Pearl dropped 7.60% to $1.40, only three weeks after printing an all-time high of $2.46. Stacks slid 7.12% and Aave lost 5.56% — the trio that carried the red banner while Bitcoin shed 3.53% and settled at $71,350.
Market capitalization across the top 250 coins slipped to roughly $2.41 trillion. Ethereum lost 1.86% to $2,017.16, now 59.2% below its $4,946.05 peak. Solana sits at $81.65, 72% under its $293.31 high. The context is unmistakable: this was not an isolated incident in a handful of tokens, this was a session in which correlation worked like a Swiss watch.
Pearl: a king who lost the throne but not the mountain
Pearl (PEARL) trades at $1.40 on $16.3 million in volume and a $525.8 million market cap. The 24-hour range ran between $1.15 and $1.55, meaning the token lived through a 35% span inside a single day and closed near the bottom of the ladder.
The story hurts more because of the calendar than the number. The all-time high of $2.46 was set on October 21, 2026 — twenty-three days ago. It is now 43.2% lower. In crypto terms that is an athlete who won gold and then lost in the first round of the next tournament: the trophy is still in the cabinet, but nobody mentions it without a smirk.
One figure keeps the balance, though. Pearl is 898% above its all-time low of $0.1399 from July 23, 2026. For anyone who entered four months ago, this remains one of the better decisions of the year. For anyone who bought the top, today is a lesson in why nobody should chase a candle at the peak of a chart. Same price, two entirely different biographies.
Stacks: the Bitcoin Layer 2 that fell with Bitcoin, only harder
Stacks (STX) lost 7.12% to $0.2858 on a $538 million market cap and a thin $13.4 million in volume. The daily low of $0.2817 sat just above the close, which tells you sellers were working until the final minute.
Stacks spent years selling the thesis that, as a Bitcoin Layer 2, it would benefit from every rally in the largest coin. The problem is that the same thesis works in reverse, only faster and without warning. When Bitcoin loses 3.5%, its layers do not lose proportionally — they lose like leveraged bets. STX now sits 92.6% below its all-time high of $3.86 from April 2024, and its $0.0456 low from March 2020 reads like a museum piece.
Aave: a DeFi blue chip with a hole below the waterline
Aave (AAVE) fell 5.56% to $113.96 on $223.2 million in volume — the heaviest turnover among the day’s losers. Market cap stands at $1.76 billion and the intraday range ran from $110.97 to $120.71.
This is the most interesting part of the picture. Aave is not a small experiment; it is one of the oldest and most battle-tested lending protocols in DeFi, fully entitled to the blue-chip label. Which is exactly why a 5.6% drop carries more weight than Pearl’s correction: when an institutionally serious protocol falls twice as fast as Bitcoin, the market does not say “opportunity,” it says “check the inventory.”
Aave is 82.8% below its all-time high of $661.69 from May 2021, and 337.9% above its all-time low of $26.02 from November 2020. The price is therefore somewhere in the middle of its own history — the place where the quietest wars are usually fought between those who believe and those who calculate.
Honourable mention: Monero and the rest of the red section
- Monero (XMR) -5.20% to $551.86 on $160.3 million — the largest privacy coin lost its footing on the very day smaller Beldex gained 5.65%.
- NEAR Protocol (NEAR) -4.67% to $3.42 on an outsized $409.5 million in volume — the heaviest turnover among losers, which always means buyers and sellers fought to the last bell.
- Quant (QNT) -4.32% to $163.67.
- Ethena (ENA) -3.63% to $0.1403 on $273.5 million.
- Bitcoin (BTC) -3.53% to $71,350 on $27.65 billion — the benchmark itself made this list, which says enough about the session.
The pattern is familiar: volume rises, prices fall, and that combination usually signals distribution rather than panic. Panic is when volume explodes and price drops 20%. Distribution is when volume stays elevated and price slides 4-7% for days on end. Today was the second scenario. Boring, but more expensive.
Financial data (November 13, 2026, 00:00 UTC)
- Pearl (PEARL) — price: $1.40 | 24h: -7.60% | MCap: $525.8M | 24h volume: $16.3M | Circulating supply: 377.2M | Max supply: 2.1B | ATH: $2.46 (Oct 21, 2026) | ATL: $0.1399 (Jul 23, 2026) | Rank: 100.
- Stacks (STX) — price: $0.2858 | 24h: -7.12% | MCap: $538.0M | 24h volume: $13.4M | Circulating supply: 1.88B | ATH: $3.86 (Apr 1, 2024) | ATL: $0.0456 (Mar 12, 2020) | Rank: 97.
- Aave (AAVE) — price: $113.96 | 24h: -5.56% | MCap: $1.76B | 24h volume: $223.2M | Circulating supply: 15.44M | Max supply: 16M | ATH: $661.69 (May 18, 2021) | ATL: $26.02 (Nov 5, 2020) | Rank: 49.
- Context: Bitcoin $71,350 (-3.53%) | Ethereum $2,017.16 (-1.86%) | Solana $81.65 (-1.95%) | Top 250 market cap: ~$2.41T.
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Disclaimer: this is not investment advice. The crypto market is highly volatile and the data above reflects the situation at the time of writing (November 13, 2026, 00:00 UTC).