Bitcoin is hovering close to $88,000, nearly 10% above its bull market low of $76,600. Crypto traders are less fearful now, sentiment has improved, relative to the past few weeks, according to the Fear & Greed Index. Traders are gearing up for the next bear market and to shield their crypto portfolio from the next Bitcoin flash crash.

In this deep dive, you find a list of 10 cryptocurrencies that either enjoy a negative correlation with Bitcoin (BTC) or showed resilience to the recent crypto market crashes and yielded consistent gains for traders. 

Top 10 tokens to buy for a bear market 

Spending hours evaluating the top 500 altcoins in the cryptocurrency market, here’s a list of the top 10 that helped balance crypto portfolios during times of Bitcoin crash and the recent corrections in 2025. 

Crypto tokens with real utility, adoption and a burn mechanism to control the supply have a higher likelihood of gains in the ongoing market cycle. 

Hyperliquid is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on its native Layer-1 blockchain, HyperEVM. The blockchain offers high-speed, low-latency trading with zero gas fees. HYPE is making headlines for its recent technical upgrade, which allows direct linking of tokens on HyperCore and HyperEVM platforms. 

This simplifies the process for DeFi users and developers using the DEX. 

In mid-March, HYPE started rallying, and trades at $16.367 at the time of writing. Technical indicators on the daily timeframe signalthe likelihood of further gains in HYPE in the coming week. 

The RSI reads 49, close to 50, the neutral level. Green histogram bars on MACD suggest an underlying positive momentum in HYPE price trend. 

HYPE could test resistance at $20.850, marked as R1 on the HYPE/USDT daily price chart, 27% rally from the current level. 

Geodnet brands itself as the world’s largest Web3 Blockchain-based network for precise positioning. The project is currently using 80% of revenue to buy back and burn GEOD tokens. 

A reduction in the token’s supply typically eases selling pressure and fuels a bullish thesis in the long-term. 

In the past month, Multicoin led an $8 million investment in GEOD, VanEck, an ETF giant, invested in the project in mid-2024. 

A crypto and NFT casino, Rollbit has over a million registered users as of February 2025. Rollbit engages in a daily token burn for the RLB token, using the platform’s revenue. During phases of the bear market as well, RLB’s daily burn is a catalyst for the token. 

RLB price has an underlying positive momentum in its uptrend, and the token could gain 5% and test resistance at $0.09445. The next key resistance at $0.11368, as seen on the daily price chart. 

The exchange’s native token, BGB has ranked within the top 15 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization in 2024. BGB has quarterly buybacks and burns of its exchange tokens, using 20% of the platform’s profits. 

BGB is trading close to the $5 level at the time of writing, and the token is likely to extend its recent gains in the coming weeks. BGB could target resistance at $5.208 as RSI and MACD support the bullish thesis for BGB. 

Grass is the native token of the project that powers web scraping for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The token of this native open-source web crawl is hovering around $1.60 at the time of writing. 

GRASS is issued on the Solana blockchain, and while holders are faced with recent token transfers worth nearly $13 million less than a month ago, the token could outperform altcoins in the bear market. 

While GRASS is currently consolidating, a daily candlestick close above $1.029 could indicate a trend reversal is likely. Technical indicators point to a continuation of the downward trend. 

The token of the trading bot Banana Gun is currently in decline. Derivatives data from Coinglass shows 18% decline in the Open Interest (OI), the value of all open contracts in BANANA, in the last 24 hours. 

The 24-hour long/short ratio is under 1, and this implies derivatives traders are currently bearish on BANANA. Traders are betting against the token, as Bitcoin recovers and eyes a comeback above $90,000. 

Adding the token to a portfolio could help diversify if the majority of the positions are in top cryptocurrencies or blue-chip DeFi tokens. 

Fluid is an aggregator that offers users cryptocurrency trading, bot functionality, and liquidity. FLUID combines debt, lending and earning yield on collateral, even if a user borrows funds against it, driving adoption among users. 

The token is close to a key level that could trigger a token buyback program, unlike meme coins and other narratives in the crypto market cycle, FLUID could gain nearly 17% and test resistance at $5.9177. 

Two key momentum indicators, RSI and MACD support a thesis of further gains in the token. 

FLUID trades at $5.0300 at the time of writing, and there is an underlying positive momentum in the token’s price trend. 

Solana-based Jupiter supports token swaps, trades and collects fees every time traders move tokens across chains, and uses bridges. The token has underlying positive momentum in its price trend, RSI and MACD on the daily price chart support the bullish thesis. 

Jupiter has been utilizing the revenue from the protocol to buy JUP tokens and lock them for a three-year period, helping JUP reduce supply and selling pressure. 

JUP could gain 21% and re-test key resistance at $0.6819, supported by technical indicators on the daily timeframe. 

With the recent developments, the DOJ dropped the investigation into the Trump administration. The native token of one of the largest centralized crypto exchanges likely has the potential to gain in the short-term. 

On the daily timeframe, RSI and MACD support a bullish thesis for BNB, and the token could test resistance at $685, a key level for Binance’s native token. 

This implies BNB could rally nearly 9%. 

Monero typically enjoys a negative correlation with Bitcoin and adding it to a portfolio diversifies it. XMR is currently in an upward trend, while BTC consolidates. During Bitcoin flashcrashes and declines, XMR held steady and continued its rally, as seen on the XMR/USDT price chart. 

XMR could gain nearly 6% and test resistance at $231, if it continues its upward momentum in the coming weeks. 

Is Bitcoin bottom in for this cycle?

Leading crypto analyst and former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes recently affirmed that the drop under $77,000 was the Bitcoin bottom for the ongoing market cycle. While traders continue to remain fearful, the analyst says that with a slowdown in quantitative tightening, led by the Federal Reserve. 

Bitcoin’s correction is therefore considered a normal pullback or a bear phase during a BTC bull run. It is most likely that the bottom for the cycle is in. 

Can US crypto stockpile fuel demand for altcoins?

The Trump administration promised crypto market participants a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and crypto stockpile with made in USA tokens like Cardano (ADA), XRP, Solana (SOL), and the largest altcoin Ethereum (ETH). 

The March 3 executive order by President Trump is geared at making the US, the crypto capital of the world and a “superpower.” The sentiment is echoed in the President’s speech at the Blockwork’s Digital Asset Summit speech last week. 

Currently the administration does not have plans to purchase Bitcoins or altcoins, however, it remains to be seen whether funds will be used to accumulate altcoins and drive their demand in the future. 

Altcoin season progress

The altcoin season index on Blockchain center indicates that an altcoin season is loading. The indicator reads 61 on a scale from 0 to 100 meaning that most altcoins in the top 50 tokens by market capitalization are outperforming Bitcoin. 

Agne Linge, Head of Growth at decentralized on-chain bank WeFi told Crypto.news in an exclusive interview:

“Despite signs that the selloff is easing, the funding rates for most of the top digital currencies, led by Bitcoin, are showing signs of instability. Currently, the Bitcoin Funding Rates are down per Coinglass data and are pegged at -0.0013%, a figure well behind a healthy limit. The caution among futures traders is understandable, especially leaning on forecasts from Goldman Sachs that project more selloffs are ahead.”

Linge notes that the tariff war and the hype around it may have died, however the US has a long history of leveraging tariffs as a bargaining tool in trade negotiations. The concerns around the tariff and the narrative of the trade war could affect Bitcoin price negatively. 

Linge says, 

“As the market approaches the April 9 tariff deadline, there is poised to be extreme volatility, which might also weigh down the price of BTC moving forward.”