Top cryptocurrency prices today: Bitcoin, Solana, XRP, Avalanche shed up to 2%

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Solana and XRP dropped 2 per cent each, followed by a per cent drop in Shiba Inu and Avalanche. The global cryptocurrency market cap was trading almost flat at $1.92 trillion mark, with marginal gains in the last 24 hours. However, the total cryptocurrency trading volume zoomed about 13 per cent to $90.79 billion.What's cooking in India?Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pitched for a global framework to regulate crytpo tokens, particularly their use in money laundering and terror financing.

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Crypto asset management platform, Mudrex, has registered a 2,400 per cent increase in its user base for the first quarter of 2022, making it the largest crypto index investing platform.Global updatesAll it took on Wednesday were a pair of tweets from the pseudonymous to ignite a surge in the price of ApeCoin (APE), a token linked to the buzzy-as-it-gets NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC). Binance.US, the American arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is likely to leave noted crypto lobbying group Blockchain Association after less than two years due to a difference in 'values, goals and standards.' The US government added Russian crypto mining company Bitriver to its sanctions list on Wednesday as part of its ongoing effort to blockade Russian firms from accessing the global financial network in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Tech View by Giottus Crypto ExchangeThe Polkadot blockchain’s token — DOT — has been generating considerable hype amongst investors lately. Aside from its strong