The cryptocurrency market is currently showing gains, with Bitcoin trading at approximately $75,900 – a more than 2% increase in the past day. The overall market value has risen to around $2.5 trillion.
Even though things are looking positive, the market is still heavily focused on Bitcoin. The Altcoin Season Index is below 40, which indicates that most alternative cryptocurrencies aren’t performing as well as Bitcoin right now.
Amid this, analysts at Our Crypto Talk dropped a solid watchlist this week:
Kaspa — Event Buzz + Upgrade Catalyst
Kaspa is a major presence at this week’s Hong Kong Web3 Festival. They’re sponsoring the VIP Lounge and have a speaker presenting, with Junny Ho participating in a discussion about tokenization. Technically, the Toccata testnet is about to restart after a period of development freeze, which is a key step towards launching the Covenants++ upgrade on the main Kaspa network.
- Fair launch (no presale/pre-mine), fully community-driven
- ~$940M market cap, still ~84% below ATH
Render Network — AI Demand Surging
A major positive development for Render happened this week. RenderCon 2026, held in Hollywood on April 16th and 17th, just finished, and featured presentations from NVIDIA, WME, and Stability AI.
- Salad subnet adds ~60K GPUs (RNP-023 approved)
- AI jobs now 35–40% of usage; $210M workload spike
- Token burns up 279% YoY; price testing $1.70 support
Ondo Finance — Leading RWA Narrative
Ondo Finance made a significant appearance at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival, presenting alongside industry giants like BlackRock and J.P. Morgan. Despite its token currently trading well below its all-time high, the platform has seen impressive growth, reaching a record $3.6 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL), fueled by increasing interest from institutional investors.
- Franklin Templeton ETF tokenisation + EU expansion
- Major overhang: 4.67B tokens still locked
Bittensor TAO — Strong Fundamentals, Weak Sentiment
Even with some recent price drops, Bittensor is still performing well. On April 24th, Jacob Steeves will be giving a presentation at Imperial College London explaining decentralized AI, how Bittensor incentivizes valuable contributions, and how to begin using the network.
- 128 subnets generated $43M revenue (Q1 2026)
- 72B parameter AI model trained on the network
- ~20% drop due to developer exit, not fundamentals
LayerZero— Unlock Pressure, Big Institutional Play
LayerZero is currently experiencing some selling pressure, but is expected to remain strong in the long run. A significant amount of tokens – 25.7 million, or 2.4% of the total supply – were recently released to key team members and partners on April 20th, which contributed to a sharp price decrease.
- Live on Canton Network (handles $350B daily volume)
- Access to $8T monthly RWAs + 750+ apps
- Backed by major institutions; new “Zero” L1 in works
QUBIC — A feeless Layer 1 focused on AI + compute.
As a crypto investor, I’ve been watching Qubic closely, and this past week has been really promising. They successfully launched QBridge on Ethereum, which means you can now trade QUBIC as wQUBIC on Uniswap v4 – and people actually *are* trading it! On top of that, their DOGE mining is really taking off – Phase 2 is seeing record levels of hashing power, and they’re now one of the fastest networks around, ranking third globally in transactions per second over the last week.
- QBridge ETH live volume — Ethereum bridge recording strong early transactions
- DOGE mining Phase 2 ramping — record hashrate (15.81 TH/s peak on Apr 16)
Home3 — High-Risk Micro-Cap
Home3 is a platform that uses blockchain technology to simplify and improve the process of buying and selling property. This month, they’re launching version 2.0, which includes Prop3 – an AI assistant designed to act like a real estate agent.
- Qatar regulatory progress + cross-chain expansion
- ~$370K market cap, very low liquidity
- Down 96% from ATH → highly volatile
SUI — A high-speed Layer 1 is getting serious institutional traction.
SUI is becoming increasingly popular with larger investors this week. CME Group will begin offering SUI futures contracts on May 4th, and the 21Shares SUI ETF is already available on Nasdaq, providing institutions with multiple options to invest.
- $1T+ stablecoin volume (March), $585M+ TVL
- Token unlocks ongoing; ~82% below ATH
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2026-04-21 13:37