Crypto, commodities & FX this week: PEPE +60.3% · August 17–21, 2026

The second part of the weekly review for August 17–21, 2026 looks at crypto, commodities and FX. Crypto moved +24.4 % on average for the week, led by ENA (+72.5 %). Precious metals came in at +5.5 %, energy and industrial commodities at +2.8 %.

Crypto: weekly gainers & losers

Gainers

Crypto weekly gainers
Name	Price	Change
ENA ENA	$0.1421	+72.45 %
ACE ACE	$0.2292	+70.92 %
PEPE PEPE	$4.12e-06	+60.31 %
PUMP PUMP	$0.004063	+52.23 %
ZEC ZEC	$734.27	+50.96 %
PENGU PENGU	$0.008918	+50.54 %

Losers

Crypto weekly losers
Name	Price	Change
PORTAL PORTAL	$0.01142	-31.00 %
U U	$0.9996	-0.08 %
USDE USDE	$1.0002	-0.07 %
RLUSD RLUSD	$1.0004	-0.06 %
USD1 USD1	$0.9999	-0.02 %
TRON TRX	$0.3434	+3.68 %

Commodities & metals over the week

Commodities & metals over the week
Name	Price	Change
Gold	4680.6	+5.48 %
Silver	69.53	+6.79 %
Platinum	1895.7	+7.90 %
Palladium	1350.2	+1.86 %
WTI crude	87.06	+7.15 %
Brent crude	92.67	+6.43 %
Gasoline	3.0468	-2.60 %
Heating oil	4.3848	+3.16 %
Copper	6.587	-0.39 %

FX over the week

FX over the week
Pair	Price	Change
EUR/USD	1.1693	+0.98 %
GBP/USD	1.3651	+0.87 %
USD/JPY	158.75535799333227	-0.17 %
AUD/USD	0.71755	+1.37 %
USD/CAD	1.374759417102007	-0.80 %
USD/CHF	0.7989773090444231	-1.43 %

Real assets: the week's hammer prices

This week brought 47 auction records. Real assets are not quoted continuously – trading happens when a lot is called. What follows is therefore not a weekly return but the sum of what actually changed hands.

The week's hammer prices per asset class
Asset class	Records	Median	Highest hammer price	Price
Trading cards	45	$4,080	Umbreon #H30 — Skyridge (2003) 17 Aug 2026	$78,000
Classic cars	2	$46,000	Porsche 911 Turbo (996) — 2001–2005 19 Aug 2026	$51,500

No sale was recorded in watches this week – the most recent one is 69 days back.

The trading-card price index stands at 536.8 (as of 17 August 2026), +251.0 % against a year ago. It measures price changes of the same good – unlike a median, which is made up of different items every week.

Residential property has no weekly figure: the latest official reading is from 1 May 2026, 112 days before this review. United States (Case-Shiller) +1.1 % year on year. Germany +1.4 % year on year. Euro area +4.6 % year on year.

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