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Ethereum's Week. A $2,654 Spike, Two ETF Outflow Days Instead of Four, and a Quarter That's Up 60%

By India Crypto Research|3 mins read

Last Updated on: Sep 15, 2026|Published On: Sep 15, 2026

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Key Takeaways

Investors returned to ETH ETFs, buying $216.4 million worth of shares after two days of outflows, as ETH jumped 3.23% to close at $2,516 after reaching a high of $2,654 following the release of the CPI data.
Since the 11th of August, Ether has skyrocketed by 33% while Bitcoin has only risen by 23%. Furthermore, in 2026, ETH ETFs have already gathered an astonishing $863 million in net inflow.
Staking is becoming more institutionalised. Lido’s V3 stVaults offer more customisable control over custody, permissions, fees, and liquidity to stake with.

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Crypto Market Updates

Bitcoin's Week. A Mixed CPI Report, Four Days of ETF Outflows, and a Vote Nobody Can Call

1. Tuesday-Wednesday, 8-9 September
2. Thursday, 10 September: The worst day of the week for ETFs
3. Friday 11 September: balanced CPI data grew confidence for both hawks and doves
4. Monday, 14 September
5. The vote that hangs over everything

XRP's Week. A Fall Under $1.34, a Zero-Flow Day, and the Only ETF Category That Never Went Negative

1. Tuesday to Thursday, 8 to 10 September
2. Friday, 11 September: price recovers, flows go flat
3. 12 to 13 September
4. The real story: XRP’s ETFs never went red.
5. Wall Street is beginning to use XRP ETFs as collateral
6. What it means

BNB's Week. A $752 Open, a Drop Under $710, and a Real-World-Asset Crown Taken From Solana

1. Tuesday to Thursday, 8 to 10 September
2. Friday, 11 September: The CPI spike works in BNB's favor as well
3. The weekend: 12 to 13 September
4. The Real Story: BNB Chain Blows Past Solana for Real-World Assets
5. Still no BNB ETF, but the filings keep moving.
6. What it means

Market Update: BNB’s $700 Battle, What’s Behind the Pullback?

1. BNB Had Its Own Big Week Too. Here's What Actually Happened
2. The rally into midweek
3. The pullback
4. Today, 1 September
5. What actually drove the rally
6. How it compares to bitcoin's week

Solana Market Update: Governance Vote Rewrites Inflation and Token Economics

1. Solana Just Rewrote Its Own Economics. Here's the Full Story
2. The rally into the vote
3. Friday's governance vote
4. The weekend and into today
5. Why this matters more than a normal price swing

Market Update: Ethereum’s $2,500 Wall, ETF Inflows Keep Climbing

1. Ethereum, Near-Record ETF Inflows, Staking kept climbing through the month, a Wall at $2,500, and a Close Near $2,419
2. ETF inflows never went negative in the last week
3. Staking kept climbing through the month
4. What's still working underneath the chop

Market Update: TRX Holds Steady as Nasdaq Treasury Keeps Buying

1. A Nasdaq Treasury Keeps Buying While the Price Barely Moves
2. The week in price
3. The real story: a Nasdaq company that keeps buying TRX
4. A staked TRX ETF is still waiting on the SEC
5. Why any of this matters for TRX specifically

Solana's Week. A Trip to $98.65, an ETF Market Measured in Millions Not Hundreds of Millions, and an Upgrade Still Waiting to Go Live

1. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 and 9 September:
2. Thursday, 10 September: a multi-week low
3. Friday, 11 September: the CPI spike lifts SOL back above $100
4. Monday 14 September
5. A network upgrade that isn't activated yet.
6. Defining moments

Bitcoin Mining and Number of Bitcoins Mined Till Today

1. 1. What Is Bitcoin Mining?
2. 2. Why Bitcoin Mining Matters
3. 3. How does the Bitcoin Mining Process Work
4. 4. The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining
5. 5. How Bitcoin Miners Earn Money
6. 6. Bitcoin Halving and the 21 million Supply
7. 7. The Future of Bitcoin Mining
8. Conclusion

