The crypto market remained under volatility with a majority of assets trading in minor losses on January 12, 2026. Bitcoin, amid the ongoing slowdown, reflected a loss of under one percent on Monday. With this, the most expensive crypto asset was trading at $90.470 at the time of writing. On a seven day average, BTC’s price is currently down by 2.39 percent and its current market caps stands at $1.80 trillion.
“BTC traders treated $91,000 as a key pivot amid mixed signals on rates and risk appetite. Wall Street’s strong close followed softer US jobs data, reinforcing easing expectations. Attention now turns to Tuesday’s CPI, the Fed’s Beige Book, and rising scrutiny surrounding Chair Jerome Powell,” Sathvik Vishwanath, Co-Founder and CEO, Unocoin told Coin Headlines.
Monero sailed against the market winds to rope-in gains of over 15 percent. At the time of writing, XMR was trading at $568 — with its seven day moving average also up by 32.9 percent. The token hit a new ATH of $597 for the first time since 2018 and exceeded the market cap of $10 billion.
Monero’s privacy-first programming is what’s giving it leverage over other tokens at a time that the crypto regulatory ecosystem is evolving internationally, reports said citing people associated with the token.
Except for Monero, all other tokens showed a lacklustre performance on the price charts. Analysts pointed out that Asian markets opened modestly higher, with investors watching US inflation data, tariff tensions, and growing political pressure on the Federal Reserve on Monday.
Ether price slipped by nearly two percent in the last 24 hours. With this, its price has come to $3,105, charting 1.70 percent in loss on a seven-day average. Its market cap stands at $375.2 billion, as per CoinMarketCap.
XRP, BNB, Chainlink, and LEO joined BTC and ETH in clocking minor losses over the last day. Meanwhile, price slips for Dogecoin, Hyperliquid, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, Litecoin, Shiba Inu, and Hedera ranged up to five percent.
Except for stablecoins USDC and USDT, all of the top ten cryptocurrencies reflected losses on Monday.
The overall crypto market cap dipped by under one percent. The market valuation presently sits at $3.09 trillion.
Zcash, Dai, and Canton also managed to reel in small gains over the last day.
“Attention now shifts to the upcoming U.S. CPI inflation data, which could set the market’s next direction. With BTC currently testing resistance near $92,000, a daily close above this level would strengthen the bullish case. On the downside, the $89,500 zone continues to act as a key support leve,” said Akshat Siddhant, Lead Quant Analyst, at Mudrex.
CoinGlass data shows 90,848 traders were liquidated over the last day with the total liquidations hitting at $217.23 million.