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SideShift.ai Weekly Report | 7th - 13th July 2026

SideShift.ai Weekly Report | 7th - 13th July 2026

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July 15, 20265 min read

Welcome to the two hundredth and twelfth edition of the weekly stats report - your one-stop shop for all things SideShift.ai.

Highlights

  • Gross volume slipped to $4.87m (-6.1%), with shift count down -10.4% to 6,365 as small value shifts led the retreat.
  • Stablecoins swept the top three for the first time in months, USDT(ERC-20) claiming first at $1.32m (+64.6%) while BTC halved to $778k, one of its lowest marks of the year.
  • The Solana network climbed +20.4% to $1.26m, its largest total since early April and a second straight week above $1m as Tron cooled to $1.40m.
  • Affiliates rose to 31.4% of gross volume at $1.53m (+20.4%), powered by a front-runner that more than doubled to $781k for a fifth straight week of growth.

General Business News

BTC opened the week near $63k and closed almost exactly where it started, a round trip that dipped toward $61,850 on renewed US-Iran strikes before recovering, leaving the range intact for another week. SOL fared worse, erasing its entire July recovery in a single day to finish the week red alongside HYPE's near -10% weekly decline. The livelier action played out on Robinhood Chain, the broker's new Ethereum L2 that went live July 1 as a home for tokenized stocks. Two weeks in, those tokenized assets amount to a modest $12.8m while CASHCAT, a memecoin honouring Robinhood's original name, ran 2,158% in seven days to a $156m market cap and memecoin churn pushed the chain past $3.1b in weekly DEX volume. Strategy meanwhile stretched its quiet spell to a third week without buying BTC, raising $467m in stock sales to pad its cash pile to $3b instead, its 843,775 coins sitting some $11b underwater.

A quiet outlook on the market meant a quiet week on SideShift, with gross volume slipping to $4.87m (-6.1%) for a daily average of $696k. Almost all of it came from users, whose $4.22m (-3.5%) held nearly steady while liquidity shifting shrank to $657k (-20.0%), the second period running with a more balanced shift profile overall. The one genuine surprise sat in the pair table, where BTC, after anchoring three of last week's four leading pairs, vanished from the leaderboard entirely. With no move in BTC's price to act on, users had little reason to shift in or out of the coin, and the buyer absence we noted in the last report carried on. Instead, USDT(ERC-20)/L-USDT led at $580k with its reverse route adding $108k, echoing the two-way stablecoin churn of three weeks back but at a fraction of the size, while USDT(TRC20)/USDC(SOL) and USDT(TRC20)/L-BTC completed a top four with a stablecoin on at least one side of every pair.

Count painted a similar picture, giving back most of last week's gains at 6,365 (-10.4%) for a daily average of 909. The small end that drove that growth led the move lower, as sub-$100 shifts fell from 4,311 to 3,808 with their combined volume dipping to $105k, the lightest for that band in over two months. The upper brackets simply idled where they were, four shifts clearing $50k against last week's humble count of just three, though one mild bright spot hid among them, as the $20k+ band climbed to $1.55m from $1.35m for its first uptick since mid-June. With the $10k+ share of volume remaining flat near 45% after three straight weeks of decline and the exodus solely concentrated at the bottom, the average shift size actually rose from roughly $731 to $766.

For the first time in a long while the top three was occupied entirely by stablecoins, with all of them locked within just $110k of each other. USDT(ERC-20) narrowly seized the crown with a total of $1.32m (+64.6%), its user deposits jumping +82.0% while settlements slipped. L-USDT followed at $1.31m (+51.7%) on the mirror image, with user settlements nearly tripling to $713k against fading deposits. Those opposing splits were two views of the same trade, with the week's leading pair carrying users out of Ethereum-side USDT and into Liquid, and lifting L-USDT out of the narrow band it had held for a month in the process. USDT(TRC20) completed the trio at $1.21m (-26.5%), cooling from its strong prior week, while BTC halved again to $778k (-47.4%), a second consecutive halving that left it at one of its lowest marks of the year and in fourth place, a seat it last occupied during the June stablecoin spike. ETH rounded out the five at $700k (+15.8%), recovering the spot it lost a week ago.

The movers below shared a theme with the top. USDC(SOL) took the biggest single step of any coin and more than doubled to $546k, logging its largest showing of the summer. This marked a sharp break from the sub-$210k territory it had wandered since May, as stablecoin activity found a home on Solana this week even as SOL itself slipped -5.2% to $510k. L-BTC snapped its long fade with a +75% climb to $285k, its first real gain since May, meaning both Liquid assets rose together for the network's strongest combined week in months. USDC(ERC-20) meanwhile continued its long descent to $497k (-27.2%), a fifth straight decline from its June peak.

Alt networks gave back a slice of their recent gains, with the group collectively slipping to -14.6% to $4.01m, while the Ethereum network proved to be the opposite, nudging upwards +2.7% to $2.26m. The Solana network was the lone exception, and the story of the week, climbing +20.4% to $1.26m for its largest total in our records since Q1l and a second consecutive week above the $1m mark, a line it had failed to hold since the start of June. Its climb came as Tron cooled -23.2% to $1.40m, its quietest performance since mid-April, leaving barely $135k between the two leading alternates, whereas a month ago the gap stretched into the millions. The rest of the field spent the week in retreat. Arbitrum unwound most of its recent tripling at $235k (-35.6%), Polygon dropped -40.6% to $334k, and Base drifted to $126k (-18.0%), while BSC held firmest among the losers at $644k (-6.6%).

Affiliate News

Affiliates swam against the current, with their combined $1.53m (+20.4%) rising to 31.4% of gross volume even as the platform pulled back. One name owned the move. The front-runner more than doubled to $781k (+116.5%), its best figure of the past month and a fifth straight week of growth, achieved with less traffic than before as its count slipped -9.6% to 375. For a partner whose streak had been built on climbing shift numbers, the shape of this leap was something new. Behind it the order flipped, the partner that crashed out of first a fortnight ago climbing back to second at $135k despite dropping another -33.4%, while the previous runner-up slid -61.5% to $96k, most of its June surge now handed back in two weeks.

That’s all for now - thanks for reading and happy shifting.