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This week's recap
- The crypto market ends the week with a complete market capitalization of $3.1 trillion.
- Bitcoin maintains its trading value at around $90,800.
- Ethereum continues to trade at around $3,100.
- XRP is up 1%, Solana is up 4% and Dogecoin is down 9%.
- Almost all altcoins are trading within the green, although there are some exceptions.
- The DeFi sector maintains the Total Value Locked (TVL) at around $126 billion.
Crypto 5 – January 11, 2026: Market Analysis and Performance
The crypto market is showing its resilience to increasing turbulence in international politics. Most cryptocurrencies rose significantly after the US arrested the Venezuelan president last week. This week, rising tensions between the US and Denmark over Denmark's alleged plans to annex Greenland have affected most financial markets. However, the crypto landscape remained essentially unchanged. For example, the whole market capitalization only fell by about $100 billion and remained above the $3 trillion threshold.
Bitcoin has had a successful trading period for much of the past seven days. The king of cryptocurrencies rose steadily and targeted the $95,000 resistance level. However, market pressure halted its advance at around $94,100. Since then, the worth of BTC has steadily declined, eventually settling at just below $91,000.
Ethereum had a largely uneventful week. The second-largest cryptocurrency has been hovering across the $3,100 mark for a lot of the past seven days. While its stagnation shouldn’t be necessarily excellent news, ETH proponents favor a decline below the scary $3,000 support level.
Altcoins and DeFi
Most altcoins are trading within the green, although there remain some notable exceptions. For example, XRP is up 1%, Solana is up 4%, Cardano is down 2%, Avalanche is down 2%, Sui is up 18%, Chainlink is up 6%, and TRON is up 3%. On the opposite hand, Zcash is down 23%.
There were also some interesting developments with memecoins. For example, Dogecoin is down 9%, Shiba Inu is down 6%, and Pepecoin is down 16%.
The Metaverse sector has also seen notable moves over the past week. For example, Axie Infinity is up 1%, The Sandbox is down 3%, and Floki is down 10%. Meanwhile, Decentraland is up 3%, Render is up 33%, and ApeCoin is down 5%. Stacks rose 11% and Virtuals rose 21%. Meanwhile, MultiversX rose 3%.
The DeFi sector lost almost $0.6 billion of the whole value locked in protocols (TVL), bringing the whole to about $124.08 billion.
Crypto Market Analysis – What’s New?
- Morgan Stanley, the multi-trillion dollar US bank, has filed with the SEC to launch ETFs for BTC, ETH and SOL.
Crypto market forecast for next week
Unlike most financial markets, the crypto market is experiencing a period of calm. This yr began with several influential events in international politics that had different impacts on different sectors of the economy. It can be interesting to see how the approaching days unfold as market pressures and external forces increase.
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