Cryptocurrency prices were in the red with Bitcoin, Ethereum falling along with altcoins such as Solana, Cardano, Binance and others. The most popular crypto today was Coin98 (C98), which is a decentralized finance (DeFi) crypto.
In the meme coin section, Dogecoin gave up most of the gains made after the announcement of Elon Musk and therefore traded at a loss. However, its rival Shiba Inu (SHIB) was the biggest loser among all cryptos this morning.
The crypto market cap fell about 1.44 percent to $1.01 trillion and trading volume fell 19.5 percent to $72.78 billion, according to data from Coinmarketcap.com at 8:30 a.m.
Today’s top winners were Chiliz (CHZ); it was up 14.97 percent to $0.2288. The biggest loser was Shiba Inu, which traded at $0.00001203 with a loss of 8.53 percent in the last 24 hours to Monday morning.
Cryptocurrency prices
Bitcoin: BTC fell 1.43 percent to $20,505.09.
Its lowest intraday trade price was $20,461.72, while volume was down 17.16 percent to $32,936,264,591.
BTC traded with gains on the morning of October 30, but around 3:15 p.m., the price came down to $20,600 levels within two hours and further down as the day progressed into the night.
Ethereum: Ethereum’s price fell 2.56 percent to $1,581.55 in the last 24 hours to Monday morning.
ETH’s trading was highly volatile with frequent wild swings on either side of the spectrum. Without sticking to a specific price, ETH was directionless until 15:25 on October 30, after which it began to fall.
The lowest price for ETH was $1,567.57. ETH’s trading volume decreased by 28.57 percent to $14,857,542,712
Other Altcoins: Solana’s (SOL) price fell 1.48 percent to $32.55 today.
Ripple (XRP) fell 3.14 percent to $0.4534 and 24-hour trading volume was down 24.09 percent to $1,078,205,517.
Cardano (ADA) rose 3.89 percent to $0.4009. Cardano’s 24-hour trading volume decreased by 32.17 percent to $584,503,390.
Binance (BNB) was up 1.68 percent at $309.51. Its 24-hour trading volume increased by 8.98 percent to $1,504,886,813.
Meme Coins
Dogecoin (DOGE) fell 5.72 percent to $0.1213. Its 24-hour trading volume decreased by 42.98 percent to $7,657,271,339.
Shiba Inu was down 8.53 percent to $0.00001203.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Yearn.Finance (YFI) fell 3.79 percent to $8,108.44. Its 24-hour trading volume was down 25.95 percent to $25,249,675.
Avalanche (AVAX) was up 0.45 percent at $18.47 and 24-hour trading volume was up 1.87 percent at $308,962,826.
Aave (AAVE) traded down 2.89 percent to $83.06 and 24-hour trading volume was down 27.41 percent to $87,300,144.