XRP jumps 4.4% as all eight major coins rise: crypto prices today, October 21, 2026

Bitcoin traded at about $83,472 on Coinbase early Wednesday, up 2.4% over 24 hours and 2.3% over seven days. Ether was at $2,466, up 3.1% on the day and 2.0% on the week. All eight coins we track rose over the past 24 hours, with XRP (+4.4%) and Cardano (+4.1%) leading. The weekly picture is less even: Chainlink and Avalanche are still below where they closed a week ago.

Prices at a glance

Coin	Price	24 hours	7 days
Bitcoin (BTC)	$83,472	+2.4%	+2.3%
Ether (ETH)	$2,466	+3.1%	+2.0%
Solana (SOL)	$106.83	+2.4%	+2.5%
XRP	$1.355	+4.4%	+1.9%
Dogecoin (DOGE)	$0.0820	+3.6%	+0.3%
Cardano (ADA)	$0.2256	+4.1%	+0.1%
Chainlink (LINK)	$12.39	+3.6%	-0.2%
Avalanche (AVAX)	$9.71	+2.7%	-3.0%

Coinbase Exchange prices at about 8:05 AM ET on October 21. The 24-hour change compares the latest trade with the price 24 hours earlier. The 7-day change compares it with the October 14 daily close (UTC).

Where bitcoin runs into sellers, and where it finds buyers

Blockchain analytics firm Glassnode says two groups of holders who are sitting on losses have capped bitcoin's rallies this year, Cointelegraph reported. The idea is simple: people who bought higher tend to sell when the price climbs back to what they paid, just to get out even. Glassnode puts the breakeven for coins bought six to 12 months ago at $87,700 and for coins bought one to two years ago at $99,500. According to the report, bitcoin rose to the first group's breakeven in January and then fell by more than a third, and met the second group's in May and fell by about a quarter.

Measured against the Coinbase price, $87,700 is about $4,230, or 5.1%, above the market. Cointelegraph also cited Glassnode's estimate of the cost basis for U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs at $81,500, about 2.4% below, with $80,000 (4.3% below) described as a level where order-book bids cluster. The 24-hour range on Coinbase was $81,196 to $83,609, so the ETF cost basis sat just above the day's low. These are one firm's on-chain estimates, not market prices, and they are a way to read where sellers and buyers may be, not a forecast.

The bond market backdrop

The 10-year Treasury yield closed Tuesday at 5.12%, down from 5.15% on Monday, and the 30-year closed at 5.42% from 5.48%, according to the Treasury's daily yield curve. A small pullback in yields is consistent with a firmer day for risk assets, but we did not find a source tying today's crypto move to it, so we are noting the two facts side by side rather than linking them. See the 10-year chart.

What moved the smaller coins

We looked for a specific cause behind XRP's 4.4% gain and Avalanche's weaker week, and did not find one in the CoinDesk and Cointelegraph coverage we read this morning. Moves of this size across every major coin at once usually reflect the market as a whole rather than coin-specific news, but that is an observation about the pattern, not a confirmed reason.

What traders are watching

• $87,700 and $80,000 on bitcoin, the Glassnode levels above and below the market.
• Treasury yields, with the 10-year at 5.12% after Tuesday's close.
• The weekly laggards, Chainlink and Avalanche, to see whether the 24-hour bounce holds.

For yesterday's prices, see the October 20 report. For the week's biggest gainers, see crypto movers, live crypto prices and meme coins.

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