Bitcoin (BTC) Leads Crypto Inflows With $58.38M in Five Hours

Bitcoin Takes the Bulk of Sunday Inflows

Almost all of the fresh capital that entered the crypto market on Sunday morning chose a single destination: Bitcoin (BTC). Aggregate flow tracking compiled by CryptoMeter recorded $58.38 million of coin inflows into Bitcoin over the five hours to 05:30 UTC on 2026-10-18, a sum that dwarfed every other asset in the tracker's major-coin table, where nothing else came close to $5 million. The tracker reads capital moving into and out of individual assets across venues, so the figure captures deployed money rather than idle balances. The Bitcoin (BTC) price read $81,725 at the same moment, up 0.2% over 24 hours, so the money arrived as steady accumulation pressure rather than a breakout bid. Flat price action against a dominant inflow print is the combination traders watch for: it points to buying that has not yet needed to chase. The funding behind the print came through two channels. Fiat and cash-like money worth $13.15 million in US dollars, $4.26 million in Brazilian reais and $680,000 in Korean won entered the market inside the window, while stablecoins already parked on the sidelines were put to work: $56.44 million of USDT and $3.65 million of USDC were spread across multiple crypto assets. Once that cash reached coin level, the skew sharpened rather than softened. Ethereum (ETH) took $4.76 million, a distant second, followed by Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), the tokenized form of the asset used across Bitcoin DeFi, at $3.44 million, in effect the same trade expressed on another rail. NEAR drew $3.16 million, Hyperliquid (HYPE) $2.86 million and Monero (XMR) $1.75 million, and nothing further crossed $2 million. The totals read as aggregate portfolio flows rather than the footprint of a single crypto whale moving a position between wallets. For readers following the asset beyond one window, COINOTAG's Bitcoin coverage keeps these flow prints next to the derivatives picture below.

The market sits in a tight corridor around that print on our own level-scoring map. Support at $80,757 is the strongest reading we track at 98/100, and resistance at $82,059 scores 92/100, which leaves the spot price of $81,725 with less than half a percent of room to the ceiling. Derivatives positioning carries no crowded side: the perp funding rate runs at 0.0042% and the long/short account ratio stands at 1.78, with 64.0% of accounts long. A daily close above $82,059 would turn the $58.38 million inflow into a confirmed directional bid; a rejection there hands the initiative back to $80,757. The full ladder is charted in our Bitcoin technical analysis.

Zcash Tops the Outflow Column

The exit side of the ledger was thinner and more scattered. Zcash (ZEC) led it with $5.53 million of outflows over the same five hours, ahead of Ethereum at $3.30 million, Solana (SOL) at $1.38 million, Worldcoin (WLD) at $1.09 million and Bitcoin (BTC) itself at $880,000. Ethereum is the only asset with a genuine two-way print, $4.76 million in against $3.30 million out, a spread that nets close to flat and shows the rotation passed through it rather than out of it. Money that left coins did not all leave the market: $6.79 million regrouped into USDT and $340,000 into USDC, with the stablecoins acting as the parking spot for exiting capital. A cash-out leg ran in parallel, converting $4.83 million back to dollars, $4.17 million to Korean won and $440,000 to Turkish lira. The won line points both ways at once, $680,000 in and $4.17 million out, and it lands on a market we have followed closely: an earlier read on the Kimchi premium showed Bitcoin trading 1.42% higher on Korea's four major exchanges, while Upbit trading volume had already fallen 25.69% in a single day. Sunday's numbers add a net cashing-out tilt to that local picture. The comparison has edges worth naming: these figures cover one five-hour slice of a Sunday, not a full daily tally, and the altcoin market side of the table is thin enough that the print measures where quiet weekend money parked, not a verdict on the week. With sentiment neutral at 53/100 on our Fear and Greed Index and Bitcoin (BTC) at 68.1% of COINOTAG's tracked universe, a share that describes our own coin set rather than a global dominance figure, the next full weekday session is where the inflow skew gets its real test.