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Monday, November 2, 2026
The Company Chronicle

Crypto

Bitcoin at $77,605, Ether at $2,279: crypto prices today, November 2, 2026

Bitcoin is down 3% on the week and all eight coins we track are lower, as $7 billion leaves Binance after its record $6.3 billion hack and the thieves start swapping Solana for Bitcoin.

Chart of the Bitcoin price over the past year, about 30% below its November 2025 peak
Bitcoin over the past year: $77,606 on November 2, 29.9% below the peak in the window (Yahoo Finance data, Chronicle chart).

Bitcoin traded at about $77,605 on Coinbase early Monday, down 0.4% over 24 hours and 3.0% over seven days. Ether was at $2,279, up 0.6% on the day and down 1.8% on the week. All eight coins we track are lower than a week ago, with Cardano, Solana and XRP the weakest. Chainlink is the only coin down more than 2% on the day.

Prices at a glance

CoinPrice24 hours7 days
Bitcoin (BTC)$77,605-0.4%-3.0%
Ether (ETH)$2,279+0.6%-1.8%
Solana (SOL)$93.88-1.0%-6.8%
XRP$1.249-0.2%-4.4%
Dogecoin (DOGE)$0.0751-0.6%-3.2%
Cardano (ADA)$0.1902-1.6%-7.8%
Chainlink (LINK)$11.29-2.4%-0.9%
Avalanche (AVAX)$8.59-1.9%-4.0%

Coinbase Exchange prices at about 8:05 AM ET on November 2. The 24-hour change compares the latest trade with the price 24 hours earlier. The 7-day change compares it with the October 26 daily close (UTC).

Bitcoin, 12M. Chart by TradingView.

Binance: money out, thieves moving

The market is still digesting the theft from Binance on Thursday, which Cointelegraph described as a $6.3 billion hack, the largest in crypto history. For the first reported withdrawals after reopening, see our earlier report.

Two new developments since then. First, customers keep leaving: according to DefiLlama data cited by Cointelegraph, Binance recorded more than $7 billion of net outflows, up from $5.8 billion earlier Monday, while OKX took in about $445 million, Bybit $112 million, Gate $91 million and Bitget $54 million. Binance still held about $127.9 billion in tracked wallets, more than four times OKX's $29 billion. Binance said it had replenished roughly 95% of the affected assets, using its corporate treasury, part of its SAFU fund and part of its futures insurance fund, and has pledged not to pass losses to customers.

Second, the laundering has changed shape. Lookonchain reported that the hackers moved 486,970 SOL, worth about $46.4 million, and were swapping it for Bitcoin through the Relay protocol, Cointelegraph reported, citing Chainalysis, which said most of the attackers' Tron holding wallets had been emptied. About $3 billion of stolen assets was frozen by partners including Tether and Circle, and investigator SomaXBT estimated the attackers still controlled about $3.5 billion. The FBI attributed the theft to North Korea's TraderTraitor group on Saturday. The Bitcoin swaps are small against a Bitcoin market of this size, and the reports do not say how much has been converted so far. We found no confirmed link between those swaps and Monday's price move.

Our read of the tape is limited to what the numbers show: Bitcoin's 24-hour range on Coinbase was $77,499 to $78,762, a spread of about 1.6%, so the market is not panicking. Coins with the biggest weekly losses, Cardano and Solana, are the ones we could not tie to any specific news.

Rates backdrop

The 10-year Treasury yield closed Friday at 4.94%, down from 4.98% a day earlier, and the 30-year at 5.31% from 5.32%, according to the Treasury's daily yield curve. Yields are drifting lower, which has not so far lifted Bitcoin. See the 10-year chart.

What traders are watching

  • Binance's updated proof-of-reserves report, which the exchange said it expected to publish Monday.
  • Exchange flows, and whether outflows from Binance slow after the first wave of withdrawals.
  • Further freezes of the stolen funds, after Gate said it froze two linked accounts.

For yesterday's context, see our Binance report. For the week's biggest gainers, see crypto movers and live crypto prices.

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Sources: Coinbase Exchange price data; U.S. Treasury; Cointelegraph; DefiLlama, Chainalysis and Lookonchain via Cointelegraph. Crypto assets are volatile. This is market information, not investment advice.

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