Crypto market 27 Aug: brutal sell-off sees winners and losers

The crypto market had another wild trading night as investors and speculators were rattled by a sudden plunge in cryptocurrencies. Each cypto coin has shed roughly 6.47% on average over the past 24-hour period.

The entire market has almost been closely moving in lockstep with bitcoin which has been used as a guide by traders to make their bets. Crypto markets operate 24/7, setting the stage for price swings at unpredictable hours.

Bitcoin is changing hands at US $46,820 after the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency went down 5% overnight. Ether , the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, is trading around US $3,090.

Among Top 10 big caps, Solana (SOL) is the best performer up 4.5% in 24 hours.

Not all currencies moved in line with the market trend over the past 24 hours, as shown bellow in the top and bottom performers.

Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalisation over the past 24 hour period:

CryptoUSD24HCap
Bitcoin (BTC)$46,820-5%$880B
Ethereum (ETH)$3,090-4.8%$363B
Ripple (XRP)$1.08-8.9%$108B
Cardano (ADA)$2.54-8.6%$82.1B
Binance Coin (BNB)$475-8.1%$79.9B
Dogecoin (DOGE)$0.27-9.3%$35B
Polkadot (DOT)$24-8.8%$26.5B
Uniswap (UNI)$25.7-6.8%$25.7B
ChainLinkToken (LINK)$24.5-8.9%$24.5B
Solana (SOL)$71.74.5%$20.6B

There are cryptos that have outperformed the market over the 24-hour period:

CryptoUSD24HCap
Pundi X (NPXS)$0.001734.4%$0.45B
Melon (MLN)$13132.9%$0.24B
Humaniq (HMQ)$0.00811.3%$0.0015B
iExecRLC (RLC)$5.278.6%$0.42B
Loopring (LRC)$0.58.6%$0.7B
Viberate (VIB)$0.058.4%$0.01B
HEX (HEX)$0.28.3%$0.011B
Ontology gas (ONG)$0.76.9%$0.19B
Lunyr (LUN)$0.25.7%$0.00047B
Hydro (HYDRO)$0.0245.6%$0.0018B

Out of the relatively known digital coins, here are 10 worst cryptos that are doing horribly worse than the market over the day:

CryptoUSD24HCap
Digitex Futures (DGTX)$0.0038-15.5%$0.006B
COTI (COTI)$0.37-14.7%$0.7B
SwarmCity (SWT)$0.04-14.6%$0.00035B
ZCash (ZEC)$142-13.3%$1.6B
Icon (ICX)$1.33-12.7%$1.2B
Dash (DASH)$230-12.6%$2.4B
Neo (NEO)$50.8-12.1%$5.1B
Cosmos (ATOM)$17.8-12%$4.8B
Band Protocol (BAND)$8.44-11.9%$0.8B
Digibyte (DGB)$0.06-11.7%$0.9B

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