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Block Tribune Digital Currency Volatility Index
The digital currency markets have been unusually frothy today, as the biggest digital currencies have experienced, on average, unusually large fluctuations in price over the past 24 hours.
A notable high volatility outlier was Bitcoin Cash, which traded between 483.39200000 and 609.37400000 today, with an average price of 542.20.
Our proprietary Block Tribune Volatility Index is a measure of daily price variability compared with variability over the prior 30 days. 50 indicates an average day. Greater scores indicate a wider range of trade prices while lesser scores indicate a relatively flat trading period.
The data below was compiled on a per-currency basis using reports from the exchanges that saw 1% or more of the total trade volume for that currency. It is as of 3:00 pm US Eastern Time and includes the 15 digital currencies with the greatest trading volume, as measured in U.S. Dollars.
| Currency | Volatility Index | Today’s Average Price | Today’s Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Cash | 75.8 | $542.20 | $1,525,030,000 |
| Bitcoin | 68.5 | $6,869.24 | $4,369,690,000 |
| BitConnect | 68.3 | $256.09 | $24,081,300 |
| NEO | 63.4 | $25.48 | $73,800,700 |
| Dash | 60.5 | $267.12 | $70,210,300 |
| Ethereum | 56.3 | $290.17 | $873,613,000 |
| Vertcoin | 55.0 | $4.19 | $45,635,800 |
| Ethereum Classic | 54.9 | $10.36 | $40,916,800 |
| EOS | 53.9 | $1.05 | $113,370,000 |
| Zcash | 53.3 | $220.66 | $51,361,200 |
| Qtum | 53.1 | $9.91 | $53,055,600 |
| Litecoin | 51.8 | $52.98 | $187,339,000 |
| Monero | 50.9 | $84.20 | $51,221,600 |
| Ripple | 42.0 | $0.19 | $164,810,000 |
