Crypto News Today, November 15 | Bitcoin Below $65,000 After Lowest Price Since July, Fear and Greed Index at 10, KAVA Down 55% After Kava Lend Exploit, Binance Withdrawal Stops Fall to 192

Crypto News Today, November 15 | Bitcoin Below $65,000 After Lowest Price Since July, Fear and Greed Index at 10, KAVA Down 55% After Kava Lend Exploit, Binance Withdrawal Stops Fall to 192

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Bitcoin fell to $62,006 on Binance on Saturday night, U.S. time, its lowest price since July 13. It bounced back above $64,900 by our check, still down about 3% in a day. The Fear & Greed Index fell to 10, its lowest since June. More than $1.9 billion of leveraged bets were wiped out, mostly bets on a rise.

KAVA lost 55% after an attacker drained Kava Lend, and Binance closed its KAVA routes. Binance’s real withdrawal stops fell to 192, while USDT on Polygon closed. U.S. bitcoin funds had a seventh straight day of outflows. Retail sales, Nvidia results and Fed minutes come midweek.

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Bitcoin touches $62,006, its lowest since July, as Fear & Greed falls to 10Liquidations top $1.9 billion in Saturday’s slideKAVA loses 55% after an attack on Kava LendBinance real withdrawal stops fall to 192, but Polygon USDT and KAVA closeWhere USDT and USDC could leave Binance at 05:08 UTCETF flows: bitcoin funds out for a seventh day, ether funds take in $2.3 millionCrypto stocks at Friday’s close: Strategy down 13% on the weekASTER, INJ and AVAX fall double digits, SOPH jumps 30%Osmosis runs but Binance and Coinbase stay closed, Initia still stopped, reserve proof pendingStablecoin supply shrinks for a sixth full dayComing up: retail sales and Nvidia Nov. 17, Fed minutes Nov. 18Related guides

Bitcoin touches $62,006, its lowest since July, as Fear & Greed falls to 10

CoinBinance price (USD)24h change
Bitcoin BTC64,919.09−3.05%
Ether ETH1,811.59−4.44%
XRP0.9726−2.17%
Solana SOL70.89−5.98%
BNB595.11−3.45%
Dogecoin DOGE0.05839−7.13%
Cardano ADA0.1502−8.36%
Chainlink LINK9.115−5.07%
TRON TRX0.3078−1.28%
Gram GRAM1.046−1.78%

Measured by CryptoNakta from Binance spot data at 05:02 UTC, Nov 15 (12:02 a.m. ET Sunday). The 24-hour window starts at 12:02 a.m. ET Saturday, so it covers all of Saturday in U.S. time.

Bitcoin hit $62K intraday, lowest since July; Fear & Greed at 10. Top: Binance bitcoin daily close (today = price at 05:02 UTC). Bottom: daily Crypto Fear & Greed Index. June 1 to today.
Top: Binance bitcoin daily close (today = price at 05:02 UTC). Bottom: daily Crypto Fear & Greed Index. June 1 to today. Today’s low of $62,006 is the lowest since July 13 ($61,825), and a Fear & Greed reading of 10 is the lowest since June 10 (9).
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Bitcoin dropped to $62,006 on Binance at 8:45 p.m. ET Saturday (01:45 UTC Sunday). No daily low on Binance had been that deep since July 13, when bitcoin touched $61,824.97. The hour from 8 to 9 p.m. ET was the busiest of the day, with about $280 million traded.

The bounce came in the next hour. Bitcoin climbed back to $65,111.93 between 9 and 10 p.m. ET, reached $65,595.77 in the hour after that, and stood at $64,919.09 at our check, down 3.0% in 24 hours. That is 4.1% below the $67,666.01 we measured for yesterday’s issue.

Saturday’s slide came in steps. Bitcoin held near $67,000 through the early U.S. morning. It fell under $66,000 around 9 a.m. ET and touched $65,000 between 11 a.m. and noon ET. A second leg between 3 and 5 p.m. ET took it to $63,320.

Across the week, bitcoin’s daily close on Binance went from $75,867.59 on Nov. 7 to $64,150.00 on Nov. 14 (00:00 UTC basis), a fall of 15.4%.

Ether fell 4.4% to $1,811.59. It hit $1,711.08 in the same late drop, its lowest daily low since July 3. Solana fell 6.0% to $70.89 after touching $67.41, its lowest since June 26. BNB touched $566, its lowest since July 29.

