Based on value information from CoinGecko compiled by CoinGoLive, the present bear market has seen a whopping 72 out of the highest 100 tokens fall greater than 90% from their all-time highs.
The larger-cap cash are faring higher than most. Among the many high 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, 9 have dipped lower than 90% through the present market downturn. Bitcoin (BTC), the most important crypto, is down 70.3% from its November 2021 excessive of $69,000. In second place is Ether (ETH), which is down 78% from its excessive of $4,878.
Others within the high 10 embrace Binance’s BNB, Cardano’s ADA, Solana’s SOL and Polkadot’s DOT, that are down between 68% and 88%. The record excludes the stablecoins Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC) and Binance USD (BUSD). XRP is the exception, falling 90.56% from its all-time excessive.
The common fall from ATH for these high 10 cash is 79%. Among the many high 20 cash, the typical fall from the all-time excessive is 81.1%.
Alternate tokens look like doing higher than many different sectors, with a 68.3% common fall from their ATHs.
The very best performer there’s Unus Sed Leo (LEO), which has solely fallen 38.87% and which Cointelegraph reported noticed “aggressive shopping for at decrease ranges” on June 13. LEO is the Ethereum-based utility token for the Bitfinex alternate and buying and selling platforms managed by iFinex and is used to scale back charges for merchants.
The CoinFLEX alternate’s native FLEX token is the 83rd-largest crypto. It additionally seems comparatively proof against the devastating disadvantage, down simply 38.6% from its ATH. FLEX is used to pay for transactions and cut back buying and selling charges on the buying and selling platform. The venture touts its token-burning mechanism as a cause for its value resilience.
The utility token for the KuCoin buying and selling platform, KuCoin Token (KCS), has seen a 61.43% drawdown from its ATH. KCS is an ERC-20 token used to scale back charges on the alternate and is the native token for KuChain, a blockchain developed by the alternate.
Nevertheless, KCS may see an additional dip to greater than 60% beneath its ATH if Cointelegraph’s June 12 predictions show appropriate.
Many cryptocurrencies have skilled a big portion of their losses inside the previous week as the whole crypto market cap dropped 24%, from $1.3 trillion to $996 billion. In that point, BTC additionally fell about 35% from $30,500 to a low of $20,216 on June 15.
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BTC is presently buying and selling at $20,486 after the Federal Reserve introduced a 75-basis-point hike in rates of interest to attempt to fight inflation.
As an apart, stablecoins haven’t been proof against falls both, regardless of theoretically being steady. Since 2018, many have wobbled by 10% to 30% at numerous factors, together with USDT, USDC, BUSD, Dai, FRAX, Pax Greenback (USDP), Pax Gold (PAXG), Compound Dai (CDAI) and Tether Gold (XAUT). TrueUSD (TUSD) recorded a 38.4% deviation from its peg in 2018.
