Crypto Market Recap Oct 24, 2026: A Quiet Day for Crypto
Market cap $2.79T (+0.1%), spot volume $40.2B, 922 assets up and 1452 down, Fear & Greed at 64.
Coinmico ResearchPublished 
- Market cap
- $2.79T
- +0.1%
- Spot volume (24h)
- $40.2B
- -20.4%
- BTC dominance
- 58.3%
- +0.02 pts
- Fear & Greed
- 64
- Greed
- Up / Down
- 922 / 1452
- assets up / down
- Liquidations
- $302M
- $216M L · $86.2M S
Top assets, 24h
What Moved
Little changed at the headline level. Total market capitalisation closed at $2.79T, +0.1% on the day — close enough to flat that the story sits underneath the index.
BTC ended the day at $80,794 (+0.1%), moving with the market rather than against it; its share of total capitalisation is 58.3%. Ethereum lost 0.7% to $2,357.
Breadth was split — 922 assets up, 1452 down — with 39.0% of the hundred largest closing higher. That is a market choosing names, not direction.
Monero (XMR) was the day's strongest mover at +7.4%, ahead of LIT (+4.9%). At the other end, Akedo (AKE) fell 9.1%, with PEARL (-7.4%) close behind. By sector, Zero Knowledge led (+1.9%) while Memes trailed (-0.9%).
Volume and Leverage
We measured $40.2B of spot turnover, -20.4% on the previous session — nothing unusual in participation. Spot on centralised exchanges accounted for $39.7B, on-chain swaps $1.28B and derivatives $62.9B.
Leverage took the hit: $302M of perpetual positions were liquidated over the day, most of it longs ($216M against $86.2M of shorts). Open interest stands at $66.5B.
Sentiment
Sentiment swung. The Coinmico Fear & Greed index reads 64 (greed), up 10 points from 54 a day earlier and against 56 a week ago.
With price flat, the index is doing little more than tracking volatility and breadth. Watch for a move in either to set the next direction.
Top gainers (top 100)
Monero XMR$608.29+7.4%
Lighter LIT$3.25+4.9%
LayerZero ZRO$1.74+3.5%
Dash DASH$52.20+2.9%
Zcash ZEC$1,205+2.6%
Top losers (top 100)
Akedo AKE$0.0318-9.1%
Pearl PEARL$1.87-7.4%
Morpho MORPHO$2.13-4.6%
Ether.fi ETHFI$0.619-3.9%
Aave AAVE$137.72-3.6%
Sectors, 24h
- Zero Knowledge+1.9%
- Privacy+1.7%
- Derivatives & Perpetuals+0.4%
- Exchange Tokens+0.4%
- DEX & AMM+0.1%
- Layer 1+0.1%
- DeFi-0.4%
- RWA-0.4%
- Storage & Compute-0.6%
- Memes-0.9%
What to Watch
Nothing in the headline numbers forces a view. Bitcoin at $80,794 is sitting in the middle of its recent range, and until it leaves that range the rest of the market will keep trading on single-name stories.
The 10-point swing in the Fear & Greed index is the largest single-day move in sentiment this week and worth more attention than the level itself: sentiment moving faster than price tends to mean-revert.
All figures are measured on Coinmico's own index across 58 exchanges and 38 decentralised venues at 01:08 UTC. Tomorrow's recap will show whether today's reading held.