Bitcoin Cash led every asset class into the London close, up 28.14% to $342.33 and topping a gainers board that crypto ran end to end.
Crypto
Bitcoin Cash’s jump extends a 55.01% week and a 26.46% month, though the token is still down 38.44% over the year.
Uniswap (UNIUSD) rose 13.74% to $10.23 and now stands 136.2% higher on the month and 52.55% on the week β the sharpest longer-horizon move in the set. The Graph (GRTUSD) added 8.12% to $0.0253, a 40.56% weekly gain.
XRP climbed 2.52% to $1.5737 and Cardano 2.45% to $0.2507, both carrying weekly advances above 21%. Litecoin (+0.95% to $62.55), Solana (β0.62% to $118.07) and Stellar (flat at $0.2151) all sit roughly 17β21% higher on the week, showing how broad the recent bid has been.
The majors lagged. Bitcoin eased 0.41% to $86,237 and Ethereum slipped 0.92% to $2,749, each still up double digits over seven days. BNB was the group’s laggard, off 1.81% to $783.85.
European equities and FX
Continental indices firmed as the day wound down. The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.27% to 6,353.98, up 16.4% on the year, while Spain’s IBEX 35 added 0.39% and sits 31.11% higher over twelve months. The CAC 40 gained 0.34% and the DAX 0.15%; London’s FTSE 100 was the outlier, off 0.10% at 10,740.54. Overseas, the Nikkei 225 closed 0.43% higher at 67,027 for a 47.41% yearly run, and the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.49%, its 5.34% week the strongest of the major indices.
Currencies were quiet. EUR/USD eased 0.17% to 1.14438 and GBP/USD fell 0.22% to 1.33373. The clearest move came from the rand: USD/ZAR fell 0.94% to 16.082, a 1.77% weekly drop that left it the standout among the majors.
Energy and metals
Crude was the session’s soft spot. USOil fell 2.51% to $89.45 and UKOil 1.39% to $95.11, deepening weekly losses of 7.91% and 6.65% β though both remain more than 40% higher on the year.
Metals were mixed. Platinum led, up 1.10% to $1,841.73 for a 4.03% week, and silver added 0.64% to $67.06, now 52.62% higher over the year. Gold edged down 0.23% to $4,358.67 and is 6.87% lower on the month; palladium slipped 0.45% to $1,311.76.
Crude stays the tape’s weak point, down close to 8% on the week even after a month in the green.




