Bitcoin dropped to $94,455 on November 14, falling below $95,000 for the first time since May. The decline triggered $676 million in BTC liquidations, according to CoinGlass data. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino described the event as "Bitcoin black friday" on social media. Total liquidations across the cryptocurrency market exceeded $1.38 billion.

The XRP Ledger has launched native Layer-1 smart contract testing on AlphaNet, its development-focused network. The implementation combines EVM-compatible contract patterns with XRPL's existing infrastructure, enabling developers to build decentralized applications directly on the ledger. Denis Angell, software engineer at XRPL Labs and Xahau, announced the milestone on November 7, 2025.

Asset manager 21Shares submitted an amended prospectus for its proposed spot XRP exchange-traded fund on January 14, 2025, initiating an automatic 20-day effectiveness countdown under Section 8(a) of U.S. securities law. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas confirmed the filing activates the approval clock unless the Securities and Exchange Commission intervenes. The fund would trade on Nasdaq under ticker XRPC with custody provided by Gemini Trust Company and BitGo Trust Company.

Binance will delist COIN-M perpetual contracts for Decentraland (MANA) and MultiversX (EGLD) on November 13 at 9:00 a.m. UTC. All positions will be closed and automatically settled before delisting. The exchange advises traders to close positions before the deadline to avoid automatic settlement.

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) has secured the 17th position among cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, reaching $8.53 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. The token has posted a 1,236% increase over the past year and accumulated over 700% in gains since September. At the time of reporting, ZEC traded at $524, reflecting a 14.46% gain in 24 hours and 46% weekly appreciation.

T. Rowe Price, managing $1.77 trillion in assets, has filed with the SEC for an actively managed exchange-traded fund featuring multiple cryptocurrencies including Shiba Inu. The proposed ETF would offer exposure to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and SHIB, according to the filing prospectus. The application follows recent launches of single-asset crypto ETFs in the U.S. earlier this week.

Ethereum rose 6% on October 27, 2025, reaching an intraday high of $4,254 as traders rotated into higher-volatility assets. The advance extended ETH's recovery from $3,711 on October 22, with analysts noting a bull flag formation similar to patterns observed in 2020.

Bitcoin Core disclosed four low-severity security vulnerabilities on October 24, 2025, all resolved in version 30.0 released October 10, 2025. The flaws include CPU resource exhaustion from unconfirmed transaction processing, potential crashes on 32-bit systems, and disk space exploitation through spoofed connections and invalid block submissions.