Crypto Market Cap Falls 2.51% to $2.71 Trillion as Bitcoin Gains

Crypto market capitalization fell 2.51% to $2.71 trillion by 9:03 a.m. ET (13:03 UTC) Tuesday, Oct. 27, while Bitcoin and four of five other major tokens rose.

Bitcoin (BTC) traded at $80,306, up 0.10% over 24 hours. Marketwide trading volume for that period was $66.86 billion. BTC made up 59.4% of total capitalization, compared with Ether's (ETH) 10.5%.

Ether traded at $2,335, up 0.56%; XRP was $1.31, up 1.35%; BNB was $742.25, up 0.10%; and Dogecoin (DOGE) was $0.0777, up 0.61%. Solana (SOL) fell 0.62% to $100.86, making it the only decliner among the six tokens. XRP posted the largest gain in that group.

Morpho (MORPHO) rose 6.89%, the strongest performance among the top 39 crypto assets. Quant (QNT) dropped 7.96%, the weakest result in the group. An Oct. 24 market snapshot put total capitalization at the same $2.71 trillion after a 3.65% decline over the preceding 24 hours.