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Bitcoin (BTC) $ 103,603.00
Ethereum (ETH) $ 3,412.39
XRP (XRP) $ 3.21
Tether (USDT) $ 1.00
Solana (SOL) $ 217.31
BNB (BNB) $ 721.14
Dogecoin (DOGE) $ 0.410119
USDC (USDC) $ 0.999998
Cardano (ADA) $ 1.11
Lido Staked Ether (STETH) $ 3,417.62
TRON (TRX) $ 0.246376
Avalanche (AVAX) $ 41.26
Chainlink (LINK) $ 24.34
Sui (SUI) $ 4.90
Stellar (XLM) $ 0.480308
Shiba Inu (SHIB) $ 0.000024
Hedera (HBAR) $ 0.369498
Wrapped stETH (WSTETH) $ 4,052.43
Toncoin (TON) $ 5.56
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) $ 103,158.00
Polkadot (DOT) $ 7.38
WETH (WETH) $ 3,411.35
Litecoin (LTC) $ 133.92
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) $ 481.08
LEO Token (LEO) $ 9.72
Uniswap (UNI) $ 14.86
Bitget Token (BGB) $ 7.03
Pepe (PEPE) $ 0.000020
Hyperliquid (HYPE) $ 23.32
Wrapped eETH (WEETH) $ 3,635.25
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) $ 5.57
USDS (USDS) $ 0.997801
Ethena USDe (USDE) $ 0.997653
Aptos (APT) $ 9.65
Internet Computer (ICP) $ 11.18
Aave (AAVE) $ 328.87
VeChain (VET) $ 0.055042
POL (ex-MATIC) (POL) $ 0.505739
Ethereum Classic (ETC) $ 27.83
Monero (XMR) $ 221.00
Render (RENDER) $ 7.87
Bittensor (TAO) $ 481.82
Cronos (CRO) $ 0.144320
Algorand (ALGO) $ 0.470689
Kaspa (KAS) $ 0.152137
Mantle (MNT) $ 1.13
MANTRA (OM) $ 3.83
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) $ 1.39
Filecoin (FIL) $ 5.76
Dai (DAI) $ 1.00
OKB (OKB) $ 58.56
Arbitrum (ARB) $ 0.798424
Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) $ 3.43
Cosmos Hub (ATOM) $ 6.87
Ethena (ENA) $ 0.959332
Tokenize Xchange (TKX) $ 35.65
Celestia (TIA) $ 5.34
Gate (GT) $ 20.59
Optimism (OP) $ 1.92
Stacks (STX) $ 1.66
Sonic (prev. FTM) (S) $ 0.787854
Theta Network (THETA) $ 2.48
Injective (INJ) $ 24.76
Immutable (IMX) $ 1.40
Bonk (BONK) $ 0.000031
The Graph (GRT) $ 0.233361
Coinbase Wrapped BTC (CBBTC) $ 103,478.00
Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) $ 0.032861
Binance-Peg WETH (WETH) $ 3,409.87
Worldcoin (WLD) $ 2.25
XDC Network (XDC) $ 0.138739
Movement (MOVE) $ 0.869068
Kelp DAO Restaked ETH (RSETH) $ 3,545.22
First Digital USD (FDUSD) $ 0.991382
Sei (SEI) $ 0.418951
dogwifhat (WIF) $ 1.83
Ondo (ONDO) $ 1.25
Lido DAO (LDO) $ 2.00
Raydium (RAY) $ 6.12
Lombard Staked BTC (LBTC) $ 103,219.00
Rocket Pool ETH (RETH) $ 3,821.09
FLOKI (FLOKI) $ 0.000180
Binance Staked SOL (BNSOL) $ 224.08
Quant (QNT) $ 118.61
GALA (GALA) $ 0.040344
Fasttoken (FTN) $ 3.84
JasmyCoin (JASMY) $ 0.033735
Flare (FLR) $ 0.028824
The Sandbox (SAND) $ 0.662846
Mantle Staked Ether (METH) $ 3,593.42
EOS (EOS) $ 0.983866
Usual USD (USD0) $ 0.997024
Tezos (XTZ) $ 1.41
Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) $ 1.43
IOTA (IOTA) $ 0.396844
THORChain (RUNE) $ 4.03
NEXO (NEXO) $ 1.41
Jupiter (JUP) $ 0.823998
Kaia (KAIA) $ 0.238483
KuCoin (KCS) $ 11.17
Solv Protocol SolvBTC (SOLVBTC) $ 102,574.00
Brett (BRETT) $ 0.131471
Maker (MKR) $ 1,459.45
