The Daily Byte
Breaking
Welcome to The Daily Byte — real stories from across Pakistan.
Sunday, 8 November 2026 · Pakistan

The Daily Byte

Stories from Pakistan that deserve to be heard
Minor Markets

Solana and XRP Lead Crypto Weekly Slide

By The Daily Byte ·08 Nov 2026 ·2 min read
Cryptocurrency coins on a desk

Solana and XRP have led the weekly slide in cryptocurrencies, with Solana clinging to the $90 level and XRP the weakest of the major tokens after a week of heavy selling across digital assets.

Solana traded near $90 on Saturday 7 November, up slightly on the day after briefly slipping below that level on Friday. The token is down about 6.5% over five sessions and sits just above its 200-day moving average of about $89, with support at $88.30. Traders are watching whether that long-term average holds after the token fell 6.6% over the week to around $90.40.

XRP has fared worse. It traded at about $1.16 to $1.17 on Saturday, down about 3% on the day and about 7.6% over the week. It was the weakest large cryptocurrency in the sell-off, with Friday's XRP liquidations running at 2.7 times the weekly average and 95.5% of them long positions. Its 200-day moving average of $1.27 now sits above the current price, a sign of a bearish longer-term trend, and its relative strength index of about 33 points to heavy selling pressure.

The wider market has also struggled. Bitcoin held at about $75,800 on Saturday after touching $74,762 on Friday, its lowest level since 21 August, and Ethereum traded at about $2,230, its lowest in ten weeks. More than $1 billion in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated within 24 hours during the sell-off, before easing to about $707 million over the following day.

The total cryptocurrency market value fell 2.66% over 24 hours to about $2.57 trillion on 7 November, with sentiment at extreme fear. The falls tracked the sharp drop in technology shares, with the Nasdaq falling 5.52% on Thursday and entering correction territory, as investors reassessed spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.

[Source: coincentral.com](https://coincentral.com/solana-sol-price-bulls-defend-200-day-average-as-crypto-market-bleeds/) | [Source: secureshift.io](https://secureshift.io/blog/crypto-market-today-november-7-2026-weekly-recap)