The crypto market gave way across the board on Thursday, and the trigger does not lie in the sector itself. Equities, oil and bonds set the tempo: as the Nasdaq Composite shed 2.1 percent over the session and Brent crude climbed to a five-month high, investors pulled back from everything counted as risky. Ether was hit harder than Bitcoin.

On Thursday afternoon Ether costs $2,376.99, 5.4 percent less than 24 hours earlier. Bitcoin stands at $81,176.09, down 4.0 percent. The crypto market as a whole has shrunk 4.2 percent over the same period, to $2.83 trillion. This assessment was compiled by cryptoticker.io itself on October 22, 2026.

If you hold crypto in Germany, a day like this changes nothing about the technology behind your coins…