Bitcoin slipped to $77,001, down 1.03% in 24 hours, while the total crypto market capitalization dropped 3.54% to $2.578 trillion — the steepest daily decline of the week. Ether holds $2,263.88 with a 0.89% loss, and 24-hour volume across the market sits at $68.16 billion. Nobody is sprinting for the exits, but nobody is rushing to buy the dip either.
Seventy-seven thousand as the last line of defence
The $77,000 level has turned into the football defender who picks up a yellow card in the 12th minute — everyone knows he is there, everyone avoids him, and everyone waits for the moment he cracks. Technically, $77,700 is the support level discussed more often than a government coalition lineup; losing it would open the door to lower ground, and buyers who entered above $80,000 are already underwater, watching their positions melt like ice cream in August.
Bitcoin’s seven-day loss stands at 3.34%, the monthly figure at 9.7% and the yearly at 28.08%. Measured from the all-time high of $126,080 set on 6 October 2025, the largest cryptocurrency trades 38.94% lower. For anyone who treated that peak as a starting line: a marathon is 42 kilometres, not 400 metres.
Bitcoin’s market cap sits at $1.548 trillion, with 20,105,365 coins circulating against a hard cap of 21 million. The remaining 894,635 coins will be mined for years, which means the inflation story is essentially closed — though that has never stopped price from doing what price does: going where liquidity is, not where logic lives.
Ether in the shadow, dominance as a thermos
Ether trades at $2,263.88, down 0.89% daily and 1.79% weekly. The monthly number is uglier: minus 16.2%, with a yearly loss of 38.63%. Ethereum’s market cap stands at $276.6 billion, daily volume at $9.17 billion and circulating supply at 122.19 million coins. It trades 54.24% below its $4,946.05 all-time high from 24 August 2025 — roughly the equivalent of showing up to a tennis match with a barbecue grill instead of a racket.
Bitcoin dominance has climbed to 59.86%, with Ethereum at 10.70%. When BTC dominance rises, altcoins usually look like passengers on a bus that just missed the stop: everyone is aboard, nobody knows where it is heading. That feeling is sharper today because total market cap fell 3.54% in a single day while bitcoin lost only 1.03% — mathematics is merciless to smaller capitalizations.
Fear in numbers: 26
The Fear and Greed Index fell to 26, firmly in “fear” territory, down from 37 a day earlier. For sentiment watchers, 26 is not panic; it is the state in which a person checks the price, closes the app and goes for coffee. The market is far from euphoria and equally far from capitulation — which is exactly the space where the most interesting stories are born.
Institutional money and the largest outflow since June
BlackRock’s IBIT recorded its biggest outflow since June, a signal that institutional investors are not immune to macro noise. When the world’s largest ETF bleeds capital, it usually means one thing: somebody decided to cut risk before the market cuts it for them. At the same time, Binance posted $2.3 billion in net inflows following the withdrawal wave triggered by a hack, and South Korean regulators urged exchanges to strengthen cold storage. Together, the two headlines suggest liquidity is returning selectively, with thicker seatbelts than before.
In Europe, Kraken restricted certain accounts amid an investigation into a €133 million theft — a reminder that security is not a marketing slogan but an operating expense. Australia raised interest rates to an 18-year high, France postponed its 2027 budget vote and scrapped proposed crypto exit taxes, and Crypto.com is withdrawing its consumer app from Hong Kong citing regulatory changes. The macro picture is as tangled as headphones in a pocket, and crypto remains the most sensitive instrument in the room.
Altcoins: who swims and who grabs a straw
Monero (XMR) is up 2.69% to $625.38 and 4.94% on the week — privacy is evidently a commodity that never goes out of fashion. Zcash (ZEC) fell 5.41% to $1,181.02, but its $20.1 billion market cap shows how far the coin has travelled over the past year; the weekly 6.86% decline looks more like a breather than a reversal.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) trades at $84.53, down 1.73% daily but up 8.58% weekly — one of the few large names holding a green weekly balance. Solana sits at $92.39, down 1.67% daily and 7.49% weekly, 68.5% below its all-time high; the network once sold as the fastest cart on the market now looks more like a good bicycle — functional, but nobody writes songs about it. XRP is one of the brighter spots at $1.26, up 0.54%, while TRX gains 1.87% to $0.322. BNB trades at $696.59, down 1.04%, and Dogecoin at $0.0744, down 1.28%.
On the losing side, NEAR leads with a 6.25% drop to $3.87 and a 13.66% weekly decline. Kaspa (KAS) loses 5.61%, Dash 4.55% with a 15.8% weekly fall, Ethena (ENA) 3.97% and Morpho 4.8%. Among gainers, alongside Monero, Stacks (STX) adds 4.00%, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) 1.99%, Canton (CC) 1.75% and Pump.fun (PUMP) 1.69%.
DeFi figures show no drama: Ethereum holds $43.77 billion in total value locked, Base $5.89 billion, Solana $5.40 billion, BSC $5.17 billion and Tron $5.14 billion. Capital is not fleeing in panic, it is simply gathering at the edges — like a crowd that refuses to leave during a dubious penalty but is already standing on the stairs.
What to watch next
The key level remains $77,000; holding it opens room for consolidation, while a break could accelerate a test of lower zones. On the macro side, inflation data, central bank rhetoric and bitcoin ETF flows deserve attention, because institutional investors have become the guest who arrives at the party and asks whether the wine is organic. Until that resolves, the market is likely to chop sideways, with altcoins filtering headlines faster than any algorithm.
Data collected on 3 November 2026 at 12:00 UTC via the CoinGecko API (top 500 coins), the Alternative.me Fear and Greed Index and DeFi Llama. Prices and market capitalizations can change at any moment.
Not investment advice. Crypto assets are highly volatile and can lose their entire value.
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