TAO rallies 25% over five sessions to $277
Bittensor (TAO)
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Eugene Serbin
cryptocurrency.com.tr reports that Bittensor’s TAO token climbed 8.33% to $264.83 on Monday, briefly touching $277 intraday. This marked the token’s highest price in three months and extended a five-session gain to nearly 25%, starting from a low of around $220 on September 1. CoinGlass data recorded $868 million in 24-hour futures volume, up 158.61%, while open interest reached $434.58 million. Solana-based DEX Raydium recently added TAO trading, connecting the AI token to a large decentralized finance user base, shortly followed by the launch of a meme coin called Buttensor.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for TAO, measured when this story was written up on 8 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Whalio spot data shows TAO trading at $259.90, with a 1-hour buy ratio of 54.5% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 50.2%, indicating short-term buying pressure. These readings are higher than the 24-hour buy ratio of 48.9%, suggesting that buying intensity is building in the immediate term compared to the broader daily view. The 1-hour volume delta is positive at +$63,348, while the 4-hour delta is +$11,040, contrasting with a 24-hour delta of -$951,874. This divergence means that while recent trades show net buying, the cumulative flow over the last day has been dominated by net selling. Spot volume for the period was $45,321,932 across 266,036 trades.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.6% sits at the 64th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 48.8% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for TAO, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the 7-day average buy ratio was 50.0%, with the latest day showing a 1.1 point decrease from that average. Volume was 1.98 times the average, indicating an unusual level of activity compared to a typical day. The price changed by +12.8% over 8 days, with a total volume delta of +$2,035,140. There were 5 days of net buying out of 7 in the preceding week. This contrasts with the 24-hour negative delta, highlighting a shift from weekly net buying to recent daily net selling.