Weekly Movers
Short answer: inside the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, the week belonged to a handful of large, catalyst-driven moves while most of the market drifted lower. Starknet (STRK) gained +83.87% and Rain (RAIN) lost -17.78%. Bitcoin finished the week -2.93% and Ethereum -6.01%.
Universe: Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization · Source: CoinGecko public market data (coins/markets, USD, market-cap order) · Data frozen October 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM UTC
Bitcoin (7d)
$83,368.00
-2.93%
Ethereum (7d)
$2,548.96
-6.01%
Top-100 aggregate (7d)
-3.23%
$2.85T combined cap
Breadth (7d)
30 up · 69 down
of 100 coins with a 7-day figure
At the level of the whole market, this was a down week inside a strong month. The market-cap-weighted top-100 aggregate finished the week at -3.23% and the last 24 hours at +0.75%, while the 30-day window stands at +7.40% on roughly $2.85 trillion of market capitalization. Breadth confirms the weakness: only 30 of the 100 top coins rose this week against 69 decliners, with one flat. Bitcoin (-2.93% on the week, +7.89% on the month) roughly matched the aggregate while Ethereum (-6.01% on the week, +0.91% on the month) lagged it.
The two tails told different stories. Among the ten biggest gainers, eight moves carry confirmed or reported catalysts, and they cluster around two themes: supply-side tightening (PYTH's confirmed 100% Rule buyback vote, APT's insider vesting end, FIL's vesting cliff and scheduled network upgrade, AERO's merger countdown, ZRO's recurring buybacks) and ecosystem developments (JUP's confirmed Swap API v1 support, NEAR's ETF anchor with within-window ecosystem headlines, XDC's exchange listing). Only one gainer, BTW, had no confirmed catalyst after research. Among the ten biggest losers, seven of ten have no confirmed catalyst at all, and this edition says so rather than guessing. Four of those losers (UNI, PUMP, BCH, SUI) are simply giving back part of much larger 30-day gains, which is an observation about the numbers, not an explanation. The two reported loser catalysts are both supply-side: an October 2 unlock in M and on-chain distribution patterns in MNT. Three losers also pair their declines with unusually thin turnover (M at $0.76M of 24-hour volume on a $2.16B cap, CRO at $6.7M on $3.02B, RAIN at $10.4M on $7.18B), so their percentage moves rest on small flows.
The snapshot is frozen at October 12, 2026, 11:23 UTC; live prices have already moved on from these figures, and nothing here is a forecast or a recommendation.
| Move | Coin | Price | 24h | 7d | 30d | Market cap | Volume 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +1 | Starknet STRK#92 by cap | $0.1056 | -6.49% | +83.87% | +262.90% | $783.80M | $504.13M |
| +2 | Bitway BTW#28 by cap | $1.74 | +4.38% | +42.09% | +202.72% | $4.71B | $29.17M |
| +3 | LayerZero ZRO#83 by cap | $2.37 | +15.63% | +23.80% | +138.02% | $946.79M | $156.28M |
| +4 | Filecoin FIL#80 by cap | $1.23 | +12.21% | +15.61% | +52.67% | $1.03B | $287.83M |
| +5 | NEAR Protocol NEAR#19 by cap | $5.71 | +8.97% | +15.09% | +142.68% | $7.48B | $1.27B |
| +6 | Pyth Network PYTH#99 by cap | $0.0881 | +15.21% | +9.86% | +67.71% | $693.91M | $69.40M |
| +7 | Aptos APT#93 by cap | $0.8744 | +2.94% | +8.20% | +42.21% | $762.09M | $155.62M |
| +8 | Aerodrome Finance AERO#84 by cap | $0.9103 | -5.73% | +7.57% | +59.05% | $914.38M | $55.33M |
| +9 | XDC Network XDC#97 by cap | $0.0356 | +1.93% | +7.56% | +26.14% | $709.70M | $11.31M |
| +10 | Jupiter JUP#71 by cap | $0.3566 | -0.89% | +7.06% | +44.47% | $1.18B | $88.80M |
On October 8 Starknet publicly said it is actively considering becoming an independent Layer 1 blockchain to pursue a fully quantum-resistant network by 2027, a possibility reiterated by the project on October 10. The transition remains a proposal under consideration rather than an approved migration, and heavy speculative trading accompanied the move.
