SideShift.ai Weekly Report | 16th June - 22nd June 2026

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

Highlights

• Gross volume nearly doubled to $9.26m (+92.5%), with average shift size jumping from ~$708 to ~$1,445.
• A whale-driven week saw shifts valued >$10kmake up 74.4% of volume, the highest in months, up from last week’s proportion of 53.1%.
• The USDT(TRC20)<>USDC(ERC-20) pairs combined for $2.43m in user volume, a key factor behind the week's rally..
• Tron network surged +430.2% to $6.40m in total volume, firmly carrying the bulk of non-Ethereum shifting.

General Business News

BTC opened the week strong, touching a 21 day high around $67k while stocks sat near records and the mood across markets was generally good, though the positivity didn't hold. Crypto and equities went their separate ways as the week wore on, BTC sliding back toward $62k and ETH to around $1,700 once the Fed made clear the rate cuts traders were counting on weren't coming. With majors quiet, price action sat further down the line, where UNI put together one of its strongest weeks of the year on a fresh Standard Chartered price target, climbing roughly +17%, while AERO and XLM each tacked on double digits. Cutting the other way were last week's late runners, with ZEC and NEAR each shedding close to -20% as the surge that carried them into the prior weekend unwound.

Gross volume nearly doubled to $9.26m (+92.5%), recouping about half the ground lost the prior week while still sitting under the $13.55m peak from a fortnight ago, for a daily average of $1.32m. The jump was sparked by a heavy two way flow among the top shift pair, which drove a steady +50.2% rise in user shifting for $5.98m, while liquidity shifting almost quadrupled to $3.28m (+294.8%) as a result in order to meet the demand. The two user pairs at the top of the table were both stablecoin pairs, USDT(TRC20)/USDC(ERC-20) at $1.23m and its inverse at $1.20m, together coming to roughly $2.43m and accounting for the bulk by which liquidity shifting grew. BTC/USDT(TRC20) at $291k and ETH/BTC at $274k trailed some ways back.

Count moved the other way, dropping -5.8% to 6,408 for a daily average of 915. With volume up that far on fewer shifts, the difference came down to size, the average shift size climbing from roughly $708 to about $1,445. The count slip traced back to the smallest shifts, with sub-$100 activity down to 3,972 from 4,467 and its volume sum declining to $109k from $120k.

Almost all of the SideShift’s weekly growth came from the largest shifts. Those over $50k rose from 7 to 28 and from $420k to $1.83m, while shifts above $10k climbed from 111 to 268 and more than doubled in dollar terms to $6.89m. That carried the $10k-plus share of gross volume to 74.4%, its highest in recent months and up sharply from 53.1% a week earlier. The reading has lurched from one week to the next for most of the year, swinging between the high-30s and the low-70s, and gross volume has tracked it closely each time, rising and falling in step with how active the top end happens to be on any given week.

The week belonged to the two stablecoins that topped the table, and the read across their deposit and settlement legs is what makes them interesting. USDT(TRC20) more than quintupled to $6.19m (+448.8%) while USDC(ERC-20) exploded to $5.26m (+539.8%), both splitting fairly evenly between inflows and outflows, with USDT(TRC20) taking in $1.55m and settling $1.90m in user volume, and USDC(ERC-20) depositing $1.38m against $1.49m settled. That two-way balance is the tell. Where a normal week sees stablecoins lopsided as users cash out of a falling BTC into them, this time the inflows nearly matched the outflows on both, the footprint of value moving through the platform and most of the way back out rather than parking on one side.BTC, by contrast, kept shrinking, ever so slightly moving down to $2.02m (-0.4%) and continuing to recede from the $7.37m it touched at the depth of the early-June selling. Its two sides pulled apart, with user deposits dropping -26.0% to $803k as far fewer users sold into the quiet, while settlements rose +21.2% to $618k, narrowing the gap as buyers met the calmer tape. The rest of the top five was steadier, L-USDT holding around $787k (+5.2%) and ETH adding +15.8% to $738k on lighter two-way shifting. Further down, two coins particularly stood out: TRX climbing to $205k (+161.8%) and ETH on Arbitrum jumping nearly tenfold to $190k (+881%), the standout mover of the top 12 coins, even at a smaller size.

Activity across alternate networks jumped to $7.65m (+194.5%), almost entirely on the back of Tron. The Tron network alone pulled in $6.40m (+430.2%), running well past anything it has managed in recent months and now handling the bulk of flow moving outside Ethereum, which fits with the week's rapid stablecoin movement. The Ethereum network, the natural point of comparison, rose to $4.69m (+69.6%), a solid week but a tamer one next to Tron. Further down and far smaller, Arbitrum climbed to $258k (+43.5%) and BSC to $315k (+38.3%), while the Solana network slipped to $487k (-19.7%) in what has become a months-long drift lower. Additionally, Polygon fell to $250k (-46.1%), Base eased to $104k (-20.7%), and action on Avalanche dwindled down to $56k (-19.4%).

Affiliate News

Affiliates had a notably quiet week, combining for $1.06m (-12.2%) and just 11.5% of total volume, down from 25.2% the week before and well under the roughly 20% that has held as a rough baseline through the year. The leader held steady at $287k (+4.5%), the only one of the top three to grow, while second place fell hard to $153k (-64.8%), giving back the outsized volume it ran through early June. Third place jumped to $138k, more than quadrupling on the week for the strongest gain among any of our top partners. The fall was a matter of size rather than activity, with affiliate counts holding broadly flat as volume dropped, smaller shifts that ran counter to the larger ones driving the platform overall.

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