​​📊 Top Chains by 30D Perpetual Trading Volume

🥇 Hyperliquid — $240B
🥈 Arbitrum — $47.2B
🥉 Solana — $46.0B
🏅 Lighter — $45.6B
🏅 Ethereum — $44.9B
🏅 edgeX — $42.3B

Hyperliquid remains the clear market leader, with $240B in 30-day volume, while Arbitrum leads among the remaining chains.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/exchanges/perpetuals

​​📊 The 7 Biggest RWA Funding Rounds of 2026

The largest real-world asset raises this year:

• Gold.com — $150M
• Superstate — $82.5M
• RQD* Clearing — $74M
• Valinor — $25M
• Hivemind Digital Group — $17M
• OpenTrade — $17M
• Tare — $13.25M

RWA projects have raised over $476M in 2026 so far, making it one of the ten most-funded categories of the year.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/funding-rounds

​​📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin moved above $77,700 on Friday as falling oil prices eased inflation concerns, lifting broader markets after the Fed’s rate hike.

Bitcoin: $77,713 +1.71%
Ethereum: $2,488 +1.90%

Market Cap: $2.75T
BTC Dominance: 56.7%
Fear & Greed Index: 56 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 47/100

👉 Latest News

• Aave V4’s Arc market is swimming in $76 million of USDC nobody is borrowing
• Grayscale Rules Out Major Crypto Shifts From a Second 2026 Hike
• Vitalik Buterin Says 90% of Net Worth Rides on Crypto Security

👉 Small Cap Gainers

NearKat +149.2%
Rhea Finance +98.4%
MUSHROOM +88.5%
Orbio.so +85.1%
Hookr.fun +84.6%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Openzeppelin M&A round backed by S&P Global
- Nomina M&A round backed by IRF
- Tare $13.3M Seed round led by Blockchain Capital

​​💧 Liquid Staking TVL Has Grown Nearly 48% Since the Start of Summer

Liquid staking TVL has increased by 47.9% since the beginning of summer, indicating that demand for the sector remains strong.

At the same time, the market remains highly concentrated, with Lido, Ether.fi, and EigenCloud together account for around $32B in TVL, or 74% of the sector’s total.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/categories/liquidstaking

​​🏦 89% of RWA Capital Remains Outside DeFi

With $34B in on-chain RWA AUM, only around 11.3% is actively deployed across DeFi.

The active capital base also remains highly concentrated. Private Credit accounts for roughly 58% of total RWA DeFi TVL, while the four largest categories together represent nearly 95%.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/categories/tokenizedassets

​​📈 Tokenized Stocks Market Capitalization Reaches $3.5B

The market capitalization of tokenized stocks has reached $3.5B, with the following distribution across chains:

🥇BNB Chain — $1.0B
🥈Ethereum — $754M
🥉Solana — $679M
Arbitrum — $317M
Avalanche — $230M
X Layer — $159M
Robinhood Chain — $156M

BNB Chain leads the market, while the top three chains together account for around 70% of the total tokenized stocks market capitalization.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/categories/tokenizedassets

​​💰Airdrops Watchlist (Ongoing Activities)

Our researchers identified 5 projects with ongoing airdrop campaigns. Check out the full activity guides:👇

• eCash.com
• Ekiden
• Note Systems
• Yield Fields
• RISEx

Interact with the projects, complete tasks, and position yourself for potential future airdrops before broader market attention arrives.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/drophunting/

​​🔥 Most Searched Tokens on CryptoRank This Week

A green week across the board — Bitcoin climbed to ~$80,860 and pulled most of the Most Searched list up with it.

Top movers:

• BR +327.1%
• AKE +260.6%
• G +81.6%

👉 https://cryptorank.io/listings

📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin traded above $81,700 on Monday, extending gains after the SEC cleared a path for onchain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks.

Bitcoin: $81,776 +1.74%
Ethereum: $2,662 +3.24%

Market Cap: $2.89T
BTC Dominance: 56.7%
Fear & Greed Index: 70 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 51/100

👉 Latest News

• Robinhood CEO Says Crypto Event-Contracts Will Overtake Sports Markets
• Aave Proposes Custodied Collateral Lending for Institutions
• Bitcoin Records First Weekly Close Above 50-Week Average Since November 2025

👉 Small Cap Gainers

World Mobile Token +165.5%
Orbio.so +94.8%
NearKat +87%
Edel +47.6%
Rhea Finance +43.5%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Evernorth $30M Debt Financing round backed by NH Investment & Securities
- Dtcpay $15M Extended Series A round backed by Genedant Capital
- Rep Angel round backed by Anton Bukov

​​📈 Top Large-Cap Gainers of the Week

BR +197%
DRV +183%
AKE +169%
ZAMA +94%
LOBSTER +92%
ZETA +85%
AR +77%

It was a green and highly speculative week for the crypto market, with strong risk appetite pushing several large-cap tokens to double- and even triple-digit gains.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/gainers

​​🚨JUST IN: Bitcoin breaks above $85,000, reaching an 8-month high.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/price/bitcoin

​​📈 Perp DEX Open Interest Hits a New ATH

Crypto open interest on perpetual DEXs has reached a new all-time high of $19B, while total open interest climbed to a record $25B.