ai16z (AI16Z) $ 1.17
Beam (BEAM) $ 0.024418
Pyth Network (PYTH) $ 0.352110
SPX6900 (SPX) $ 1.36
Flow (FLOW) $ 0.801934
Curve DAO (CRV) $ 0.974604
NEO (NEO) $ 16.73
Marinade Staked SOL (MSOL) $ 273.54
sUSDS (SUSDS) $ 1.02
AIOZ Network (AIOZ) $ 1.02
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) $ 35.14
Bitcoin SV (BSV) $ 58.22
Arweave (AR) $ 17.65
BitTorrent (BTT) $ 0.000001
Starknet (STRK) $ 0.446966
Solv Protocol SolvBTC.BBN (SOLVBTC.BB) $ 101,389.00
Axie Infinity (AXS) $ 6.66
Binance-Peg Dogecoin (DOGE) $ 0.410017
Decentraland (MANA) $ 0.555937
MultiversX (EGLD) $ 36.98
dYdX (DYDX) $ 1.43
Renzo Restaked ETH (EZETH) $ 3,542.83
Aerodrome Finance (AERO) $ 1.34
DeXe (DEXE) $ 17.00
Core (CORE) $ 1.03
Polygon (MATIC) $ 0.505787
Helium (HNT) $ 5.10
Zcash (ZEC) $ 55.41
Wrapped BNB (WBNB) $ 720.89
Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) (WBTC) $ 103,215.00
Jupiter Staked SOL (JUPSOL) $ 234.69
ApeCoin (APE) $ 1.18
Reserve Rights (RSR) $ 0.015630
Echelon Prime (PRIME) $ 15.79
Chiliz (CHZ) $ 0.089021
Conflux (CFX) $ 0.168101
Jito (JTO) $ 2.85
Akash Network (AKT) $ 3.23
Eigenlayer (EIGEN) $ 3.38
L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) (WETH) $ 3,414.74
Compound (COMP) $ 86.99
eCash (XEC) $ 0.000038
Wormhole (W) $ 0.264747
ether.fi Staked ETH (EETH) $ 3,427.83
USDD (USDD) $ 0.998269
Mog Coin (MOG) $ 0.000002
Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) (WETH) $ 3,407.75
PancakeSwap (CAKE) $ 2.52
Mina Protocol (MINA) $ 0.607057
Amp (AMP) $ 0.008671
Mantle Restaked ETH (CMETH) $ 3,594.37
Gigachad (GIGA) $ 0.073502
Pendle (PENDLE) $ 4.30
Popcat (POPCAT) $ 0.707859
Morpho (MORPHO) $ 4.08
Ronin (RON) $ 1.84
ZKsync (ZK) $ 0.185015
Ether.fi Staked BTC (EBTC) $ 102,366.00
Synthetix Network (SNX) $ 1.95
Tether Gold (XAUT) $ 2,693.16
Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) $ 0.655133
Gnosis (GNO) $ 252.80
aixbt by Virtuals (AIXBT) $ 0.760519
Notcoin (NOT) $ 0.006328
Frax (FRAX) $ 0.994066
Axelar (AXL) $ 0.710547
dYdX (ETHDYDX) $ 1.43
Bio Protocol (BIO) $ 0.387312
usdx.money USDX (USDX) $ 0.997714
Grass (GRASS) $ 2.51
MEOW (MEOW) $ 0.008164
SuperVerse (SUPER) $ 1.36
pumpBTC (PUMPBTC) $ 101,489.00
Dog (Bitcoin) (DOG) $ 0.005968
Turbo (TURBO) $ 0.008683
Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) $ 0.000106
Oasis (ROSE) $ 0.085040
ORDI (ORDI) $ 26.97
Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH (CBETH) $ 3,720.37
cat in a dogs world (MEW) $ 0.006317
Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) (BTC.B) $ 103,633.00
Livepeer (LPT) $ 14.98
1inch (1INCH) $ 0.394656
Kava (KAVA) $ 0.507453
LayerZero (ZRO) $ 4.93
Beldex (BDX) $ 0.079688
CHEX Token (CHEX) $ 0.542810
Resolv USR (USR) $ 0.998618
PAX Gold (PAXG) $ 2,701.92
Kusama (KSM) $ 32.92
Dash (DASH) $ 43.10
Safe (SAFE) $ 0.979724
Nervos Network (CKB) $ 0.011377
DeepBook (DEEP) $ 0.205553
Trust Wallet (TWT) $ 1.24
APENFT (NFT) $ 0.00000052
PayPal USD (PYUSD) $ 0.997087