Shiba Inu (SHIB) fell 4.5% over the past 24 hours and is now trading hands at $0.00001032, slightly recovering from the daily low of $0.00000998 seen earlier on Tuesday, according to CoinGecko.
The popular meme coin’s downwards price action comes amid the broader crypto market slump, which saw the cumulative value of all digital currencies fall 2.2% over the day to the current level of $960 billion.
SHIB was among the six new assets included in the forthcoming listing by cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, with trading slated to commence later this week.
However, as the charts show, the announcement failed to boost the price of the industry’s 13th-largest cryptocurrency. Over $1.6 million in SHIB trades have been liquidated over the past 24 hours, predominantly from short positions, according to data from Coinglass.
The leading meme coin, Dogecoin (DOGE), is meanwhile down 1.8% over the day and currently trades at around $0.0593, data from CoinGecko shows.
With a market capitalization of $8.1 billion, DOGE now is the 10th-largest cryptocurrency.
The meme coin saw some positive price action last week after news broke that Tesla billionaire owner Elon Musk agreed to purchase Twitter on the deal’s original term, however, is still down 8.5% over the past month, and almost 75% since the beginning of January.
Crypto-based prediction marketplace Polymarket apologized on its Discord server for what it described as an “unprecedented situation,” after users flagged apparent manipulation of market results by UMA whales.
UMA is Polymarket’s oracle system whereby the results of betting markets are determined by recourse to external sources of data, and by staking UMA tokens behind a particular resolution. For example, if there were a market that allowed users to predict whether the sun would rise tomorrow,...
Hailey Welch, better known to the internet as “Hawk Tuah Girl”, will be the subject of a new documentary produced by Bungalow Media + Entertainment, Deadline reported on March 25.
The Tennessee native shot to viral fame in mid-2024 after a street interview in which she was asked, “What’s one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?”, to which she responded, “You gotta give ’em that ‘hawk tuah’ and spit on that thang!”.
The original video has been viewed on YouTube over 9 million times....
BlackRock has launched a new Bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe through its iShares fund service as issuers push forward on efforts to create crypto-focused products following the success of U.S.-based Bitcoin funds.
The iShares Bitcoin ETP (IB1T) is listed on German, French, and Dutch stock exchanges, according to a prospectus on the iShares website.
“Each ETP security corresponds to a specific amount of Bitcoin,” the prospectus reads.
Decrypt has reached out to BlackRock to learn more....