Skip to content

World-Crypt: cryptocurrency news, prices and market data

Latest stories

View all news
An exposed Bitcoin coin beside a coin in a transparent sleeve, illustrating native and wrapped BTC.
Bitcoin
· 5 min read

Native BTC vs Wrapped BTC

Circle explains how native and wrapped BTC differ in chain access, workflows, reconciliation and risk checks.

Read full story admin_wcBy admin_wc

Editor’s picks

The stories our editors think matter most this week.

Videos

Explainers and market breakdowns from the World-Crypt YouTube channel.

All videos

Market Pulse

What’s moving crypto today — and why it matters.

Live · updated 21:14 UTC
  1. ETF flows ETF flows-1.90%BTC · 24hHigh impact Bitcoin ETFs lose $487M to net outflows on Oct 7 Why it matters: Spot bitcoin ETFs hold $107.4B in total, and flows have been negative for one session. -1.90% BTC · 24h
  2. Ethereum Ethereum-3.85%ETH · 24hHigh impact Ether slips 3.9% to $2,471.18 Why it matters: ETH is 10.9% of the crypto market, and a standard Ethereum transaction costs about 0.26 gwei. -3.85% ETH · 24h
  3. NEAR Protocol NEAR Protocol-15.40%NEAR · 24hMedium impact NEAR Protocol drops 15.4% in a day Why it matters: The biggest move in the top 100: it trades at $4.54 with $1.59B of volume over 24 hours and ranks #21 by market cap. -15.40% NEAR · 24h
  4. SentimentTodayMedium impact Fear & Greed index reads 64 — Greed Why it matters: A week ago it stood at 74. 30% of the top 100 coins are up today, and bitcoin dominance is 59.1%. in 2h 41m Today Next reading 00:00 UTC

Markets

Live prices, sentiment and market structure across the top digital assets.

Market cap data provided by CoinGecko

All 1,064 coins
Bitcoin logo Bitcoin Live PriceBTC · USD · SPOT
81,705.40USD ▲3,329.71 USD (+4.25%)1M
24h high$83,455.17 24h low$80,330.05 24h vol$42.6B Mkt cap$1.64T Supply20.10M BTC
Crypto heatmap Top 36 coins by market cap · 24h change▲ 2 up▼ 34 down
−6%+6%

Upcoming

Macro data, unlocks and decisions that can move the market this week · All times UTC

View crypto calendar
  1. Today All dayUTC TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, October 7–8 Venue: Marina Bay Sands · Official website: https://www.token2049.com/singapore Day 2 of 2 · Conferences Conferences Medium Day 2 of 2
  2. Today All dayUTC Sui Basecamp 2026 in Singapore, October 7–8 Sui Basecamp 2026 runs October 7 to 8 in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands, with four stages and a live transactions-per-second record attempt on day one. Day 2 of 2 · Conferences Conferences Low Day 2 of 2
  3. Today All dayUTC Stable (STABLE) Token Unlock, October 8, 2026 Stable (STABLE) unlocks 888,888,889 tokens for the Ecosystem & Community allocation on October 8, 2026. Today · Token Unlocks Token Unlocks Medium Today
  4. Today All dayUTC Canton (CC) Token Unlock, October 8, 2026 Tokens unlocked: 21,584,335 CC · Share of circulating supply: 0.05% · Value at the price when read: $2.49M Today · Token Unlocks Token Unlocks Low Today

Crypto Guides

Clear, practical guides — from your first wallet to your first trade.

Explore all guides
TelegramWorld-Crypt on Telegram

Breaking news.
Before it breaks.

New stories and guides from World-Crypt, sent to your phone as they publish.

X Facebook Instagram
Freeto join — new posts straight to your phone Newstories and guides, posted as they publish
Guidesplain-English explainers, not just headlines Linksevery post opens the full story on the site

About this page

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 $2.77 trillion (-5.1% over 24 hours), and bitcoin accounts for 59.1% 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.

FAQ

Crypto questions, answered

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 22,087 active coins and tokens.

The total crypto market cap is $2.77 trillion, a -5.1% change over 24 hours, with $123.2 billion traded in that time. Bitcoin makes up 59.1% of the total.

29 of the 100 largest coins are up over 24 hours and 69 are down. The Fear & Greed Index reads 64, 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.