Crypto Market Shows Steady Movement Amid U.S. Political Unrest as $BTC Rises and $ETH Dips

The crypto industry has shown resilience even during the political tensions. The latest data reveals that, despite the sharp decline in the case of U.S. equities, top crypto assets like Bitcoin ($BTC) have presented slight upward movement over the recent 24 hours. Nonetheless, the overall crypto market capitalization has dipped by 0.06% at $2.88T while the Fear & Greed Index stands at 47.

Bitcoin Sees Minor Rise While Ethereum Goes Through Notable Dip

Bitcoin ($BTC) has seen a slight upsurge of 0.81%, reaching the $88,059 mark in terms of price. Additionally, its market dominance is 60.82% after a 0.95% increase. Contrarily, Ethereum ($ETH) has plunged by 3.82% to touch the $1,578 spot, whereas its market dominance is 3.60% down at 6.62%.

$PIRATE and $KAS Lead Top Gainers in Crypto Market

Solana ($SOL) has also dropped by 1.50%, showing $138.81 as its current price. The key crypto gainers take into account $PIRATE among the small-cap gainers and $KAS among large-cap gainers. Their prices account for 61.5% and 11.8% increases at $0.623 and $0.0886 respectively.

DeFi Market’s Slight 0.1% Upsurge in TVL Comes Amid Noteworthy 12% Rise in NFT Sector’s Volume

Simultaneously, as the DeFi market is showing a negligible increase of just 0.1%, NFT sector presents a notable 12% rise in trading volume. Particularly, the overall DeFi TVL has touched $184B while the NFT trading volume stands at $3.7M.

Injective has gained the top position among DeFi projects in terms of TVL growth with a 17% surge. Apart from that, the top NFT collection is Courtyard ,  based on volume, as it possesses a whopping $768K. Concurrently, when it comes to volume growth, CryptoDickbutts is atop NFT collections with a 1,912% jump.

$MANTRA CEO to Burn 150M $OM While Strategy Buys Another 6,556 $BTC

The well-known recent funding rounds include Upexi, Glider, and ZND, collecting $100M, $4.0M, and $20M. In addition to this, the CEO of MANTRA Chain has started the procedure of burning 150M $OM tokens in his possession. Moreover, amid rising demand for Bitcoin, Strategy has obtained another 6,556 $BTC coins for up to $555.8M. Furthermore, Zora has announced April 23 as the official date for the release of the $ZORA token.