We again counted every coin on Binance with more than $20 million in 24-hour volume against USDT, leaving out stablecoins, gold tokens and stock tokens. Twenty-four coins cleared the bar and 22 of them fell. Only Sophon’s SOPH and Zcash’s ZEC rose.

The Fear & Greed Index fell to 10 from 13. It read 20 on Friday and 28 on Thursday. The last time it was this low was June 10, when it read 9. CoinGecko put the whole crypto market at about $2.23 trillion, down from about $2.31 trillion at our Saturday check. Bitcoin’s share was 58.7%, little changed from 58.8%.

Liquidations top $1.9 billion in Saturday’s slide

CoinGlass liquidations, 24 hours, as reported at 7:17 p.m. ET SaturdayAmount
All positions closedover $1.9 billion
Of which bets on a rise (longs)about $1.8 billion
Of which bets on a fall (shorts)$123.5 million
In the last four hours of that window$925 million

Source: CoinGlass data as reported by Crypto Briefing in an article published at 00:17 UTC Sunday (7:17 p.m. ET Saturday). The window reaches back into Friday evening, so it overlaps the figures in yesterday’s issue. Do not add the two together.

Forced selling picked up again on Saturday. More than $1.9 billion of leveraged trades were wiped out across exchanges in the 24 hours to 7:17 p.m. ET, Crypto Briefing reported, citing CoinGlass. Long bets, the ones that pay off if prices rise, made up about 93%. About $925 million of the total came in the final four hours, as bitcoin went through $64,000 and $63,000.

That report came out before bitcoin’s drop to $62,006 at 8:45 p.m. ET. We did not find a CoinGlass total that covers the later move.

A liquidation happens when a leveraged trade runs out of margin and the exchange closes it. Those sales push the price down, which can set off the next round. Our liquidation guide explains how the trigger price is set, and our leverage guide shows how much room each level leaves.

We found no single news event behind Saturday’s moves or the quick rebound after 9 p.m. ET.

KAVA loses 55% after an attack on Kava Lend

Time (UTC)Time (ET)What happened
Sat 04:01Fri 11:01 p.m.Attack on Kava Lend starts (The Block)
Sat 10:00 to 12:00Sat 5 to 7 a.m.KAVA on Binance falls from $0.068 to $0.0336
Sat 10:36Sat 5:36 a.m.Upbit pauses KAVA deposits and withdrawals
Sat 11:28Sat 6:28 a.m.Kava’s first post about “unexpected behavior”
Sat 14:05Sat 9:05 a.m.Kava pauses its Axelar bridge
Sat 22:00 hourSat 5 p.m. hourKAVA hits $0.02507 on Binance
Sun 05:02Sun 12:02 a.m.KAVA at $0.03028, down 55.5% in 24 hours

Sources: The Block (published 6:07 p.m. ET Nov. 14) for the attack start, Kava’s posts and the bridge pause · Upbit notice list · Binance KAVA/USDT hourly candles and 05:02 UTC price, measured by CryptoNakta.

KAVA lost more than half its value on Saturday after an attack on Kava Lend, the lending app on the Kava network. On Binance it fell from about $0.068 to $0.03028 at our check, down 55.5% in 24 hours. It had touched $0.02507 late Saturday afternoon, U.S. time.

The attacker drained about 55.2 million KAVA, worth about $3.76 million at the pre-attack price, The Block reported from on-chain data. It said the attacker inflated the value of a deposit in Kava Lend’s unused BUSD market about 243,000 times and then borrowed KAVA 127 times against it.

About 49.2 million KAVA was then moved to BNB Smart Chain over LayerZero and sold for 3,006.5 BNB and 231,557 USDT, about $2.09 million, according to The Block. Kava has not published its own loss figure.

“This is not an infinite mint,” Kava said on X. “The event is isolated and contained within Kava Lend.” It said it will share a full incident report when it is ready. We found no report at 05:15 UTC.

The Kava network itself kept running. At 05:06 UTC, nodes run by Kava, Polkachu and PublicNode all showed the same latest block, 23,500,518, stamped 05:06:36 UTC. The Kava EVM side was also producing blocks on three endpoints. Kava Lend’s module account held about 6,700 KAVA at 05:08 UTC, by our check of three public API nodes.

