Bitcoin, Ethereum Trade in Reds as Crypto Market Remains Impacted by War-Triggered Volatility

Bitcoin and Ether saw small dips on the last day of February amid the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine.

By Radhika Parashar | Updated: 28 February 2022 11:04 IST

Bitcoin, Ethereum Trade in Reds as Crypto Market Remains Impacted by War-Triggered Volatility

Photo Credit: Unsplash/ Quantitatives.io

Crypto donations bringing in millions of dollars to war-struck Ukraine

Highlights

Terra, Avalanche saw losses
DOGE and SHIB failed to register gains
Uniswap and Solana bagged minor gains

The crypto market has been subject to fluctuations this month, and especially in the last one week when Russia began invading Ukraine and garnered major criticism from majority nations. Bitcoin opened with a loss of 1.67 percent to trade at $40,458 (roughly Rs. 30.5 lakh) on Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber. On Monday, February 28, Bitcoin values managed to hover around the mark of $40,000 (roughly Rs. 30 lakh), that it touched earlier this month for the first time in 2022.

BTC saw small losses on international exchanges as well. On CoinMarketCap and Binance for instance, Bitcoin prices dropped by around 1.25 percent to open trading at around $37,770 (roughly Rs. 28.5 lakh).

Ether's market-movement trajectory replicated that of Bitcoin. With a loss of 3.9 percent, ETH is trading at $2,753 (roughly Rs. 2 lakh) according to Gadgets 360's crypto price tracker.

[Sponsored] Samsung Galaxy S24: The Ultimate Camera Phone With Smarter On-Device AI

Ether saw smaller losses of around 2.5 percent on international exchanges like Coinbase. The second-most valued cryptocurrency is trading at $2,614 (roughly Rs. 1.98 lakh), with only a marginal difference from its rates in India.

Binance Coin, Ripple, Polkadot, Terra, and Avalanche are other altcoins to have opened with losses on the last day of February.

Dogecoin and Shiba Inu also failed to bag any gains.

‘Come Back Alive’: Ukraine Volunteer Group Raises $4 Million in Bitcoin

Some altcoins however, did manage to see profits, but only miniscule.

Stablecoins such as Tether, Binance USD, and USD Coin along with Uniswap, Cardano and Solana contributed in maintaining the greens on the crypto price charts.

Stablecoins are those crypto assets that are collateralised by the value of an underlying “stable” reserve assets like gold or dollar.

Ukraine has been under Russian attack for the last four days now.

As intense geo-political tensions continue to shake-up high risk stock and crypto markets, safe haven assets like gold and fiat currencies are attracting more investors.

In a bid to collect emergency funds, Ukraine began accepting donations in cryptocurrency from around the world. Over the weekend, the official Twitter handle of Ukraine posted crypto wallet addresses for donations in BTC and ETH.

Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT.

BTC - 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P

ETH and USDT (ERC-20) - 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) February 26, 2022

As per blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, Ukraine has already collected $8 million (roughly Rs. 60 crore) from crypto donations.

Cryptocurrencies, unregulated and dencetralised in nature, can be an economic game-changer in these rough times. The digital assets are, after all, capable of facilitating instant cross-border money transfers with no amount limit.

With Ukrainian residents hunting for safety and food in the backdrop of explosions, the government of Ukraine has called for a big crypto crackdown on Russia.

Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has requested all major crypto exchanges to block Russian users for the time being.

I'm asking all major crypto exchanges to block addresses of Russian users.

It's crucial to freeze not only the addresses linked to Russian and Belarusian politicians, but also to sabotage ordinary users.
— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 27, 2022

Received breaking news. @dmarket, a platform for trading NFT & In-game Metaverse items, decided to freeze the accounts of users from the Russian Federation and Belarus. Funds from these accounts could be donated to the war effort. Nowadays Robin Hoods. Bravo.
— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 27, 2022

The market cap of the crypto sector currently stands at $1.7 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,29,35,807 crore), as per CoinMarketCap.

Gaana CEO and Spotify's India chief join us on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast, to discuss India's unique music streaming landscape. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

Cryptocurrency is an unregulated digital currency, not a legal tender and subject to market risks. The information provided in the article is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, trading advice or any other advice or recommendation of any sort offered or endorsed by NDTV. NDTV shall not be responsible for any loss arising from any investment based on any perceived recommendation, forecast or any other information contained in the article.

Affiliate links may be automatically generated - see our ethics statement for details.

Cryptocurrency Prices across Indian exchanges

Comments

For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube.

Further reading: Bitcoin, Ether, Cryptocurrency, Polkadot, Terra, Avalanche, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Tether, Binance USD, USD Coin, Uniswap, Stablecoins

Radhika Parashar

Email Radhika

Radhika Parashar is a senior correspondent for Gadgets 360. She has been reporting on tech and telecom for the last three years now and will be focussing on writing about all things crypto. Besides this, she is a major sitcom nerd and often replies in Chandler Bing and Michael Scott references. For tips or queries you could reach out to her at RadhikaP@ndtv.com. More