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: BTW gained 42.09% over the trailing 7 days while 24-hour volume of $29.2M was only about 0.62% of the $4.71B market capitalization, indicating thin turnover relative to the advance. Observation: the token is trading just below its all-time high near $1.69, and its most recently documented campaign, Binance Wallet's Bitway Booster Season 5, ended October 2, outside the trailing-7-day window.
The LayerZero foundation's recurring open-market ZRO repurchases continued, with the October 6 tranche retiring 162,000 ZRO (about $347,000) and lifting cumulative buybacks to roughly 2.54 million tokens worth about $5.4 million. Reported anticipation of the planned ATLAS trading platform, whose published design routes 75% of remaining fees to automated ZRO buy-and-burn, also supported demand, though a scheduled 23.63 million ZRO unlock on October 20 remains a near-term supply overhang.
Traders positioned ahead of the October 15 conclusion of Protocol Labs and Filecoin Foundation token vesting, a scheduled event expected to cut new annual issuance by roughly 75%, from about 88 million to about 22 million FIL per year. The rally also preceded Filecoin's scheduled Solstice network upgrade on October 19, with 24-hour volume of $287.8M running at about 28% of the $1.03B market capitalization.
The Bitwise NEAR ETF (ticker NRR), the first US spot NEAR exchange-traded product, began trading on NYSE Arca on September 29 with staking, extending a rally that was already underway. Within the trailing week, SVRN's October 10 acquisition of infrastructure provider FastNEAR and the nearcore 2.13 upgrade's quantum-resistant account keys added fresh ecosystem headlines, while futures open interest near $1.9B and concentrated short liquidations amplified the advance.
On October 8, 2026, the Pyth DAO approved proposal OP-PIP-136, known as the 100% Rule, committing all funds the DAO receives from Pyth products to open-market PYTH purchases for its reserve (up from one-third of its non-PYTH balance), with the first acquisitions under the new rule executed on September 30. The network also reported $11.5 million in annual recurring revenue for September, up 86% quarter over quarter.
The four-year vesting schedule for Aptos core contributors and early backers formally ended on October 12, cutting scheduled monthly APT issuance by roughly 60% (from 11.31 million to 4.54 million APT). Coverage this week also spotlighted the broader tokenomics overhaul (Proposal #183): the Foundation permanently locking and staking 210 million APT, staking rewards halved from 5.19% to 2.6%, tenfold gas fee increases with all fees burned, and a 2.1 billion APT hard cap.
Coverage this week centered on the approaching Aero merger: Aerodrome and Velodrome are set to merge into a single protocol on October 21, 2026, deploying across seven EVM-compatible chains (including Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Robinhood Chain), with swap terms announced October 9 giving existing AERO a 1:1 conversion into the new token.
Robinhood Crypto added XDC for spot trading this week, opening the enterprise-focused token to the brokerage's U.S. retail base (Robinhood-owned Bitstamp already listed XDC in 2024). Institutional positioning also advanced: Swiss digital-asset infrastructure provider Taurus announced on October 7 that it will operate an XDC Network validator node.
On October 7, Jupiter's developer account announced that Solana transaction v1 support is live on its Swap API, raising the per-transaction size limit from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes and removing the need for address lookup tables so complex routes fit in a single transaction. Jupiter's official developer documentation confirms the feature is live on mainnet and is the forward path for new integrations.
