Gate Institutional Weekly: BTC Briefly Breaks Above $81,000, SOL Staking Assets Outperform ETH (August 24–30, 2026)

Over the past week, increasingly hawkish rate-hike expectations pushed the crypto market into a high-level consolidation after an early rally, with BTC and ETH gaining 2.10% and 0.59%, respectively. Institutional positioning diverged as inflows into BTC ETFs slowed while demand for ETH ETFs strengthened. Gate TradFi weekly trading volume rose to approximately $123 billion. On-chain Meme trading remained active, stablecoin supply continued to expand, and SOL staking assets significantly outperformed their ETH counterparts, while BTC leverage and volatility pricing cooled.

Key Market Highlights from Last Week:

• Market Focus: BTC briefly surpassed 81,000 USDT before hawkish rate expectations pushed the market into high-level consolidation.
• ETF Liquidity: BTC and ETH ETFs recorded net inflows of approximately $925 million and $816 million, respectively, reflecting diverging institutional positioning.
• Gate TradFi: Weekly trading volume reached approximately $123 billion, up around 17%, as capital rotated back toward U.S. equities and ETFs.
• On-Chain Data: Stablecoin supply increased by approximately $1.7 billion, Meme trading remained active, and SOL staking assets significantly outperformed their ETH counterparts.
• Protocol Revenue: Pump’s revenue approached Hyperliquid’s, with Meme trading frontends emerging as the primary source of incremental revenue.
• Derivatives: BTC OI fell to approximately $12.4 billion, while Skew recovered to around -3% and DVOL declined to approximately 37, indicating cooling leveraged momentum and volatility pricing.

Discover more details today → Gate Institutional Weekly: BTC Briefly Breaks Above $81,000, SOL Staking Assets Outperform ETH (August 24–30, 2026)

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Gate Team
September 2, 2026

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