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Bittensor Rises 3.29% to Lead Altcoin Gainers — Daily Movers Mar 9

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Bittensor (TAO) rose 3.29% to $183.63 on Monday, topping the gainers chart, according to CoinGecko data. Stable (STABLE) fell 7.13% to $0.0257 to pace decliners. TAO’s market cap stood at $1.76B, while STABLE’s was $532.93M.

Top Gainers

Bittensor (TAO) gained 3.29% to $183.63, lifting its market cap to $1.76B. Bittensor runs a decentralized machine-learning network where miners contribute models to earn TAO. The token secures the network and pays performance-based rewards. Mining subnets compete to produce model outputs scored by the protocol. AI-linked tokens remain actively traded, keeping liquidity in TAO elevated.

Pi Network (PI) added 3.03% to $0.2149, bringing its market cap to $2.07B. No specific news has been tied to the move. The project promotes smartphone-based mining and a broad user community. PI continues to trade on several exchanges, reflecting steady interest at a multi‑billion valuation. Its advance placed it second on the day’s gainer board by percentage.

KuCoin (KCS) rose 1.82% to $7.98, for a market cap of $1.05B. KCS is KuCoin’s exchange token, offering trading fee discounts and buyback‑burn mechanics tied to platform revenue. Its deflationary design aims to align token value with exchange activity. The day’s advance kept KCS among the billion‑dollar cohort as exchange tokens moved in different directions.

Morpho (MORPHO) climbed 1.69% to $1.87, pushing its market cap to $1.02B. Morpho is an Ethereum lending optimizer that pairs users peer‑to‑peer and routes to underlying money markets like Aave and Compound. Traders pointed to broader altcoin rotation. Governance for the protocol is driven by the MORPHO token and its DAO. The move keeps MORPHO just over the $1B capitalization threshold.

Pump.fun (PUMP) gained 1.31% to $0.001916, valuing the token at a $1.13B market cap. Pump.fun operates a Solana‑based launchpad for meme coins and experiments in on‑chain token creation. Activity on Solana has fueled frequent token launches, feeding attention to PUMP. The token’s gain rounded out a session where all five gainers carried $1B‑plus market values.

Top Losers

Stable (STABLE) dropped 7.13% to $0.0257, with a market cap of $532.93M. The slide arrived without a clear headline catalyst. Despite its name, STABLE does not trade at a $1 peg. The move left STABLE as the session’s largest decliner among mid‑caps by market value.

OKB fell 4.82% to $98.01, taking its market cap to $2.06B. OKB is the exchange token of OKX, used for fee tiers, access to sales programs, and periodic buybacks and burns. The decline contrasted with a gain in KuCoin’s KCS, showing divergence across exchange tokens. At just under $100, OKB’s price retreat was among the sharper large‑cap pullbacks on the day.

Worldcoin (WLD) slid 4.28% to $0.3600, for a market cap of $1.04B. Worldcoin seeks proof‑of‑personhood via its iris‑scanning Orb devices and issues WLD to verified users. There was little in the way of project‑specific developments during the session. WLD’s dip placed it near the middle of the loser list by magnitude.

Cosmos Hub (ATOM) declined 3.90% to $1.71, placing its market cap at $849.27M. ATOM secures the Cosmos Hub, anchors Inter‑Blockchain Communication (IBC), and governs staking and treasury parameters. The move left ATOM under the billion‑dollar mark despite its central role in cross‑chain routing via IBC. The token remains a bellwether for interoperability narratives in crypto.

Quant (QNT) fell 3.75% to $61.80, giving it a market cap of $898.87M. Quant develops Overledger, middleware aimed at connecting enterprise systems with multiple blockchains. QNT features a capped supply and is used for network access and licensing within the ecosystem. The pullback left QNT just shy of a $900M valuation to close the session’s loser slate.

Market Outlook

The session’s range was defined by Bittensor’s 3.29% gain at $183.63 and Stable’s 7.13% slide to $0.0257. Four other gainers rose between 1.31% and 3.03%, while the remaining losers fell 3.75%–4.82%. Exchange tokens split, with KCS up 1.82% and OKB down 4.82%.

Into the next session, watch whether Bitcoin can hold key round numbers and if AI‑linked momentum via TAO persists. Divergence among exchange tokens bears monitoring, and any macro data releases could influence risk appetite across majors and mid‑caps.

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