Amid this weekend's crypto crash, Bitcoin's market dominance dipped to nearly its lowest levels ever. At one point on Saturday, when the entire crypto market was suffering, the market dominance of the first and largest cryptocurrency by market cap was just 38.32%.
The only time it has dipped that low this year was in May, when it hit 37.76%, according to CoinGecko data. And that's not far from its lowest dominance ever, in May 2018, when it briefly touched 33%. Throughout 2018, Bitcoin mostly hovered around 40%.
Market dominance refers to one cryptocurrency's share of total crypto market cap. The entire crypto market cap right now stands at $2.4 trillion, and Bitcoin's market cap is $924 billion.
This time last month, it was over $1 trillion.
Since Saturday, Bitcoin's dominance has picked up. At the time of writing, TradingView puts Bitcoin's dominance at 41%.
The selloff that started on Friday and accelerated Saturday hit the entire coin market, but hit Bitcoin particularly hard. Concerns over the Omicron COVID-19 strain, plus the Fed talking about a "higher risk of inflation" rattled traditional equities markets—and crypto was not exempt.
Bitcoin's price and market dominance has dropped as investors flog the asset.
This might be the worst BTC price action vs alts I’ve seen over the past decade.
The market dominance of Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of just under a trillion dollars, plummeted this week to levels unseen since mid-2018.
Bitcoin now commands just 40.2% of the market, a stark change from a long period of mostly uninterrupted market dominance of well over 50% since summer 2019, and yearly highs of 69.7% on January 4.
Market dominance refers to a cryptocurrency’s percentage share of total market cap. The market capitalization of the entire c...
Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has also suffered in the past few days, in terms of price. But its market dominance has actually gone up as people sell their Bitcoin. The latest figures from CoinGecko show Ethereum's dominance was 20% on Saturday—the highest it's been since 2018.
To put that in perspective, earlier this year, in March, it was as low as 11%. Some commentators in the crypto world have said that the "flippening"—when Ethereum's market cap grows bigger than Bitcoin's—could be well on its way.
The "Flippening", also known as the moment where Ethereum flips Bitcoin in market value, may very well happen in this bull market.
Below is BTC % Dominance, divided by ETH % Dominance.
Business intelligence software company Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, signaled on Monday that it did not buy the latest dip in Bitcoin’s price.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Strategy stated that its holdings of 499,096 Bitcoin, worth $44 billion, remained unchanged amid chaotic price action last week.
Since the firm began buying Bitcoin under the leadership of co-founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy has amassed the world’s largest corporate stockp...
Binance, the biggest centralized crypto exchange in the world, will delist nine stablecoins for those in the European Economic Area (EEA), including coins issued by Tether, as they are not compliant with the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulations.
Starting March 31, the assets affected will be USDT, FDUSD, TUSD, USDP, DAI, AEUR, UST, USTC and PAXG, the crypto exchange said in an announcment. Binance will continue to allow anyone to withdraw or deposit these coins but encourages EEA use...
Crypto investment products have seen unprecedented capital flight in recent days, with record outflows totaling $3.8 billion over three consecutive weeks.
The exodus intensified last week with $2.9 billion withdrawn from digital asset funds, marking the largest weekly outflow on record, according to CoinShares' latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report published Monday.
CoinShares head of research James Butterfill cited several factors as contributing to the trend, including, “the recent Bybit hack...