Major cryptocurrencies traded in the green early on July 23 as the global crypto market cap increased 1.13 percent to $1.04 trillion over the last day. The total crypto market volume declined 6.90 percent to $71.56 billion over the last 24 hours.
The total volume in DeFi stood at $6.11 billion, 8.53 percent of the total crypto market 24-hour volume. The volume of all stable coins was $64.78 billion, which is 90.52% percent of the total crypto market 24-hour volume.
In other news, US authorities charged on July 21 two Indian brothers and their Indian-American friend in the first global case of cryptocurrency insider trading that enabled them to make $1.5 million in ill-gotten gains.
Ishan Wahi, Nikhil Wahi and their friend Sameer Ramani were charged with wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with the scheme to commit insider trading in cryptocurrency assets. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
As of 7.39 am on July 23, these are the prices of largest cryptocurrencies (data from WazirX):
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