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The crypto reader's guide to the 2026 midterm election: State of Crypto

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1News media
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Key claims & sources

Summary in preparation.

Market reaction i

Total crypto marketall crypto assets combined no single asset in the event: read against the whole market
first headline
-0.5% 2 h before
+0.3% 4 h after
$2.6Tmarket cap at publication
12data points

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.

Coverage timeline

Every piece in order, with the time its news medium declares — if it is not believable we use ours and say so — and what it added to what was already known at that point. Arriving first is not the same as adding something.

first
Nov 1 19:30

Where this sits in the Bitcoin series

WhenWhat happenedFigure
1.1 years ago BTC at $115,227 high today it sits -34.0% from there
4 months ago BTC at $58,566 low today it sits +29.9% from there

From what we have stored, starting 1.1 years ago.