Market brief · 2026-10-29
Bitcoin slips to $79,824 as 47 of 55 tracked coins fall; Pepe gains 4.37%
· By the MyCryptoSignal Data Desk · Written from our own collected price data
Brief as of
Crypto spent Wednesday giving back Tuesday's gain, with Bitcoin slipping to $79,824, down 1.25%, and the total market cap easing 1.27% to $2,523,835,056,557. Only one of the 55 coins we track rose. Ether fell 1.9% to $2,306.37 on $112,453,358,630 of total volume. It was a broad, orderly decline rather than a single-name break, and Bitcoin dominance held at 63.6%.
The frame was red across the board. Total market cap stood at $2,523,835,056,557, down 1.27% over 24 hours and 3.24% over seven days. Bitcoin traded at $79,824, down 1.25% on the day and 3.48% on the week, with dominance at 63.6%. Ether slipped 1.9% to $2,306.37. Total volume across the tracked market reached $112,453,358,630.
Breadth was close to one-sided. Of 55 tracked coins, 1 rose, 47 fell and 7 held inside a percentage point. The major cohort of 8 coins averaged -1.33%, with 0 risers and 6 fallers. Meme names, 5 coins, averaged -1.63% with 1 riser and 4 fallers. The 39 coins in the other cohort averaged -3.79%, with 0 risers and 37 fallers. The gap between majors and the rest is the day's clearest reading.
Pepe was the day's leader and the only tracked coin in the green, at $0.00000497, up 4.37%. Volume reached $828,729,508 and RSI sat at 62.6 with an up trend. It traded between $0.0000048 and $0.00000517 over 24 hours. The 7-day change was 11.9963% and the 30-day 19.9235%. No news item in the packet covers the move; the numbers show a coin holding a multi-week advance while the wider tape fell.
Behind Pepe, the green was thin. BNB traded at $748.71, up 0.58%, with RSI 56.3, an up trend and $1,185,007,143 in volume, between $744.37 and $761.04. TRX was effectively flat at $0.330962, down 0.01554%, with RSI 57.7. Beam slipped 0.15% to $0.00336143 but holds a 30-day gain of 67.1196%. Litecoin fell 0.57% to $57.08, RSI 44.9. What they share is a trend reading of up or flat while the broad market fell.
The weakest names gave back more than a day's worth. JasmyCoin fell 12.69% to $0.00370421, RSI 20.8, down 20.12% on the week and 27.04% on the month. NEAR dropped 8.06% to $4.31, RSI 38, with a 7-day decline of 13.29%. Bitcoin Cash lost 6.21% to $279.04, RSI 37.9, though it is still up 0.28% over seven days. Mantle fell 5.73% to $0.499673, down 24.22% over 30 days, and VeChain 5.37% to $0.00605147, down 30.72% on the month.
Technical breadth stayed subdued. Of 30 sampled coins, none were overbought and none oversold, 4 carried an up trend and 12 a down trend. Bitcoin's own RSI was 43.4 with a flat trend and volatility at 0. Support sits at $80,191.5 and resistance at $80,344.2, and the price trades below both. That mix reads as a market that is neither stretched nor panicking, just drifting lower.
Over seven days the leaders are the same names. Pepe is up 12%, Beam 8.78% and BNB 1.72%. The week's laggards are Worldcoin at $0.411212, down 24.28%, JasmyCoin down 20.12% and Aptos at $0.6548, down 15.86%. USDT led turnover at $47,598,838,609 against $112,453,358,630 total. Pepe, Beam and BNB also sit atop the weekly list, so today's strength and the week's strength are the same three coins.
The tape reads as concentration into a very small set of names rather than a broad risk move. Forty-seven of 55 tracked coins fell, and the other cohort, 39 coins, averaged -3.79% against -1.33% for majors. That gap says capital is not leaving crypto wholesale; it is narrowing. Bitcoin dominance at 63.6%, a flat trend and RSI at 43.4 reinforce the picture of a market sitting still at the index level while the tail sells off. Pepe's 4.37% gain and 19.9235% 30-day advance stand out precisely because little else is working. The longer numbers, total cap down 3.24% and Bitcoin down 3.48% over seven days, show the drift has run longer than one session.
Yesterday's brief had Bitcoin holding $80,835 as crypto gained 1.5%, with Pepe leading at 11.45%. A day later Bitcoin is at $79,824 and Pepe is again the only riser, up 4.37%. The level to note is the pair at $80,191.5 support and $80,344.2 resistance, with the price below both. JasmyCoin's RSI of 20.8 after a 12.69% drop is the other reading worth tracking, alongside 12 down trends against 4 up in the 30-coin sample.
Data, not advice.
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