Crypto Market Recap Oct 18, 2026: Bitcoin Leads a Modest Advance
Market cap $2.87T (+0.7%), spot volume $40.4B, 919 assets up and 1428 down, Fear & Greed at 62.
Coinmico ResearchPublished 
- Market cap
- $2.87T
- +0.7%
- Spot volume (24h)
- $40.4B
- +32.9%
- BTC dominance
- 57.8%
- +0.13 pts
- Fear & Greed
- 62
- Greed
- Up / Down
- 919 / 1428
- assets up / down
- Liquidations
- $180M
- $109M L · $70.5M S
Top assets, 24h
What Moved
A positive but unspectacular session: total market capitalisation closed at $2.87T, +0.7% over 24 hours.
Bitcoin set the tone, rising +1.0% to $82,467 while the median large asset moved -0.4%; its share of the market rose to 57.8%. Ethereum gained 0.5% to $2,421.
Breadth was split — 919 assets up, 1428 down — with 50.0% of the hundred largest closing higher. The index move came from the large caps more than the field.
Pepe (PEPE) was the day's strongest mover at +3.7%, ahead of XMR (+3.1%). At the other end, Stable (STABLE) fell 5.5%, with AERO (-5.0%) close behind. By sector, Privacy led (+1.4%) while Storage & Compute trailed (-0.5%).
Volume and Leverage
Volume was the story: $40.4B of spot turnover over the day, +32.9% on the previous session. Spot on centralised exchanges accounted for $39.6B, on-chain swaps $1.54B and derivatives $67.4B.
Liquidations were contained at $180M, most of it longs ($109M against $70.5M of shorts). Open interest across the venues we track is $66.1B.
Sentiment
The Coinmico Fear & Greed index sits at 62, in greed, up 8 points from yesterday and 41 a week ago.
Top gainers (top 100)
Pepe PEPE$0.00000403+3.7%
Monero XMR$603.27+3.1%
NEAR Protocol NEAR$5.04+2.9%
Akedo AKE$0.0306+2.5%
Rain RAIN$0.00934+2.2%
Top losers (top 100)
Stable STABLE$0.0241-5.5%
Aerodrome Finance AERO$0.801-5.0%
Pump.fun PUMP$0.00424-3.2%
Stacks STX$0.362-2.8%
Hedera HBAR$0.0845-2.7%
Sectors, 24h
- Privacy+1.4%
- Layer 1+0.8%
- Derivatives & Perpetuals+0.6%
- Exchange Tokens+0.6%
- RWA+0.4%
- DeFi-0.1%
- Memes-0.1%
- DEX & AMM-0.1%
- AI-0.2%
- Storage & Compute-0.5%
What to Watch
A constructive but unconvincing day. Bitcoin at $82,467 needs to build on this for the rest of the market to follow; a fade from here would leave the session looking like noise.
All figures are measured on Coinmico's own index across 58 exchanges and 38 decentralised venues at 01:21 UTC. Tomorrow's recap will show whether today's reading held.