{"id":398279,"date":"2025-07-13T01:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/og-large-cap-altcoins-lead-market-rally-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:45:52","slug":"og-large-cap-altcoins-lead-market-rally-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/og-large-cap-altcoins-lead-market-rally-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"OG Large-Cap Altcoins Lead Market Rally &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With the market up across the board and Bitcoin <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/bitcoin-breaks-usd118k-all-time-high-as-crypto-rally-accelerates\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">breaking<\/a> through <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-above-usd113k\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">multiple<\/a> new all-time highs over the past two days, large-cap OG Layer 1 (L1) tokens in the top-20 \u2014 namely <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/ripple\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">XRP<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/dogecoin\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">DOGE<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/cardano\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">ADA<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/stellar\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">XLM<\/a> \u2014 are soaring.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar\u2019s XLM, the 16th-largest crypto asset by market cap, leads the pack in terms of daily gains, up more than 25% on the day and 55% on the week. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">XLM 7-day price chart. Source: CoinGecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cardano\u2019s ADA, ranking 11th, is up 15% on the day and 28% on the week, while Ripple\u2019s XRP gained nearly 12% on the day and 24% on the week No. 8 Dogecoin\u2019s DOGE is matching XRP on daily and weekly gains.<\/p>\n<p>The four L1 assets, which often move together, are leading the charge in terms of 24-hour gains today among the top-20 \u2014 a strong signal of retail momentum, as these assets represent some of the longest-standing large-cap cryptocurrencies. While XLM may not always be considered part of that group, it does often move with them.<\/p>\n<p>The top more crypto-native L1 assets are also making moves today in the broader market rally, albeit smaller ones. That said, their market capitalizations are so high that they don\u2019t always move quickly. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/ethereum\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">ETH<\/a> up 6% on the day and 18% on the week, breaking through $3,000 for the first time in over five months. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/binancecoin\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">BNB<\/a> is up 3% on the day and 5% on the week, while <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/solana\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">SOL<\/a> is up 4% on the day and 12% on the week. Newcomer Hyperliquid\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/hyperliquid\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">HYPE<\/a> is keeping pace with ETH, up 8% on the day and 19% on the week.<\/p>\n<p>Other newer altcoins, like decentralized exchange (DEX) focused L1 Sei (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/sei-network\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">SEI<\/a>) and synthetic dollar protocol Ethena (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/ethena\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">ENA<\/a>), are up substantially more than these. SEI is up 19% on the day and 26% on the week, while ENA is up 17% on the day and 35% on the week.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research from Delphi Digital <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/dino-tokens-are-outpacing-ai-and-defi-assets-in-2025-delphi-digital\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">showed<\/a> that so-called crypto \u201cdinos\u201d \u2014\u00a0including XRP and ADA, alongside Litecoin (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/litecoin\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">LTC<\/a>), Bitcoin Cash (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/bitcoin-cash\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">BCH<\/a>), and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/iota\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">IOTA<\/a> \u2014 together performed better than more-hyped sector assets, like AI and DePIN tokens, since early January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the market up across the board and Bitcoin breaking through multiple new all-time highs over the past two days, large-cap OG Layer 1 (L1) tokens in the top-20 \u2014 namely XRP, DOGE, ADA and XLM \u2014 are soaring. Stellar\u2019s XLM, the 16th-largest crypto asset by market cap, leads the pack in terms of daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-398279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398281,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398279\/revisions\/398281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}