This week: Bitcoin and macroeconomics clearly dominate, ahead of altcoins (5 main themes).
In focus
this week
BTC/Macro lead
ETF BTC +$433mn
S&P 500 ▲ +0.2% 24h
The Week's Editorial
Bitcoin breaks $80,000, but institutions stayed away
ETF flows, world indices and press sentiment: the crypto market in a single read.
▲ Section I · Markets — Free to sharePublic edition
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Of Cryptocurrencies
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◆ Market indices · Week 38vs. 7d
MARKET CAPtop 125 CMC
BTC DOMINANCEBTC / total
TOTAL3excl. BTC, ETH
TOTAL3ESexcl. BTC, ETH, stables
FEAR & GREEDindex 0–100
$2.80T
57.8%
$866B
$586B
71
13–20 SEP
$2.70T → $2.80T
57.5% → 57.8%
$837B → $866B
$558B → $586B
61 → 71
Δ 7D
▲ +3.8%
▲ +0.3 pts
▲ +3.4%
▲ +5.1%
▲ +10.0 pts
MIN / MAX
$2.64T / $2.83T
57.4% / 57.8%
$819B / $876B
$540B / $597B
50 / 71
◆ Top 20 cryptocurrencies (excluding stablecoins)weekly review
#
Crypto
Price
7d
Range
Week low
Week high
RSI 7d
Week volume
1
BTC
$80,479.03
▲ +4.1%
9.3%
$74,967.97
$81,951.00
58
$7.86bn
2
ETH
$2,575.50
▲ +2.1%
13.1%
$2,358.88
$2,668.00
61
$5.24bn
4
BNB
$749.66
▲ +3.2%
9.9%
$704.29
$773.76
60
$669mn
5
XRP
$1.38
▲ +1.0%
20.0%
$1.25
$1.50
51
$1.73bn
7
SOL
$108.84
▲ +6.9%
19.3%
$95.82
$114.32
60
$1.76bn
8
TRX
$0.3401
▲ +0.1%
3.1%
$0.3319
$0.3421
57
$170mn
9
ZEC
$1,449.61
▲ +25.9%
53.1%
$1,041.70
$1,595.35
76
$2.61bn
10
HYPE
$90.98
▲ +14.6%
25.8%
$75.19
$94.57
67
$296mn
11
DOGE
$0.08532
▲ +0.6%
16.7%
$0.07831
$0.09135
47
$426mn
13
LINK
$12.01
▲ +4.1%
19.6%
$10.62
$12.70
58
$172mn
14
LEO
$8.90
▼ −1.7%
11.3%
$8.50
$9.46
39
$48k
15
ADA
$0.2205
▲ +6.2%
23.5%
$0.1903
$0.235
48
$220mn
16
XLM
$0.1908
▲ +5.7%
18.5%
$0.1724
$0.2043
51
$164mn
17
UNI
$8.82
▲ +38.2%
58.3%
$6.00
$9.50
72
$639mn
18
BCH
$246.99
▲ +9.2%
25.0%
$212.80
$266.10
42
$83mn
21
NEAR
$3.48
▲ +48.2%
71.7%
$2.28
$3.91
72
$981mn
22
LTC
$57.15
▲ +5.5%
17.9%
$50.20
$59.21
54
$128mn
24
AVAX
$9.61
▲ +29.3%
51.0%
$7.17
$10.83
56
$246mn
25
CC
$0.1052
▲ +6.8%
28.3%
$0.08867
$0.1138
42
$24mn
26
M
$1.76
▲ +49.1%
58.4%
$1.07
$1.70
49
$1mn
Method: current price and 7-day change from CoinMarketCap (real time).
Weekly min/max, range and volume are computed from Binance daily candles over the last 7 days
— the current price may therefore sit outside that range after a very recent move.
Range = (max − min) / min, in %. 7-day RSI uses Wilder's formula (period 14)
on weekly candles (or aggregated daily candles when unavailable).
Top 20 by market capitalisation, excluding stablecoins. Cryptocurrencies not listed on Binance are shown as “—”.
Context
◆ Neutral sentiment — analysis based on the international press of the past 48 hours.
Ether: Leveraged Funds short at 27% of open interest, mid-range by historical standards.
Bitcoin: Leveraged Funds short at 31% of open interest, mid-range by historical standards.
Outside crypto — Yen: Asset Managers turn net long (+54,415 contracts, 4.5 σ), absorbed by Dealers — 31% of open interest held by 13 reporting entities.
A net short does not signal a bearish view: most often it reflects hedging, or arbitrage between the spot and futures markets.
Source CFTC.gov — positions as of 15 September 2026, published 18 September 2026
The signal that will define this week for the patient reader is not the one most visible in any single daily edition. Bitcoin ended the period at $80,486, having broken above $80,000 during Friday's session, with its latest price sitting near the upper boundary of its Bollinger corridor — the upper band at $81,616, the 20-day average at $78,390. That proximity to the upper band, combined with a 38.2 per cent surge in weekly volume against the prior week, is not routine noise. It describes a market that moved with conviction.
The week had not promised as much. Monday and Tuesday saw Bitcoin pressing against a documented resistance level without piercing it, momentum hovering around the RSI50 threshold, sentiment measured and cautious. A legislative setback mid-week — a crypto regulatory bill failing in the upper chamber — sent prices back from that ceiling and briefly returned Bitcoin's momentum to the neutral side of the ledger. The macro backdrop compounded the difficulty: a confirmed 25-basis-point rate rise added institutional hesitation to regulatory disappointment. At mid-week the market looked less like one gathering for a break and more like one settling into range.
Friday rewrote that reading.
The volume surge that accompanied the break above $80,000 lends the move credibility a price print alone cannot supply. Yet one counterpoint deserves its place in this account. ETF flows for the week were net negative in aggregate: Bitcoin-linked funds attracted $6mn in net inflows, while Ethereum products suffered $140mn of outflows, leaving the weekly total at minus $134mn. Institutional capital, as measured by listed fund flows, did not lead this rally; it followed at best, or stood aside.
Elsewhere, the week produced two sharp divergences within the top twenty. UNI gained 42.7 per cent and ZEC 37.3 per cent — the latter having registered an RSI above 70 for several sessions, the sole asset in the panel to enter that territory. Against them, LEO slipped 1.7 per cent, a modest decline that nonetheless stood as the week's most notable loss within the upper tier.
The editorial barometer moved from 46.4 to 58.4 — neutral throughout, but shifting in character from cautious neutrality to something closer to composure. The week ended not with euphoria, which the data do not support, but with a threshold crossed and volume behind it.