The cryptocurrency market has continued a strong bullish pattern in early August, with the full market capitalization nearing $2 trillion.
In response to knowledge from crypto knowledge aggregator CoinGecko, the full crypto market cap broke the $1.9 trillion mark on Aug. 9, retouching this degree for the primary time since Could 18.
Beginning July 19, cryptocurrency markets recorded a notable rise, with a market worth surging almost $700 billion. The market continues to be down roughly $700 billion from the all-time excessive of $2.5 trillion recorded on Could 11.

In keeping with the robust recovery pattern, main cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) have retested their mid-May levels when it comes to market capitalization.
Bitcoin’s market value hit above $860 billion on Monday, surging this excessive for the primary time since Could 16, in accordance with CoinGecko. After breaking right into a $1 trillion asset earlier this 12 months, Bitcoin skilled a serious sell-off, with its market cap dropping to $560 billion as of July 20. As the Bitcoin price surged back above $45,000, BTC market value has increased by over 53%.
Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has posted extra good points because of the bear market in July, surging nearly 81% from $204 billion on July 20 to $369 billion on Monday. The cryptocurrency underwent a serious community upgrade on Aug. 5, with ETH value rallying 50% following the London hard fork amid investor expectations for the upgrade to resolve issues like high transaction fees.
Amid a renewed bull crypto market, some main cryptocurrencies have skilled a rating reshuffle when it comes to market capitalization. Binance USD (BUSD), the third-largest stablecoin by market worth after Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), dropped out of the top-10 most-valued cryptocurrencies checklist on Aug. 5, flipped by Uniswap’s governance token UNI. At the time of writing, BUSD is the eleventh largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization of $12 billion.
As beforehand reported, the most recent development on crypto markets got here after Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed that his aerospace agency SpaceX owns Bitcoin on July 22. The CEO additionally stated that Tesla was planning to renew crypto funds for automobile purchases on account of a major drop in the share of non-renewable energy used for Bitcoin mining. Musk’s previous determination to cease BTC funds at Tesla — as a result of currency’s excessive vitality consumption — was seen as a serious trigger for Bitcoin’s value crash in May.