Bitcoin falls 1.96% to $78,521 as ETH and SOL post larger declines

• BTC · −2.0% $78,521
• ETH · −3.1% $2,243.49
• SOL · −2.1% $97.93

What moved and why

Bitcoin traded at $78,521, down 1.96% over 24 hours with the trend marked down. Ether fell 3.13% to $2,243.49 and Solana dropped 2.13% to $97.93, putting all three majors in the red over the same period. The declines were broad across the largest tokens rather than concentrated in one name.

Among individual movers, PURR rose 31.55% to $0.1306 and HYPE gained 17.62% to $93.13, while CRV fell 16.54% to $0.2730 and USELESS dropped 14.59% to $0.1299. A trader holding $49.7M in profit is 7.8% from liquidation on a $24.3M HYPE short, and a trader with $23.4M in profit closed a $22M ETH short for a gain of about $650K.

Biggest movers

• PURR $0.1306+31.5%
• HYPE $93.13+17.6%
• CRV $0.2730−16.5%
• USELESS $0.1299−14.6%

Whale watch

• A $49.7M-profit trader is 7.8% from liquidation on their $24.3M HYPE short HYPE only needs to rise 7.8% more to wipe it out. They're down $7.2M on it already.$24.3M
• A $23.4M-profit trader closed a $22M ETH short, up about $650K Held from $2,265.66 to $2,200.70. Their book is now almost empty.$22M

The numbers right now

The lead line of each live report, as of 30 Oct 2026, 21:41 UTC.

• Whale positioning: The top traders Fexr follows are net short $2.21B.
• Funding rates: In 9 of the 10 largest perpetual futures markets, longs are paying shorts.
• Stablecoin supply: The 25 largest stablecoins hold $298.1B.
• Staking & yields: The largest pool, STETH · lido, pays 2.2% a year.
• Governance votes: 7 token-holder votes open now on Snapshot.
• Large transfers: The latest on-chain token transfers of $250K or more; the largest here moved $12.9M.
• Liquidations: At least $56.6M of positions were liquidated on Binance, Bybit and OKX in the last 24 hours; 87% of it longs.
• Hacks & exploits: DeFiLlama counts 32 confirmed hacks and exploits in the last 30 days, about $6.50B taken in all. The largest, Binance CEX, lost about $6.36B.
• Crypto news today: 9 publishers ran 193 crypto stories in the last 24 hours; Bitcoin came up in 55 of them.
• Open interest: Open interest across the largest perpetual futures markets is $10.91B, down 5.6% in 24 hours. The biggest change among large markets was XPL (+42.62%).
• Perp premium: Perpetual futures trade above the spot price in 5 of the 10 largest markets.
• Exchange reserves: 79 exchanges publish their reserve wallets; Binance holds the most, $133.62B.
• Exchange flows: Over the last 7 days, $449.2M more USDT left labelled exchange wallets than arrived, the largest net flow seen.
• Project treasuries: Uniswap has the largest project treasury Fexr tracks, $1.69B.
• Protocol revenue: Tether earned the most revenue of any protocol over 30 days: $522.4M.
• Trending: VEREM is moving most unusually right now.
• Tokenized stocks: Fexr tracks 1,043 tokenized stocks; INTW moved most in 24 hours (−45.13%).

Today's sharpest moves

• Why is Ethereum down today?−3.23%
• Why is Bitcoin down today?−4.33%
• Why is Aave down today?−5.56%
• Why is the crypto market down today?−3.37%
• Why is Dogecoin down today?−5.54%
• Why is Solana down today?−4.07%
• Why is BNB down today?−5.30%
• Why is Cosmos Hub down today?−6.06%