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<p>Despite one of the harshest market pullbacks of the year, a new Santiment report highlights a cluster of tokens posting massive trading-volume spikes while the broader crypto market remains under pressure.</p>
<p>These surges don’t necessarily signal immediate price breakouts, but they often reveal where trader attention, and early liquidity, is rotating during periods of volatility.</p>
<p>Santiment’s screener identified 10 assets that saw some of the strongest volume expansions this week, with several projects more than doubling their weekly trading volumes even as Bitcoin and Ethereum slumped.</p>
<h3 id="the-standout-risers">The Standout Risers</h3>
<p>According to Santiment, the top-volume gainers include:</p>
<ol>
 <li>Kelp DAO Restaked ETH (rsETH) – +455%</li>
 <li>Ethena Staked USDe (sUSDe) – +362%</li>
 <li>RZcoin (RZ) – +233%</li>
 <li>Starknet (STRK) – +198%</li>
 <li>Pi (PI) – +192%</li>
 <li>Cosmos (ATOM) – +130%</li>
 <li>Jewelry Token (JEWELRY) – +115%</li>
 <li>Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) – +104%</li>
 <li>Aster Coin (ASTER) – +45%</li>
 <li>Zcash (ZEC) – notable double-digit growth</li>
</ol>
<p>These tokens span multiple categories, restaking, stablecoin infrastructure, AI, Layer-2 scaling, interoperability, DeFi, and privacy, showing that pockets of the market remain active even as liquidity thins elsewhere.</p>
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 <p><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/2b06.png" alt="⬆"> While crypto has pulled back in November, pay attention to projects seeing significant spikes in trading volume. Here are the top 10 volume risers this week:</p>
 <p>1) <a href="https://twitter.com/KelpDAO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@kelpdao</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24RSETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$RSETH</a><br>2) <a href="https://twitter.com/ethena_labs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@ethena_labs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24sUSDe&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$sUSDe</a><br>3) <a href="https://twitter.com/RzCoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@rzcoin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24RZ&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$RZ</a><br>4) <a href="https://twitter.com/Starknet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@starknet</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24STRK&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$STRK</a><br>5) <a href="https://twitter.com/PiCoreTeam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@picoreteam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24PI&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$PI</a><br>6) <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@cosmos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24ATOM&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$ATOM</a><br>7)… <a href="https://t.co/BqfgswAVRr" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/BqfgswAVRr</a></p>
 <p>— Santiment (@santimentfeed) <a href="https://twitter.com/santimentfeed/status/1991718255011196998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">November 21, 2025</a></p>
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<h3 id="why-volume-spikes-matter-in-a-downtrend">Why Volume Spikes Matter In A Downtrend</h3>
<p>Volume expansions during market stress often reveal accumulation zones, speculative rotations, or heightened narrative interest. For example:</p>
<ul>
 <li>rsETH and sUSDe benefited from growing attention on restaking and synthetic-yield strategies.</li>
 <li>STRK gained momentum as Layer-2 ecosystems continued attracting developer activity.</li>
 <li>FET saw renewed interest as AI-linked assets remained one of the few resilient narratives in Q4.</li>
 <li>ZEC, a long-dormant privacy coin, saw traders reposition as regulatory debates around privacy tech re-enter public discourse.</li>
</ul>
<p>While these spikes are not guarantees of trend reversals, they highlight where smart money and speculative traders are concentrating liquidity during choppy conditions.</p>
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<h3 id="the-bigger-picture">The Bigger Picture</h3>
<p>With Bitcoin trading near two-month lows and ETF outflows accelerating, the market remains in a risk-off posture. Yet the tokens above demonstrate that individual narratives are still drawing capital, and that selective volatility, not uniform capitulation, is shaping the current landscape.</p>
<p>Santiment’s data suggests that when the broader market stabilizes, these early-volume leaders may be among the first to benefit from returning liquidity.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.ethnews.com/10-crypto-tokens-defy-november-sell-off-with-surging-trading-volume/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">10 Crypto Tokens Defy November Sell-Off With Surging Trading Volume</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.ethnews.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ETHNews</a>.</p>

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