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The crypto reader's guide to the 2026 midterm election: State of Crypto
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1News media
- Published
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
The total crypto market rose 0.3% in the 4 hours after the first headline, after falling 0.5% in the 2 hours before.
$2.6T
market cap at the headline
-0.5%
2 h before
+0.3%
4 h after
+0.4%
12 h after
First headline
48 prices, one every 30 minutes · The move was larger before the first headline than after: 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
CoinDesk
scoop
Nov 1 19:30
Breaks the event
Where this sits in the Bitcoin series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 years ago | BTC at $115,227 high | today it sits -35.0% from there |
| 4 months ago | BTC at $58,566 low | today it sits +27.9% from there |
From what we have stored, starting 1.1 years ago.