Top Crypto Gainers and Losers This Week as BTC Stuck at $90,000: Weekend Watch

ZEC is in one corner, while POL is in the other.

Most larger market cap alts have also remained sluggish, with only a few impressive price gainers in the last 24 hours: XMR and RAIN.

BTC remains stuck at $90.5K

Bitcoin entered 2026 after a controversial 2025 that effectively ended in the red. It quickly began to rise in value again, rising above $90,000 by the second day of the new year. Not even the geopolitical tension between the US and Venezuela could keep it in check for long, and BTC remained above that key level last weekend.

The bulls ramped up their attack on Monday and Tuesday, pushing the cryptocurrency to a new multi-week peak of just under $95,000. However, after gaining about $7,000 in just a few days, BTC was ready for a correction, which happened almost immediately.

In a span of just 36 hours, Bitcoin fell by five thousand dollars and dipped below $89,500. It responded well to this decline and quickly recovered above $90,000, where it has remained since Friday, when it was rejected at $92,000. The past 24 hours have been quite boring as BTC has traded at around $90,500 without any deviation.

This means that the market cap remains sideways at $1.810 trillion, while the dominance over the altcoins is only 57%.

Weekly winners and losers

As mentioned above, RAIN and XMR are the only notable award winners over the past 24 hours. That is why we will mainly focus on the weekly performances. Interestingly, both assets are also on this list, having risen by double digits to $493 (XMR) and $0.009 (RAIN).

POL has stolen the show since last Sunday, rising 44% to $0.17. SUI and TAO have also made notable gains. ZEC and CC, on the other hand, are down double digits, followed by DOGE, MNT, UNI and HBAR.

The total crypto market cap has remained at around $3.180 trillion on CG, which is essentially the same level as yesterday.