Crypto Pulse: November 13, 2026 — Bitcoin Falls 4.48% Below $70,000 as $1.64 Billion Is Liquidated

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Crypto fell sharply on Friday, extending a week-long slide as Bitcoin broke below $70,000 for the first time since August and leveraged positions were forced out. In Market Briefer’s delayed snapshot at 4:31 p.m. CST, Bitcoin fell 4.48% to $68,227 and Ethereum fell 4.34% to $1,924, while Solana dropped 3.56% to $78.45, Cardano fell 3.18% to $0.168 and Dogecoin fell 2.76% to $0.064, in a session tracked throughout the day on Market Briefer’s Crypto desk. TRON was the board’s most resilient major, down 1.07% to $0.312, and no major was in positive territory.

The break below $70,000 was the day’s defining move. CoinDesk reported Bitcoin slumping as low as $67,770, a level not seen since August 19, and ether touching $1,900, its least since August 18, while Friday’s Global Close, in its own delayed snapshot, put bitcoin down 4.22% to $68,433, slipping below its 200-week moving average near $68,000, and ether down 4.13% to $1,931, below $2,000 for the first time since August.

The board below is Market Briefer’s delayed market data, sourced from CoinGecko and delayed by about 15 minutes, as of 4:31 p.m. CST on Friday, November 13, 2026, ordered by 24-hour move, biggest faller first.

Beyond the majors, the site’s biggest 24-hour movers board was led by decliners, with Bitway down 19.33%, Ether.fi down 9.61% and Filecoin down 5.40%, while Injective rose 7.43% and Pearl rose 5.59% against the tape.

The day’s story was the scale of the deleveraging that accompanied the fall. Exchanges liquidated $1.64 billion of crypto futures positions over 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data reported by CoinDesk, with longs accounting for 88.7% of the total, including $916 million in Bitcoin and $289 million in ether. The largest single liquidation was a $31.1 million long on Hyperliquid at $72,250, CoinDesk reported. Futures trading volume jumped 58.3% to $269.1 billion while open interest fell 4.6% to $120.2 billion, a combination CoinDesk described as traders closing positions as money left the market, and options positioning stayed defensive, with the premium of puts over calls at about 14% at one week and the most-traded ether option the $1,800 put expiring November 20.

The fund flows pointed the same way. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net withdrawals of $47.7 million on Thursday, according to Farside Investors data reported by CoinDesk, marking a sixth straight day of outflows, and CoinDesk put the total that has left the funds since the start of November at around $1.88 billion. Thursday’s figure was smaller than Wednesday’s $299.9 million outflow, but it extended the streak that has run alongside Bitcoin’s fall from above $74,000 earlier in the week.

The pressure behind the board was again the rate repricing that ran through every other desk this week. The Dollar Index rose above 103, its highest since April 2025, according to CoinDesk, and CME FedWatch pricing showed traders seeing an 88% chance of a quarter-point increase and a 12% chance of a half-point increase at the Federal Reserve’s December 8-9 meeting. Friday’s producer price report did little to change that picture: the Producer Price Index rose 0.3% in October, below the 0.4% expected, but the 12-month increase accelerated to 6.5%, the largest since November 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data reported in Friday’s Global Close, which also recorded the 10-year Treasury yield closing the week at 5.15%. It is the same contest for defensive money examined in Market Briefer’s explainer on Bitcoin versus gold.

What to watch begins with the weekend itself, when crypto trades through thinner liquidity while traditional markets are closed, and with whether Bitcoin holds near its 200-week moving average near $68,000, the level Friday’s Global Close flagged as it slipped below it, and whether Ethereum holds above the $1,900 intraday low CoinDesk reported. The next U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF flow print will show whether Thursday’s $47.7 million outflow extends the streak to a seventh day. The calendar then builds from Monday, with the Empire State manufacturing index, China’s October activity data, Canadian inflation and euro zone industrial production, ahead of October retail sales and Nvidia’s earnings on Tuesday and the Fed’s October minutes on Wednesday, according to Friday’s Global Close. On the board itself, Bitcoin at $68,227 in the site’s delayed snapshot sits below the $70,000 level it lost on Friday, Ethereum stands at $1,924 and Solana at $78.45.

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