Major cryptocurrencies traded in the red early on August 23. The global crypto market cap was $1.03 trillion, which is a 0.01 percent increase over the last day.
The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours was $70.74 billion, which makes a 19.05 percent increase.
In other news, Australia said on Monday it would do a virtual stocktake of the country's cryptocurrency holdings, the first signal from the new centre-left government that it plans to regulate the $1 trillion sector.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said that his department would undertake "token mapping", or cataloging the types and uses of digital currency owned within the country, as a first step to identifying which cryptocurrency assets to regulate, and how.
Australia would be the first country in the world to conduct such an exercise, he added in a statement. Read more details here.
As of 8.59 am on August 23, these are the prices of largest cryptocurrencies (data from WazirX):
| NAME | PRICE (INR) | 24H % |
| Bitcoin | 17,80,259 | -1.49% |
| Ethereum | 1,35,600 | -1.02% |
| Tether | 85.04 | -0.53% |
| Cardano | 39.6500 | -2.77% |
| Binance Coin | 25,000.00 | -1.43% |
| XRP | 28.5500 | -0.93% |
| Polkadot | 635.00 | -5.43% |
| Dogecoin | 5.7500 | -2.53% |
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