Crypto Pulse: November 3, 2026 — Board Turns Green Even as Bitcoin ETFs Lose Another $399 Million

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U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds lost another $399 million on Monday, a second straight day of outflows, yet the crypto board rose broadly on Tuesday as voters went to the polls in the U.S. midterm elections. In Market Briefer’s delayed snapshot at 5:14 p.m. CST, Bitcoin rose 1.43% to $77,778, Ethereum gained 1.70% to $2,289 and Solana rose 1.55% to $93.28, and every major coin on the board finished in positive territory, in a session tracked throughout the day on Market Briefer’s Crypto desk.

The board below is Market Briefer’s delayed market data, sourced from CoinGecko and delayed by about 15 minutes, as of 5:14 p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, ordered by 24-hour move, largest gain first.

Dogecoin led the majors, rising 1.76% to $0.075, just ahead of Ethereum’s 1.70% gain to $2,289. Solana rose 1.55% to $93.28 and Bitcoin added 1.43% to $77,778, reclaiming the $77,000 level it had lost last week, while Cardano rose 1.12% to $0.191 and TRON posted the board’s smallest gain, up 0.98% to $0.322. No major coin fell. Beyond the majors, the site’s top-movers board showed wider gains, led by Pump.fun, up 10.79%, and Lighter, up 10.66% — the perpetual futures exchange whose token advanced as the venue prepares to apply to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this month for registrations as a trading venue and a clearing house, according to its founder Vladimir Novakovski, as reported by CoinDesk. LayerZero rose 9.62%, Zcash gained 7.05%, Venice Token rose 6.75% and Midnight added 5.97%.

The day’s story was the split between fund flows and prices. Monday’s $399 million outflow, reported by CoinDesk from Farside Investors data, followed Friday’s $643.3 million withdrawal, taking the two-session total above $1 billion, and it was concentrated in a single fund: BlackRock’s IBIT shed $405 million, more than the whole complex’s net outflow and its largest daily withdrawal since June. The funds hold Bitcoin directly, and their daily creations and redemptions are widely treated as a proxy for institutional demand — the plumbing set out in Market Briefer’s explainer on how an ETF differs from a mutual fund. Prices, for one session at least, moved the other way, after Bitcoin had dipped to around $76,300 in the European morning, according to CoinDesk.

The exchange backdrop remained unsettled. Binance customers have withdrawn a net $4.72 billion since the exchange reopened on Sunday, up from $3.64 billion that day, CoinDesk reported, a figure Reuters also reported on Tuesday as cryptocurrencies remained choppy after last week’s theft. New attacks added to the strain, including Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin, where an estimated $40 million was drained from hot wallets, according to security firm Hypernative, as reported by CoinDesk. Trading gauges described churn rather than fresh positioning ahead of the election: crypto futures volume rose 51% in 24 hours to $168.1 billion while open interest fell 1.63% to $134.9 billion, and liquidations jumped 171% to $382.6 million, CoinDesk reported. Options traders paid up for near-term protection, with implied volatility on the nearest-dated Bitcoin options at about 51%, up from about 43.5%, and about 59% for ether, while CoinMarketCap’s fear and greed index stood at 34, in fear territory.

What to watch starts with the midterm results, with early results and media calls due on Wednesday, which will set the regulatory backdrop for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term, and with the next U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF flow print, which will show whether the outflows extend to a third straight day or Monday’s withdrawal was the end of the post-theft reaction. Friday’s November 6 nonfarm payrolls report will test the interest-rate expectations that move crypto alongside other risk assets, and MSCI’s final list of companies affected by its new rules for non-operating companies remains pending, with Bitcoin holders Strategy and Metaplanet named by CoinDesk as potential candidates for exclusion. On the board itself, Bitcoin’s $77,778 print holds above the $76,300 morning low CoinDesk reported, and Solana remains below $100 at $93.28.

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