Bitcoin and the wider crypto market paused after an early-week bounce, but several tokens continued to outperform.

BTC traded near $65,800 on Tuesday as momentum cooled, while Hyperliquid’s HYPE, Uniswap’s UNI, and Worldcoin’s WLD extended their rallies, standing out as this week’s top gainers.

HYPE rose as much as 13% to a new record above $76 before easing, bringing its 2026 gains to nearly 200% and making it one of the best-performing large-cap tokens this year.

Hyperliquid runs an onchain exchange for perpetual futures trading, using an order book model. The platform is increasingly seen as a serious competitor to traditional exchanges, with ambitions to expand into tokenized stocks, commodities, and other real-world assets.

Market participants have also pointed to its deepening relationship with Coinbase, particularly after adopting Circle’s USDC as its primary trading pair. Under this model, part of the yield generated from U.S. Treasury reserves backing USDC is used to buy HYPE.

Worldcoin’s WLD climbed 12%, extending its monthly gains to around 180%.

Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the project is widely viewed as a proxy for AI exposure in crypto. Its rally has been fueled by renewed enthusiasm for AI investments, following the strong debut of SpaceX — which also owns AI firm xAI — and growing expectations that OpenAI could eventually go public.

Uniswap’s UNI also surged 18% after Standard Chartered initiated coverage with a bullish long-term outlook.

Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s head of digital asset research, said decentralized finance (DeFi) could become a major growth driver as traditional assets like stocks and bonds move onchain.

The bank estimates that assets actively used in DeFi could grow 37 times by the end of the decade, positioning Uniswap — the largest decentralized exchange — as a key beneficiary.

Standard Chartered set a $100 price target for UNI by 2030, implying roughly 30x upside from current levels.