🏴 5 Tokens Still Way Up

Citizen Brief: gm, it's been a brutal 2025 for crypto's top tokens, but not everything is looking red on the 90-day charts.

5 Tokens Still Way Up Published on April 10, 2025 View in Browser gm Bankless Nation, Welcome back to the Citizen Daily Brief. It's been a brutal 2025 for crypto's top tokens, but not everything is looking red on the 90-day charts. Citizens get access to our latest picks. Upgrade to read! Today's Issue ⬇️ ☀️ Need to Know: New SEC Boss Paul Atkins takes the stage. ✍️ Cheat Sheet: Coin Swappin' Opps, reads, yields, and airdrops. 🗣️ Deep Dive: 5 Resilient Tokens Citizen-only DeFi play of the week. 🤑 Token Rating: $GUN Bear Buy? Will Gunzilla move Off the Charts? Sponsor: Frax — Fraxtal Ecosystem: Where DeFi Meets AI. Learn More .  .  . NEED TO KNOW New Boss in Town 🇺🇸 Senate Confirms Paul Atkins as New SEC Chair. The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Trump nominee Atkins as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. 📱 Jack Dorsey's Block Settles for $40M with NYDFS over AML 'Gaps'. The company behind Square and Cash App settled with New York's top financial regulator over an alleged shortage of anti-money laundering safeguards. 🚔 SEC Approves Options Trading for BlackRock's ETH ETF. The SEC has finally signed off on options trading tied to ether ETFs. 📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Crypto prices walked back much of their tariff pause surge in major fashion Thursday as Wall Street discovered Trump has deeper intents for his China tariff kerfuffle. Prices as of 7pm ET 24hr 7d Crypto $2.53T ↘ 4.3% ↘ 4.5% BTC $79,648 ↘ 4.1% ↘ 3.6% ETH $1,524 ↘ 8.4% ↘ 15.7% .  .  . CHEAT SHEET Coin Swappin' Every Thursday, Citizens get access to the top Market Plays, Hot Reads, Farming Opps, and Airdrop Hunts that our analyst team is tracking! Don't miss out! 👇 Become a Citizen .  .  . PLAY OF THE WEEK 5 Tokens Weathering the Macro Storm Bankless Analyst: David C. While BTC is down 15%, ETH has cratered 53%, and SOL has slumped 40% over the last 90 days, a handful of tokens have managed to go the other way — not just surviving the chop but outperforming nearly every major.  These aren’t random moonshots, either. Each comes tied to a growing sector narrative, funding from prominent VCs, and traction that hints at something more durable beneath the surface. So while most of the market bleeds, these five tokens are putting up green candles — and telling us something important about where capital is quietly flowing 👇 Unlock the Alpha FRIEND & SPONSOR: FRAX The Fraxtal ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed—this month’s biggest highlight is IQAI.com, the newest Agent Tokenization platform from IQ and Frax. IQ is building autonomous, intelligent, tokenized agents launching on Fraxtal in Q1. Empower on-chain agents with built-in wallets, tokenized ownership, and decentralized governance—all within a fast-growing Fraxtal ecosystem. Learn More .  .  . CITIZEN-ONLY TOKEN RATING Is Gunzilla a Bear Market Buy? Bankless Analyst: David C. Every week, our analyst team gives bullish or bearish ratings on new tokens. Get access to our GUN rating in the Token Hub by becoming a Citizen! 👇 Get Access to Token Ratings Manage your account Not financial or tax advice. Bankless content is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This newsletter is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time to time, we may add links in this newsletter to products we use. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless team holds crypto assets. See our Investment Disclosures | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy Bankless © 2025 – Unsubscribe