Bitcoin
$27,081.76-0.61%
Ethereum
$1,891.72-0.73%
Binance Coin
$306.67-0.27%
XRP
$0.51887596-1.05%
Cardano
$0.37534600-0.67%
Dogecoin
$0.07267048+0.10%
Solana
$21.14-0.56%
Polygon
$0.89837595-0.29%
Tron
$0.08192504-0.88%
Litecoin
$95.99+0.70%
Polkadot
$5.31+0.58%
Binance USD
$1.00-0.03%
Shiba Inu
$0.00000860-0.01%
Avalanche
$14.58+0.66%
Wrapped Bitcoin
$27,055.73-0.74%
Uniswap
$5.08+0.22%
Chainlink
$6.41-0.63%
Cosmos
$10.70+0.38%
Monero
$148.53+1.67%
Ethereum Classic
$18.12-0.22%
Stellar
$0.09191700-0.09%
Bitcoin Cash
$114.95+0.16%
Internet Computer
$4.80-0.49%
Filecoin
$4.84-2.77%
Lido DAO
$2.31+0.04%
Aptos
$8.99-0.88%
Quant
$115.67-2.46%
Hedera
$0.05014396-1.37%
Arbitrum
$1.21-2.18%
Crypto.com
$0.05923016-0.63%
NEAR Protocol
$1.62+0.11%
VeChain
$0.01992918+0.61%
The Graph
$0.12842013-1.34%
ApeCoin
$3.12-0.94%
Algorand
$0.15112400-0.49%
The Sandbox
$0.57063666-0.46%
EOS
$0.91220000+0.61%
Paxos Dollar
$0.99894367+0.10%
Elrond
$38.32+1.85%
Optimism
$1.48+2.18%
Aave
$63.35-0.43%
Fantom
$0.32033855-0.87%
Decentraland
$0.48548152+0.18%
Tezos
$0.91500000+0.55%
Stacks
$0.61623834+0.25%
Theta
$0.83637400-0.61%
Axie Infinity
$7.15+0.39%
Immutable X
$0.79495099-1.33%
Flow
$0.72439305-0.71%
Synthetix
$2.36-1.20%
NEO
$10.55+2.68%
Gala
$0.03011044-0.31%
Curve DAO Token
$0.84974907-0.45%
Injective Protocol
$7.93+0.73%
Bitcoin SV
$32.92+0.03%
Maker
$675.43+1.62%
IOTA
$0.20666947+3.49%
BitTorrent
$0.00000059-0.11%
Kava.io
$1.00-1.40%
Chiliz
$0.10185985+1.39%
PAX Gold
$1,945.46-0.67%
Mina
$0.54616521+0.19%
Luna Classic
$0.00008443-0.75%
Dash
$42.61-0.40%
eCash
$0.00002465+0.14%
Trust Wallet Token
$1.08+0.04%
Woo Network
$0.24019979+2.04%
Zilliqa
$0.02357893+0.76%
Flare
$0.02303971-0.98%
Nexo
$0.65936216-1.58%
Mask Network
$4.45-1.72%
PancakeSwap
$1.75-0.51%
THORChain
$1.17-0.93%
Loopring
$0.27811898-1.35%
dYdX
$2.07-2.12%
Convex Finance
$4.27+0.21%
Enjin
$0.32979334-1.16%
Basic Attention Token
$0.21623000-0.27%
FLOKI
$0.00003174-1.49%
NEM
$0.03331283+0.35%
Baby Doge Coin
$0.00000000-0.79%
Illuvium
$53.53-2.78%
Holo
$0.00160478+0.30%
Fetch.ai
$0.26923136-1.60%
Qtum
$2.67+0.88%
Celo
$0.55329647+1.49%
Zcash
$32.30+0.78%
Oasis Network
$0.05456065+1.03%
Ethereum Name Service
$10.09-1.05%
SXP
$0.45601421+5.66%
Audius
$0.23931784-0.75%
BLUR
$0.50941930+1.81%
Ravencoin
$0.02067295-1.95%
Kusama
$27.29+2.45%
Compound
$35.52-0.54%
Terra 2.0/LUNA
$0.83314964-0.99%
Decred
$15.48-0.94%
ICON
$0.24122703+0.10%
Stepn
$0.26624593+2.03%
IoTeX
$0.02341338-0.31%
JasmyCoin
$0.00463695-1.17%
Bitcoin Gold
$12.56+0.99%
Yearn Finance
$6,513.09-0.42%
Ankr
$0.02578799+0.17%
Helium
$1.46+0.36%
EthereumPoW
$1.93-0.60%
0x
$0.22041328-0.30%
Band Protocol
$1.48+1.61%
Braintrust
