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Bitcoin fell to around $74,200 since midnight UTC on Tuesday, November 10, touching an overnight low of $74,100 ahead of US inflation data. Ether lost 1.4% and the CoinDesk 80 slipped 0.2%, while the CoinDesk Memecoin Index rose 0.4%.Crypto lagged a rebound in US stocks on Monday. The S&P 500 posted its best day since April 8 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 2.7%, recovering part of last week’s AI-led selloff. Bitcoin is little changed over the past 24 hours.CPI Expected to Show Slower InflationThe US consumer price index is due at 13:30 UTC. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect headline CPI to have risen 0.3% in October and core CPI 0.2%, slower than September’s 0.6% and 0.3%.IBIT Extends Outflow Streak to Seven DaysUS spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $201 million on Monday, according to Farside Investors. BlackRock’s IBIT led with $213.2 million of outflows, its seventh straight session of withdrawals.Liquidations Drop 84%Crypto futures liquidations fell about 84% to $184 million over 24 hours, from more than $1 billion on Monday. Trading volume fell 8.55% to $165.2 billion, while open interest edged up 0.59% to $128.4 billion, which means trading cooled and little new money came in. Market orders were split almost evenly, at 49.69% buying and 50.31% selling.Funding rates are moderately positive for most major coins, including bitcoin and ether, meaning longs are paying shorts. GRAM, the token formerly known as Toncoin, stands out with annualized funding of about −60%, a sign that too many traders are betting against it.Money Flows Into AVAX, Out of HYPE and XRPBTC, ETH and SOL: open interest rose slightly even as prices held flat or fell, so small amounts of new money came in.AVAX: open interest jumped 13% on a 5% price gain, a sign of strong inflows.HYPE: open interest fell 1.14% even as the price rose 1.62%, so money left during the rally.XRP: open interest fell 3.83% and it saw some of the heaviest market-order selling.ZEC: open interest fell 3.31% on a 5.41% price drop. That was mostly the lower price rather than money leaving, though ZEC saw the heaviest market-order selling.Options Traders Still Favor ProtectionIn bitcoin options, puts carry a premium over calls across all expiries, with one-week skew at about 10%. One-week implied volatility is about 38%. The most traded contract is the $74,000 put expiring November 13.Ether options are more mixed. Puts still carry a premium, with one-week skew at about 11%, but most of the most traded contracts are calls, led by the $2,600 call expiring December 25.AVAX Gains on Tokenization News; Privacy Coins SlideAVAX is up 5% over 24 hours after Ava Labs announced on November 9 that Avalanche will be the core ledger for clearing and settlement on an NYSE-affiliated platform for tokenized securities. It has slipped 2.6% since midnight UTC.XDC, a layer-1 blockchain focused on tokenizing real-world assets, led the CoinDesk 100 with a 7% gain since midnight UTC.Privacy coins gave back last week’s gains as traders rotated into real-world asset tokens. Monero (XMR) fell 7.8% and zcash (ZEC) 6.3% over 24 hours.HYPE listed on Upbit, South Korea’s largest exchange, at 06:00 UTC, but is down 0.9% since midnight UTC at around $74.50, about 22% below its $96 peak in late October.PIEVERSE, a project that lets AI agents transact through messaging apps, rose about 30% after teasing an AI agent trading desk, which has not yet launched.CoinMarketCap’s altcoin season index fell to 40 out of 100, from 62 a month ago.