Major cryptocurrencies were trading in the red early on October 15 as the global crypto market cap decreased by 1.95 per cent to $919.43 billion, over the last day. The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours is $64.25 billion, which makes a 23.40 per cent decrease.
The total volume in DeFi is currently $3.81 billion, which is 5.93 per cent of the total crypto market 24-hour volume. The volume of all stable coins is now $59.90 billion, which is 93.22 per cent of the total crypto market 24-hour volume.
The price of bitcoin hovered around Rs 16 lakh, with a dominance of currently 40.03 per cent, which is a decrease of 0.19 per cent over the day, according to Coinmarketcap.
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In other news, bitcoin company NYDIG laid off about a third of its workforce last month to cut costs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
NYDIG, a unit of Stone Ridge Holdings, operates a full-stack bitcoin platform which delivers the cryptocurrency across industries including financial technology, insurance and banking. Read more here.
As of 7:28 am on October 15, these are the prices of the largest cryptocurrencies (data from WazirX):
| NAME | PRICE (INR) | 24H % |
| Bitcoin | 16,34,745 | -3.26% |
| Ethereum | 1,10,604.8 | -2.97% |
| Tether | 85.84 | -0.55% |
| Cardano | 32.2032 | -3.28% |
| Binance Coin | 22,803.02 | -3.73% |
| XRP | 41.0043 | -0.01% |
| Polkadot | 512.17 | -1.88% |
| Dogecoin | 5.0700 | -2.31% |
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