2026-10-30 · digital-assets
Crypto News: Why Are Bitcoin, Ethereum And XRP Prices Crashing Today?
Source Coinpedia
The crypto market is taking two hits at once. The $6.3 billion Binance exploit has shaken confidence, and a sharp sell-off on Wall Street has dragged risk assets lower. Bitcoin has lost its key $80,000 support and fallen to its lowest level in six weeks.
According to market data, the top coins are down sharply:
- Bitcoin: $76,428, down 5.5% in 24 hours and 6.3% over 7 days
- Ethereum: $2,228, down 4.6% in 24 hours and 7.3% over 7 days
- BNB: $696, down 6.4% in 24 hours and 6.3% over 7 days
- XRP: $1.24, down 4.0% in 24 hours and 5.3% over 7 days
Bitcoin's 24-hour trading volume has jumped to about $194 billion, a sign of heavy selling.
The Binance exploit is now the largest crypto hack ever in dollar terms. Bitcoin fell from about $78,700, when the first major reports appeared, to a low near $76,368 overnight. The drop pushed Bitcoin below the $80,000 support it had been defending.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao argued the damage is smaller than the headline figure suggests. Mt. Gox lost 650,000 BTC, more than 5% of Bitcoin's supply at the time, and nearly all its users were affected. FTX also hit almost every customer. In Binance's case, CZ said, the exchange is covering all losses itself.
Reason 2: Wall Street's Worst Day Since June
US stocks lost about $1.5 trillion in value in a single session, and the major indexes were heading for their worst day since June:
- S&P 500: down 1.89%
- Nasdaq: down 3.14%
- Semiconductor index: down 3.74%
- Small caps: down 2.10%
Bitcoin often moves with tech stocks, so the fall in the Nasdaq and chip stocks added to the pressure.
Expert Michaël van de Poppe said Bitcoin was rejected at $81,000, slid quickly toward $76,000 to close a price gap, and then failed again at $78,000. The levels he is watching:
- Support: a sweep of the recent low, with the September low at $75,000 as the final floor
- Recovery: Bitcoin needs to win back $79,000, and ideally $80,000, to regain momentum
On-chain data from Glassnode suggests the drop may not be as damaging as it looks:
- Bitcoin is retesting its True Market Mean
- It could fall as far as $75,800, the average cost basis of short-term holders, and the uptrend would still hold
- The last similar retest, in mid-September, came just days before the high of that move
History Says Hack Crashes Can Be Short-Lived
Some invetsors compared the market reaction with past exchange disasters:
- Bitfinex hack, 2016: Bitcoin fell 9.7% that day, then rose 395% over the next year
- FTX collapse, 2022: Bitcoin fell 10.0% that day, then rose 119% over the next year
- Binance hack, 2026: Bitcoin fell about 4.3% on the day
The Binance hack is far larger than either of those events, yet the drop has been about half as deep.
Bitcoin can either set a higher low or fall back toward its $58,000 cycle low. For now, the levels to watch are $75,000 to $75,800 below and $80,000 above.
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