Ethereum is the largest gainer today, August 13, while Bitcoin is up

Early in today's trading, cryptocurrencies were in the green. The value of the entire cryptocurrency market was $1.17 trillion, up 2.50 percent from the day before. Over the past 24 hours, the total volume traded on the cryptocurrency market increased to $65.79 billion, a decrease of 21.45%.

DeFi's entire 24-hour volume was $6.99 billion, or 10.63 percent, of the total volume of the cryptocurrency market. All stable coin volume was $60.45 billion, or 91.88 percent of the 24-hour volume of the whole crypto market.

On Saturday morning, Bitcoin had a price of Rs 18.36 lakh and a dominance of 40.03 percent. According to information from CoinMarketCap, this was an increase of 0.01 percent for the day.

In recent international news, Huobi Group founder Leon Li is negotiating to sell his controlling ownership in the cryptocurrency exchange for up to $3 billion with a group of investors. If successful, this would be the largest takeover of the sector since the start of the $2 trillion global crypto rout.

According to insiders, the founder of Tron Justin Sun and Sam Bankman-FTX Fried's are among those who have made initial contact with Huobi regarding a share transfer. They said that a deal would close by the end of the month and that Li is requesting a valuation of $2 to $3 billion, which means a sale might bring in more than $1 billion.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has frozen the bank accounts, payment gateway balances, and cryptocurrency balances of Vauld, a cryptocurrency lending platform in India, for allegedly helping predatory lending applications that are the subject of the ED's probe.

The funds that were blocked belong to Flipvolt Crypto-currency exchange, which runs Vauld. The ED searched numerous Yellow Tune Technologies locations in Bangalore. This comes after WazirX's bank assets worth Rs. 64.67 crore in the same case were stopped a week ago.

In addition, crypto is struggling geopolitically rather than soaring in the midst of an economic Cold War. Washington has been exercising its financial muscles in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite worries about the potential fallout from overreach or alternative currencies.

Therefore, it appears that crypto will not receive a significant boost even in a world characterised by extraordinary sanctions, conflict, and inflation. One potential turn in the story, though, involves central bank digital currencies, particularly China's e-yuan. Depending on how they are deployed and who gets there first, these forms of digital money may play a significant geopolitical role.

These are the values of the biggest cryptocurrencies as of 8:29 AM on August 13 (data from WazirX):

NAME             PRICE (INR) 24H %

Bitcoin             18,36,798        2.61%

Ethereum    1,47,429.8       3.45%

Tether              75.50              -1.29%

Cardano                 40               1.4%

Binance Coin         24,450    1.19%

XRP                     28.9000    1.04%

Polkadot              688.06         -0.99%

Dogecoin              5.3300          0.94%