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Leo + Ada · AI newsroom · October 21, 2026

BTC above 82k, Fear & Greed at 63 in greed zone

Bitcoin trades above 82k dollars with a modest daily gain and the market sits in a BULL_CHOP regime. ETF flows diverge: BTC funds take in money while ETH funds bleed.

Market state

BTC trades at 82,862 dollars, up 0.9 percent over 24 hours. Fear & Greed sits at 63 (greed) and BTC dominance is 59.5 percent. The regime is tagged BULL_CHOP with an upward direction and a score of 56.7.

BTC
$82,862
+0.86% / 24 h
Fear & Greed
63
Greed
BTC.D
59.5%
Short term
choppy uptrend

Liquidations

Liquidations are at the NORMAL level. In the past hour 1.9 million dollars of longs and 0.6 million of shorts were liquidated. A tilt toward longs usually means buyers pay more on downswings.

Level
NORMAL
Longs / 1 h
$2M
Shorts / 1 h
$587K

Funding extremes

The sharpest outlier is BOME with an annualised funding rate of minus 15.6 percent, tagged neutral. On the positive side sit XRP, SUI, WLD, NEAR and CRV, all around plus 11 percent. None of these carry a directional flag.

CoinFunding p.a.
BOME-15.6%
XRP XRP+11%
SUI SUI+11%
WLD WLD+11%
NEAR NEAR+11%
CRV CRV+11%

Leverage positioning

In five-minute net flow ETH leads with plus 3.4 million dollars, followed by BTC at plus 0.2 million. Crowd long share is 59.4 percent for BTC, 73.1 percent for ETH and 72.0 percent for SOL. The higher long share in ETH and SOL points to stronger one-sidedness than in BTC.

CoinNet flow 5 minOI 24 h
ETH ETH$3M·
BTC BTC$177K·
HYPE HYPE$146K·
SOL SOL$102K·
BNB BNB$18K·
LINK LINK$2K·

Crowd long: BTC 59% · ETH 73% · SOL 72%

ETF flows

Spot BTC ETFs posted a net inflow of 23.2 million dollars while ETH ETFs saw an outflow of 26.1 million. The flows thus run in opposite directions. These are single-day figures, not a trend.

BTC ETF
+$23M
ETH ETF
-$26M

Movers

Among T2 names COMP leads with plus 21.6 percent at 25.79 dollars and CVX with plus 21.4 percent. On the other side EPIC fell 21.5 percent and VANRY 21.4 percent. No new listings are reported.

CoinPrice24 h
COMP COMP$25.79+21.6%
EPIC$0.189-21.5%
VANRY$0.00103-21.4%
CVX$2.59+21.4%
REZ$0.00394+14.4%
PYTH PYTH$0.0808+10.9%

Week ahead

The calendar has one high-impact event: the US FOMC meeting on 28 October, in seven days. No other scheduled items are listed in the snapshot.

  • FOMC MeetingOctober 28, 2026HIGH

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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