bitcoin: Crypto Price Today: Bitcoin below $19k; Shiba Inu & Dogecoin drop 3%

New Delhi: After spending the majority of the weekend in the red, Bitcoin and other crypto tokens extended their losses on Monday. Crypto assets continue to remain under pressure over the global macroeconomic environment.

Barring the USD Coin, XRP and Polkadot, all top crypto tokens were trading in the red on Monday. Solana and Shiba Inu plunged 3 per cent each. Cardano, Polkadot, Polygon and Avalanche shed 2 per cent each.

The global cryptocurrency market cap was trading marginally lower at $926.12 billion, dropping about a per cent in the last 24 hours. However, the total trading volume jumped almost 3 per cent, close to $54.33 billion.

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