Crypto market 23 Aug: Best and worst performers

The crypto market is trending upwards with major coins making reasonable gains over the past 24 hours. The market has moved up 1% on average during this time period.

The entire market has almost been closely moving in lockstep with bitcoin which has been used as a guide by traders to make their bets. Crypto markets operate 24/7, setting the stage for price swings at unpredictable hours.

Bitcoin is changing hands at US $49,270 after the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency went up 0.6% overnight. Ether , the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, is trading around US $3,240.

Among Top 10 big caps, Cardano (ADA) is the best performer up 10.2% in 24 hours.

Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalisation over the past 24 hour period:

CryptoUSD24HCap
Bitcoin (BTC)$49,2700.6%$926B
Ethereum (ETH)$3,240-0.1%$380B
Ripple (XRP)$1.230.4%$123B
Cardano (ADA)$2.7110.2%$87.5B
Binance Coin (BNB)$449-0.9%$75.5B
Dogecoin (DOGE)$0.32-1.1%$41.2B
Polkadot (DOT)$27.9-1.7%$30.8B
Uniswap (UNI)$28.5-0.6%$28.5B
ChainLinkToken (LINK)$28-1.3%$28B
Solana (SOL)$71.74.5%$20.6B

As of press time, Top 10 cryptocurrencies that have outperformed the overall market trend:

CryptoUSD24HCap
Loopring (LRC)$0.551.1%$0.7B
Nano (NANO)$7.4420%$1B
Dash (DASH)$26812.7%$2.8B
Ycash (YEC)$0.3912%$0.0045B
Humaniq (HMQ)$0.00811.3%$0.0015B
iExecRLC (RLC)$4.410.3%$0.35B
Cardano (ADA)$2.7110.2%$87.5B
Basic Attention Token (BAT)$0.98.4%$1.3B
Viberate (VIB)$0.058.4%$0.01B
AmaCoin (AMA)$0.0268.1%$0B

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