Bitcoin price and Ether had limited declines, many smaller cryptocurrencies posted sharp losses
Bitcoin price and Ether prices fell along with most other major cryptocurrencies as the bankruptcy of the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX.com sent markets on a rollercoaster over the weekend and raised questions about the finances of other crypto trading platforms. At the time of writing, BTC is changing hands at $16,028.
BTC/USD 4-hour chart | Source: TradingView
Bitcoin price slides as investors pull funds on concerns other exchanges may follow FTX implosion
Hong Kong’s AAX exchange said on Sunday it had suspended trading for ten days, citing the failure of a third-party partner, which it didn’t identify. The exchange said it has no exposure to FTX. While Bitcoin and Ether had limited declines, many smaller cryptocurrencies posted sharp losses.
That included the native token of Singapore-based exchange Crypto.com, CRO, which fell 23.7% in the past 24 hours. It reached a near two-year low of $0.0611 amid reports of large Ether withdrawals from the exchange — sparking concerns it may be in trouble. The drop in CRO followed a tweet on Sunday by Binance Global Inc. CEO Changpeng Zhao, directed at the Singapore exchange. “If an exchange has to move large amounts of crypto before or after they demonstrate their wallet addresses, it is a clear sign of problems. Stay away.”
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek hit back on Twitter a few hours later: “The ETH transfers that generated so much FUD & speculation on Twitter today were made over three weeks ago, on October 21st, to Crypto.com’s whitelisted corporate account at Gate.io.”
Bitcoin was down 2.5% to $16,360, while Ether fell 2.45% to $1,220. Solana saw the heaviest losses in CoinMarketCap’s top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins, falling 11.1% to $12.97. The token was one of the worst hits in the sell-off last week as it made up a large part of the reserves at FTX’s brokerage arm Alameda Research, which it sold off to try and stave off the collapse of the company. Elsewhere, Dogecoin copycat Shiba Inu token fell 8% to $ $0.000008895, while Polygon dropped 7.7% to $0.87.
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