Current Article

Ethereum's Week. A $2,654 Spike, Two ETF Outflow Days Instead of Four, and a Quarter That's Up 60%

1. CPI for Friday, September 11
2. Monday, 14 September
3. Institutional staking as an infrastructure service
4. What this means

Bitcoin's Week. A Fed Governor, a Jobs Report, and $730 Million in One Day

1. Monday to Wednesday, 31 August to 2 September
2. Thursday, 3 September: Waller talks, bitcoin flies
3. Friday, 4 September: the jobs report undoes it
4. The weekend: 5 to 7 September
5. The ETF money, day by day
6. What it means

Ethereum’s Week: Whales Are Buying, Retail Is Selling, and $2,544 Won’t Budge

1. Monday to Thursday, 31 August to 3 September
2. Friday, 4 September: a fresh high, then the jobs report
3. The weekend: 5 to 7 September
4. Whales Buying, Retail Selling
5. ETF demand cooled off sharply
6. Behind the scenes: Vitalik on Ethereum's cryptographic future
7. What it means

Solana’s Week: A Death Cross, $348M in RWA Flows, and a Choppy Climb to $105

1. Monday to Thursday, 31 August to 3 September
2. Friday, 4 September: the jobs report cools things down
3. Monday, 7 September
4. ETF flows swung both ways
5. Solana still leads on real-world assets.
6. A death cross is now in place.
7. What it means

Solana's Week. A Fall Under $96, a 17% Faster Network, and an ETF Streak That Wouldn't Break

1. September 16: The Fed Hikes; SOL Remains Strong
2. September 17: Positive Close on Quiet Network Upgrade
3. September 18: Investor Favor Continues; Major Speed Upgrade Activated
4. The recent improvements to the network and what is ahead
5. What's happening

Ethereum's Week. A Drop Under $2,400, a Glamsterdam Milestone, and a Missed Shot at $2,672

1. Tuesday, September 15: ether follows bitcoin lower
2. Wednesday, September 16: FED raises rates, Ether tests Glamsterdam
3. Thursday, September 17: further Ether outflows
4. Sept. 18: Rally arrives, flows turn positive
5. The remainder of the week, Sept. 19-20:
6. What the recent test run means
7. What it Means

XRP's Week. A 9.8% Crash, Ripple's Legal Team Speaks Up, and a Ledger Upgrade Racing Toward Activation

1. September 15: The Crash, and What's at Stake for XRP
2. September 16: bottom before the rate hike
3. September 17: sideways price action and the approach of the Ledger update
4. What the Batch V1.1 update does and the reason for a partial rebuild
5. What it Means

BNB's Week. A Dip to $704, a $768 Peak, and a Correction on a Previous Claim

1. Thurs. 17 September: continued climb
2. Fri. 18 September: Week's high
3. 19-20 Sept. Weekend
4. Revising BNB's ETF section of last week's report
5. What it means

Bitcoin's Week. A Failed Senate Vote, a Fed Hike, and a Rally That Shrugged Off Both

1. Tuesday, September 15: The CLARITY Act Fails
2. Wednesday, 16 September
3. Thursday, 17 September
4. Friday, 18 September
5. The Weekend: Sep 19-20
6. The Cross
7. What it means

Regulation’s Week- ICR Crypto Regulation Updates

1. India: Enforcement Over Legislation
2. United States: Regulators Move Without Congress
3. European Union: MiCA Is Live, But Already Changing
4. Steady and Predictable: Dubai
5. What This Means for the Reader

Bitcoin Treasuries Week: Trump's MSTR Stake, Strategy and Strive Both Buy, and BTC Breaks $84,000

1. Top 3 Latest News on BTC Treasuries
2. Top 5 Bitcoin Holding Companies
3. Top 5 Bitcoin ETFs
4. Top 5 Government Bitcoin Holdings
5. Top 5 Ethereum Treasury Companies
6. Most Important Digital Credit Instruments
7. Summing Up

XRP's Week. A Seven-Year Chart Pattern Completes, Goldman Sachs Shows Up, and ETFs Wake From a Freeze

