Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, struggled to break above the $17,250 level on December 4, and it is now heading lower to $16,900. Similarly, after being rejected at $1,300, Ethereum, the second-most valuable cryptocurrency, has fallen and is now consolidating near $1,275.
Over the last 24 hours, the global crypto market capitalization fell over 17% to $2.18 trillion. Over the last 24 hours, the overall crypto market volume has increased by 77% to $206.73 billion. The overall volume in DeFi is currently $26.15 billion, accounting for over 12% of the entire 24-hour volume in the crypto market.
The overall volume of all stablecoins is now $167.22 billion, accounting for 80% of the total 24-hour volume of the crypto market.
Let's take a look at the top 24-hour altcoin gainers and losers.
Three of the top 100 coins that have gained value in the last 24 hours are Celo (CELO), Aptos (APT), and Nexo (NEXO). The price of CELO has increased by more than 10% to $0.6625; the price of APT has increased by more than 6.5% to $5.30; and the price of NEXO has increased by nearly 5%.
UNUS SED LEO (LEO), GMX (GMX), and Klaytn (KLAY) are three of the top 100 coins that have lost value in the last 24 hours. Whereas LEO has lost about 7% to trade at $3.75, GMX is down nearly 5.5% to trade at $54.75. At the same time, the KLAY price is down over 2.85% to trade at $0.1875.
The current Bitcoin price is $17,007, and the 24-hour trading volume is $16 billion. During the last 24 hours, the BTC/USD pair has gained above 0.10%, while CoinMarketCap currently ranks first with a live market cap of $357 billion, down from $357 billion yesterday.
It has a total supply of 21,000,000 BTC coins and a circulating supply of 19,223,837 BTC coins.
The BTC/USD pair
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