At the same time, RWA’s share of total open interest has grown from just 6% at the beginning of 2026 to 24% today, highlighting the rapid expansion of on-chain perpetuals into stocks, commodities, and other real-world assets.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/exchanges/perpetuals

🔓 Major Token Unlocks of the Week

The following tokens with the largest unlock value are scheduled to unlock this week:

• XPL — $179.49M
• AKE — $115.56M
• H — $18.12M
• FOGO — $10.58M
• YZY — $8.15M
• SOSO — $6.85M
• COAI — $6.21M

XPL has the largest unlock relative to size at 63.2% of market cap, as its Investors and Team allocations open for the first time after the cliff.

FOGO follows at 39.8% of market cap, as Core Contributors, Institutional Investors, Echo Raise and Advisors allocations unlock after the cliff.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/token-unlock

​​📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin surged above $85,400 on institutional demand and short covering, while Fear & Greed hit Extreme Greed for the first time since summer 2025.

Bitcoin: $85,435 +4.35%
Ethereum: $2,730 +2.37%

Market Cap: $3.00T
BTC Dominance: 57.1%
Fear & Greed Index: 78 (Extreme Greed)
Altcoin Index: 51/100

👉 Latest News

• Strategy Buys Another 950 Bitcoin As Holdings Reach 846,000 BTC
• Russia Crypto Regulation Pushes Ahead With Major Banks in Consultation
• Circle launches Bitcoin-backed USDC borrowing, leaving liquidation risk with Morpho protocol

👉 Small Cap Gainers

Aurora +176.5%
ICON +150.7%
SODAX +91%
Rhea Finance +66.4%
Mubarak +64.7%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Travix Seed round backed by Amber Group
- Ponygo $2M Strategic round backed by Blockin Venture
- Evernorth $30M Debt Financing round backed by NH Investment & Securities

​​🚨 JUST IN: Crypto Fear & Greed Index Hits Extreme Greed

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has entered Extreme Greed for the first time since July 12, 2025, reaching 78. Market sentiment is now at its highest level in more than a year.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/charts/fear-and-greed

​​📈 Layer 2 Tokens Recover to Early-2026 Levels

The total market capitalization of Layer 2 tokens has nearly returned to where it started the year, reaching $11.5B compared with $12B in January.

After hitting an annual low of $7B in late July, the sector has rebounded 65% in less than two months.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/performance

​​📈 Tokenized ETFs Expand Across Multiple Chains in Q3

In Q3, the market capitalization of tokenized ETFs continued to grow across multiple networks:

🥇 BNB Chain +$142M
🥈 Robinhood Chain +$34.2M
🥉 X Layer +$17.5M
🏅 Solana +$13.7M
🏅 Ink Chain +$4.8M

BNB Chain recorded by far the largest absolute increase, while the growth of Robinhood Chain and X Layer shows that the tokenized ETF market is gradually expanding across a broader range of blockchains.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/rwa

​​📈 Market Overview

Bitcoin traded above $86,000 on Wednesday, on track for its first July–September three-month winning streak since 2012.

Bitcoin: $86,096 +1.03%
Ethereum: $2,740 +0.54%

Market Cap: $3.02T
BTC Dominance: 57.3%
Fear & Greed Index: 71 (Greed)
Altcoin Index: 52/100

👉 Latest News

• Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $1 Billion Monday
• Trump Says US Documents Will Replace ‘Artificial Intelligence’ With ‘Super Intelligence’
• The SEC's Tokenization Boom Has an Expiration Date No One's Pricing In

👉 Small Cap Gainers

Neon +247.7%
OVERTAKE +184.6%
Partisia +65.7%
MUSHROOM +60.2%
AI Companions +50.3%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Atum $13.5M Funding round backed by Mirana Ventures
- Infini $6M Seed round backed by SNZ Holding
- Xstable Funding round backed by YZi Labs (Prev. Binance Labs)

​​Which Stocks Are Most Tokenized On-Chain? 📊

The most tokenized stocks tend to be companies closely tied to crypto itself. Circle, Strategy, Coinbase, and Bitmine rank among the most tokenized stocks on-chain.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/rwa/stocks

​​📈 On-Chain Options Notional Volume Hits a 2-Year High

On-chain options notional volume reached $7.52B in Q3 2026, up 73% QoQ and marking the highest level in two years.

The sector has been steadily expanding over the past year, with Derive leading this growth. The protocol recorded $6.64B in options volume this quarter, accounting for roughly 88% of total on-chain options activity.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/tags/dex