Binance had all three KAVA routes closed for deposits and withdrawals at 05:08 UTC. KAVA on BSC carried the note that Binance is refilling its hot wallet. KAVA and USDT on Kava EVM carried the network issues note. KAVA on Kava’s main chain was already closed for maintenance at our Saturday check. On Coinbase, the KAVA-USD market showed as online and the status page listed no Kava incident at 05:11 UTC.

If you lend on any DeFi app, our DeFi guide explains where lending pools can break. Our bridge hacks guide covers how stolen tokens usually leave a chain.

Binance real withdrawal stops fall to 192, but Polygon USDT and KAVA close

Binance withdrawal routesSat 03:03 UTCSun 05:02 UTC
All coin-and-network routes1,4471,447
Closed for withdrawals590585
Actual stops (excluding “not supported” notes and fiat)about 196192
Reopened between the two checks17
Newly closed between the two checks12

Measured by CryptoNakta from Binance’s public deposit and withdrawal settings. 05:02 UTC Sunday is 12:02 a.m. ET. The actual-stop count for Sunday is from the 05:05 UTC sort by Binance’s own notes. Our 05:08 UTC re-check found the same 585 closed routes.

Binance’s withdrawal recovery slowed over the weekend. Between our two checks, 17 routes reopened and 12 closed. The closed total went from 590 to 585.

Not every closed route is a real pause. At 05:05 UTC, 312 closed routes carried Binance’s note that the token is not supported on that network, and 83 were regular-currency (fiat) routes. Two fell in both groups. That leaves 192 real stops, down from about 196 on Saturday and about 280 on Friday.

Of those 192, 96 were marked as wallet maintenance. Another 47 said withdrawals are halted while Binance replenishes or rebalances its hot wallet. Twenty-four cited network issues and seven technical issues. Fifteen were token contract swaps and two cited high withdrawal volume.

Reopened routes included BCH, LUNA, RVN, STEEM, IOST and FET on their own networks, and CRV, SNX and HYPER on Optimism. ADX on Ethereum, AERO on Base and CKB, which closed on Saturday, were all open again.

Of the 12 new closures, nine carried the hot-wallet refill note. They included USDT and USDC on Polygon, EGLD, KSM on Kusama, SOMI, PENGU on Solana and WLD on Optimism. The other three were AXL on its own network and the two Kava EVM routes, with the network issues note.

In a notice at 03:52 UTC Saturday (10:52 p.m. ET Friday), Binance listed 87 networks it reopened this week. It said it aims to reopen withdrawals for all remaining networks and assets by the end of next week.

At our 05:21 UTC check, 14 networks on that list had every route closed, apart from tokens marked as not supported. They were KAVA, KAVAEVM, OSMO, AXL, EGLD, SOMI, KUSAMA, SONIC, ZILEVM, ETHW, CFX, POLYX, NANO and XEC.

Our Binance maintenance guide explains what each note means.

Where USDT and USDC could leave Binance at 05:08 UTC

NetworkUSDT withdrawalsUSDC withdrawals
Ethereum, BSC, Solana, Arbitrumopenopen
TRON, TONopennot offered
Base, Sui, zkSync Eranot offeredopen
Avalanche C-Chain, Optimismopenclosed (hot wallet)
Polygonclosed (hot wallet)closed (hot wallet)
Aptosclosed (high volume)closed (hot wallet)
Polkadot Asset Hubclosed (rebalancing)closed (hot wallet)
Scrollclosed (hot wallet)not offered
Kava EVMclosed (network issues)not offered

Checked by CryptoNakta from Binance’s public settings at 05:08 UTC, Nov 15. USDC was also closed on Arc, Algorand and Stellar (maintenance), Celo and Sonic (network issues), Hedera (technical issues), Sei EVM and World Chain (hot wallet). “Not offered” means Binance does not list that network for the coin.

Dollar stablecoins could still leave Binance on the busiest networks at 05:08 UTC. USDT was open on Ethereum, TRON, BSC and Solana. USDC was open on Ethereum, BSC, Solana, Base and Arbitrum.

USDT was closed on five networks, up from three on Saturday. Polygon and Kava EVM were the new ones. USDC was closed on 13, the same count as Saturday, not counting one route marked as not supported.

If your usual network is closed, check the list on the withdrawal screen before you pick another one. The receiving wallet or exchange has to support the same network. Our wrong network guide covers what happens if it does not.

