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A practical guide to Zakura’s distinction between Zcash address rotation, public-key exposure and private wallet lookups.
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BREAKING: Bitcoin slips 0.5% on the day to $82,867.58; spot ETFs lost $244M in the last session.
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Cryptocurrency news, live prices and the week's market events on one page, with plain-English guides for anyone just starting out.
World-Crypt follows the cryptocurrency market from two sides: what happened and what the numbers say. The front page opens with the latest stories and the ones our editors flag as most important this week. Market Pulse then explains the biggest moves of the day, and below it sit live prices for the largest coins, a heatmap of the market and the next dates on the crypto calendar.
Right now the total crypto market cap is $2.82 trillion (-2.8% over 24 hours), and bitcoin accounts for 59.2% of it. Prices for bitcoin, ether and other large coins come from Binance, OKX and Coinbase, with DefiLlama filling the gaps, and refresh every five minutes. Flows into US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs arrive once a day, after each US trading session closes.
New to crypto? The Start here guides explain what cryptocurrency is, what a wallet controls and how stablecoins like USDT work, in reads of a few minutes each. For more depth, the news section sorts every story by topic, the markets page lists prices for the 100 largest coins, and the calendar shows token unlocks, votes and conferences ahead.
Straight answers to common questions about World-Crypt and the crypto market.
Cryptocurrency is digital money recorded on a blockchain, a shared ledger kept by many computers instead of a bank. Bitcoin was the first; CoinGecko now lists 22,201 active coins and tokens.
The total crypto market cap is $2.82 trillion, a -2.8% change over 24 hours, with $78.76 billion traded in that time. Bitcoin makes up 59.2% of the total.
22 of the 100 largest coins are up over 24 hours and 68 are down. The Fear & Greed Index reads 69, in the Greed zone.
Yes. Crypto trades around the clock, weekends and holidays included, and prices here refresh every five minutes. US spot ETF flows are the exception: they come once per US trading session.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, markets, ETFs, DeFi, regulation, altcoins, stablecoins, exchanges and more. Each topic has its own page, and the News page lists every story by day, newest first.
The Upcoming block shows the next events from the World-Crypt crypto calendar, with times in UTC. The full calendar covers token unlocks, network upgrades, DAO votes, macro releases and conferences.