Poor earnings from Meta, formerly known as Facebook, also spoiled the market mood. Weaker guidance for the ongoing quarter added to the woes. Meanwhile, wormhole hole network being down for maintenance impacted the DeFi space. The trading volumes too remained thin. Barring the US dollar-pegged USD Coin, all of the other nine out of the top-10 digital tokens were trading lower during the trade on Thursday. Terra and Solana plunged 9 per cent each while Cardano dropped 6 per cent and Shiba Inu 4 per cent.
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