Bitcoin (BTC) was near $81,500 on Oct. 17 as total cryptocurrency value declined 1% over 24 hours to $2.74 trillion, alongside losses in several other digital assets.
Bitcoin's $1.63 trillion market capitalization amounted to less than 60% of the overall total. LayerZero (ZRO), STRK and Pyth (PYTH) each fell by more than 10% over the 24-hour period.
Ether (ETH) was priced at $2,430 after a 1% slide. XRP was $1.31, down 2.4%.
ZEC and TAO also moved lower, by 5.2% and 5.5%, respectively.



