Stellar (XLM) Flips Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as Bulls Initiate 13% Climb

PRICE MOVEStellar (XLM) Flips Bitcoin Cash(BCH) as Bulls Initiate 13%Climb13IMPORTANCECLOSED2NEWS MEDIA2PIECESSep 25, 2026 15:12blockboard.net

Stellar moved ahead of Bitcoin Cash in market capitalization, with XLM trading higher across the last day, week, and month. One outlet frames the move as a climb that pushed XLM above BCH, while another specifies the new rank and market values on CoinMarketCap.

What this rests on

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Stellar moved ahead of Bitcoin Cash in market capitalization, with XLM rising more than 13% during the move.
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XLM passed Bitcoin Cash in CoinMarketCap’s ranking and reached 16th place, while BCH fell to 18th.
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XLM was listed at $7.55 billion in market value, and BCH was listed at $6.61 billion.

What it means

Who it affects, what changes and what is still unconfirmed

Each sentence links inside to the piece that supports it.

People watching XLM or BCH would notice the ranking change immediately because XLM is now shown ahead of Bitcoin Cash in CoinMarketCap’s market-cap table. That affects traders, token holders, and market trackers today by changing which asset sits higher in the listed rankings and by showing XLM at a larger market value than BCH.

Before this move, Bitcoin Cash was ahead of Stellar in the market-cap ranking; after it, that order is reversed in the ranking cited here. What does not change is that both assets remain in the same broader market list, with XLM still reported in the same ranking system rather than in a different category.

Market reaction

BT Bitcoin the event is about this asset from 2 h before to 4 h after the line marks the first headline
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-0.33 % before publication
+0.13 % after
$83,862price at publication
12series points

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.

How the story was built

Every piece in order, with the time its news medium declares — if it is not believable we use ours and say so — and what it added to what was already known at that point. Arriving first is not the same as adding something.

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Sep 25 14:45
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Sep 25 20:53
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Breaks the figures down; the largest, $7.5B

Where this sits in the Bitcoin series

WhenWhat happenedFigure
1.0 years ago BTC a 1.152e+05 $ high today it sits -29.1 % from there
4 months ago BTC a 5.857e+04 $ low today it sits +39.5 % from there

From what we have stored, starting 1.0 years ago.

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