A year after its $126K record, bitcoin trades about a third lower
Bitcoin is roughly a third below its October 2025 peak, yet its order books are deeper than on last year’s crash day.
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Bitcoin set its all-time high of $126,080 on Oct. 6, 2025, according to CoinGecko. Late on Oct. 14, 2026 (UTC), it was trading around $81,500, roughly 35% below that peak. Fortune’s daily price check put it about 28% lower than a year earlier on the morning of Oct. 13.
Four days after the record, on Oct. 10, 2025, more than $19 billion of leveraged crypto positions were liquidated in a single day, the largest such event in crypto history, CoinDesk reported. A year on, CoinDesk Research found bitcoin’s order books on major exchanges have rebuilt: on Oct. 7, 2026, about $11.7 million in orders sat within 1% of the price, roughly 75% more than on crash day. Ether’s depth has recovered too, while liquidity across a basket of smaller altcoins has kept shrinking.
Because bitcoin trades about a third below its pre-crash level, CoinDesk notes, the deeper books aren’t a price effect: market makers are committing more money. That kind of recovery doesn’t show up on a price chart: deeper order books mean large orders move the price less.
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