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Briefly
- The RIVER token has jumped 1,900% within the final month, reaching the highest 100 tokens by market cap.
- RIVER earned promotion from crypto personalities Arthur Hayes and Justin Solar, who each have a vested curiosity in its success.
- River Protocol has round $161 million in TVL and its stablecoin is the fortieth largest by market cap.
A little bit-known crypto token—River (RIVER)—has been making waves during the last month, leaping greater than 1,900% and catapulting into the highest 100 tokens by market capitalization, based on knowledge from CoinGecko.
The native token of the multi-chain stablecoin abstraction platform of the identical title was buying and selling round $5 close to the top of December, however has since exploded to not too long ago change palms round $82. At Monday’s costs, RIVER has a complete market cap of about $1.6 billion, adequate to make it the 67th largest token in crypto.
The platform, which goals to take away the necessity for bridging stablecoins throughout blockchains, has earned the eye of a few of crypto’s largest personalities in Tron founder Justin Solar and BitMex founder Arthur Hayes—each of whom have championed the token within the final month.
A shining instance of Quantity Go Up! $RIVER
I feel we’d like extra CEX and DEX listings don’t you? pic.twitter.com/SUSGWnBhvC
— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) January 6, 2026
Hayes was early to its rise, calling for added listings on centralized exchanges as early as January 6. Since that point, the token has greater than quadrupled in worth regardless of falling costs throughout a lot of the crypto market.
Solar joined the fray final week, making an $8 million funding within the protocol to help the mixing of Tron, the layer-1 community he based, into the River ecosystem.
The promotion from Solar and Hayes helped entice consideration to the token, which is up 168% within the final week, however the token’s speedy ascension might not be all that it appears.
Blockchain analytics agency CoinGlass not too long ago used RIVER for example of how funding charges, a payment set by exchanges to keep up stability between costs and contract costs, can manipulate the value of tokens.
“The 1st step is easy: Hold worth suppressed whereas pushing funding deeply destructive,” CoinGlass posted on X final week. “This concentrates brief positions and builds the idea that ‘destructive funding = inevitable bounce.’”
When on this setup, merchants then go lengthy, betting on the value to go up, anticipating rebounds and funding funds, based on CoinGlass. In actuality, the agency stated this "expectation is the lure,” and it may be reset a number of instances, attracting “consensus positioning.”
On this case, consensus positioning is to the upside on RIVER, which is up one other 12% within the final 24 hours. It set a brand new excessive worth above $87 earlier Monday.
River’s protocol manages round $161 million in whole worth locked (TVL), based on current knowledge from DeFiLlama, down from its October peak of $605 million in TVL. The agency’s over-collateralized stablecoin (satUSD) has a market cap of round $159 million, making it the fortieth largest stablecoin by market cap.
