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Cardano
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Polygon
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Binance USD
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Crypto.com
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$0.00001086+2.79%
Uniswap
$6.17+3.53%
Tron
$0.06649874+2.12%
Avalanche
$17.75+3.27%
Wrapped Bitcoin
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Cosmos
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Quant
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Ethereum Classic
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Internet Computer
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dYdX
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Stepn
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Hedera
$0.07079592+2.65%
Curve DAO Token
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NEAR Protocol
$1.98+3.85%
VeChain
$0.02330570+3.06%
Algorand
$0.22242156+1.38%
ApeCoin
$4.24+3.04%
EOS
$1.19+1.69%
Fantom
$0.46970913+3.99%
Decentraland
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The Graph
$0.14374173+1.64%
NEO
$12.35+1.88%
Stacks
$0.89983381+0.96%
Aave
$74.16+4.02%
The Sandbox
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Theta
$1.08+7.42%
Elrond
$42.45+0.69%
Tezos
$1.12+1.79%
Immutable X
$1.13+3.54%
Flow
$0.99481900+4.69%
Axie Infinity
$8.36+2.65%
Luna Classic
$0.00012590+2.79%
Synthetix
$2.53+6.04%
Paxos Dollar
$0.97841597-1.32%
Optimism
$2.28+1.58%
PancakeSwap
$3.71+1.01%
Bitcoin SV
$35.54+0.88%
Mina
$0.76885142+3.70%
Maker
$686.80+1.85%
Dash
$59.02+5.48%
Chiliz
$0.12034220+3.08%
IOTA
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Mask Network
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eCash
$0.00003130+3.28%
BitTorrent
$0.00000063+1.95%
Zcash
$38.06+0.96%
Convex Finance
$5.23-1.57%
PAX Gold
$1,977.12-0.48%
Zilliqa
$0.02916304+6.79%
Loopring
$0.36025314+3.87%
THORChain
$1.47+5.43%
FTX Token
$1.32-0.04%
Compound
$43.17+2.93%
Basic Attention Token
$0.28729900+15.78%
Enjin
$0.40851716+6.25%
Kava.io
$0.87885526+0.40%
Nexo
$0.70097578-1.01%
Injective Protocol
$4.79+3.18%
Fetch.ai
$0.36658902+2.21%
Woo Network
$0.21679021+6.69%
NEM
$0.04030786+4.92%
Ethereum Name Service
$13.43+1.12%
SXP
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Celo
$0.66871948-5.04%
0x
$0.32662337+38.30%
Qtum
$3.10+3.53%
Yearn Finance
$8,758.54-0.02%
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$1.29+1.42%
Gala
$0.04113536+2.99%
Ravencoin
$0.02590884+1.98%
Kusama
$34.29+0.32%
Oasis Network
$0.06107063+7.41%
Decred
$20.08-0.34%
Ankr
$0.03677825+13.59%
Bitcoin Gold
$14.87+2.36%
Audius
$0.28253077+0.43%
ICON
$0.30652348+43.38%
Sushiswap
$1.11+4.37%
IoTeX
$0.02651760+1.45%
JasmyCoin
$0.00518167+5.41%
UMA Protocol
$2.09+1.43%
Band Protocol
$1.83+2.61%
Moonbeam
$0.38100521+4.13%
OMG Network
$1.58+2.12%
Siacoin
$0.00428337+12.03%
Ribbon Finance
$0.21918274+3.05%
Waves
$2.12+3.31%
TerraUSD
$0.02142770+0.95%
Amp
$0.00371083+0.51%
Joe
$0.58877987-4.63%
Livepeer
$7.12+4.10%
Alchemy Pay
$0.03543600+3.17%
Skale
$0.04085695+3.12%
Polymath Network
$0.17031988+2.00%
Nervos Network
$0.00493331+2.50%
Wax
$0.07183309+5.40%
Lisk
$1.12+9.50%
DigiByte
$0.00969230+2.99%
NuCypher
$0.12002984+0.06%
SafePal
$0.47733308-1.21%
Celsius
$0.35408424+0.74%
Cartesi
$0.14613160+4.40%
MetisDAO
$24.43+1.85%
Secret
$0.68472977+2.47%
iExec RLC
$1.72+3.78%
Spell Token
$0.00085908+21.28%
Nano
$0.89349037+3.41%
Smooth Love Potion
$0.00293147+12.24%
Numeraire
$18.92+2.32%
Syscoin
$0.16551497+3.15%
Keep Network
$0.19734267+1.11%
Civic
$0.10846600+5.14%
Bancor
$0.56820668+2.06%
Ren
$0.10766699+1.32%
Aragon
$2.55+2.19%
Voyager Token
$0.33420359+0.61%
Chromia
$0.16487065+4.70%
COTI
$0.08049404+5.13%
Augur
$8.11+3.51%
Vulcan Forged PYR
$3.60+4.36%
Steem
$0.21427641+6.06%
WazirX
$0.17170308+4.52%
MOBOX
$0.47349054+1.70%
Request
$0.09781736+1.59%
NKN
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XYO Network
$0.00523382+2.92%
Storj
$0.41816826+13.05%
Sun Token
$0.00650222+1.90%
Serum
$0.21596438-0.64%
Stormx
$0.00590034+9.81%
Ampleforth Governance
$3.49+5.90%
Orchid
$0.08889699+2.11%
Yield Guild Games
$0.26316625+8.96%
Moonriver
$8.50+5.71%
Alpaca Finance
$0.29624965+1.85%
Verge
$0.00271489-0.88%
Polkastarter
$0.42114111+1.10%
Quickswap
$90.11+4.63%
Index Chain
$0.05399534+0.23%
Raydium
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Enzyme
$21.31+2.86%
CLV
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Harvest Finance
$34.84+2.12%
district0x
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Samoyedcoin
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SuperRare
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Mirror Protocol
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Quantstamp
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Star Atlas DAO
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SingularDTV
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