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Suvashree Ghosh, David Pan, Akshay Chinchalkar

Bitcoin tightens grip on crypto market as traders avoid smaller tokens

Bitcoin’s share of total crypto market value is the highest in about 20 months, a sign of the cautious mood in digital assets.

The token wavered near $25,000 on Thursday, giving it a capitalization of $484 billion — or 45.8% of the value of the more than 10,000 coins tracked by CoinGecko. That’s the highest percentage since October 2021.

The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission in lawsuits against Binance Holdings Ltd. and Coinbase Global Inc. last week deemed a raft of smaller tokens to be unregistered securities. That designation led to a selloff in such coins as they could become harder to trade.

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