SideShift.ai Weekly Report | 26th May - 1st June 2026

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

Highlights

• Gross volume surged to $7.57m (+78.6%) and shift count to 7,143 (+13.5%), a sharp rebound after a quiet week.
• Large shifts roared back, the $50k+ band swinging from zero to $2.11m and the $10k+ band rising to $4.88m.
• Average shift size leapt to roughly $1,060 from $674, snapping a three-week downtrend.
• SideShift's Telegram bot cleared $100k for a second straight week at $105k.
• Combined affiliate volume jumped to $1.67m (+46.7%), with the top affiliate up +161.6% to $564k and second place +255.3% to $271k.

General Business News

BTC had a rough week, shedding close to -12% as it lost the mid to high $70k base it had held all month and slid toward $66k, with the selling kicked off by Strategy offloading BTC for the first time since 2022 alongside a third straight week of spot ETF outflows. Bitcoin dominance came off about 3% to roughly 58.7%, though the drop flattered the alts more than it should have, the move powered by a couple of names sprinting while ETH sagged below the $2k line and most majors finished red. HYPE carried the week, printing a fresh all-time high near $75.5 on Sunday for a +18% run and flipping DOGE to break into the top 10 by market cap.

SideShift snapped back to action, with gross volume landing at $7.57m (+78.6%) and wiping out the prior week's lull in one go. User shifting carried its share at $4.41m (+31.3%), while liquidity shifting more than tripled to $3.17m (+257.6%). A vast majority of that liquidity arrived on June 1, a $2.94m day, with more than half of that stemming from an internal rebalance rather than organic flow. Even setting that day aside, the week read well, with daily volume averaging $1.08m and BTC/USDT(TRC20) leading user pairs at $370k, a firmer top than the scattered activity of a week ago. In other SideShift news, this week marked the announcement that staking rewards would conclude on June 3rd. SideShift's Telegram bot stood out among direct channels, clearing $100k for a second week running at $105k after $156k the week before. Overall momentum has carried into June, with volume still running strong at the time of writing.

Shift count rose to 7,143 (+13.5%), tracking the volume recovery. The sub-$100 band stayed the most populated tier at 4,327 shifts, nearly 61% of the count, a constant presence that turns up in similar numbers every week even as it contributes far less to the volume total. Daily count sat between roughly 900 and 1,070 for most of the week before topping out at 1,205 on June 1. The sharpest move came in average shift size, which leapt to about $1,060 from $674 and broke a three-week downtrend, lifted partly by the June 1 rebalance and partly by real size returning at the top end.

Though thousands of small shifts combine to lift the count each week, our volume sum tends to hinge on a far smaller number of large ones, and this week provided a clear example. Breaking down the tiers, we can see that  the $10k+ band more than tripled to $4.88m on 139 shifts, while the $20k+ tier ran a similar line to $4.07m from just over $1m. At the very top, the $50k+ band swung from a complete shutout to $2.11m across 24 shifts in the space of seven days. The whipsaw is what jumps off the chart, with the share of volume coming from $10k+ shifts sinking to 37.6% one week and rebounding to 64.4% the next, a snap-back that fits the jagged pattern large shifts have traced through spring.

BTC volume surged to $4.13m (+198.2%), nearly 3x the prior week to land well above its year-to-date weekly average of around $3.2m. Underneath, the balance tilted hard toward user deposits, with $1.27m of BTC flowing in (+81.0%) against just $257k settled (-38.3%). That pushed the deposit-to-settle skew to almost 5:1 from under 2:1 a week earlier, a clear read that users leaned on SideShift to offload BTC as it dropped while appetite to acquire it all but dried up. The other majors followed at a distance, ETH bouncing to $618k (+23.8%) and SOL firming to $552k (+20.7%), while the bigger move came lower down from BCH (+332% to $305k).

The rest of the top 5 was all stablecoins, fronted by a striking +624.0% jump in USDC(ERC-20) to $2.07m. That leap was largely mechanical, with most of it arriving through the June 1 liquidity rebalance even as user deposits slipped -7.7%. Real demand sat in the settlement side elsewhere, USDT(TRC20) at $1.63m (+82.0%) and USDT(ERC-20) at $999k (+52.4%) both pulling heavy outflows as traders rotated out of BTC, with L-USDT rounding things out at $1.11m (+74.9%). The one faller was USDT(BSC), which gave back -26.6% and dropped out of the top 5 after leading the gainers a week earlier, while USDT(SOL) joined the positive action, rising +32% for a gross $294k.

Among alternate networks to ETH, the standout trend is how the alt field has thinned at the top. Tron and Solana have pulled clear as the two usual heavyweights, Tron at $1.70m (+28.4%) and Solana firming to $1.18m (+48.0%), though the distance between them is far smaller than it was when Tron was running $2.5m-plus weeks at the start of the year. Below them the rest have bunched into a sub-$500k pack, BSC at $446k, Base at $264k, Arbitrum at $235k and Polygon at $211k, a tier BSC alone used to tower over. Arbitrum was the only real mover inside that group, more than doubling off a quiet base, while Polygon held its usual flat line. The Ethereum network, being the yardstick for all of them, stood apart at $2.09m (+23.9%), outgrowing the entire alt group put together and topping every individual network beneath it.

Affiliate News

Combined affiliate volume jumped to $1.67m (+46.7%), with the gain concentrated at the very top of the board. Our first-place affiliate climbed +161.6% to $564k, its strongest week in at least two months, while second place more than tripled to $271k (+255.3%), a level it had not come close to across the same stretch. Between them the two carried most of the week's increase, with third place the only leader to give ground at $131k (-6.5%). The quieter trend worth flagging sits just beneath, where one affiliate has climbed from a near-standing start in early April to a $103k week, building into a genuine six-figure earner inside two months.

For all that growth, the affiliates' share of total platform volume slipped to 22.1% from 26.9%, a sign the week's wider surge came more from non-affiliate volume than through partners. The count side adds its own texture, with second place matching its volume leap at +65.7% to 386 shifts, yet the first-place affiliate reached the top on just 320 shifts, the fewest of the three and a mark of much larger average sizes, while third place ran the highest count at 503 off the smallest volume, the opposite profile entirely.

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