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Yesterday, IDOL touched $0.0445, a new all-time high. Checking again this morning, it was around $0.033, down a quarter from its peak. But it was still up more than 30% over 24 hours, up over 95% in 7 days, and up 257% in a month. Of the top 100 cryptocurrencies, 71 were down, making it one of the few still climbing.
$IDOL is the token of MEET48, a Web3 project that brings together AI and idol fandom, with fan voting, livestreams, games, and the metaverse. It has a solid pedigree: it came out of the BNB Chain accelerator, received investment from Binance-affiliated YZi Labs, launched through a Binance Wallet IDO, and was listed on KuCoin on November 3.

On November 6, the U.S. Treasury issued an order cutting MEXC, one of the world’s top 20 exchanges, off from the U.S. financial system. FinCEN says that between May 2021 and May 2026, MEXC handled at least $16 billion in funds linked to illicit activity, including nearly $1.5 billion that helped people evade sanctions on Russia. Transactions directly involving sanctioned entities totaled $232 million.
So what exactly does this order affect? First, what it doesn’t affect: MEXC has not been added to the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions list, no assets have been frozen, and no one is urging you to withdraw your crypto. The order targets U.S. banks and financial institutions. It takes effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, which, as of this morning, had not yet been published. MEXC doesn’t serve U.S. users anyway, and its response this morning was defiant: operations are normal, assets are safe, and the company is assessing the situation and has launched an independent review.

At 9:30 last night, the U.S. Department of Labor released the October nonfarm payrolls report: employment rose by 165,000, against expectations of just 65,000. September’s figure was also revised up from 29,000 to 60,000, while the unemployment rate fell from 4.2% to 4.1%. The numbers were almost too good, and Bitcoin ($BTC ) was the first to take a hit.
The logic is pretty straightforward. A strong jobs report tells the Fed there’s no need to rush into easing. The odds of a rate hike in December jumped from over 60% to nearly 77%, and the 10-year Treasury yield surged to 4.89%. As expectations of higher borrowing costs set in, risk assets took the first hit.
As soon as the data came out, Bitcoin fell 0.3% to around $75,500. After U.S. stocks opened, the Nasdaq rebounded 1.7%, but Bitcoin went the other way and slipped again, hitting a low of $74,762—its lowest level since August 21. That put it below MicroStrategy’s average cost of $75,451. The buffer of just over $300 we calculated yesterday vanished overnight, leaving it nearly $700 underwater.

I opened the gainers list today, and it was like opening a mystery box.
At midnight UTC today, CoinStats showed 85 of the top 100 coins in the red, with only 10 up. CoinPaprika’s numbers paint a broader picture: 460 coins were down, with a median drop of 5.7%. Bitcoin was just over $76,000, and Ethereum hovered around $2,240.
Turns out, a few really are defying logic.
At the top is Bitway, hovering around $1.10, with a market cap of over $1.6 billion. The wild part is the gain: CoinStats says 7.1%, BlocFolio says 11.5%, and another source says 13.3%. The data providers can’t even agree with each other, so I can’t give you an exact figure. But they all agree on one thing: it’s in first place.