ETF flows: bitcoin funds out for a seventh day, ether funds take in $2.3 million

U.S. spot ETF flows (Farside)Thu, Nov 12Fri, Nov 13Week, Nov 9 to 13
All bitcoin funds−$284.1M−$185.4M−$1,065.3M
BlackRock IBIT−$203.8M−$143.5M−$908.4M
Fidelity FBTC−$32.6M−$41.9M−$111.3M
Morgan Stanley MSBT+$3.3M$0+$54.4M
All ether funds−$70.5M+$2.3M−$398.9M
Fidelity FETH−$0.5M+$11.6M−$12.1M

Source: Farside Investors tables, read at 05:12 UTC on Nov 15. Weekly figures are our sums of Farside’s daily numbers. Farside and SoSoValue can differ slightly.

U.S. bitcoin funds lost $185.4 million on Friday, Farside’s final figure shows. That makes seven straight trading days of outflows, worth $1.91 billion in total by our sum.

BlackRock’s IBIT lost $143.5 million, its 11th straight day of outflows. Fidelity’s FBTC lost $41.9 million. No other bitcoin fund had a flow on Friday.

Over the 11 trading days from Oct. 30 to Nov. 13, bitcoin funds lost $2.99 billion. Only Nov. 4 had a net inflow.

Ether funds took in $2.3 million on Friday, their first inflow since Nov. 4. Fidelity’s FETH added $11.6 million while Grayscale’s mini ether fund lost $9.3 million. Over the week, ether funds lost $398.9 million.

Our ETF vs. bitcoin guide compares the yearly cost of a fund with holding the coin yourself.

Crypto stocks at Friday’s close: Strategy down 13% on the week

Friday, Nov 13 closePriceFridayWeek
Strategy MSTR$111.62−2.4%−13.4%
Coinbase COIN$127.65−2.3%−5.3%
Circle CRCL$62.20−2.5%−8.4%
Robinhood HOOD$77.86−4.3%−3.8%
iShares Bitcoin Trust IBIT$38.94−3.5%−9.2%

Source: daily closing prices from Yahoo Finance. Weekly change compares Friday’s close with the Nov. 6 close. U.S. markets were closed on Saturday and Sunday, so these are still the latest closing prices.

U.S. crypto stocks ended the week lower. Strategy fell 2.4% on Friday to $111.62 and lost 13.4% over the week. MSCI said this week it will remove the company from its indexes at the close on Nov. 30.

Coinbase fell 2.3% to $127.65 and Circle 2.5% to $62.20. Robinhood had the biggest one-day drop of the group, 4.3%.

Bitcoin kept falling after the Friday close. It was about $68,900 at 4 p.m. ET Friday on Binance and below $65,000 by Sunday. Stocks tied to bitcoin trade again at 9:30 a.m. ET Monday.

ASTER, INJ and AVAX fall double digits, SOPH jumps 30%

Binance pairPrice (USD)24h change24h volume
SOPH/USDT0.00215+30.30%$26.0M
ZEC/USDT908.03+0.57%$223.3M
ASTER/USDT0.5225−17.59%$35.8M
INJ/USDT7.005−12.62%$29.4M
AVAX/USDT7.192−11.02%$35.0M
TAO/USDT188.4−10.03%$32.9M
UNI/USDT5.055−9.38%$72.2M
ENA/USDT0.1186−8.35%$36.4M

Measured by CryptoNakta from Binance spot data at 05:02 UTC, Nov 15. KAVA is covered in its own section above.

Aster’s ASTER fell the most after KAVA. Most of the drop came between 2 and 4 p.m. ET Saturday, when it went from about $0.618 to $0.486. It touched $0.4784, its lowest daily low since Feb. 6. We found no Aster announcement that explains the move.

INJ gave back Friday’s gain and more, falling 12.6% to $7.005. Avalanche’s AVAX fell 11.0% to $7.192 and hit $6.743, its lowest since Aug. 20. Bittensor’s TAO fell 10.0%.

SOPH was the only coin with real volume to post a big gain, up 30.3%. Most of the climb came early Saturday, U.S. time, between 3 and 7 a.m. ET. We found no Sophon announcement that explains it.

In South Korea, Upbit ends trading support for SOPH and Zilliqa’s ZIL at 06:00 UTC Monday (1 a.m. ET), as it announced in October. Binance still lists both. On Binance, SOPH withdrawals were open only on Ethereum at 05:08 UTC. Our delisting guide explains what happens to coins left on an exchange after trading ends.

