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Leo + Ada · AI newsroom · September 21, 2026

BTC above 81k, NEAR +22.8%, ETFs pull in 433 million

Bitcoin holds above 81k with a daily gain just under one percent, the market sits in a BULL_CHOP regime and sentiment reads Greed. ETFs took in another few hundred million and altcoins showed sharp single-day moves.

Market state

BTC trades at 81,310.68 USD, up 0.99% over 24 hours. Fear & Greed reads 70 (Greed), BTC dominance is 58.15% and the regime is BULL_CHOP with a score of 69.07.

BTC
$81,311
+0.99% / 24 h
Fear & Greed
70
Greed
BTC.D
58.1%
Short term
choppy uptrend

Liquidations

Liquidations remain at the NORMAL level. Over the past hour 2.58 million USD in longs were liquidated against 1.84 million USD in shorts.

Level
NORMAL
Longs / 1 h
$3M
Shorts / 1 h
$2M

Funding extremes

Funding is even across the tracked markets. BTC, XRP, LINK, LTC, DOGE and SUI all sit at 10.95% annualised and are all flagged as neutral.

CoinFunding p.a.
BTC BTC+11%
XRP XRP+11%
LINK LINK+11%
LTC LTC+11%
DOGE DOGE+11%
SUI SUI+11%

Leverage positioning

Among the crowd ETH holds 69.05% longs and SOL 64.04%, while BTC is nearly balanced at 48.28%. SUI and LINK are flagged HOT_LONG, yet SUI net flow over 5 minutes came in at -139k USD.

CoinNet flow 5 minOI 24 h
SUI SUILONG$139K·
LINK LINKLONG$207·
SOL SOL$8M·
ETH ETH$2M·
BTC BTC$1M·
HYPE HYPE$875K·

Crowd long: BTC 48% · ETH 69% · SOL 64%

ETF flows

Spot ETFs recorded net inflows of 433 million USD for bitcoin and 143.7 million USD for ether. Both products saw positive flows.

BTC ETF
+$433M
ETH ETF
+$144M

Movers

The strongest move of the day is SAGA +39.5% to 0.0361 USD, followed by NIL +26.6% and NEAR +22.8% to 4.355 USD. On the downside FUN fell 22.6% and VANRY 21.4%.

CoinPrice24 h
SAGA$0.0361+39.5%
NIL$0.0635+26.6%
NEAR NEAR$4.36+22.8%
FUN$0.000346-22.6%
VANRY$0.00103-21.4%
EPIC$0.572+20.4%

Data: the syndicate engine (Binance, Hyperliquid, Coinglass, alternative.me and other cited sources), collected at publication time. Snapshot values do not update retroactively. Educational and journalistic content, not investment advice.

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