Bitcoin Reclaims Its Cost Basis but the Buyers Have Not Returned

1. This week in one minute
2. Why does it matter that Bitcoin is back above its cost basis?
3. Where is the new money and buying for this current rally?
4. Bitcoin unfazed by interest rate hike
5. Holders are calm, not greedy
6. Miners keep adding power
7. Leverage is neutral ahead of a big expiry.
8. Where are the key levels?
9. What this means for Indian readers
10. What is yet to occur

BNB's Week. A Touch of $807, a Wednesday Low, and the Fed's Stablecoin Rules Land Right in BNB's Backyard

Solana's Week. A New ETF Record, a Friday High, and Alpenglow One Day Away

Ethereum's Week. A $2,800 Rejection, Five Straight Days of ETF Inflows, and a Quiet Quarter-End

Ether closed Tuesday at $2,485 and was trading near $2,510 as Monday's session wrapped up. The last few days have seen bitcoin ETFs bleed, but ether has only dripped twice, then boomed back with its best inflow day. Here is everything you need to know.

On Tuesday, Ether closed at $2,485, down 0.20%. Wednesday, it closed at $2,468, down 0.67%. In terms of ETF flows, it was a mixed bag. On Tuesday, it was the first outflow day since August 11, with a total of $24.3 million exiting the funds. However, this flow quickly changed to a $34.7 million inflow on Wednesday.

Thursday saw ether close at $2,438, down 1.25% and marking its lowest close for the week. For Thursday, ETFs mass exited to the tune of $29.9 million, mirroring the caution seen with the bitcoin funds for the day.

CPI for Friday, September 11

Helped push prices for both bitcoin and ether higher, and ether was no exception. Ether spiked to $2,654 for the day, its best price in weeks, and settled at $2,516 for a 3.23% gain. BlackRock's inflows, to the tune of $148.8 million into ETHA, helped drive Ether ETF flows for the day, totaling $216.4 million, the largest inflows of the week.

Ethereum's price path, 8 to 14 September 2026, including Thursday's low and Friday's CPI-driven spike. Monday's figure reflects trading as of writing, not a final close. Built from verified data points cited in Investing.com

For the weekend, Ether reached a high of $2,526 on Saturday, and settled at $2,477 on Sunday, down 1.94% as the same fears of the Fed hikes that affected bitcoin started to impact Ether as well.

Monday, 14 September

ETH began trading at $2,476, down 2% from yesterday’s opening price, and bounced back through trade in the $2,500-$2,520 range. Ether flows recovered too, with $121.1 million flowing back in, and one source says that Ether is up approximately 60% for the third quarter so far. Though after a spike to $2,654 on Friday, Ether did retreat.

US spot Ethereum ETF net daily flows, 8 to 14 September 2026, five trading days. Built from verified data cited directly from Farside Investors' live flow table.

Compared to ETH, Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw outflows for 4 consecutive days (Tuesday to Friday), totaling $462.7 million. Ether Spot ETFs only saw outflows twice, totaling $54.2 million, before a $216.4 million inflow erased those. Measured from August 11 to September 10, Ether outperformed bitcoin for the price move by about 33% versus bitcoin's price move by around 23%, and Ether’s Spot ETFs saw net inflows of $863 million vis-a-vis bitcoin’s Spot ETFs, which were nearing $1 billion in outflows for the year.

Institutional staking as an infrastructure service

Away from price fluctuations, Lido launched the V3 expansion of its stVaults product for institutions on the 9th of September. It provides institutions with configurable and non-custodial staking infrastructure with client-side custody and permissions, fees, and liquidity controls. It is designed to meet the needs of asset managers and custodians looking to earn staking rewards without losing control over their assets. The overall objective of this product is to eliminate the barriers and provide the necessary staking infrastructure for institutions on a bank or fund level.

What this means

Ether traded sideways around the $2,500 level, closing prices above it three times and below it four times without moving far from the level. The ceiling at $2,654 has been intact all week, and the $2,438 level, Thursday's low, held as support on subsequent tests. The $CLARITY Act and the Fed decision that will impact both ETH and BTC were both pending, and with ETF demand strong and even unrelated BTC products bleeding, ETH has a steady bid for next week compared to BTC, even though price does not reflect it.

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