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That caused a significant decline in XRP's market capitalization and created chaos on the markets. [2] [3] According to Bloomberg, in November 2019, Coinmarketcap introduced a Liquidity metric designed to combat fake trading volume. [4] In April 2020, Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, acquired Coinmarketcap for an undisclosed amount.
The market capitalization of a cryptocurrency is calculated by multiplying the price by the number of coins in circulation. The total cryptocurrency market cap has historically been dominated by bitcoin accounting for at least 50% of the market cap value where altcoins have increased and decreased in market cap value in relation to bitcoin.
Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, the number of new cryptocurrencies has expanded rapidly. [1]The UK's Financial Conduct Authority estimated there were over 20,000 different cryptocurrencies by the start of 2023, although many of these were no longer traded and would never grow to a significant size.
The latest rush of post-election crypto enthusiasm has pushed bitcoin above $100,000. The euphoria has led to even bigger gains among other top coins, pushing crypto's total market value to $3.7 ...
In early 2024, US regulators approved the first ever bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF), opening up the market to hundreds of billions of dollars from previously untapped investors.
As of this writing in the late evening on Dec. 28, the aggregate value of the entire crypto market has surged from $1.71 trillion to $3.32 trillion on a year-to-date basis.
In January 2017, NHK reported the number of online stores accepting bitcoin in Japan had increased 4.6 times over the past year. [132] BitPay CEO Stephen Pair declared the company's transaction rate grew 3× from January 2016 to February 2017, and explained usage of bitcoin is growing in B2B supply chain payments.
Their shares grew by over 31% on their first day to $328.28, pushing their market cap to $85.8B. [37] Other cryptocurrencies' prices also sharply rose, then followed by losses of value during this period. In May 2021, the value of Dogecoin, originally created as a joke, increased to 20,000% of value in one year. [38]