Bitcoin at $79,730, Ether at $2,309: crypto prices today, October 27, 2026

Bitcoin traded at about $79,730 on Coinbase early Tuesday, down 0.6% over 24 hours and 3.9% over seven days. Ether was at $2,309, down 0.5% on the day and 5.6% on the week. Bitcoin's 24-hour range was $79,300 to $80,710, a spread of about 1.8%. Every coin in our table is lower than a week ago, and Avalanche (down 10.4%) and Cardano (down 9.3%) lost the most. XRP, down 2.6%, held up best.

Prices at a glance

Coin	Price	24 hours	7 days
Bitcoin (BTC)	$79,730	-0.6%	-3.9%
Ether (ETH)	$2,309	-0.5%	-5.6%
Solana (SOL)	$99.84	-1.6%	-6.2%
XRP	$1.301	+0.4%	-2.6%
Dogecoin (DOGE)	$0.0770	-0.2%	-5.8%
Cardano (ADA)	$0.2028	-1.2%	-9.3%
Chainlink (LINK)	$11.29	-1.4%	-8.3%
Avalanche (AVAX)	$8.73	-2.2%	-10.4%

Coinbase Exchange prices at about 8:05 AM ET on October 27. The 24-hour change compares the latest trade with the price 24 hours earlier. The 7-day change compares it with the October 20 daily close (UTC).

Under $80,000 as the Fed meets

CoinDesk's headline this morning says bitcoin dropped below $80,000 as crypto ignored a rally in Asian tech stocks, with the Federal Reserve's meeting beginning. The decision is due Wednesday; our Monday report covered what the market expects. On our own data the move so far is small: bitcoin is about 0.6% lower than 24 hours ago and has held above $79,000 since the weekend lows. The year view shows the larger picture, with bitcoin about 30% below its level of a year ago, the high of the past 12 months on Yahoo Finance data.

ETF flows: a rebound inside a weak month

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $110 million on Monday, after $774 million of withdrawals over the two prior sessions, Cointelegraph reported, citing SoSoValue. October is still negative at about $202 million of net outflows through Monday. Cointelegraph also cited a CryptoQuant analyst who said retail deposits of bitcoin to Binance nearly doubled to $10.8 billion over 30 days while deposits from large holders fell to $3.8 billion, and who suggested smaller investors may be selling into the rebound. That is one analyst's reading of exchange flows, not a confirmed cause of any price move. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index slipped to 48 from 50, still in "Neutral," according to the same report.

Cointelegraph put bitcoin's seven-day loss at 2.6% using CoinGecko data. Ours is 3.9% because we measure from the October 20 daily close on Coinbase, a higher reference point. The direction is the same.

Ripple's bank approval and XRP

CoinDesk reported this morning that Ripple received a final go-ahead to launch its own U.S. national trust bank, and a CoinDesk markets note said the news failed to lift XRP. That fits our table: XRP is up 0.4% on the day, roughly flat, and down 2.6% on the week. We have not read the regulator's decision itself, so we are not describing its terms here. We looked for a specific reason behind the steeper weekly drops in Avalanche and Cardano and did not find one in the coverage we read.

What traders are watching

• The Fed decision on Wednesday, and how bonds react. See the 10-year chart.
• $79,000, the area that held over the weekend and in the past 24 hours.
• ETF flows, to see whether Monday's inflow repeats.

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

Sources: Coinbase Exchange price data; Cointelegraph, citing SoSoValue, CryptoQuant and CoinGecko; CoinDesk; Yahoo Finance for the chart. Crypto assets are volatile. This is market information, not investment advice.