #100 spot.

Trending

DIA, an open-source oracle platform token that enables market participants to source, supply and share trusted data, surged on news of an upcoming listing on Coinbase. Its price climbed 46% and continued to extend gains today.

MXC continued its recent rally, gaining 31% in the past 24 hours.

FX, the native token of Function X, rose 29% today. FX traded at $0.67 with a 24-hour trading volume of $28.45 million.

Ooki, a decentralized protocol for margin trading, borrowing, lending and staking that supports DApp development for lenders, borrowers and traders, climbed 28% in the last 24 hours.