Crypto prices today 22 Dec 2023: Bitcoin above $44K mark, crypto market in the green
The global crypto market cap increased by 2.51 percent today, as Bitcoin recorded a jump of 1.11 percent in its value.
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Highlights
- Bitcoin gained by 1.11 percent to $44,169.91
- Top Metaverse tokens were trading mix today
On Friday, Bitcoin, the largest crypto across the world, gained by 1.11 percent to $44,169.91, at the time of writing this article (1100 IST). A majority of the top altcoins registered a price increase. Ethereum up by 2.53 percent and is trading at $2,259.47 over the last 24 hours. Solana, XRP, Cardano and Chainlink surge by 16.78 percent, 1.00 percent, 5.75 percent and 7.75 percent, respectively.
Contrastingly, Immutable was down by 1.39 percent, and VeChain plunged by 0.50 percent over the previous day.
Today, the total crypto market volume saw a decrease of 2.67 percent and stood at $69.14 billion, while the global crypto market cap was up by 2.51 percent to $1.67 trillion.
At present, Bitcoin’s dominance is at 51.3 percent, while that of Ethereum is at 16.8 percent.
Gainers and losers
Today's top gainer was Algorand, which gained by 27.36 percent since the last day. It was followed by Oasis Network, NEAR Protocol, Internet Computer and Solana, which recorded price gains of 22.03 percent, 22.80 percent, 17.54 percent and 16.66 percent, respectively.
On the other hand, Sei was the top decliner of the day, recording a fall of 7.36 percent in its prices. Further, ORDI, SATS, Blur, etc. were in the red zone.
Memecoins up
Today most of the popular memecoins were trading with cuts. Elon Musk’s favourite Dogecoin is up by 2.80 percent. Another canine-based memecoin, Shiba Inu increased by 3.41 percent.
Metaverse tokens mixed trajectory
Top Metaverse tokens were trading mixed today. Internet Computer, The Sandbox, Theta Network and Axie Infinity were in the green zone. Contrastingly, Stacks and Render witnessed a drop in their value.
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