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Crypto Market Hit With General Price Drop, Loses $80 Billion in Hours
Friday night was a nightmare for crypto traders as the entire crypto market was in red, indicating a drop in the price of all major crypto assets in the market. That led to a loss of US$80 billion with the cumulative market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies, repeating a trend that also occurred the previous Friday.
The massive drop in prices affected Bitcoin and altcoins, sparing no crypto assets in the market and causing massive losses to short-term holders.
Bitcoin last Friday was at the $69,000 price level before falling more than $2,000 to $67,000. There wasn’t much activity over the weekend in terms of price action, so Bitcoin held its level at $67,000.
As Monday progressed, Bitcoin gained from its recent position, briefly surpassing $70,000 and crossing the $70,000 mark on Tuesday. Bitcoin remained above $70,000 throughout the week and even hit a 2-week high of $72,000 on Friday.
But as Friday night approached, Friday’s bearish cycle repeated itself and Bitcoin witnessed a massive drop in price, taking it all the way to $68,500. The crypto asset has recovered some ground and is currently at $69,000, but the price drop is still a massive 2.7%.
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Altcoins, which are cryptographic assets other than Bitcoin, experienced a worse state during Friday’s collapse in the crypto market.
Ethereum, the largest altcoin, fell 3.5% to fall below $3,700, Binance Coin dropped from its all-time high of $710 to below $690, and Solana fell more than 6%.
Other smaller altcoins have seen price drops, including Dogecoin, Avalanche, and Chainlink. Polkadot, NEAR, UNI and MATIC. They all recorded price drops of more than 5% on Friday night during the collapse.
Some altcoins such as WIF, ARB and FET have recorded massive price drops reaching double digits. Only the FIL altcoin recorded a gain during the collapse.
The collapse of cryptocurrency markets on Friday, which drove down cryptocurrency prices, is quickly becoming a noteworthy trend.
What to know
- Bitcoin’s market capitalization fell from over $1.4 trillion to $1.366 trillion. The leading crypto asset still remains dominant over altcoins as altcoins have seen worse dumps during the meltdown.
- The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies yesterday lost around $80 billion in a matter of hours and fell below 2.7 trillion.
- Market capitalization or market capitalization is the total value of a cryptocurrency, calculated by multiplying the cryptocurrency’s current price by its circulating supply. Circulating supply is the number of coins currently available or held in users’ wallets.