Markets
Crypto Market Slides to $2.27T as Fear & Greed Hits 27 and Alts Lead the Losses
Total crypto market cap drops to $2.27T, Fear & Greed Index at 27. BTC holds at $63,700 with 56.3% dominance as HYPE falls 8% and alts lead losses.
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Nadia Rahman
Markets Editor · 9 years covering crypto · 442 stories
Nadia Rahman is CoinScoop's Markets Editor. She covers Bitcoin, macro liquidity and the spot-ETF complex, and previously reported on rates and FX for a global newswire.
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Markets
ETH Outpaces BTC With 9.92% Weekly Gain as Extreme Fear Grips a $2.31T Crypto Market
Ethereum posts a 9.92% weekly gain, nearly tripling Bitcoin's 3.67%, as the Fear & Greed Index holds at 25 (Extreme Fear) and Zcash surges 22.47% in seven days.
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