Today is a dark day for the global finanace as every market experienced a significan crash - from the U.S. and Japanese stock markets to crypto.
According to financial analysts, fears of a global recession have increased after the dramatic drop in the value of stock markets by $2.9 trillion. Japanese stocks posted their biggest losses since October 1987, extending last week’s sell-off.
Bitcoin led the crypto market decline with 16% and briefly went below $50,000 in the last 24 hours, while Ethereum plummeted over 23% and at the time of writing is trading at $2,230. According to CoinMarketCap, the total market cap is down 11%. At this point it stands at $1.84 trillion.
Over the past 24 hours, over $1 billion worth of crypto futures were liquidated as the market decline intensified on Sunday and continued into Monday.
The crypto market saw a significant drop in value as investors continued to abandon high-risk assets.
Richard Teng, the CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance shared some positive insight into the current downturn and gave investors hope.
He stated that the recent sharp drops in crypto and equity prices are influenced by macroeconomic factors and that they do not believe it’s indicative of a long-term negative trend.
Teng added that with potential Fed rate cuts and geopolitical volatility, there’s still significant potential for market fluctuations.
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has reportedly left France and moved to Dubai after receiving court approval.
WLFI, a cryptocurrency project linked to the Trump family, has responded to recent allegations made by major news outlets, labeling them as politically charged and inaccurate.
For the first time, Goldman Sachs, the world’s second-largest investment bank, has acknowledged cryptocurrencies in its annual shareholder letter.
A significant legal development has taken place in the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings of the collapsed crypto hedge fund, Three Arrows Capital (3AC).