SideShift.ai Weekly Report | 30th June - 6th July 2026

July 8, 20265 min read

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

Highlights

Gross volume eased to $5.19m (-21.0%) while shift count climbed +6.8% to 7,100, the most weekly shifts occurring since early June.
USDT(TRC20) claimed the top coin at $1.65m (+18.4%), with BTC halving to $1.48m as its post-crash selling faded.
Alt networks combined for $4.53m (+14.6%) to out-earn Ethereum, on broad gains led by Solana crossing $1m.
A new affiliate leader emerged at $360k (+22.7%), its fourth straight week of growth, as last week's front-runner fell -70.9% to third.

General Business News

BTC spent the week clawing back June's damage, dipping below $58k on July 1 before spot ETFs snapped a ten-day run of outflows with their largest single-day intake in two months. The bounce carried BTC to nearly $64k over the July 4 weekend, its first three-day climb since mid-June, until Monday brought the twist: Strategy disclosed it had sold 3,588 BTC for $216m, its largest sale on record and only its third ever, briefly knocking BTC back under $62k before buyers stepped in once more. Beneath the headline, ETH added +13% to around $1,800 while SOL led the majors at +18.6% to reclaim $80, and ANSEM showed no sign of tiring, roughly tripling again on the week as Pump.fun activity hit an 80-day high on its coattails.

Gross volume settled at $5.19m (-21.0%) for a daily average of $741k, with user shifting holding far sturdier than liquidity shifting. Users moved $4.37m (-7.2%) against a liquidity total that fell by more than half to $822k (-56.0%), as no single pair pulled flow hard in one direction and deposits sat in closer balance with settlements, leaving little rebalancing work to be done. The top of the table showed the same calm from another angle, with BTC/USDC(ERC-20) leading at a modest $209k and BTC/USDT(TRC20) and USDT(ERC-20)/BTC close behind, as BTC anchored three of the four leading pairs, with none of them running anywhere near the size of recent leaders. Two weeks after a single stablecoin pair carried the platform, the user behaviour has now scattered into smaller pieces across familiar routes.

Count moved the other way, climbing +6.8% to 7,100 for a daily average of 1,014 — the busiest week by traffic since early June, set against one of the lightest by volume. The divergence is explained entirely by who showed up. Sub-$100 shifts jumped from 3,934 to 4,311, supplying nearly all of the added count, while the whales all but cleared out: just handful of shifts landed above $50k for a combined $160k, down from a sum of $1.11m last week, putting together the quietest performance at that size since late May when the bracket sat empty altogether. That softness stretched across the whole top end, with $10k+ activity halving to $2.34m and its share of gross volume slipping to about 45% — a third straight weekly step down from June's 74.4% peak, and true to the pattern we flagged then, gross volume has walked down each of those steps with it. Many small hands and few large ones pulled the average shift size from roughly $988 to about $731.

USDT(TRC20) took the top spot at $1.65m (+18.4%), the strongest showing among the top five where nearly every other leader gave ground. Its +70.8% jump in user deposits against near-flat settlements marked it as the destination of choice, users moving into Tron-side dollars while the rebound played out. BTC handed back the lead almost as quickly as it reclaimed it, halving to $1.48m (-53.7%) with both deposits (-42.1%) and settlements (-38.0%) falling away together. The sellers who drove the sub-$60k break largely stepped back, but buyers never arrived to take their place, leaving BTC quieter on both sides even as its price recovered toward $64k. Behind it, USDT(ERC-20) gave back its doubling at $801k (-39.9%) and USDC(ERC-20) faded further to $683k (-46.2%), now a fraction of the $5.26m it ran three weeks ago, while L-USDT ticked up to $866k (+4.1%) for a third straight week in the same narrow range — the steadiest name on SideShift right now.

Below the leaders, the standout was USDT(BSC), climbing +66.9% to $544k for its strongest week since spring. SOL made for a stranger read, cooling to $538k (-21.4%) after last week's snapback even as the coin led the majors in the open market with an +18.6% weekly gain — one of the rare weeks where the two have pointed in opposite directions. ETH meanwhile fell to $604k (-37.5%) and dropped out of the top five entirely, its lightest week in over a month.

The balance among networks quietly flipped this week, with the alt networks combining for $4.53m (+14.6%) while the Ethereum network itself slid -15.1% to $3.24m. What makes the move notable is that no single network drove it. Where Tron's solo spike carried the group a fortnight ago, this time the gains were spread wide, and the stablecoin trail from the coins section explains most of them. The Solana network rose +8.6% to cross the $1m mark for the first time since early June, with USDT on Solana roughly tripling even as SOL itself cooled, while Arbitrum tripled to $365k (+213.0%) on the same pattern and BSC climbed +41.8% to $689k. Polygon added +26.6% to $408k, while the Tron network barely moved at $1.82m (-2.8%), holding as the largest alternate for a second week and settling back into the sturdy range it has kept for most of the year outside of its late-June outlier.

Affiliate News

Affiliates settled at $1.27m (-27.6%) for 24.5% of gross volume, a quieter week that left the podium reshuffled. Last week's front-runner crashed -70.9% to $202k and tumbled to third, and the manner of the fall mirrored the rise: its shift count barely budged while ticket sizes collapsed, the same large shifts that carried it to first place simply failing to reappear. That cleared the way for a new leader at $360k (+22.7%), a name that has now grown for four straight weeks and took the top spot on traffic, its count up +24.6% to a two-month high. Second place cooled to $249k (-17.5%), its first pullback after back-to-back doublings, though its own count nearly doubled again — smaller shifts arriving in greater numbers even as the total slipped.

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