Today’s $1.19 trillion cryptocurrency economy has a lower value than July 2021. Digital currencies such as bitcoin and ethereum have experienced significant losses in value relative to the U.S. dollars over the last week. The most popular cryptos lost between 50%-80% from all time highs.
Is the Crypto Economy Going to Go So Low?
It hasn’t been a great week for crypto assets, as the top ten digital currencies are down between 4% to 15% during the last seven days. Bitcoin (BTC), which has experienced a 4.6% decline in value, has seen ethereum (ETH), drop by over 14%.
BNB dropped 9.7%, while ADA only fell 0.7% in the past seven days. SOL dropped 11.6% and XRP lost 7.4%. The tenth largest market cap dogecoin, DOGE, has fallen by 13.6%.
At the moment, $1.19 Trillion is the value of the crypto-economy. This figure includes 6.1% loss in just the last 24 hours. This price is less than what was recorded at the July 2021 lows when market capital reached $1.32 trillion. This was February 20, 2021, the week when the whole crypto-economy fell to this level.
BTC trades at $39.405 per unit while ETH traded for $1.665 per unit. XRP was $0.43 per coin. These coin values have fallen to a lower level than in the first week.
Some other top coins had a lower value than today. Avalanche (AVAX), was traded for $16.42 in 2021. AVAX trades today at $20.04 per unit.
Today, solana is trading at $33.84, up 86% from $6.05 in February 2021. Moreover, terra, (LUNA), traded at $2.74 per unit, up 86% in the first week. Today, however, it is worth $0.00006805/unit.
Currently, the Crypto Fear and Greed Index (CFGI) shows “extreme fear” is in the air today, as far as crypto sentiment is concerned. At the time of writing, the CFGI indicates the “extreme fear” score is a “12” compared to yesterday’s score of “13.”
Google Trends (GT) data shows search interest for the term “bitcoin” has dropped worldwide by more than half since the search term’s peak. GT data for the search term “cryptocurrency” is even worse, as search interest has lagged to a fresh new low of 3 out of 100.
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