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# TAO this week: +12% in seven days, positive funding on perps
- URL: https://zipmex.com/blog/tao-weekly-2026-09-08/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:32:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:32:25.000Z
- Description: Bittensor closed the week at $252.38 (+12.4% in 7 days, +22.4% 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: TAO, Cryptocurrency

Bittensor (TAO) trades at $252.38 on September 8, 2026: -4.9% over 24 hours, +12.4% over seven days and +22.4% over thirty. That leaves it 67% below the all-time high of $757.6 set on 2024-03-07\. Here is what the market and the ZIPMEX perp book say about the week, with every number sourced.

## The numbers

| Price                   | $252.38 |
| ----------------------- | ------- |
| 24 hours                | \-4.9%  |
| 7 days                  | +12.4%  |
| 30 days                 | +22.4%  |
| Market cap              | $2.4B   |
| 24h volume (all venues) | $187.2M |
| Market rank             | #41     |
| Perp open interest      | $40.2K  |
| Perp 24h volume         | $2.1M   |
| Max leverage            | 10x     |

## Perps: funding and open interest

On ZIPMEX Perps the TAO/USDC market shows an estimated funding rate of +0.0050% per eight hours (last settled: +0.0051%), $40.2K of open interest and $2.1M traded in 24 hours. Positive funding means longs are paying shorts: leveraged traders lean bullish and pay for the privilege. Max leverage is 10x.

## Levels from the last seven days

The seven-day high was $274.18 on 2026-09-07 and the low $215.76 on 2026-09-03, a 27% range. Reclaiming the all-time high would take a 3.0x from here. We do not publish price predictions; these are the levels the market actually printed.

## Method and sources

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 13:32 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 [TAO landing](https://zipmex.com/tokens/tao/) refresh every minute.

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

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