Bitcoin
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Ethereum
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Binance Coin
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XRP
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Cardano
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Dogecoin
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Tron
$0.06828662-12.52%
Solana
$14.71-21.90%
Litecoin
$76.67-14.30%
Polkadot
$4.44-11.87%
Polygon
$0.56221821-27.23%
Binance USD
$1.00+0.04%
Wrapped Bitcoin
$25,863.48-3.09%
Avalanche
$11.22-20.41%
Shiba Inu
$0.00000653-18.08%
Uniswap
$3.99-13.95%
Chainlink
$5.01-16.67%
Monero
$136.60-3.93%
Cosmos
$7.85-16.00%
Stellar
$0.07962900-9.09%
Ethereum Classic
$14.64-14.29%
Bitcoin Cash
$101.78-8.57%
Internet Computer
$3.75-13.28%
Lido DAO
$1.81-18.25%
Quant
$102.49-6.05%
Filecoin
$3.35-18.42%
Hedera
$0.04367924-10.07%
Crypto.com
$0.05260092-9.50%
Arbitrum
$0.96425922-15.18%
Aptos
$5.85-23.85%
NEAR Protocol
$1.20-15.14%
VeChain
$0.01494663-14.06%
Paxos Dollar
$0.99774686+0.25%
The Graph
$0.09494446-15.82%
ApeCoin
$2.23-23.06%
Algorand
$0.10582578-15.30%
Elrond
$29.90-14.78%
Aave
$52.11-13.60%
EOS
$0.67670000-24.49%
Stacks
$0.52554160-17.89%
Optimism
$1.08-21.01%
The Sandbox
$0.37043255-23.10%
Tezos
$0.72267100-13.35%
Fantom
$0.23515923-19.82%
Theta
$0.64324637-15.71%
Decentraland
$0.33348111-20.69%
Immutable X
$0.60151110-18.57%
Axie Infinity
$4.85-22.26%
Synthetix
$1.75-15.11%
Curve DAO Token
$0.64796365-14.77%
Maker
$596.77-5.18%
NEO
$7.41-18.89%
Flow
$0.49600687-21.09%
Luna Classic
$0.00008671-11.54%
BitTorrent
$0.00000052-2.14%
Bitcoin SV
$25.79-15.09%
PAX Gold
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Gala
$0.02044087-21.19%
Injective Protocol
$5.68-19.82%
Kava.io
$0.80036001-15.46%
IOTA
$0.15199818-15.39%
eCash
$0.00001950-15.15%
Mina
$0.39925338-21.43%
Chiliz
$0.06739328-23.34%
Nexo
$0.61655436-2.63%
Dash
$29.57-24.02%
Trust Wallet Token
$0.75237501-16.88%
Woo Network
$0.17133354-20.82%
PancakeSwap
$1.41-10.47%
THORChain
$0.93751204-13.78%
Zilliqa
$0.01699743-20.05%
Mask Network
$3.38-19.49%
Flare
$0.01616524-13.54%
Loopring
$0.21261871-13.95%
Convex Finance
$3.38-10.72%
dYdX
$1.55-22.06%
Enjin
$0.24435552-17.75%
Basic Attention Token
$0.16409000-16.50%
Illuvium
$45.26-8.48%
NEM
$0.02582746-11.61%
Oasis Network
$0.04369492-13.16%
Holo
$0.00122345-14.77%
Qtum
$2.03-13.95%
Baby Doge Coin
$0.00000000-16.73%
FLOKI
$0.00002095-22.33%
Zcash
$23.70-18.44%
Celo
$0.39048118-18.09%
Fetch.ai
$0.18377259-18.67%
Kusama
$21.26-17.67%
Ravencoin
$0.01581275-16.61%
Bitcoin Gold
$10.75-9.63%
Ethereum Name Service
$7.17-20.97%
Decred
$12.24-11.44%
Compound
$26.21-19.21%
SXP
$0.31216484-21.90%
Yearn Finance
$5,316.16-11.22%
Helium
$1.22-14.05%
Stepn
$0.18333726-20.84%
Audius
$0.16454778-19.80%
ICON
$0.17966066-17.99%
Terra 2.0/LUNA
$0.58537037-23.06%
JasmyCoin
$0.00346206-15.38%
IoTeX
$0.01727002-19.00%
