Crypto Market Highlights and Top Gainers of the Week

The crypto market is about to enter mid-July after witnessing a historic milestone in the first two weeks. In this week alone (July 7- July 13), major news updates, policy shifts, and inflows in the market are witnessed. Out of which, Bitcoin price hitting a new ATH leads, but there are more crypto gainers.

Top Crypto Market Highlights & Their Impact

The crypto market is worth $3.66 trillion in market capitalization today and facilitated $163 billion worth of transactions in the 24 hours alone. This marks a significant shift from the June end stats, as various economic and individual developments of the digital assets helped pump the industry.

The main cryptocurrency market highlights of the week include Bitcoin price ATH, introduction of Crypto Week, Crypto ETFs inflows, SEC’s guidelines, institutional buying, and much more.

• Bitcoin Sets Multiple ATH Price Records

Bitcoin has officially surpassed its May’s ATH target of $111k over the three major rallies within this week. On July 9, Bitcoin briefly surged past the $112k mark, driven by the Fed’s potential interest rate cuts.

However, the rally did not just halt there; instead, it continued, and BTC price hit $113k on July 10 before setting the current ATH of $118.7k on July 11. Interestingly, the Ethereum price also climbed along with Bitcoin.

On July 11, ETH also surpassed the $3k mark. Other altcoin prices also surged, catering to the increasing speculations around Altcoin Season in July.

• Crypto ETF Milestones

July 7 crypto market highlight puts a focus on the SEC’s 13-page guidance document issuance, which clarifies the disclosure rules for crypto ETFs. These rules streamline the approval and speed up the process by 75 days.

In addition to that, the Bitcoin ETF inflows reached  $2.4 billion this week, whereas the Ethereum ETF inflows hit $900 million.

• Metaplanet and Crypto Whale Buying

Japan’s Metaplanet became the 5th biggest Bitcoin holder in the world, adding 2,205 BTC this week. The rest of the crypto whales also remained in their buying behaviour. In this, a set of whales alone withdrew 220M ETH from exchanges, showing increased confidence in the digital asset and market.

Institutions and whales are scooping up $ETH as the price climbs ~7% (24H):

1️⃣ Fresh whale 0x35fa withdrew 32,566 $ETH ($89.3M; at $2,741 avg) from Kraken.

2️⃣ #Abraxas Capital pulled 29,741 $ETH ($81M; at $2,725 avg) from Binance and Kraken.

3️⃣ The #GMX hacker swapped all $32M… pic.twitter.com/hVcBvOe89O

— Spot On Chain (@spotonchain) July 10, 2025

Besides, Bit Digital sold 280 BTC and shifted to Ethereum.

• Crypto Week Announcement

The U.S. House of Representatives has declared the week of July 14 as “Crypto Week,” during which they will discuss three prominent crypto bills and vote on them. It includes the CLARITY Act (crypto clarity), GENIUS Act (Stablecoin clarity), and Anti‑CBDC Surveillance State Act (saying no to digital Dollar).

If approved, these bills could shape the digital assets’ regulatory landscape.

Biggest Gainers of the Crypto Market This Week

Definitely, Bitcoin remained one of the bullish cryptocurrencies this week, but Memecore (M) became the biggest crypto gainer. With an 800% plus rally over the week, it currently trades at $0.59 with nearly a billion in market capitalization. Stellar (XLM) is the second biggest gainer with a 77% rally over the week and 7% today, currently trading at $4.1.

Pudgy Penguin (PENGU) also remained bullish, surging nearly 43% over the week, currently trading at $0.023. FLOKI meme coin comes next, with a 30% rally & counting. Besides, the top 5 cryptocurrencies (excluding Tether) remained bullish, each gaining at least 5% surge.

XRP in the crypto gainers list skyrocketed 25% in the same period, whereas Bitcoin only surged 9%, as it slid on Trump tariff news.