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# BTC this week: +0% in seven days, positive funding on perps
- URL: https://zipmex.com/blog/btc-weekly-2026-09-08/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:31:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:31:11.000Z
- Description: Bitcoin closed the week at $78,342 (+0.5% in 7 days, +20.7% in 30). Market cap, the seven-day range and what the ZIPMEX perp market is charging to hold a position, with sources.
- Author: ZIPMEX
- Tags: BTC, Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $78,342 on September 8, 2026: -1.6% over 24 hours, +0.5% over seven days and +20.7% over thirty. That leaves it 38% below the all-time high of $126,080 set on 2025-10-06\. Here is what the market and the ZIPMEX perp book say about the week, with every number sourced.

## The numbers

| Price                   | $78,342  |
| ----------------------- | -------- |
| 24 hours                | \-1.6%   |
| 7 days                  | +0.5%    |
| 30 days                 | +20.7%   |
| Market cap              | $1573.5B |
| 24h volume (all venues) | $30.1B   |
| Market rank             | #1       |
| Perp open interest      | $2.8M    |
| Perp 24h volume         | $4.0M    |
| Max leverage            | 100x     |

## Perps: funding and open interest

On ZIPMEX Perps the BTC/USDC market shows an estimated funding rate of +0.0100% per eight hours (last settled: +0.0099%), $2.8M of open interest and $4.0M traded in 24 hours. Positive funding means longs are paying shorts: leveraged traders lean bullish and pay for the privilege. Max leverage is 100x.

## Levels from the last seven days

The seven-day high was $81,731.28 on 2026-09-03 and the low $76,591.45 on 2026-09-02, a 7% range. Reclaiming the all-time high would take a 1.6x from here. We do not publish price predictions; these are the levels the market actually printed.

## Method and sources

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 13:31 UTC. Price, supply and market cap: CoinGecko. Perps: ZIPMEX Perps public market data. Volume across all venues and all-time high: aggregated market data. This digest is generated from those feeds and reviewed by ZIPMEX Research; numbers on the [BTC landing](https://zipmex.com/tokens/btc/) refresh every minute.

*Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.*

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