Market brief · 2026-10-26
Bitcoin holds $79,964 as crypto slips 0.71%; Ethena leads with 6.13% gain
· By the MyCryptoSignal Data Desk · Written from our own collected price data
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Crypto spent the session drifting lower, with the total market cap at $2.53 trillion, down 0.71% over 24 hours. Bitcoin held near $80,000, trading at $79,964, down 0.73%, while Ether slipped 1.18% to $2,315.92. Breadth stayed narrow: 24 of 55 tracked coins fell, 24 held inside a percentage point, and 7 rose.
Crypto's total market cap stood at $2.53 trillion, down 0.71% over the past 24 hours and 2.91% across seven days, with 55 coins tracked in the window. Bitcoin traded at $79,964, down 0.73% on the day and 3.22% on the week, holding dominance at 63.6%. Ether changed hands at $2,315.92, down 1.18%. Total market volume across the universe reached $73.86 billion.
Of the 55 tracked coins, 7 rose, 24 fell and 24 held inside a percentage point. The majors were the weakest cohort: 8 coins, a cap-weighted change of -0.82%, no risers and 3 fallers. Meme names averaged -0.32% across 5 coins, with 1 riser and 2 fallers. The broad 'other' group of 39 coins averaged -0.35%, holding 6 risers and 19 fallers. The gap is small between meme and other, but the majors carry the heaviest weight and led the decline.
Ethena led the risers, trading at $0.204387, up 6.13% over 24 hours and 9.19% over seven days. Its 30-day change remains -22.46%. Volume reached $418.54 million, the heaviest among the day's gainers. RSI sat at 61.2 with an uptrend reading, and the token ranged between a 24-hour low of $0.188676 and a high of $0.210828. No news item in the packet covers the move, so the numbers stand on their own.
Quant followed at $193.44, up 5.35%, with a 30-day gain of 92.15% and an RSI of 59.5. It ranged between $178.09 and $199.98 on the day, on $80.13 million of volume. Beam rose 4.98% to $0.00326232, up 19.70% over seven days, with RSI at 68.2 even as its trend reads down. Uniswap added 2.71% to $6.94 on $242.27 million of turnover, and Pyth Network gained 2.68% to $0.072769 with an RSI of 52. Three of the five carry negative 30-day readings.
Worldcoin was the weakest name, falling 5.86% to $0.436522, with a 7-day decline of 11.44% and an RSI of 32.3. JasmyCoin slipped 3.43% to $0.00424637, down 9.07% on the week, RSI 36.8. Monero gave back part of its recent gain, dropping 3.34% to $585.27 while still holding a 30-day rise of 4.30%. VeChain fell 2.70% to $0.00655018, down 31.30% over 30 days. Bonk eased 2.26% to $0.00000297, though it remains up 1.29% on the week.
Technical breadth across 30 sampled coins shows no overbought readings, 1 oversold, 2 in uptrends and 21 in downtrends. Bitcoin's own RSI sits at 41.8 with a down trend and a volatility reading of 0. Support is printed at $79,265 and resistance at $80,476.20, with the price trading just below both. Bitcoin's RSI of 41.8 leaves it well short of the single oversold reading in the sample. That mix reads as a calm, slightly heavy tape rather than a stretched one.
Over seven days, Beam leads with 19.70%, followed by Ethena at 9.19% and Pepe at 9.05%. The weakest week belongs to Sei at -14.85%, Celestia at -14.60% and Arbitrum at -13.04%. USDT remains the volume leader at $31.46 billion against a total of $73.86 billion. Beam and Ethena appear on both today's riser list and the week's leaderboard, so the day's strength overlaps only partly with the week's.
The tape reads as rotation inside a soft market rather than a broad retreat. The total cap slipped 0.71% and Bitcoin fell 0.73%, but 24 of 55 coins held inside a percentage point, and the majors' cap-weighted change of -0.82% was the heaviest cohort loss. Money moved to a narrow set: Ethena added 6.13% on $418.54 million of volume, Quant rose 5.35% and Beam climbed 4.98%. Meanwhile 21 of 30 sampled coins sit in downtrends and Bitcoin's RSI is 41.8, so the advance is selective, not broad. Worldcoin's 5.86% decline and Monero's 3.34% pullback show where the selling landed. The seven-day picture is softer still, with the cap down 2.91% and Bitcoin down 3.22%, and the week's laggards — Sei at -14.85%, Celestia at -14.60% and Arbitrum at -13.04% — sit far below the day's leaders.
Monero's 3.34% slide to $585.27 follows yesterday's 2.97% gain, a second straight day of sharp two-way movement in that name, and its 30-day change still reads +4.30%. Bitcoin's support at $79,265 and resistance at $80,476.20 sit almost at the same level, with the price at $79,964 between them. Beam's RSI of 68.2 against a down trend is the widest split among the risers. Quant carries a 92.15% 30-day gain against a 5.35% daily move, another wide split. Ethena's $418.54 million of volume is the number to weigh against its 6.13% gain.
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