Highlights April 6: Major cryptos slide, US stocks dive

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Major cryptos were in the red over the past 24 hours. Goldman Sachs will add over-the-counter options for Ether, which comes about a month after the company began with Bitcoin. Ukraine will sell 300 NFTs it received as donations to assist in the war effort.

US stocks slumped yesterday as a senior Federal Reserve governor warned the central bank could tighten monetary policy more aggressively to control inflation.

Top cryptos

Solana and Avalanche dropped more than 6%, Cardano more than 5% and Ethereum fell over 4.5%. Bitcoin was trading around $45,300 at time of writing, down more than 3% over the past 24 hours.

Dogecoin gained 7% on news that Elon Musk has become a member of Twitter’s Board of Directors and increased his stock in the social media giant.

Top movers

It was mostly a bear market in the top 100 with the majority of coins losing 4-6% of their value. Tezos lost 8%, Internet Computer and Waves each lost 9%, Axie is down 10%, and THORChain shed 12%.

Celo is down 13%, reversing yesterday’s gains. The same goes for Audius, SKALE, and Moonbeam, which were rallying yesterday too. They lost 8%, 12%, and 13% respectively in the last 24 h.

Among the few gainers were Zilliqa with 3% and Anchor with 6%. There is a new entrant in the top 100. At #90, Neutrino USD is trading for $0.93 with a 24-hour trading volume of $91.8 million.

It’s up 11% in the last 24 hours. Interestingly, Neutrino USD is a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar.

STEPN is the biggest winner with gains of 23%. Binance announced that STEPN had committed a total of $3,000 in GMT tokens as rewards for a Swap Farming giveaway. STEPN also crossed the market cap of $1 billion within a month of their IEO on Binance.