NEAR Protocol was also among the underperformers, falling 2.9%.

<div><div><div><p><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/indices/" rel="nofollow">CoinDesk Indices</a> presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/indices/cd20/" rel="nofollow">CoinDesk 20 Index</a>.</p></div></div><div><div><p>The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2086.16, down 0.7% (-13.96) since 4 pm ET on Monday.</p></div></div><div><div><p>Five of 20 assets are trading higher.</p></div></div><div><div><p>Leaders: APT (+9.4%) and UNI (+5.5%).</p></div></div><div><div><figure><picture><source></source><source></source><source></source><source></source><source></source><source></source><img src="https://www.coindesk.com/resizer/qh1nJ3r6YJo9q5_ayUNxGyMEQYQ=/560x420/filters:quality(80):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coindesk/AZPWOWIXUJFRRERRE6GEDOVNHI.jpg" alt="9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-10-22: leaders"></picture><figcaption><span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div><div><p>Laggards: HBAR (-3.5%) and NEAR (-2.9%).</p></div></div><div><div><figure><picture><source></source><source></source><source></source><source></source><source></source><source></source><img src="https://www.coindesk.com/resizer/XhEBqjb6bqyeJEVwfHINu5Exke4=/560x420/filters:quality(80):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coindesk/U2HDML5ALNC6XBP5GWWDVEMOSU.jpg" alt="9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-10-22: laggards"></picture><figcaption><span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div><div><p>The <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/indices/cd20/" rel="nofollow">CoinDesk 20</a> is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.</p></div></div><div><p>Edited by Stephen Alpher.</p></div></div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div></div></div></div>

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: HBAR Drops 3.5%, Leading Index Lower From Monday

Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has just shaken the market with a serious internal incident related to the distribution of rewards...

A Bithumb exchange employee accidentally 'gifted' 2,000 Bitcoin to a user, causing the price of BTC on the exchange to suddenly drop by 10%.

Bitcoin's fundamentals have never changed; what has changed is its price in a continuously depreciating fiat currency system.

The real risk of Bitcoin is never price pullbacks.

Author: Nancy, PANews
Original title: No Black Swan Events, Four Atypical Guesses About the Culprit Behind Bitcoin Overselling
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A black swan-style crash has arrived, but we haven't seen where the black swan is, which is even more unsettling.
Almost without warning, Bitcoin suddenly plummeted, entering its third-largest oversold zone in history, causing both long positions to collapse and psychological barriers to fall. This has left the market perplexed...