Cardano was down 1.14 percent to $0.9611 and Avalanche fell 4.05 percent to $80.21. Polkadot fell 0.64 percent to $17.08 and Litecoin was down 0.53 percent to $113.19 in the last 24 hours. Tether was down 0 percent to $1.
The global cryptocurrency market capitalisation rose 12.73 percent over the last 24 hours to $2.02 trillion while trading volume was up about 48.54 percent to $81.32 billion.
While decentralised finance (DeFi) accounted for 11.87 percent of the 24-hour cryptocurrency trading volume at $9.65 billion, stablecoins constituted 78.06 percent of the same at $63.47 billion.
Bitcoin’s market dominance fell 0.85 percent to 41.31 percent and the currency was trading at $38,895.16 on the morning of February 21.
In dollar terms, Bitcoin fell 2.31 percent to trade at $38,895.16, while Ethereum rose 0.01 percent to $2,713.55
Cardano was down 1.14 percent to $0.9611 and Avalanche fell 4.05 percent to $80.21. Polkadot fell 0.64 percent to $17.08 and Litecoin was down 0.53 percent to $113.19 in the last 24 hours. Tether was down 0 percent to $1.
Memecoin SHIB rose 1.35 percent, while Dogecoin was up by 0.21 percent to trade at $0.13. Terra (LUNA) jumped 1.47 percent to $50.39
Notably, NFT collectors had been losing NFTs and Ethereum from wallets on the NFT platform OpenSea. The platform has now confirmed that what happened was a phishing attack, which saw over $1.7 million in assets shifted to the malicious wallet, now labeled Fake_Phishing5169.
OpenSea says it is “actively investigating rumors of an exploit” that occurred on the popular Ethereum NFT marketplace Saturday. Users reported that digital assets, including NFTs from the Cool Cats and Doodle collections, had been stolen.