Crypto market cap slips 0.40% as Bitcoin gains 2.30%

TLT Market Desk — Total crypto market capitalization stood at $2.68 trillion, down 0.40% over 24 hours. Despite the slight decline in aggregate value, the snapshot classified the broader market direction as broadly up. No single market-wide catalyst was identified in the available evidence.

Bitcoin traded at $80,265 after a 2.30% gain over 24 hours, while Ethereum rose 4.05% to $2,418.95. Ethereum therefore recorded the larger percentage increase among the two major assets covered in the snapshot.

Pearl led the reported gainers, rising 17.01% over 24 hours, with available evidence pointing to a general return toward altcoins rather than a Pearl-specific catalyst. Backpack gained 14.60%, Pieverse advanced 13.16%, and Derive rose 10.53%. Recent headlines did not identify a project-specific catalyst for any of those three moves.

Official Trump fell 14.69% over 24 hours and 24.73% over seven days, with recent coverage pointing to post-election political developments and a possible crypto probe as factors weighing on the token. Venice Token declined 9.87% over 24 hours without a clear catalyst in recent coverage. World Liberty Financial fell 7.78%, with project-specific legal pressure identified as an overhang but no single confirmed catalyst for the full decline.

Bitcoin dominance was approximately 60.1%, while the Fear & Greed Index stood at 50, indicating neutral sentiment. Recent headlines included a Polygon proposal for a network hard fork to recover $6.8 million in stolen POL tokens and limited Binance withdrawals for Hyperliquid assets. Other coverage reported that Uniswap crossed $20 billion in tokenized stocks and that Kenya’s capital markets authority introduced new oversight measures for virtual assets.