Zcash rose 0.6% to $908.03. It traded $223 million on Binance, more than any coin we counted except bitcoin, ether, Solana and XRP.

Osmosis runs but Binance and Coinbase stay closed, Initia still stopped, reserve proof pending

Chain or itemCheck at 05:10 to 05:15 UTCStatus
Osmosis (4 public nodes)Blocks 75,141,876 to 75,141,879, stamped 05:11 UTCrunning
OSMO on BinanceDeposits and withdrawalsclosed (network issues)
OSMO on CoinbaseStatus page incident opened 7:20 p.m. ET Nov. 12still open
Initia (Polkachu node)Last block 23,680,323, stamped Nov 10, 06:18:40 UTCno new blocks
Binance reserve proofAnnouncement listnot published

Read by CryptoNakta from public nodes run by Osmosis, Polkachu, ECO Stake and PublicNode (Osmosis) and by Polkachu (Initia). Initia’s own endpoint returned an error and PublicNode’s did not answer. Coinbase status page and Binance announcement list checked at 05:11 and 05:10 UTC.

Osmosis has now run for more than two days since its restart at 02:53 UTC Friday. Exchanges have not caught up. Binance still had OSMO deposits and withdrawals closed at 05:08 UTC.

Coinbase’s incident for delayed OSMO sends and receives, opened at 4:20 p.m. PT on Nov. 12, was still marked “investigating” at 05:11 UTC. It has had no update since it opened. Coinbase says buys, sells and cash deposits and withdrawals are not affected. Upbit’s OSMO pause notice was not marked complete at 05:13 UTC.

Initia has made no new blocks for almost five days. Polkachu’s node still had the same last block from Nov. 10. We found no restart date from Initia.

Binance had not announced the zero-knowledge proof for its Nov. 12 reserves snapshot in its announcement list at 05:10 UTC. On Thursday it said the proof takes about 40 to 50 hours to generate. Our proof-of-reserves guide shows how to check your balance once it is out. If an OSMO transfer is stuck, our pending withdrawal guide covers what to check.

Stablecoin supply shrinks for a sixth full day

Date (UTC)All stablecoinsDaily change
Nov 12$289.05B−$0.42B
Nov 13$287.76B−$1.29B
Nov 14$287.04B−$0.72B
Nov 15 (partial day)$287.07B+$0.03B

Pulled by CryptoNakta from DefiLlama’s public stablecoin data at 05:14 UTC, Nov 15. The last row is a partial day and can still change.

Stablecoin supply shrank for a sixth full day on Saturday, by $0.72 billion per DefiLlama. Since Nov. 8 the total is down $4.44 billion.

The two biggest coins ticked up over the past 24 hours. Tether’s USDT rose $100 million to $175.38 billion and Circle’s USDC $110 million to $69.31 billion. Over the past week, USDT is still down $1.53 billion and USDC $1.34 billion.

Supply falls when issuers take back more tokens for dollars than they hand out. See our USDT vs. USDC guide for how redemption works at each issuer.

Coming up: retail sales and Nvidia Nov. 17, Fed minutes Nov. 18

  • Pending: Kava’s incident report on Kava Lend, and Binance’s zero-knowledge proof for its Nov. 12 reserves snapshot.
  • Monday, Nov. 16, 06:00 UTC (1 a.m. ET): Upbit ends trading support for SOPH and ZIL.
  • Monday, Nov. 16, 08:30 UTC (3:30 a.m. ET): Binance Futures launches HYPE and TRX perpetuals settled in USDC.
  • Monday, Nov. 16: New York Fed manufacturing survey for November.
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 8:30 a.m. ET (13:30 UTC): October retail sales from the Census Bureau. Economists expect a 0.2% rise after 0.8% in September, per Newsquawk. Industrial production is also due that day.
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. ET (22:00 UTC): Nvidia’s call on its third-quarter results.
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. ET (19:00 UTC): minutes of the Fed’s October meeting. Binance also sells SNDKB held as margin collateral at 15:00 UTC that day.
  • Nov. 19: Binance updates the order step size on several spot pairs. Philadelphia Fed survey.
  • Nov. 20: SanDisk split on Binance’s SNDKB token. Final University of Michigan consumer survey for November.
  • By the end of next week: Binance’s target to reopen all remaining withdrawal networks.
  • Nov. 30, at the close: MSCI removes Strategy from its indexes.
  • Dec. 8 and 9: the Fed’s next rate meeting.

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