Altcoins Outrun Bitcoin as NEAR, AVAX and ZEC Lead Broad Advance
Bitcoin holds above $81,000 while a trio of large-cap altcoins posts double-digit weekly gains and sentiment sits at Greed.
Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:30:50 GMT · written by the desk from live feeds
Key points
- •Bitcoin trades at $81,605, up 1.41% in 24 hours and 4.90% over seven days, with BTC dominance at 58.20%.
- •Zcash leads top-10 weekly gains at 37.10%; Solana is up 10.40% and BNB up 7.10% over the same period.
- •NEAR Protocol gains 23.89% in 24 hours and 86.20% on the week; Avalanche rises 18.64% and 55.90% respectively.
- •MemeCore posts the steepest fall among major movers, down 12.19% to $1.52, while Bitway gains 27.44%.
- •The Fear and Greed index reads 70 (Greed), and Bitcoin funding on OKX's BTC-USDT swap is 0.0099% per eight hours.
Altcoin leadership broadens
Bitcoin trades at $81,605, up 1.41% over 24 hours and 4.90% over seven days, but the standout moves sit further down the table. Zcash (ZEC) changes hands at $1,516.98 after a 37.10% weekly advance, the largest seven-day gain among the top ten. Solana (SOL) sits at $111.83, up 10.40% on the week and 2.93% on the day, while BNB at $772.90 has added 7.10% over seven days and Ethereum at $2,665.84 is up 6.00%.
That pattern is visible in market structure too: BTC dominance stands at 58.20% against a total market capitalisation of $2.815T, with the aggregate cap up just 0.13% in 24 hours.
Double-digit 24-hour movers
NEAR Protocol leads the day's gainers at $4.30, up 23.89% in 24 hours and 86.20% over the week. Avalanche (AVAX) follows at $11.37, up 18.64% on the day and 55.90% on the week. Sui (SUI) adds 13.82% to $0.932416, Monero (XMR) rises 13.09% to $586.74, and Pump.fun (PUMP) gains 10.64% to $0.00441931. Ethena (ENA) at $0.213717 is up 9.72% in 24 hours and 51.70% over seven days.
Bitway (BTW) posts the largest single-day move in the dataset, up 27.44% at $0.77137. On the losing side, MemeCore (M) falls 12.19% to $1.52, and Uniswap (UNI) slips 2.26% to $8.63 despite a 37.00% weekly gain.
Sentiment and the wider tape
The Fear and Greed index reads 70, labelled Greed, down a single point from yesterday's 71. The desk's own sentiment gauge sits at 60, also labelled Greed. Bitcoin's funding rate on the OKX BTC-USDT swap is 0.0099% per eight hours, with open interest of $2.543B.
In decentralised finance, total value locked stands at $95.778B, led by Ethereum at $54.204B, Solana at $6.400B and Base at $6.104B.
Among headlines, CoinTelegraph reports Hana Bank tapping Euroclear's blockchain for a $100M bond issuance, and The Block reports ZetaChain voting to shut down its Layer 1 network and move ZETA to Solana. Decrypt reports Visa moving to close a meme coin credit card rewards loophole.
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The exact data bank handed to the model (deepseek / deepseek-flash) at 2026-09-21T12:30:50.177Z. The model may use nothing else. Sources: CoinGecko, Alternative.me, DeFiLlama, mempool.space, OKX, and the RSS headlines listed.
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