Crypto markets are mixed on Wednesday, Nov. 5, with most large-cap assets continuing<\/a> to trade in the red, while Bitcoin dipped below $100,000 twice over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) is down 1.2% on the day and trading around $102,600 at press time.<\/p>\n Ethereum (ETH<\/a>) is down the most among the top-20 large caps today, losing and trading around $3,335. XRP, BNB<\/a>, TRON (TRX<\/a>), Dogecoin (DOGE<\/a>), Cardano (ADA<\/a>), and Chainlink (LINK<\/a>) are flat or slightly in the green, while Hyperliquid\u2019s HYPE<\/a> fared better, up 8.8% today.<\/p>\n A glassnode analyst noted that they\u2019re seeing \u201cdecent spike in realized loss,\u201d suggesting some degree of capitulation among Bitcoin holders.<\/p>\n Glassnode analyst Chris Beamish wrote in an X post<\/a> today: \u201cstill seeing lots of long-term holder selling, but will be interested to see if the selling persists at these levels.\u201d<\/p>\n As glassnode explained in a Nov. 4 X post<\/a>, a key level for Bitcoin is around $99,000, which has \u201chistorically provided support during pullbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n Mark Hiriart, an executive at digital asset trading firm Zerocap, said in commentary shared with The Defiant that historically, November has been \u201cBTC’s strongest month,\u201d but this “healthy correction,\u201d which brought BTC\u2019s price down 10% from the $110,000 peak \u201caligns with patterns seen in prior cycles, where post-euphoria dips precede stronger legs up.\u201d<\/p>\n Among the top-100 assets<\/a>, decentralized perpetuals exchange Aster\u2019s ASTER and Zcash (ZEC<\/a>) are the biggest gainers today, both up around 15%.<\/p>\n For Aster, the price surge follows reports<\/a> that its CEO announced plans to build a privacy\u2011focused public chain aimed at traders, with gas-free transactions.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, today\u2019s biggest losers are DASH<\/a> \u2014 one of yesterday\u2019s top gainers \u2014 and Internet Computer (ICP<\/a>), which lost 27% and 11% respectively. For DASH the fall marks a correction from the asset\u2019s surge over the last week, and it’s still up over 110% on that timeframe, joining the broader privacy coin rally, as The Defiant previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, data from Coinglass<\/a> shows that over $1.7 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, including $1.29 billion in longs and around $403 million in shorts. Ethereum accounted for $575 million of that total, followed by Bitcoin at $485 million, and MMT with $134 million.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Nov. 4, spot Ethereum ETFs recorded their fifth consecutive day of outflows, with $219 million in net outflows, bringing total net assets to $21.1 billion. Spot Bitcoin ETFs also continued their net outflows with over $577 million leaving the products, according to SoSoValue<\/a>. <\/p>\n On the macroeconomic front, U.S. private companies added 42,000 positions in October, rebounding from a 29,000 drop in September and beating the expected 22,000 gain, CNBC reported<\/a> today.<\/p>\n All the growth came from larger companies with 250+ employees, which added 76,000 jobs, while smaller businesses cut 34,000.<\/p>\n At the same time, the number of job openings in the U.S. fell to their lowest level in over four and a half years as October ended, with the government shutdown continuing, according to data<\/a> from job site Indeed.<\/p>\n In DeFi, sentiment continues to be bleak this week, as news of the Balancer hack <\/a>and the collapse<\/a> of yield optimizer Stream Finance shake confidence<\/a> in the sector. <\/p>\n Per the crypto market Fear & Greed Index, sentiment has shifted to extreme fear over the past two days.<\/p>\n Total market cap is slightly in the red today while large-caps are mostly flat or down. Crypto markets are mixed on Wednesday, Nov. 5, with most large-cap assets continuing to trade in the red, while Bitcoin dipped below $100,000 twice over the past 24 hours. 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