The global cryptocurrency market-capitalisation fell 4.71 percent over the last 24 hours to $1.90 trillion while trading volumes were down 11.40 percent to $61.69 billion.
While decentralised finance (DeFi) accounted for 13.68 percent of the 24-hour cryptocurrency trading volume at $8.44 billion, stablecoins constituted 77.69 percent of the same at $47.92 billion.
Bitcoin's market dominance fell by 0.43 percent to 41.55 percent and the currency was trading at $40,782.87 on the morning of February 18.
In rupee terms, Bitcoin fell 1.31 percent to trade at Rs 33,84,999, while Ethereum dipped 1.44 percent to Rs 2,40,000
Cardano was down 1.33 percent to Rs 83.86 and Avalanche fell 0.57 percent to Rs 7,285.7. Polkadot fell 1.74 percent to Rs 1,508 and Litecoin was down 2.63 percent to Rs 9,792.5 in the last 24 hours. Tether was up 0.09 percent to Rs 78.27.
Memecoin SHIB rose 2.47 percent, while Dogecoin was down by 0.85 percent to trade at Rs 11.52. Terra (LUNA) fell 2.48 percent to Rs 4,365
Actor and producer Reese Witherspoon, through her production company Hello Sunshine, has optioned hit books like Wild, Gone Girl, Big Little Lies, and Little Fires Everywhere and turned them into hit movies and TV shows.
Now she’s ready to do the same with her favorite NFT collection. Through a new deal announced on Thursday, Hello Sunshine will develop feature films and television series based on the Ethereum NFT collection World of Women (WoW). The news comes one month after World of Women signed for Hollywood representation with music executive Guy Oseary.
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