Crypto Today: November 13, 2026
Bitcoin fell below $69,000 to a 12-week low on Friday, with more than $1.6 billion in leveraged positions liquidated, and the weakness spread to firms that hold crypto on their balance sheets.
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Bitcoin fell below $69,000 to a 12-week low on Friday, with more than $1.6 billion in leveraged positions liquidated, and the weakness spread to firms that hold crypto on their balance sheets.
Bitcoin fell to a 12-week low near $71,000 on Thursday as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's abrupt resignation hit tech stocks and about $750 million of crypto positions were liquidated.
Wall Street's rails into crypto kept widening on Nov. 10-11, with Coinbase's federal trust charter taking effect, Deutsche Bank opening crypto custody and OKX-ICE setting a tokenized stock launch.
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, opened its IPO roadshow, the biggest story of the day.
Security and illicit finance dominated the week.
Crypto had a rough, regulation-heavy Monday: bitcoin slid to an 11-week low on liquidations and ETF outflows while Washington's post-midterm shift put Binance, Tether and Trump-linked ventures in the crosshairs.
A security breach at Web3Auth, a login service used by the Keplr wallet, dominated the weekend.
Security and sanctions dominated the day: iPhone wallet thefts on TRON, a Keplr login pause, and two new US sanctions actions, on the Prince Group scam network and on Canadian exchange firms tied to Iran.
Security and enforcement dominated the day: new estimates showed the Binance attackers had long access and still hold most of the stolen funds, while the US Treasury cut the exchange MEXC off from American banking.
Two shocks outside crypto's usual orbit dominated the day: Paraguay's president resigned after the collapse of the Ueno digital bank, and a Nasdaq-led selloff in AI stocks erased Bitcoin's post-election gains.
The US midterms handed Democrats control of the Senate and put them on track for a House majority, clouding the outlook for the CLARITY Act, the crypto market-structure bill.
Binance's account of how attackers drained about $6.34 billion from its hot wallets dominated the day, and the fallout spread to its finances, South Korean regulators and the wider hunt for stolen funds.
This week was defined by the largest crypto theft on record.
The aftermath of the record Binance hack dominated the day: authorities and firms froze billions of the loot while North Korea denied blame, and separate incidents followed at a Brazilian exchange, in BTCPay Server and in a suspected $106M theft.
The FBI formally blamed North Korea's TraderTraitor group for the record Binance hack of about $6.3 billion, while Binance began reopening withdrawals and the attackers kept moving funds across Tron, bridges and Solana.
The Binance breach, put at $6.3 billion by CoinDesk, dominated the day: the exchange says it has replaced 90% of the stolen assets and is aiming to resume withdrawals on Nov. 1.
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, lost about $6.3 billion in the largest exchange hack on record, and blockchain analytics firms quickly pointed to North Korea.
A theft of about $6.3 billion from Binance, the largest crypto exchange and now the victim of the largest crypto hack on record, dominated the week.