Logout
Login
Market snapshot as of 9 November 2026
It is hard to find good news in today’s price charts. Bitcoin briefly fell below $74,000 over the weekend, its lowest level since August, and Ethereum dropped to around $2,060 at its low. But price is only one part of the picture. Away from the charts, last week brought a steady stream of developments from banks, payment companies, exchanges and regulators that point to a market maturing even as prices struggle. Here is the weak side, followed by the positive one.
Bitcoin is trading around $74,500 to $75,000, down about 7% on the week and nearly 9% on the month. Ethereum is near $2,120–$2,145, down about 5% in 24 hours. The weekend sell-off was largely driven by leverage: more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated in 24 hours, around 90% of them longs, with Ethereum seeing a disproportionate share. Capital flows have also been soft. US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw about $412 million of outflows on Friday and roughly $1.28 billion over the week, as strong US jobs data (165,000 jobs added in October) pushed the market to price in about an 80% chance of a Fed rate hike in December.
While prices fell, the plumbing of the digital asset economy kept getting stronger. Last week’s developments included:
The divergence between prices and adoption is the key story. A recent PwC global regulation report describes a turning point: across more than thirty jurisdictions, licensing regimes and Travel Rule obligations are largely in force, and attention has shifted from drafting rules to whether regulation and market infrastructure can support digital assets at institutional scale. Bitwise’s latest institutional survey adds to this, finding that no firm it interviewed had reduced its allocation during the 2025–2026 drawdown.
Price and adoption do not always move together in the short term, and tokenization will not lift Bitcoin overnight. But infrastructure built during a weak market is infrastructure that is ready when sentiment turns.
Bitcoin has rebounded from its weekend low of about $73,500 and sits at what some analysts describe as a key bull-market support band. Nearby support is around $73,150, with resistance around $77,430. A decisive break below support could open a move into the low-$70,000s, while a reclaim of $77,000 would be the first sign of stabilisation.
Ethereum is under more pressure. The heavy long liquidations show how crowded its positioning had become, and ETF outflows have continued. There is also a small technical setback on the roadmap: compatibility risks identified in the Glamsterdam upgrade have delayed the Hoodi testnet fork. This is a testing-stage delay rather than a failure, but it removes a possible near-term positive catalyst.
What to watch: daily ETF flow data, the Fed’s December decision, whether a narrower crypto bill revives after the midterms, security fallout from the record Binance exploit (which the FBI attributed to North Korea), and further launches under the SEC’s Innovation Exemption.
Weak prices and strong adoption can exist side by side, and they are doing so now. For long-term investors, the steady arrival of banks, exchanges and payment companies is more telling than any single week of price action. In the short term, a market flushing out leverage ahead of a possible rate hike calls for patience, smaller positions and risk control.
