HBTC crypto price skyrocketed to $166,135! Here's why

April 22, 2022 05:42 PM AEST | By Raza Naqvi
 HBTC crypto price skyrocketed to $166,135! Here's why
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Highlights

  • The HBTC crypto is a standard ERC-20 token, and the Huobi Blockchain Team founded it.
  • As per the whitepaper, the HBTC crypto can bridge the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market and centralized market.
  • The trading volume of the HBTC crypto was over 200 per cent to about US$ 1.8 million, and its market cap stood at US$ 1.6 billion.

The price of Huobi BTC (HBTC) crypto recorded a massive surge on April 21 and soared massively to a record high of US$ 166,135 per token, according to CoinGecko data.

However, after the massive surge, the price of the HBTC crypto started declining rapidly, and at the time of writing this article, it was trading for US$ 40,663.07 per token.

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Meanwhile, the trading volume of the HBTC crypto was over 200 per cent to about US$ 1.8 million, and its market cap stood at US$ 1.6 billion.

What is HBTC crypto?

The HBTC crypto is a standard ERC-20 token, and the Huobi Blockchain Team founded it. Notably, this virtual currency maintains equivalent value to Bitcoin and has the flexibility of Ethereum.

As per the whitepaper, the HBTC crypto can bridge the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market and centralized market by allowing users to participate in the DeFi space through Bitcoin.

In addition, the HBTC crypto claims to enable users to access decentralized protocols like Curve, Nest, BoringDAO, Uniswap, C.R.E.A.M, and Harvest.

According to the official website of the HBTC crypto, users can get it through its cryptocurrency exchange called Huobi Global.

Why did the HBTC crypto price soar massively?

There is no apparent reason behind the surge in the HBTC crypto price. It could be due to increased volatility in the market, and prices of almost all the virtual currencies keep fluctuating significantly.

After recovering for a few days, the crypto market crashed on April 22, and the global crypto market cap had declined to US$ 1.88 trillion at 3:30 AM EST.

The dominance of Bitcoin had declined by 0.13 per cent over the previous day to 41.06 per cent.

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Bottom line

Investing in cryptocurrencies is a risky business because the market remains volatile, and one should exercise due diligence before buying a virtual currency.

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