| Move | Coin | Price | 24h | 7d | 30d | Market cap | Volume 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Rain RAIN#20 by cap | $0.0101 | -2.80% | -17.78% | -33.92% | $7.18B | $10.37M |
| -2 | Venice Token VVV#72 by cap | $24.25 | +7.96% | -16.85% | +6.63% | $1.17B | $49.67M |
| -3 | Uniswap UNI#27 by cap | $7.57 | -0.15% | -15.34% | +19.96% | $4.73B | $464.12M |
| -4 | Sky SKY#56 by cap | $0.0793 | +3.10% | -15.03% | +25.49% | $1.86B | $15.68M |
| -5 | Mantle MNT#55 by cap | $0.5664 | +1.15% | -13.12% | -1.16% | $1.87B | $21.99M |
| -6 | Cronos CRO#40 by cap | $0.0609 | +2.55% | -11.77% | +6.07% | $3.02B | $6.69M |
| -7 | Pump.fun PUMP#43 by cap | $0.00564 | +0.80% | -10.96% | +58.05% | $2.61B | $193.29M |
| -8 | Bitcoin Cash BCH#22 by cap | $281.79 | +1.54% | -10.52% | +22.09% | $5.66B | $187.72M |
| -9 | MemeCore M#50 by cap | $0.9448 | -0.92% | -9.61% | -20.22% | $2.16B | $758.8K |
| -10 | Sui SUI#29 by cap | $1.11 | +1.71% | -9.51% | +53.62% | $4.57B | $518.85M |
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: the -17.78% weekly move extends a steeper -33.92% 30-day decline, so the week continued an existing downtrend rather than reversing a rally. Observation: 24h trading volume of $10.4M is roughly 0.14% of the $7.18B market capitalization, showing thin turnover relative to valuation. Observation: at a price near $0.0101, small absolute moves translate into large percentage swings.
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: the -16.85% weekly decline comes against a +6.63% 30-day gain, so the week erased part of a longer uptrend. Observation: 24h volume of $49.7M is about 4.2% of the $1.17B market cap, the second-highest turnover ratio among this week's ten biggest losers. Observation: the token's rank of 72 makes it the smallest of the ten by market cap.
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: the -15.34% week partially retraces a +19.96% 30-day rally, leaving the token higher on the month. Observation: 24h volume of $464.1M is about 9.8% of the $4.73B market cap, the highest turnover ratio among this week's ten biggest losers, indicating the decline came with real liquidity. Observation: the week's news flow around the protocol was constructive (a tokenized-equities collaboration announced Oct 9), so no project-specific negative event explains the move.
Moody's Ratings assigned Sky Protocol a B3 issuer rating with a stable outlook on Oct 7, reported as the agency's first rating of the protocol, alongside a broad risk-off week for altcoins. No exploit, governance failure, or regulatory action against the protocol was confirmed in the window.
No official Mantle announcement, unlock, or governance event was identified in the window. On-chain analysis published by CoinCu on Oct 7 reported sustained sell pressure from accumulator wallets routing MNT toward exchange deposit addresses (Coinbase, Gate.io, MEXC), with an estimated 87% of transfer volume flagged as wash trading and organic liquidity a fraction of the headline figure. No primary source verified the flows.
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: CRO fell 11.77% over 7 days but remains up 6.07% over 30 days, priced at $0.060859. Observation: 24h trading volume of $6.7M is thin against a $3.02B market capitalization, indicating limited turnover during the decline.
Pump.fun's daily platform revenue, which funds half of its PUMP buyback and burn program, fell 16% from $1.89M on October 5 to $1.59M on October 9, with the token dropping 16.8% from its weekly high, according to Pluang. The buyback program's price support depends directly on platform revenue, which fluctuates with launchpad trading activity.
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: BCH fell 10.52% over 7 days but remains up 22.09% over 30 days, priced at $281.79. Observation: 24h trading volume of $187.7M against a $5.66B market capitalization indicates normal turnover during the pullback.
A $57M token unlock on October 2 released 56.11 million M (about 2.46% of circulating supply) into a thin market, and the resulting sell pressure carried into the trailing week, with M remaining one of the weakest major tokens, according to CoinMarketCap's news summary. The snapshot 24h volume of $758,832 is exceptionally thin for a $2.16B market cap asset, amplifying price moves in either direction.
No confirmed catalyst found. Observation: SUI fell 9.51% over 7 days but remains up 53.62% over 30 days, priced at $1.11. Observation: 24h trading volume of $518.9M against a $4.57B market capitalization shows active trading through the pullback.
Weekly percentage moves describe the recent past of thin, fast markets. A top-10 finish is not a quality grade: several entries in both tables moved on small trading volume relative to their market value, and percentage gains shrink as a coin grows. Past movement is not a forecast, and nothing in this report is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset.
Figures are the frozen snapshot named above and will differ from live prices, which are on the Markets page. Catalysts are researched from official announcements and reputable reporting and cited per coin; editions are corrected in place if a cited source is withdrawn, with the correction noted.