How Bitcoin and Altcoins Are Doing: Markets Overview (January 2nd) - Coin Newsletter

How are Bitcoin and altcoins doing: An overview of the markets (Jan. 2)

• Bitcoin/USDT is trading at 45,253 against the Turkish lira at 1,355,356 TL, up 7.1% at the time of writing.
• Ethereum (ETH) up 4.6% to 2,383, BNB (BNB) up 3.4% 318, Ripple (XRP) up 3.1% to 0.629 Avalanche (AVAX) up 11.7% to 42.70, Cardano (ADA) up 5.3 to 0.626 and Solana (SOL) up 10.3% to $112.34**.
• In the last 24-hour period, Sei (SEI) was the altcoin that rose the most with an increase of 28.7%, while Helium (HNT) was the altcoin whose price decreased the most with a decrease of 3.6%. *Sei (SEI) is trading at $0.766, while Helium (HNT) is trading at $6.86.
• The dollar index (DXY) started the week at 103.9, up 0.02%.
• Bitcoin's market cap is around $885 billion, while the total cryptocurrency market cap is around $1.82 trillion.
• The volume of the 24-hour cryptocurrency market is around 77 billion dollars.
• Dollar/TL started the week at 29.67 with an increase of 0.46%, Euro/TL parity started the week at 32.73 with an increase of 0.16%.
• In the last 24-hour period, 143 million dollars were liquidated from the cryptocurrency market, while more than 45 thousand cryptocurrency investors were affected by this situation.
• 79.45% of the liquidated positions were short positions, while the most liquidations occurred in Bitcoin (BTC).