Ankr
$0.01955651-16.91%
BLUR
$0.32359356-22.95%
EthereumPoW
$1.44-17.00%
Braintrust
$0.60906896-7.76%
Moonbeam
$0.22593052-13.13%
0x
$0.16742422-16.60%
Wax
$0.04135607-14.76%
Siacoin
$0.00262270-14.39%
Waves
$1.32-17.37%
SafePal
$0.34094232-9.51%
Harmony
$0.01011621-20.87%
Band Protocol
$0.96709667-21.98%
Aragon
$2.94-13.47%
Joe
$0.33598530-21.22%
Gains Network
$3.76-10.06%
Synapse
$0.59268501-10.79%
Sushiswap
$0.57507059-23.16%
Stargate Finance
$0.53662674-14.64%
Ribbon Finance
$0.15222151-7.04%
Skale
$0.02394615-19.10%
UMA Protocol
$1.48-15.96%
Amp
$0.00188093-15.76%
NuCypher
$0.08058396-0.01%
TerraUSD
$0.01064417-17.81%
DigiByte
$0.00637145-12.63%
Livepeer
$3.68-21.69%
Dogelon Mars
$0.00000018-5.92%
Lisk
$0.68114623-12.82%
Polymath Network
$0.10360000-17.29%
Nervos Network
$0.00275271-15.32%
Alchemy Pay
$0.01846130-19.69%
Nano
$0.65525249-7.19%
Cartesi
$0.11758497-22.47%
Kyber Network
$0.46373497-17.20%
iExec RLC
$1.12-18.51%
MetisDAO
$18.57-8.12%
Syscoin
$0.10759054-9.43%
SPACE ID
$0.26231579-23.72%
Numeraire
$11.97-10.04%
OMG Network
$0.52509175-21.59%
Vulcan Forged PYR
$2.91-11.14%
Steem
$0.15227588-13.27%
Smooth Love Potion
$0.00155480-19.32%
Chromia
$0.11365691-19.08%
Secret
$0.29764669-19.19%
WINkLink
$0.00006259-12.18%
MOBOX
$0.30426704-12.43%
Dent
$0.00061832-20.14%
NKN
$0.08890529-14.87%
Ren
$0.05721210-25.37%
Civic
$0.06935167-12.89%
Bifrost
$0.04347535-13.47%
Bancor
$0.35220850-10.27%
Request
$0.07096256-13.09%
Celsius
$0.12565083-33.25%
COTI
$0.04332065-18.92%
Sun Token
$0.00520979-11.01%
Spell Token
$0.00041269-19.35%
Keep Network
$0.08713120-19.46%
CEEK VR
$0.05326840-16.44%
Augur
$5.12-14.97%
XYO Network
$0.00316194-10.81%
Index Chain
$0.05207389-24.58%
WazirX
$0.08381367-20.05%
Adventure Gold
$0.49053542+3.24%
Stormx
$0.00340252-17.08%
SuperRare
$0.06058913-17.37%
RACA
$0.00010619-14.28%
Raydium
$0.16800443-15.95%
Saitama
$0.00078717-9.43%
Moonriver
$4.93-16.38%
Storj
$0.23027706-24.71%
Reef
$0.00141277-23.12%
Star Atlas DAO
$0.16780132-7.81%
Orchid
$0.05221438-11.68%
GAS
$2.17-16.28%
LooksRare
$0.05556403-26.98%
Polkastarter
$0.28121858-8.88%
Voyager Token
$0.09293624-22.11%
Verge
$0.00151229-14.51%
Yield Guild Games
$0.13314442-20.69%
Kishu Inu
$0.00000000-29.44%
Alpaca Finance
$0.14517898-15.74%
Enzyme
$14.68-14.77%
Ampleforth Governance
$2.22-15.07%
Quickswap
$44.24-16.32%
Serum
$0.05310888-23.07%
district0x
$0.02620585+7.37%
CLV
$0.03184677-16.33%
Star Atlas
$0.00153348-11.70%
Blue Zelle
$0.04504187-24.46%
Stafi
$0.26560822-18.94%
Harvest Finance
$21.26-16.47%
Samoyedcoin
$0.00317997-16.55%
Rarible
$0.98976555-9.38%
Tokemak
$0.67695458-6.82%
Green Satoshi Token
$0.01243019-15.25%
Quantstamp
$0.01143398-6.65%
Mirror Protocol
$0.02308618-17.96%
SingularDTV
$0.000402100.00%
FTX Token
$0.80442066-20.49%
Pepe
$0.00000091-21.05%
Tether
$1.00+0.09%
USD Coin
$1.00+0.04%
Dai
$1.00+0.04%
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