Crypto Market Summary: October 2026
The period is not over yet; data for 5 days so far, refreshed hourly. Last updated October 17, 2026 at 08:15 AM GMT+3. The starting point is the close of October 13, 2026 (no summary for the day before).
The period in brief
The combined market cap of the cryptocurrencies we track went from $2.84T at the start of the month to $2.78T as of Oct 17 (-2.23%).
Bitcoin moved from $83,298.84 to $81,541.37 (-2.11%); its share of the total market cap went from 58.9% to 59.0%.
Gainers outnumbered losers on 0 of 5 days and losers outnumbered gainers on 4; 1 day was mixed.
The biggest one-day gain was Sigma.Money (SIGMA, +136.31% on Oct 16); the biggest one-day drop was Epic Chain (EPIC, -38.01% on Oct 14).
Among categories, Storage did best (+3.59%) and Privacy worst (-11.59%).
The USD/TRY rate moved from ₺49.30 to ₺49.37 (+0.14%).
Top 10 by market cap
| # | Asset | Start | End | Change | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $83,298.84 | ₺4,026,000.30$81,541.37 | -2.11% | $1.64T |
| 2 | Ethereum ETH | $2,508.33 | ₺119,863.11$2,426.42 | -3.27% | $296.36B |
| 3 | Tether USDT | $1.00 | ₺49.39$1.00 | +0.02% | $184.12B |
| 4 | BNB BNB | $742.28 | ₺35,653.02$722.25 | -2.70% | $96.17B |
| 5 | Ripple XRP | $1.37 | ₺64.64$1.31 | -4.64% | $82.61B |
| 6 | USDC USDC | $1.00 | ₺49.44$1.00 | +0.03% | $72.75B |
| 7 | Solana SOL | $107.54 | ₺5,171.71$104.78 | -2.57% | $61.74B |
| 8 | Tron TRX | $0.3289 | ₺16.57$0.3355 | +2.00% | $31.87B |
| 9 | Lido Staked Ether STETH | $2,503.45 | ₺119,710.40$2,424.76 | -3.14% | $23.86B |
| 10 | Hyperliquid HYPE | — | ₺3,942.43$79.76 | — | $20.02B |
Change is based on the USD price; — if the asset was not in the top 10 at the start.
Biggest one-day gains
| 1 | Sigma.Money SIGMA | Oct 16 | +136.31% |
| 2 | Gains Network GNS | Oct 13 | +121.51% |
| 3 | Alaya Governance Token AGT | Oct 17 | +115.88% |
| 4 | Puffer PUFFER | Oct 15 | +92.68% |
| 5 | Matchain MAT | Oct 13 | +59.79% |
Biggest one-day drops
| 1 | Epic Chain EPIC | Oct 14 | -38.01% |
| 2 | Gains Network GNS | Oct 14 | -36.52% |
| 3 | Gstock GSTOCK | Oct 13 | -35.92% |
| 4 | DAPPOS DOS | Oct 13 | -34.84% |
| 5 | Blur BLUR | Oct 13 | -34.10% |
From each day's top 5 gainers and losers, the largest 24h move per asset.
Categories
- Storage +3.59%
- Agriculture +1.77%
- Stable +0.25%
- Reserve +0.18%
- Commodity -0.12%
- Game -0.51%
- Token -1.48%
- Staking -1.76%
- PoW -2.15%
- Layer1 -2.97%
- Coin -2.99%
- Asset-Backed -3.10%
- DAO -3.17%
- Fan -3.19%
- Altcoin -3.62%
- New -4.26%
- Web3 -4.45%
- NFT -4.56%
- Smart Contract -4.72%
- PoS -4.80%
- eth -4.92%
- AI & Data -5.25%
- DeFi -5.43%
- BuyBack -5.49%
- Infrastructure -5.78%
- sol -5.84%
- Risky -6.04%
- DEX -6.63%
- RWA -7.13%
- Meme -7.86%
- Layer2 -8.20%
- Metaverse -10.99%
- Privacy -11.59%
Compounded daily market-cap-weighted changes; an approximation. Only categories with data on every day.
Listings
0 new trading pairs, 200 delisted.
Day by day
| Day | Market cap | 24h volume | BTC share | Up / down | BTC 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17 | $2.78T | ₺504.64B$10.22B | 59.0% | 223 / 628 | -0.78% |
| Oct 16 | $2.77T | ₺531.01B$10.76B | 59.1% | 192 / 662 | -0.85% |
| Oct 15 | $2.81T | ₺741.12B$15.02B | 59.0% | 434 / 419 | +0.68% |
| Oct 14 | $2.79T | ₺555.14B$11.26B | 59.0% | 116 / 737 | -1.69% |
| Oct 13 | $2.84T | ₺645.84B$13.10B | 58.9% | 191 / 662 | +0.55% |
Figures cover assets traded on the exchanges we track; they are not the entire crypto market.
This summary is built from the daily summaries of the period; each day is the data read at the end of that day (Istanbul time) and is not revised later. This data is for information only and is not investment advice.