Bitcoin trades lower today, August 19, while Ethereum rises slightly; Dogecoin is the leading laggard

Major cryptocurrencies experienced negative trading early on August 19 as the market cap of all cryptocurrencies fell 3.32 percent to $1.08 trillion from the previous day. Over the past 24 hours, the overall volume of the crypto market fell by 11.06 percent, reaching $64.45 billion.

DeFi's 24-hour volume was $5.08 billion, or 7.78%, of the entire volume of the cryptocurrency market. All stable coin volume was $59.20 billion, or 91.85% of the 24-hour volume of the whole crypto market.

Bitcoin was trading for roughly Rs 19 lakh, with a 40.19 percent market share. According to information from CoinMarketCap, this represented an increase of 0.16 percent from the previous day.

The prices of the top cryptocurrencies as of August 19 at 9:00 am are as follows (info from WazirX):

NAME                      PRICE (INR)   24H %

Bitcoin                       19,02,999           -0.54%

Ethereum                1,52,450.5    1.41%

Tether                        84.40            1.99%

Cardano                        41.38           -3.92%

Binance Coin                24,817           -0.53%

XRP                                  30.39          -2.58%

Polkadot                           657          -5.73%

Dogecoin                          6.05                 -7.62%