According to statistics from Dede Think Tank, as of 12:00 on May 12, 2024, there are 14,183 currencies in the global digital currency market. The total market value is $2,371,876,120,656 (about $2371.9 billion). This week, the total market value of digital currencies fell by about $83.3 billion compared to last week, a drop of about 3.39%.

The global mainstream digital currency market saw mixed gains and losses last week

According to statistics from Dede Think Tank, as of 12:00 on May 12, 2024, the mainstream digital currency market had mixed gains and losses last week.

Among them, the price of BTC fell from $63,684.20 to $60,984.63, a drop of about 4.24%;

The price of ETH fell from $3,139.00 to $2,924.75, a drop of about 6.83%;

The price of BNB increased from $586.88 to $590.80, an increase of about 0.67%;

The LTC price rose from $81.29 to $81.49, an increase of about 0.25%;

The DOT price fell from $7.09 to $6.71, a drop of about 5.36%.

The SOL price increased from $145.60 to $146.54, an increase of about 0.65%.

This week, the overall market value of the top 30 digital currencies fell by 1.66% compared to last week

According to statistics from Dede Think Tank, as of 12:00 on May 12, 2024, there are 14,183 currencies in the global digital currency market. The total market value is $2,371,876,120,656 (about $237.19 billion). The total market value of digital currencies this week fell by about $83.3 billion compared to last week, a drop of about 3.39%.

The total market value of the top 30 digital currencies is $2,068,538,195,484 (approximately US$20,685 billion), accounting for approximately 87.21% of the total market value of all digital currencies, down 1.66% from last week.

BTC ranked first in market value this week, at approximately $1,201.2 billion, accounting for 58.07% of the total market value of the TOP30, down 0.23% from last week.

Ranked second is ETH, with a market value of approximately US$351.3 billion this week. The TOP30 total market value accounts for 16.98%, down 0.54% from last week.

Ranked third is USDT, with a market value of approximately US$110.8 billion this week. Its TOP30 total market value accounts for 5.36%, up 0.21% from last week.

The overall fluctuation of the cryptocurrency ranking in the TOP 30 is small. The distribution of specific cryptocurrency proportions is shown in the figure below:

The largest sector is public chain, accounting for 76.50%, and the second largest sector is stable currency, accounting for 7.37%. The distribution of the top 30 digital currency sectors is shown in the figure below:

There was no significant fluctuation in the share of Bitcoin mining pools this week

According to statistics from Dede Think Tank, a total of 948 Bitcoin blocks were mined this week. Among them, there were 5 empty blocks, accounting for 0.53%. The average mining fee and block reward accounted for 10.88%. This week, the share of the top 10 Bitcoin mining pools accounted for 95.03% of the total share. The specific share distribution of mining pools is as follows:

Weekly News Review

Industry Progress

  • Former Los Angeles mayor hired as Coinbase policy advisor

  • Paytm reshuffles management to grow payments and financial services

  • Tiger Brokers launches virtual asset trading service

  • OX.FUN releases new white paper, including staking, copy trading, tasks and new token economics

  • Community member: There is only one chance to complete the KYC of Wallet in Telegram. If you fail, you will face the risk of not being able to withdraw your money.

  • Bloomberg analyst: Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs have as much impact on the local market as the United States

  • Visa: 90% of stablecoin transactions on Ethereum, Tron, and Solana are “inorganic activities”

Investment and Financing

  • Taproot Assets infrastructure project BitTap completes pre-seed round of financing, led by Waterdrip Capital

  • Galaxis Completes $10 Million Financing, with Chainlink, Rarestone Capital and Others Participating

  • Botanix Labs announces $11.5 million in funding, with participation from Polychain Capital and others

  • Cryptocurrency market trader Arbelos completes $28 million financing, Dragonfly leads the investment

  • Electron Labs Completes $1 Million Seed Round of Extension Financing

  • Arcium, a blockchain-based confidential computing project, completes $5.5 million in strategic round of financing, with participation from Coinbase and others

  • Solana On-Chain Tokenization Platform AgriDex Completes $5 Million Pre-Seed Round of Funding, Led by Endeavor Ventures

One-week policy review

  • South Korea's Seoul Prosecutors' Office recovers and seizes 7.6 billion won worth of Ethereum

  • India announces successful crackdown on E-Nugget scam, seizes $10 million in crypto from exchanges

  • Chairman of the Russian State Duma Financial Market Committee: I do not support a complete ban on the circulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia

  • Hong Kong Monetary Authority launches industry consultation on “renaming virtual banks as licensed digital banks”

  • Argentina’s House of Representatives Passes Bill to Regularize Cryptocurrency Taxation

  • South Korea Submits Amendment to Donation Law to Restrict Cryptocurrency Use

  • India's central bank governor: CBDC will be made available offline

Investment Calendar

May 6 (Monday)

  • Tiger Brokers launches virtual asset trading service

May 7 (Tuesday)

  • Survey shows that more than 20% of voters in swing states believe that cryptocurrency is a key issue in the US election

May 8 (Wednesday)

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May 9 (Thursday)

  • Elon Musk's xAI is expected to complete financing as early as this week at a valuation of $18 billion

May 10 (Friday)

  • In April, Magic Eden’s transaction volume surpassed Blur and became the top NFT trading platform

May 11 (Saturday)

  • Quantitative trading firm Susquehanna International Group holds a total of $1.3 billion in Bitcoin ETFs

May 12 (Sunday)

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