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Altcoins are falling faster than Bitcoin itself, which is why BTC's share of total market capitalization has approached 61%. The indicator has not held above this level even once since August 2025.
The joint venture between the OKX exchange and ICE (owner of NYSE) will open trading on November 23: more than 70 securities, including common and preferred shares of Strategy, as well as Coinbase, Circle and 59 Direxion exchange-traded funds. 67 companies declined to participate, including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon and Tesla.
Over the past five trading days, exchange-traded funds (ETFs - a fund that trades on an exchange like a regular stock) took in an average of about $12 billion per day. The money went into stocks, while Bitcoin funds were losing capital at the same time.
Germany's largest bank, with assets of around $1.7 trillion, began offering cryptocurrency custody services to paying clients on November 11. It filed its application with regulator BaFin back in June 2023 - the wait stretched to 41 months.
A group of major banks invested about $270 million in the Faro project - the issuance of its own stablecoin (a coin with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar). The money will cover five years of operation for the issuing company, and the coin's launch itself is stated for the first half of 2027.
Bitcoin fell to $72,934 on Coinbase and Kraken: there prices went below $73,000 for the first time in ten weeks. The trigger was the US consumer price report for October - it came in above forecast, and the market increased its bet on a Fed rate hike in December.
Privacy coins are being sold off in sync: ZEC lost 10.5% in a day, Monero - 9.2%. Zcash is now 31.5% below its September level above $1,600.
On November 10, Binance stopped processing any transactions related to MEXC and 12 of its other legal entities. A day earlier, the platforms were only slowing down such transfers; now it is a ban. The reason was a FinCEN order (the financial intelligence unit of the US Treasury), which linked $16 billion in suspicious transactions to MEXC.
After a speech by Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed Board of Governors, bets on a December hike jumped from 76.3% to 96.3% within a few hours. Bitcoin fell 1.3% to $74,080, while gold and stocks moved down along with it.
The US consumer price report is published today at 16:30 Moscow time, but it will not include a year-on-year change. The reason is the US government shutdown a year earlier, because of which some of the data was simply not collected. This was reported by CNBC.
Prop company Formation Securities has notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the launch of a platform for trading tokenized stocks on the Solana network. Trading is stated to start in early 2027, with Exodus Movement, Forward Industries and Galaxy Digital securities first on the list.
On November 8, 2026, Bitcoin dropped to $73,708 - the lowest level since August. Over 24 hours, $855.69M in leveraged positions were forcibly closed, of which 90.2% were longs.
The Central Bank has approved the final rules: a non-qualified investor will be able to buy cryptocurrency through a broker or a crypto exchange, but no more than 300,000 rubles per year (about $3,700) at each intermediary. The Moscow Exchange plans to start trading on December 1.
Bitcoin dropped to $74,762 — its lowest since August 21. The trigger was a strong US labor market report: US stocks rebounded on it, but crypto did not follow. We wrote about the drop to $75,700 on the election results on November 4; since then the price has not fallen lower.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has approved rules for the issuance and circulation of stablecoins (cryptocurrencies whose exchange rate is pegged to a conventional currency - the dollar, euro, or the local naira). The document came into force on November 5; existing issuers were given 30 days to register and 180 days to apply for a license.
By 21:48 Moscow time on November 5, according to CoinGlass, leveraged positions worth more than $1 billion were forcibly closed over 24 hours, and these were mostly bets on growth. There has not been a larger wave since October 28-29, when BTC fell from almost $82,000 to $76,000.
The Kalshi platform has launched trading in perpetual futures (a contract with no expiration date that can be held indefinitely) on individual stocks. In the contracts on Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), the estimated leverage came out to about 5:1. At the same time, the legal basis on which these instruments exist at all is being challenged in court.
Kazakhstan placed $100 million of state reserves in cryptocurrency funds, including Brevan Howard Digital (the crypto division of one of the world's largest hedge funds). This is reported by Bloomberg.
On November 4, journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that the US House of Representatives is discussing a new crypto market structure bill. It expands the powers of the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) and reduces the role of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission), which the Republican version assigned to it.
In 24 hours, exchanges forcibly closed $974.8M in positions, and almost 60% of the amount was bets on a decline. BTC gained 4.64% and reached $80,480, ETH rose 6.84% to $2,418.
The crypto market priced in the US midterm election results with gains: BTC rose to $80,500, ETH added almost 6% to $2,433. $469 million in leveraged positions were liquidated in 24 hours.
After the US midterm elections, risk assets were bought back at once: BTC added more than 4% and recovered from its plunge below $76,000, WTI oil fell below $93, and S&P 500 futures returned to the month's highs.
While the US was counting votes in the congressional elections, BTC fell to a seven-week low and by Wednesday evening had recovered almost the entire decline.
The SEC's Division of Corporate Finance (the US securities market regulator) announced on November 3 that it will not seek penalties for the issuance of the CC token of the Canton Network: in its assessment, it is a digital commodity, not a security. The token gained 4%.
