While BTC naps, HYPE, UNI and WLD are out here speedrunning the charts 🚀

Bitcoin traded at $65,781.25 on Tuesday as the broader crypto market cooled following an early-week bounce, but a trio of altcoins refused to take the hint. Hyperliquid's HYPE, Uniswap's UNI and Worldcoin's WLD each posted double-digit gains, extending a run that has made them this week's standout performers. The moves pushed the three tokens in the opposite direction of most of the market, which drifted lower through the session.

HYPE rose as much as 13% to a fresh record above $76 before trimming some of the gain. The token is now up nearly 200% in 2026, placing it among the best-performing large-cap crypto assets of the year. Hyperliquid operates a blockchain-based exchange that lets users trade perpetual futures through an onchain order book, and observers increasingly view the platform as a potential challenger to traditional venues, with ambitions that extend beyond crypto into tokenized stocks, commodities and other assets. Some market participants also pointed to Hyperliquid's decision to make Circle's USDC its primary trading pair as a catalyst, noting that a portion of the revenue generated from U.S. Treasury securities backing USDC will be used to purchase HYPE tokens. Speculation has also grown that Hyperliquid's relationship with Coinbase could deepen further on the back of the arrangement.

Worldcoin's WLD climbed 12%, extending its monthly advance to roughly 180%. The project, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, remains one of crypto's most direct ways to express a bullish view on artificial intelligence. The token has drawn renewed interest following the strong market debut of SpaceX, which also owns AI company xAI, and growing expectations that OpenAI could eventually pursue a public listing.

Uniswap's UNI token added another 18% after Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Monday with a highly bullish long-term outlook on the protocol. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank's head of digital asset research, argued that decentralized finance could become one of crypto's biggest growth stories as tokenized stocks, bonds and other traditional assets move onchain. In the report, Kendrick estimated that the amount of assets actively used in DeFi could increase 37-fold by the end of the decade, and he identified Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange, as one of the clearest beneficiaries.