Bitcoin at $80,181, Ether at $2,327: crypto prices today, October 26, 2026

Bitcoin traded at about $80,181 on Coinbase early Monday, down 0.2% over 24 hours and 2.0% over seven days. Ether was at $2,327, down 0.2% on the day and 3.3% on the week. The 24-hour range for bitcoin was $79,255 to $80,859, a spread of about 2%. Every coin we track is lower than a week ago, and Cardano (down 6.1%) and Avalanche (down 6.7%) lost the most.

Prices at a glance

Coin	Price	24 hours	7 days
Bitcoin (BTC)	$80,181	-0.2%	-2.0%
Ether (ETH)	$2,327	-0.2%	-3.3%
Solana (SOL)	$101.45	+0.6%	-3.3%
XRP	$1.292	-0.2%	-0.8%
Dogecoin (DOGE)	$0.0771	+0.7%	-3.2%
Cardano (ADA)	$0.2046	+0.2%	-6.1%
Chainlink (LINK)	$11.44	+0.7%	-5.0%
Avalanche (AVAX)	$8.95	+1.6%	-6.7%

Coinbase Exchange prices at about 8:05 AM ET on October 26. The 24-hour change compares the latest trade with the price 24 hours earlier. The 7-day change compares it with the October 19 daily close (UTC).

Fed week and the $80,000 line

The Federal Open Market Committee decides on Wednesday. Cointelegraph reported that markets see better than 90% odds that the target range stays at 3.75% to 4%, and CoinDesk, citing CME's FedWatch tool, put the chance of no change at 90% and of another increase in December at around 80%. The two outlets describe the December pricing differently, so the hold on Wednesday is the firm part; the December hike odds are a market estimate that will move with the data. The Treasury's own figures show the 10-year yield closed Friday at 5.00% and the 30-year at 5.33%, according to the daily yield curve.

Bitcoin spent the weekend testing the round number. Cointelegraph reported that about $150 million of long positions were liquidated over two hours on Saturday as bitcoin fell to $79,145, and that bitcoin is on course to end October down about 4%. That would be its second straight October decline, after a 3.9% fall in October 2025 that was followed by a 17.5% drop in November, Cointelegraph said. Our own Coinbase low for the past 24 hours is $79,255, so the $79,000 area has held so far.

Leverage is light, ETF money is leaving

CoinDesk's market data shows no crowded trade. Bitcoin futures open interest was $139.9 billion, up 0.85% on the day, while liquidations fell 71% to $153 million, and funding rates were only mildly positive. Spot bitcoin ETFs are the weaker signal: CoinDesk reported $138 million of outflows on Friday, taking the two-day total to $772 million.

In options, CoinDesk said the busiest bitcoin contract was the October 28 $77,000 put, ahead of the October 28 $84,000 call, and that puts still cost more than calls, though by less than a day earlier. A put is as often protection as a bearish view, so this is a description of positioning, not a forecast.

One large call trade, and what it does not tell us

CoinDesk also reported, citing the exchange Derive, that a single wallet bought 800 bitcoin call options struck at $90,000 and expiring November 6, about $68 million of face value, while selling other calls that offset most of the cost. Derive's implied odds of bitcoin topping $100,000 by Christmas rose to 12% from 9.7% a week earlier, and the implied odds of falling below $70,000 dropped to 11% from 15.6%. CoinDesk noted that Derive is far smaller than Deribit, where puts are the pricier side. One wallet's trade says little about the market as a whole.

We did not find a news event behind this weekend's small moves in ether or the smaller coins in the CoinDesk or Cointelegraph coverage we read. Cointelegraph tied the week's mood to a heavy run of U.S. tech earnings and worries about AI spending; we cannot link those directly to crypto prices.

What traders are watching

• Wednesday's Fed decision and the language at the press conference.
• Thursday's PCE inflation print and third-quarter GDP, both listed by Cointelegraph.
• Microsoft and Alphabet earnings Wednesday evening, Amazon and Intel on Thursday, per Cointelegraph.
• $79,000 and $81,000 on bitcoin, the zone where CoinGlass shows bids and asks stacked, per Cointelegraph.

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

Sources: Coinbase Exchange price data; U.S. Treasury; CoinDesk; CoinGlass via Cointelegraph; CME FedWatch via CoinDesk and Cointelegraph; Derive via CoinDesk. Crypto assets are volatile. This is market information, not investment advice.