Cryptocurrency Price Today October 5: Bitcoin, Ethereum Edge Higher; Global Crypto Market Cap Up 0.56%

The cryptocurrency market traded on a positive note on Thursday as bullish sentiments prevailed in the digital asset market taking the global crypto market cap 0.56% higher at $1.09 Trillion.

Bitcoin price edged higher today. The price of Bitcoin was up 0.98% at $27,688.58 per token. At this price, the world's largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin has a market cap of $540.06 Billion. According to a Cointelegraph report, Osmosis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Cosmos, will be bringing Bitcoin to inter-blockchain communications (IBC) protocol together with Nomic and Kujira.

Ethereum edged slightly higher today. Ethereum price was up 0.13% at $1,644.80 per token. Ethereum is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $197,778,907,113.

The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours has fallen 35.59% to $24.45 Billion. The total volume in DeFi is currently $2.32 Billion, which is 9.50% of the total crypto market 24-hour volume according to CoinMarketCap data. The volume of all stablecoins is now $22.97 Billion, which is 93.93% of the total crypto market 24-hour volume.

How are meme coins performing today?

Meme coins traded mixed today. Pepe Coin was down 0.18% at $0.000000714.
Shiba Inu's price was up 0.75% at $0.000007239 per token. On Wednesday, at one point the price of Shiba Inu surged over 14% at $0.0000000001754. The total supply of Shiba Inu coins is 589.59 Trillion SHIB.
Dogecoin traded 0.46% higher at $0.06125 on Tuesday. The total supply of Dogecoin is 141.28 Billion DOGE.

How Are Other Altcoins Performing Today?

XRP:

Ripple's XRP price was down 1.23% at $0.5301 per token on Tuesday. XRP is ranked number 5 out of all 9,006 active cryptocurrencies listed on CoinMarketCap.

Cardano:

Cardano price was up 0.66% at $0.2582 per token at the time of writing this article.

Solana:

The price of Solana was down 0.31% today at $23.23 per token. Solana is the world's 7th largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap.

Polkadot:

Polkadot price was slightly up at $4.04 per token at the time of writing this article. Polkadot is the world's 14th largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap.

Top Crypto Losers Today:

The top crypto losers in today's trade were Toincoin, Stellar, and Quant down 3.58%, 2.77%, and 2.29% respectively.