Vaulta (A) lost 19.05% in 24 hours, sliding to $0.090426 for the worst performance among the 500 most liquid cryptocurrencies. DUSK followed at minus 11.39% and Quack AI at minus 9.75%, while the rest of the tape showed rare discipline: bitcoin added 0.74% to $82,029 and ethereum 0.37% to $2,409.89. When the headline indices rise while three tokens lose double digits, that is not a market decline — that is individual accountability, the football result where the team wins 3:0 and one player still walks off with a red card.
Vaulta: the former champion that lost the dressing room
Vaulta used to be called EOS, and it belonged to the “ethereum killer” caste of 2018 — projects that promised throughput, scalability and revolution, and ended up as a case study in what happens when tokenomics beats product. That story continued quietly on Monday: $0.090426, a $151.38 million market cap, $16.67 million in daily volume, and a session range of $0.086384 to $0.112249. The selling looked organised rather than panicked, what analysts politely call disciplined distribution.
The record of $0.778734 now sits 88.39% above reality, which is the civilised way of saying four years later the comeback is still pending. The all-time low of $0.057641 is uncomfortably close, and that is the most dangerous zone for any token — the moment the market starts measuring depth instead of height. With 1.67 billion tokens circulating out of a 2.1 billion maximum, supply is a permanent background question, like an unpaid invoice on the table.
The irony is that Vaulta is not a token without infrastructure. It has a chain, a community, a team. But on a market that spent the last year learning to separate story from revenue, that is no longer sufficient. A 19% drop in a single session is a verdict delivered by liquidity, not by the community.
DUSK: minus 11.39% and a quiet slide
DUSK fell to $0.116945 with a $71.32 million market cap and $11.10 million in turnover. The daily range of $0.111439 to $0.132509 shows a session that opened high, lost support and closed near the floor — the classic distribution pattern, where large holders sell into liquidity created by smaller buyers. No drama, no headlines, just a chart that looks like a staircase into a basement.
The all-time high of $1.09 leaves the token 89.27% below its best days. The all-time low of $0.011133 means the nominal distance to the floor is large but psychologically irrelevant — nobody buys because an asset is far from zero, they buy because they can see a reason. DUSK has spent years wrestling with an identity question: privacy infrastructure, institutional settlement rail, or a swap token with ambition. The market answered that question with sell orders.
From 609.8 million tokens in circulation toward a one billion maximum, supply is not the problem. Demand arrives in waves and leaves without saying goodbye. In a market that increasingly rewards visible revenue, tokens without a clear line to cash flow play the role of good actors in a bad film: everyone praises them, nobody buys a ticket.
Quack AI: the biggest loser by market value
Quack AI shed 9.75% to $0.111752. That sounds gentler than Vaulta until the absolute numbers land: a $526.01 million market cap and $84.53 million in turnover. This is the largest loser of the day by value — roughly $57 million of market capitalisation evaporated in 24 hours, on the heaviest volume of the three. When a token trading more than $80 million in a day drops 10%, the patient holders were selling too.
What stands out is that Quack AI sits only 23.98% below its all-time high of $0.147008 — and that record was set within the same impulse, essentially days ago. The all-time low of $0.00527092 shows where the run began: a 21x move in a matter of months. Those moves always end the same way. First euphoria, then “the correction is healthy”, then silence.
Circulating supply is 4.71 billion against a 10 billion maximum, which means more than half the tokens are not yet on the market. That is the question every buyer should ask before entering: what happens when the other half arrives to claim its share of the cake.
The rest of the board: losses that do not hurt equally
Behind the top three came Reserve Rights at minus 7.74%, Nexpace at minus 7.61%, Numeraire at minus 7.47%, Useless Coin at minus 6.34%, Pyth Network at minus 6.19% and Starknet at minus 6.03% to $0.060498. Pyth and Starknet are projects with serious technology and real usage, and that did not save them — which is the cleanest illustration of the short-term rule that price follows liquidity, not quality.
In total, 191 of the 500 most liquid tokens finished green, a market tilted slightly positive but without breadth. When gains concentrate in a handful of names while the rest slide, wealth is not being created; it is being reallocated. The daily losers are the reminder that in any reallocation, someone is left without a chair when the music stops.
Market data
Vaulta (A)
- Price: $0.090426
- 24h change: -19.05%
- Market cap: $151,383,931
- 24h volume: $16,665,253
- Circulating supply: 1,674,112,777 A
- Max supply: 2,100,000,000 A
- ATH: $0.778734 (-88.39%)
- ATL: $0.057641
DUSK (DUSK)
- Price: $0.116945
- 24h change: -11.39%
- Market cap: $71,315,653
- 24h volume: $11,103,599
- Circulating supply: 609,823,518 DUSK
- Max supply: 1,000,000,000 DUSK
- ATH: $1.09 (-89.27%)
- ATL: $0.01113274
Quack AI (Q)
- Price: $0.111752
- 24h change: -9.75%
- Market cap: $526,005,311
- 24h volume: $84,526,126
- Circulating supply: 4,706,888,967 Q
- Max supply: 10,000,000,000 Q
- ATH: $0.147008 (-23.98%)
- ATL: $0.00527092
Data: CoinGecko, October 19, 2026, 00:00 UTC.
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