We present a selection of the three cryptocurrencies that have increased the most in price. It is based on the percentage growth since the beginning of the year (data from open sources), and the crypto assets are taken from the list of the top 100 largest by market capitalization in the Coinmarketcap ranking. Almost every one of these coins has seen growth accompanied by positive news, but it's important to consider that many market factors also influence prices.
Hyperliquid ($HYPE )
Hyperliquid is a decentralized trading crypto platform in the Perp DEX category, launched in 2024. Unlike similar solutions from the previous generation (GMX or dYdX), Hyperliquid was originally created not just as a decentralized exchange, but as a complete high-performance infrastructure for on-chain trading. In simple terms, it is both a full-fledged trading platform and the eponymous blockchain network.
Like much of the previous year, Hyperliquid maintains a leading position in trading volumes among competitors with a figure of $225 billion over the past 30 days. The platform is also a leader in the total amount directed towards the repurchase of its own HYPE token — as of February 4, they are directing $2–3 million daily to repurchase the crypto asset.
The cumulative balance of repurchased tokens amounted to over 40.1 million, or over $1.3 billion at a rate of $33. Since the beginning of the year, HYPE has risen more than 30%, reaching a market capitalization of $10 billion, ranking it 12th among the largest crypto assets. The price record was reached in September 2025 at around $60, indicating a drop of nearly 45% from the peak, despite the growth since the beginning of 2026.
The main growth of HYPE occurred at the end of January against the backdrop of trading excitement, including around the rise of silver and gold to record levels. At one point, the amount of buy and sell orders for Bitcoin on the platform exceeded that of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The platform also became the most liquid venue for trading perpetual futures on traditional assets such as gold, silver, and the indices of the largest U.S. companies S&P500 and NASDAQ100.
In early February, the platform also announced a new standard HIP-4, which will allow the launch of fully collateralized prediction markets for betting on various events with settlements in their native stablecoin USDH. The announcement came against the backdrop of the overall dynamics of prediction markets, which in recent months have become almost the only sector of the crypto economy showing growth in user activity and trading volumes.
Stable ($STABLE )
The Stable blockchain is a layer-one network optimized for fast and inexpensive payments in USDT. It allows for peer-to-peer cross-chain transfers of USDT with zero fees (USD₮0 mechanism) and supports smart contracts that operate directly using stablecoins.
The network's architecture supports applications where fees are charged in USDT, integrates fiat payments at the protocol level, and provides the bandwidth needed for corporate-level use. Stable has attracted investment from Tether, Bybit, Kucoin Ventures, Bitfinex, and other crypto companies. In total, it raised $28 million in 2025. Tether, despite formal support, does not recognize the project as part of its own ecosystem. It is a third-party project from external developers.
The price of STABLE has almost doubled since the beginning of the year, reaching a market capitalization of $485 million, with a token price of $0.0275. The token started trading at the end of 2025 and reached its peak values of $0.0456 at the same time, indicating a drop of nearly 40% from the peak based on current values.
In the news accompanying the growth since the beginning of the year, in early February, the team conducted a network update, introducing a payment function for transactions in the USDT0 stablecoin (the inter-network usage version of the USDT stablecoin).
A few days after the update, according to the project's economic model, a 10% unlock of tokens is expected, which are locked at the time of writing. In dollar terms, this is about $45 million.
Often, as in the case of STABLE, in the run-up to the token unlock moment, the project team or investors carry out updates or marketing activities. This potentially increases demand for tokens at the moment when their quantity increases in the open market.
Canton ($CC )
Canton Network is a blockchain for smart contracts with privacy features, created for regulated financial institutions and corporate applications. It implements a modular architecture, allowing individual applications to be customized according to their own privacy, governance, and scalability requirements. At the same time, the blockchain's functionality maintains the ability to interact with each other through a synchronized infrastructure.
Since the first investments in 2016, the developers of Canton have raised nearly $450 million in venture funding from JP Morgan, Samsung Venture, Polychain Capital, S&P Global, Nasdaq Venture, BlackRock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, and many others, according to Cryptorank.
Canton Network is designed for the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) and the integration of traditional finance (TradFi) into the cryptocurrency sector. The CC token, like STABLE, started trading at the end of 2025, and achieved record levels on February 3 at $0.1943, with a growth of nearly 20% since early January. The current market capitalization stands at $6.8 billion with a price of $0.18 per asset.
In addition to the token unlock expected in the week before February 9, there has been no notable news around the project in 2026. The expected volume of tokens to be unlocked during this period is nearly 192 million CC, or about $35 million.