Circle, Backed by Goldman Sachs, Introduces US Dollar Crypto By Meera Shawn | May 18, 2018 10:56 am EDT Alternate up- and down-days The cycle of alternating days of gains and losses continues to stir the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin and other top-ten cryptos fell once again. Bitcoin was down about 2.3% over the last 24 hours and trading at $8,130. Its market capitalization was at $138 billion. The overall market cap for all the cryptos was at $369 billion. Bitcoin’s (GBTC) dominance relative to other cryptos was at 37.5%. Often, a slump in cryptos raises the bitcoin’s dominance. The cryptocurrency market has fallen about $42 billion over the last three days.
Other top ten-cryptos also saw lower prices. Ethereum and ripple were down 2.6% and 3.4%, respectively, to trade at $684.1 and $0.67, respectively.