Top 7 weekly crypto performers: QNT, NIGHT, PUMP and WLD lead gains

• Quant extended its weekly run with a 150% gain as institutional partnerships around tokenized deposits strengthened its rally.
• Midnight gained 100% after permissionless smart contract deployment went live on mainnet amid recent comparisons with Zcash.
• Bitway, PUMP, Aave, WLD and SKY make up the other top performers.​

Several altcoins posted sharp gains this week as capital rotated into tokens backed by protocol developments, institutional partnerships and broader narratives around tokenized finance, privacy and artificial intelligence.

Best-performing cryptocurrencies this week: Quant, Midnight, Pumpfun lead crypto rally

Quant, WoW: 154%

Quant led the group of top performers, gaining roughly 154% over the week and trading at $252 as the token extended its positive run to over two weeks. Of

The surge remains linked to Quant’s growing institutional partnerships, with The Clearing House selecting the company to power its On-Chain Money Initiative for US tokenized deposit clearing and settlement. Meanwhile, UK banks completed their first live customer transactions using tokenized sterling deposits on a Quant-built platform under the Great British Tokenized Deposit initiative.

QNT is up 0.1% in the past 24 hours at the time of writing.

Midnight, WoW: 100%

Midnight gained 100% during the week as the privacy-focused network advanced to a new stage of mainnet development.

Midnight announced on Monday that permissionless smart contract deployment went live on its mainnet, allowing developers to deploy contracts directly without requiring a security review in the network’s Preprod environment.

NIGHT also benefited from renewed attention around Midnight’s privacy infrastructure and comments from Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson comparing the project’s potential with Zcash.

The token is up 26% in the past 24 hours at the time of writing.

Bitway, WoW: 52%

Bitway’s BTW gained about 52% during the week, reaching an all-time high of $1.49 on Friday before easing gains to $1.41, down 1.3% at the time of writing. The rise coincides with the end of the Binance Wallet “Bitway Booster Season 5” campaign, which concluded on Friday.

BTW is also set for a $140 million token unlock within the next 24 hours.

PUMP, WoW: 30%

Pump.fun rose about 30% during the week as the Solana-based token launchpad saw revenue rise, prompting an increase in its token buyback and burn mechanism. According to Pump.fun, 50% of the protocol’s revenue goes to buying PUMP on the open market, with the acquired tokens permanently burned.

The token traded at $0.0055, down 3.8% over the past 24 hours at the time of writing.

Aave, WoW: 16%

AAVE climbed over 16% this week as Aave v4 surpassed $1 billion in deposits and expanded its reach to additional networks. The product also expanded to other chains, launching on Arc and Base. The expansion also adds tokenized equities to Aave’s lending infrastructure.

AAVE is trading at $180, up 2.5% in the past 24 hours.

WLD, WoW: 16%

Worldcoin gained 16% over the week as the project expanded its financial ecosystem and continued developing its identity infrastructure.

World launched World Money in September as a self-custodial financial app rolling out across more than 150 countries.

WLD traded near $0.56, up 11% in the past 24 hours at the time of writing.

Sky, WoW: 13%

SKY advanced roughly 13% in the week as activity around the Sky ecosystem continued to draw attention.

Galaxy Digital added $100 million of Sky’s sUSDS to its corporate treasury and approved the yield-generating asset as collateral across its institutional trading business. The company also acquired an undisclosed amount of SKY.

SKY traded near $0.088, up 6% in the past 24 hours.