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Bitcoin Holds Its Line Near Seventy Four Thousand While ETF Flows Reset and Ethereum Chooses Care
Monday put every part of the crypto machine through the same test at the same hour. Prices, fund flows, leverage, code, and macro policy all answered at once, and each answer pointed toward cleaner plumbing. Bitcoin traded near 74,800 dollars as evening arrived in New York, Ethereum near 2,126 dollars, and the tape told a story of a market shaking loose its weakest positions while builders kept building.
The broad tape stayed heavy. Only five of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies gained at least 1 percent in 24 hours, ARB, RNDR, PEPE, QNT, and GT, while Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and Solana all eased. Bitcoin touched 73,761 dollars late Sunday, its lowest mark since August, then bounced back above 75,000 dollars. Total market value eased toward 2.47 trillion dollars. The contrast with stocks sharpened the picture, the Nasdaq rallied nearly 3 percent the same day, so crypto lagged a strong equity tape and proved it still marches to its own beat.
Fund flows told the deeper story. United States spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about 1.28 billion dollars in net outflows last week, the largest weekly withdrawal since late June, and BlackRock's IBIT accounted for about 1.21 billion dollars of it. Ethereum ETFs added about 365 million dollars in outflows, bringing combined withdrawals to roughly 1.65 billion dollars. The money leaving funds is real, and it sets up the next leg, because every dollar that leaves an ETF at these prices hands cheaper coins to patient buyers.
Leverage flushed out in a hurry. Crypto futures trading volume surged more than 200 percent to 180 billion dollars in 24 hours, open interest eased 3 percent to about 127 billion dollars, and liquidations topped 1.1 billion dollars, with about 913 million dollars in long positions closed by force. Ether carried the bigger share of the washout, about 498 million dollars in liquidations against about 305 million for Bitcoin, even though Ether open interest runs about half the size. Ether also closed Sunday under its 200 day moving average for the first time since August 18, and its one week implied volatility jumped to about 60 percent from about 46 percent, while Bitcoin's rose to about 43 percent from about 33 percent.
Bitcoin's own derivatives tape carried a brighter signal inside the same numbers. Bitcoin open interest eased only 0.2 percent against a 2.2 percent price move, a sign that capital stayed in place as prices dipped, and funding stayed positive, which means longs still pay shorts, just less than before. The dip shook out borrowed money and left the spot base standing.
Ethereum developers chose care over speed in the same 24 hours. The Ethereum Foundation said on November 6 that the Glamsterdam upgrade stays off the Hoodi testnet until eight gas invariants tied to EIP 8037 and EIP 8038 are resolved, after an October 13 review from auditor ChainSecurity showed the new gas rules could change how existing contracts behave when outside calls return empty. EIP 8037 reprices the creation of new state, new accounts, storage slots, and deployed code, while EIP 8038 reprices reading and updating state that already exists. Glamsterdam went live on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, and work on Hegota, the upgrade planned after Glamsterdam, continues in parallel, so the pause is a testnet checkpoint, and mainnet still awaits an activation date.
Macro policy set the backdrop. October payrolls printed 165,000 new jobs against 65,000 expected, unemployment held at 4.1 percent, and traders kept a December rate hike priced near 80 percent. Federal Reserve speakers took the stage through Monday, and Tuesday brings the consumer price index at half past eight in the morning Eastern time, the next big input for a market that now reads every jobs number as a rates number.
For readers holding Bitcoin and Ethereum through this stretch, the message of the day is steady. The leverage is lighter, the fund flows are honest, the code is getting audited before it ships, and the macro picture gets a fresh data point on Tuesday. Markets that clean themselves out in the open tend to come back stronger, and this one just did its cleaning in a single day.
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What is this story about?
Monday put every part of the crypto machine through the same test at the same hour. Prices, fund flows, leverage, code, and macro policy all answered at once, and each answer pointed toward cleaner plumbing. Bitcoin traded near 74,800 dollars as evening arrived in New York, Ethereum near 2,126 dollars, and the tape told a story of a market shaking loose its weakest positions while builders kept building.
Why does this story matter?
For readers holding Bitcoin and Ethereum through this stretch, the message of the day is steady. The leverage is lighter, the fund flows are honest, the code is getting audited before it ships, and the macro picture gets a fresh data point on Tuesday. Markets that clean themselves out in the open tend to come back stronger, and this one just did its cleaning in a single day.
Sources
- CoinDesk, Nvidia led tech selloff weighs on crypto majors
- Motley Fool, Crypto Market Today Nov 9
- Cointelegraph, Ethereum devs hold Glamsterdam on Hoodi
- Coindoo, Ethereum's next upgrade and old contracts
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