$0.72669335-0.95%
Moonbeam
$0.27748926+0.49%
Wax
$0.05340632-0.41%
Harmony
$0.01434949-1.33%
Waves
$1.73+0.05%
Siacoin
$0.00320142+0.13%
Sushiswap
$0.85024122-0.72%
Skale
$0.03399898-2.29%
SafePal
$0.40829027+0.47%
Gains Network
$4.82-3.74%
Livepeer
$5.22+0.10%
Joe
$0.42288233-3.41%
Aragon
$3.57-0.07%
Amp
$0.00254397-3.08%
UMA Protocol
$1.98+1.38%
Alchemy Pay
$0.02829827-5.91%
Stargate Finance
$0.67110297-2.11%
Cartesi
$0.18189063-1.69%
Synapse
$0.69590713-6.36%
DigiByte
$0.00808349+0.89%
SPACE ID
$0.45899418-2.40%
TerraUSD
$0.01319693-1.63%
Polymath Network
$0.14070633+0.94%
Nervos Network
$0.00366058-1.08%
Lisk
$0.83796306+2.01%
Dogelon Mars
$0.00000021+1.12%
Ribbon Finance
$0.16201977-0.36%
Kyber Network
$0.62031411-0.81%
iExec RLC
$1.53-0.70%
OMG Network
$0.77178569-0.53%
NuCypher
$0.07993741+0.00%
Nano
$0.74185665-2.38%
Celsius
$0.22898946+9.80%
MetisDAO
$22.07-4.24%
Syscoin
$0.13038930-3.46%
Smooth Love Potion
$0.00220313+0.71%
Chromia
$0.16198596+0.65%
Numeraire
$14.41-1.92%
NKN
$0.13256632-5.16%
Secret
$0.39874571+0.87%
Dent
$0.00087628+0.88%
Vulcan Forged PYR
$3.42+0.07%
COTI
$0.06748273-4.12%
Steem
$0.18510667+0.51%
MOBOX
$0.40914499-1.39%
Ren
$0.07548289-0.22%
WINkLink
$0.00007666+3.10%
Keep Network
$0.12532365+2.79%
Civic
$0.08510896-0.62%
Request
$0.08742453-2.53%
Spell Token
$0.00057651-1.32%
Bifrost
$0.05200550-1.34%
Bancor
$0.41279818-1.25%
CEEK VR
$0.07485104+5.91%
Star Atlas
$0.00192876+2.50%
Index Chain
$0.08064949-0.87%
Sun Token
$0.00622816+0.60%
Star Atlas DAO
$0.18925318+14.69%
SuperRare
$0.09305066+0.37%
WazirX
$0.12176277+4.81%
Augur
$6.46+0.06%
XYO Network
$0.00400205-2.88%
Reef
$0.00220498-0.96%
RACA
$0.00014520+1.29%
Stormx
$0.00434866+0.32%
LooksRare
$0.08754730+5.18%
Raydium
$0.22475170+6.89%
Moonriver
$6.32-0.55%
Storj
$0.29990722-0.47%
Voyager Token
$0.14137890-0.36%
Saitama
$0.00090461-0.47%
GAS
$2.81+0.64%
Orchid
$0.06588181-0.84%
Yield Guild Games
$0.18683168-2.15%
Polkastarter
$0.34725206-0.21%
Adventure Gold
$0.44339205-2.95%
Kishu Inu
$0.0000000012.98%
Verge
$0.00195722+0.06%
Alpaca Finance
$0.19950733+1.50%
Ampleforth Governance
$2.96+3.01%
Serum
$0.07341083+0.98%
Enzyme
$18.61+0.76%
CLV
$0.04500498-1.17%
Quickswap
$55.72-1.61%
Blue Zelle
$0.06553897-3.19%
Stafi
$0.34801784-1.01%
Harvest Finance
$27.39-0.86%
district0x
$0.02040996-0.77%
Samoyedcoin
$0.00364001-3.58%
Rarible
$1.16-1.23%
Green Satoshi Token
$0.01740786+22.50%
Tokemak
$0.74602653-0.83%
Quantstamp
$0.01258183+2.08%
Mirror Protocol
$0.03215702+0.92%
SingularDTV
$0.000402100.00%
FTX Token
$0.93559466-3.18%
Pepe
$0.00000130+1.10%
Tether
$1.00-0.02%
USD Coin
$1.00-0.02%
Dai
$0.99985223-0.01%
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