Crypto Market Loses $60 Billion; Bitcoin Crash Under $20K; What’s Happening?

Crypto Crash News: The global digital asset market registered a broad sell-off on Friday as fear rises around the future of United States based crypto friendly banks. The cumulative crypto market cap has dropped by a whopping 7% as it lost over $60 billion over the past 24 hours. It now stands at $930 billion.

Liquidation Breaches $300 Mln

As per the Coinglass data, $308 million have been liquidated from the crypto market in the last 24 hours. The single largest liquidation order of $9.49 million took place on the Bitmex crypto exchange. However, Binance turned out registered the liquidation of around $106 million over the past day. While OKX crypto exchange followed the world’s largest exchange to register liquidation of $74 million.

Data depicts that Bitcoin, the world’s largest crypto suffered a liquidation of $120 million in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin price has dropped by a massive 8% in the same period. It is trading at an average price of $19,988, at the press time.

Ethereum price shrunk by more than 7% over the past day. ETH saw a liquidation of $75 million in the same period. It is trading at an average price of $1,421, at the press time.

Why Crypto Market Is Crashing?

As per reports, United States stocks and the digital asset market cap have cumulatively lost around $2 trillion in the market cap in the last 24 hours. Silicon Valley Bank failed to reassure its client that their money was safe after its stocks declined by a massive 60%.

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