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Quick Take
  • The crypto market is up today, with the cryptocurrency market capitalisation increasing by 1% to $3.24 trillion.
  • Also, 87 of the top 100 coins have gone up over the past 24 hours.
  • At the same time, the total crypto trading volume is at $101 billion.
  • At the time of writing on Monday morning, 9 of the top 10 coins per market capitalisation have seen their prices increase over the past 24 hours.

What Happened

‘Investors Add Digital Gold to Their Portfolios’

Petr Kozyakov, Co-Founder and CEO at payment infrastructure platform Mercuryo, commented that crypto markets are “in the green as investors add digital gold to their portfolios amid positioning for the year ahead.”

“Expect UER to matter more than headline number like last time. A higher UER could be negative for risk assets given most investors are expecting goldilocks scenario on US economy,” they said.

Market Context

The crypto market is up today, with the cryptocurrency market capitalisation increasing by 1% to $3.24 trillion. Also, 87 of the top 100 coins have gone up over the past 24 hours. At the same time, the total crypto trading volume is at $101 billion.

At the time of writing on Monday morning, 9 of the top 10 coins per market capitalisation have seen their prices increase over the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin (BTC) is up by 1.2% since this time yesterday, currently trading at $92,483.

It’s followed by Binance Coin (BNB)’s 1.6% to the price of $898.

Canton (CC) is next, having decreased by 6% to the price of $0.1462.

Bitcoin has surpassed $92,000, leading the market higher with Ethereum and Solana also recording gains.

“While the cryptocurrency space experienced a severe drop in sentiment in the final months of 2025, fundamentals in the sector remain strong as the underlying infrastructure evolves with assets such as stablecoins continuing to attract increasing levels of liquidity,” Kozyakov wrote.

Given that January cuts are barely priced now, “a weak number would likely trigger market to price more cuts for January and push the yields lower.”

Why It Matters

“The Genius Act and the regulatory rulemaking around stablecoin I expect will create more conviction around leaning into that product and that asset class,” Paul Griggs, PwC’s US senior partner, said. “The tokenization of things will certainly continue to evolve as well. PwC has to be in that ecosystem.”

Details

Crypto Winners & Losers

Ethereum (ETH) is up by 0.5%, now changing hands at $3,155.

The category’s highest increase is 2.9% by XRP, currently standing at $2.13.

At the same time, Tron (TRX) saw the lowest rise, with a change of 0.3%, now standing at $0.2949.

The only red coin is Dogecoin (DOGE), having decreased by 0.9% to $0.1502.

When it comes to the top 100 coins, 87 coins saw increases. Of these, one is double-digit.

Render (RENDER) appreciated 16% to $2.1. Bonk (BONK) is next with a 6.2% increase to $0.00001211.

On the other hand, Provenance Blockchain (HASH) fell the most: 10.2% to $0.02653.

Meanwhile, the big four accounting firm PwC is pushing deeper into crypto after years of a cautious stance.

Moreover, Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum solved blockchain’s trilemma via zero-knowledge EVMs and PeerDAS technology. This enables decentralization, consensus, and high bandwidth simultaneously, “shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network,” Buterin wrote.

Per the CEO, “a shift in mood across the digital token space has been underlined by a resurgence in interest in the meme coin sector, with Shiba Inu and Pepe making a loud entry to 2026.”

Moreover, Derivatives Desk of Laser Digital noted that we’ll see “a flurry of jobs data out this week,” coming from the US. Most importantly, the non-farm payrolls (NFP) data is out on Friday, they added, and consensus is headline number +55,000 and Unemployment Rate (UER) 4.50%.