{"id":44240,"date":"2026-05-31T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=44240"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:58:06","slug":"sam-altman-backed-crypto-explodes-10-today-as-bitcoin-eyes-74k-weekend-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=44240","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman-Backed Crypto Explodes 10% Today as Bitcoin Eyes $74K: Weekend Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency market continues into the weekend on a calmer note following what was surely a rather volatile week of trading.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s price is attempting to stabilize near an important short-term resistance area, while some altcoins are outperforming sharply, led by Worldcoin&#8217;s double-digit daily surge.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"btc-pushes-toward-74000\">BTC Pushes Toward $74,000<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin has remained relatively calm during the weekend trading session after a volatile few days. The cryptocurrency is still fighting to press above an important short-term resistance level.<\/p>\n<p>BTC&#8217;s price trades slightly below $74K at the time of this writing, gaining roughly 0.5% over the past 24 hours. It&#8217;s evident that buyers are trying to recover some ground following the market-wide pullback that took place last week.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent price action comes as the broader cryptocurrency market stabilizes, with total capitalization hovering around $2.58 trillion, according to CoinGecko. Bitcoin&#8217;s dominance remains above 57%. However, the momentum remains fragile, as traders continue to watch macro headlines, with Trump saying they are under no deadline to strike a deal with Iran, meaning uncertainty is likely to continue for the time being.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1438440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1438440\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-31_14-36-55-scaled.png\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1438440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"worldcoin-wld-leads-altcoin-gainers\">Worldcoin (WLD) Leads Altcoin Gainers<\/h2>\n<p>The altcoin market saw mixed results over the past 24 hours, although several large-cap names posted strong daily moves.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcoin (WLD), the Sam Altman-linked project, stole the show after increasing by about 11% to jump around $0.33. Other top gainers from the top 100 cryptocurrencies by total market cap include Venice Token (VVV), Humanity (H), and Midnight, all of which post notable advances.<\/p>\n<p>BNB and TOn also sttod out among the larger-cap assets with gains of more than 7%.<\/p>\n<p>On the flipside, Monero&#8217;s XMR was the weakest top-100 performer, dropping by roughly 8%, while most other major altcoins saw more modest moves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1438442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1438442\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-31-144448-scaled.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1438442\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-31-144448-scaled.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-05-31 144448\" width=\"2560\" height=\"890\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1438442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Quantify Crypto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/sam-altman-backed-crypto-explodes-10-today-as-bitcoin-eyes-74k-weekend-watch\/\">Sam Altman-Backed Crypto Explodes 10% Today as Bitcoin Eyes $74K: Weekend Watch<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/sam-altman-backed-crypto-explodes-10-today-as-bitcoin-eyes-74k-weekend-watch\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cryptocurrency market continues into the weekend on a calmer note following what was surely a rather volatile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}