SOON, Decred and ICP led weekly gains, each showing triple-digit percentage growth backed by high liquidity.
Privacy coins Zcash and Monero maintained strong momentum, reflecting continued demand.
Mid-tier assets like NEAR, FET, and Astar displayed steady climbs.
The past week recorded intense market activity across several cryptocurrencies. Many digital assets experienced substantial appreciation, driven by increasing trading volumes and renewed investor momentum. A CoinMarketCap report displays the top gainers with impressive weekly percentage changes, indicating a strong rebound in market sentiment. Coins from various sectors, including privacy, storage, and smart contracts, performed well within the same trading period
Exceptional Weekly Movers: SOON, DCR, ICP, ZEC, XMR, and FIL
SOON (SOON) achieved the highest growth among the listed tokens, recording a 203.14% increase within seven days. Its price stood at $2.20 with a notable 24-hour trading volume of $109,543,722, signaling active market participation. Decred (DCR) followed with a 101.93% rise, trading at $37.84 and a daily volume of $67,799,388. Internet Computer (ICP) registered an 86.75% growth, reaching $7.13 while maintaining a substantial trading volume of $1,421,879,997
Source: CoinMarketCap
These three assets demonstrated strong upward trends supported by liquidity and consistent demand across exchanges. Filecoin (FIL) was able to have a nice weekly gain of 60.19% and a closing price of $2.70, suggesting that there was a new interest in decentralized storage options
Zcash (ZEC), one of the most distinguished privacy coins, jumped 48.17% to a price of $610.09, and with an impressive daily volume of $3,211,848,174, it was the most traded cryptocurrency for the whole day in the list of assets At the same time, Monero (XMR), which is another cryptocurrency focusing on privacy, also went up by 27.10% to a value of $447.77 with a trading volume of $351,695,633
Moderate Yet Consistent Climbers: NEAR, FET, and ASTER
The NEAR Protocol (NEAR) saw an increase of 24.99% and was priced at $2.72 while the total daily volume was $1,044,395,657. Such price fluctuation pointed towards acceptance on a larger scale of the scalable smart contract solutions in the blockchain ecosystem. The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) went up by 21.17%, reaching the price of $0.3181, thus depicting the steady movement of AI-related blockchain projects
The 24-hour trading volume for it constituted $390,815,751, thus placing it among mid-tier gainers with good liquidity. The token’s price rise was in step with the increasing demand in the market for AI-integrated tokens. The moderate performers continued to move up the charts with backing from steady capital inflows. Aster (ASTER) ended the week on a very positive note, having gained 15.17%, trading at $1.09 and with a 24-hour volume of $380,794,972.
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