Movers of the Day 18-Jan-2026

Tokens and coins that moved the most in the last 24 hours:

🌙 00:00 CET – Daily Wrap-Up: Late-Day Surge Met with Sharp Midnight Rejection – Top Movers of the Day

• Frax and River: Since morning Frax has surged 19.33%, River has increased by 7.28%.
  

Overview: The market narrative today was defined by a steady build-up of momentum that culminated in a significant evening rally. After a period of choppy, range-bound trading during the morning and midday sessions, the market found strong buyer conviction in the late afternoon. This push led to a breakout above local resistance levels, reaching fresh daily highs. However, the session concluded with a dramatic spike in volatility, as a sharp vertical rejection occurred at the very close of the day, erasing the immediate gains of the final hour.

🔍 Market Insight: The broad market, as measured by the NWST1100 index, remains in positive territory with a 0.42% gain over the last 24 hours. A notable theme today was the significant outperformance of Ether, which gained 1.39% compared to Bitcoin’s modest 0.37% rise. This suggests a rotation of liquidity into major altcoins and specific high-momentum projects like Frax and River. While the broad sector gains signal a healthy appetite for risk, the sudden flush at midnight warns that the market is encountering heavy resistance at these levels, potentially leading to a more volatile consolidation phase in the coming sessions.

NWSBCT (Blue Chips Index): The technical profile for the NWSBCT index shows a series of higher highs throughout the evening, with the index peaking near the 8.265 level. This area acted as a formidable resistance zone, triggering a massive and immediate sell-off at the end of the chart. The index plunged vertically back toward the 8.19 support area, effectively testing the strength of the previous accumulation zone. The inability to hold the late-day peak suggests that while the trend was bullish, short-term exhaustion is present.

This closing update covers the day’s final session, which ran from 9:00 a.m. to midnight CET. Top Movers include 24h performance, but the primary focus is on the asset with the most significant change since the 9:00 a.m. report. 2100NEWS Indices show changes from 9:00 to 00:00 CET. 2100NEWS Total Index (NWST1100) and Bitcoin & Ether sections always reflect complete 24-hour changes, regardless of report timing. Please note that conditions may have changed since publication. The classification of performance between Bitcoin and Ether (significant, slight, similar) is based on a statistical analysis of their historical volatility. Supplemental notes detail the criteria for highlighting these specific cryptocurrencies and indices. 

Frax  [prev. FXS] (FRAX)

Fraxtal is a modular rollup blockchain (L2) with a “”fractal scaling”” roadmap. Fraxtal has a number of familiar and novel features: (1) Fraxtal is an EVM equivalent rollup utilizing the OP stack as its smart contract platform and execution environment. Deploying applications is as fast, secure, and cheap as leading Ethereum rollups like Optimism & Base. (2) Fraxtal is a modular rollup. It will have multiple components and middleware for other chains and networks to use, connect to, deploy L3s, and build on top of. Currently, Fraxtal uses a separate data availability module developed by the Frax Core Team. (3) Fraxtal has blockspace incentives (called Flox) that reward users and developers for spending gas and interacting with any smart contract on the network. Every epoch, users who spend gas and developers that deploy contracts where gas is spent earn FXTL points that can later be converted into tokens. For the first time, users are able to earn more rewards than gas they spend and developers can earn more than the gas their dapps use. (4) The native gas token is FRAX issued by Frax Finance.

09:00 CET – Morning Pulse: Market Consolidates Following Late-Session Correction – Top Movers of the Day

• Berachain and Safe: Since midnight Berachain has surged 24.93%, Safe is 14.09% higher.
  

Overview: The market narrative over the past several hours has transitioned into a consolidation phase. Following a strong rally that peaked late yesterday afternoon, the price action underwent a gradual correction during the evening and night. Currently, the market is exhibiting sideways movement, holding steady above recently established support levels. This stabilization suggests a cooling-off period as participants digest the previous session’s volatility.

🔍 Market Insight: The broad market remains essentially flat, with the NWST1100 index posting a negligible decline of 0.01%. Despite this headline stability, there is a clear divergence between the leaders; Ether has outperformed Bitcoin by gaining 0.52% while the primary asset faced minor headwinds. High-momentum assets like Axie Infinity (AXS) and Berachain (BERA) continue to attract significant speculative interest, moving independently of the stagnant indices. While this may signal stabilization, historical patterns warn that such quiet phases often precede sharp moves. With upside progress stalling, the market may be vulnerable to a downside break if the current support levels are breached.

NWSBCT (Blue Chips Index): The NWSBCT index highlights a retreat from yesterday’s peak of approximately 8.265. After a series of rejections at the higher boundaries, the index trended downward overnight, establishing a local support floor near 8.19. In the early morning hours, the index has staged a modest recovery and is currently testing the 8.20-8.21 area. Resistance remains firm at the recent highs, while the overnight low at 8.19 serves as critical technical support.

Axie Infinity (AXS)

Axie infinity is built on the Ethereum blockchain. In the digital pet world inspired by magic baby, anyone can obtain token rewards through skilled game playing methods and contribution to the ecosystem. In order to create a better user experience and improve scalability, the axie infinity team is building a layer 2 side chain called ronin. The AXS token is the platform of erc-20 practical token. It is used for: Governance: AXS token holders will be able to delegate their tokens and participate in governance voting. Loft: players will be able to share AXS to win weekly rewards. Payment: players can play games and pay with AXS tokens. The current functions of axie infinity include: Fighting: pets in the platform (i.e. axie) can upgrade and evolve by fighting each other. Breeding: axie can have the next generation of pets. Land: axie’s home and activity base. Land can be upgraded using a series of in-game resources. Market: a decentralized axie trading market.

Berachain (BERA)

Berachain is a high-performance EVM-Identical Layer1(L1)blockchain utilizing Proof-of-Liquidity(PoL)consensus to align liquidity and security at the network level, built on top of a modular evm-focused consensus client framework named BeaconKit.

Safe (SAFE)

Safe is the ownership layer of web3 securing >$100B+. It includes Safe{Core} a full stack of account abstraction infrastructure and the industry-standard multi-sig, Safe{Wallet}. The project is focused on making every Ethereum account, a smart account and enabling new use cases like AI, Staking, Gaming, SocialFi, DeFi, and Payments to flourish with gasless transaction, easy face-ID like logins, onramps, recovery and more.