Aster lost 22.2% in 24 hours and fell to $0.50, Pudgy Penguins dropped 19.6% and Useless Coin 20.4%, while Bitcoin slid 6.0% to $64,137 and dragged the entire market lower. The combined market cap of the top 500 coins fell to $2.21 trillion on $172.1 billion of turnover — the classic picture of a session in which everything with an order book gets sold.
Aster (ASTER) — −22.23%
What is Aster?
A decentralized perpetual futures exchange grown inside one of the most competitive segments of DeFi. Aster offers leveraged trading without intermediaries, running its own order books and a model that combines on-chain settlement with the feel of a centralized venue. The token powers liquidity incentives, governance participation and fee discounts. Launched in September 2025, the project accumulated billions in volume in record time and entered the orbit of the sector’s largest names.
Why is it falling?
Because Aster carries the most exposed risk profile available: high volume, high leverage and a large share of supply that is not yet circulating. Daily turnover of $187.6 million against a $1.29 billion market cap means the market here never rests, and when leverage snaps it snaps in cascades — liquidations push the price lower, which triggers further liquidations. The token trades 79.2% below its $2.41 all-time high from September 2025, and a fully diluted valuation of $3.91 billion against $1.29 billion in market cap means two thirds of the supply has yet to reach the market. On a day when Bitcoin loses 6%, derivative venues form the front line, and Aster was at the very top of the casualty list.
Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) — −19.63%
What is Pudgy Penguins?
One of the few NFT collections that survived a full cycle and turned itself into a genuine consumer brand. Pudgy Penguins now sells plush toys on retail shelves, holds licences, runs a mobile game and maintains merchandising that lives independently of the blockchain. The PENGU token is the monetization layer of that community — the link between NFT holders, players and the brand. Maximum supply is 88.89 billion tokens, of which 62.9 billion are circulating.
Why is it falling?
Meme and NFT segments have no floor when risk appetite disappears. PENGU fell to $0.0049 on $140.4 million of volume — nearly half its market cap in a single day. That is not community sentiment, that is capital leaving the building. The price sits 92.9% below the $0.0684 all-time high from December 2024, while still holding 31.7% above the $0.0037 low from April 2025. So despite today’s drop the token remains above its historical floor, and yet it has surrendered almost all of its record valuation. When the brand sells toys and the token loses 93% of its value, the market is clearly drawing a line between the shelf in a store and the order book.
Useless Coin (USELESS) — −20.35%
What is Useless Coin?
A token that turned its own uselessness into a marketing strategy — and for a while it worked beautifully. USELESS is a Solana meme coin with no roadmap, no utility and a name that openly admits the product does not exist. That is precisely why it reached $0.43 in October 2025 and a market cap that would bring tears of envy to many “serious” projects. Supply is fixed at one billion tokens, with 999.9 million circulating.
Why is it falling?
Because a joke cannot be hedged. USELESS dropped to $0.099, down 20.4%, on $16.6 million of volume. The price is 77.2% below the $0.4346 all-time high from October 2025, yet still 1,809% above the $0.0052 all-time low from June 2025 — the cleanest illustration of how a meme cycle works. Anyone who bought in June still sits on a nineteen-fold return; anyone who bought the October top is staring at a 77% drawdown. Today the second group won.
Context: a day without shelter
The sell-off was not selective. When Bitcoin loses 6% and Ethereum 8.2%, correlation converges on one and diversification stops existing — everything that is not a stablecoin becomes the same trade, merely with different leverage. Turnover of $172.1 billion against a $2.21 trillion market means nearly 8% of total value changed hands in a single day. Historically such sessions either mark capitulation and a bottom, or the start of a longer decline; the difference becomes visible a week later, and never in advance.
Market data (November 15, 2026, 00:00 UTC)
- Aster (ASTER): price $0.5022 · 24h −22.23% · MCap $1.29B · FDV $3.91B · 24h vol $187.6M · supply 2.57B (circ) / 8B (max) · ATH $2.41 (Sep 24, 2025, −79.2%) · ATL $0.09971 (Sep 17, 2025)
- Pudgy Penguins (PENGU): price $0.004894 · 24h −19.63% · MCap $307.5M · FDV $375.3M · 24h vol $140.4M · supply 62.86B (circ) / 88.89B (max) · ATH $0.06845 (Dec 17, 2024, −92.9%) · ATL $0.003715 (Apr 8, 2025)
- Useless Coin (USELESS): price $0.09926 · 24h −20.35% · MCap $99.2M · 24h vol $16.6M · supply 999.9M (circ) / 1B (max) · ATH $0.4346 (Oct 14, 2025, −77.2%) · ATL $0.0052 (Jun 5, 2025)
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 15, 2026, 00:00 UTC).