Dogecoin, XRP and Cardano Hit Lowest Prices Since 2024 as Altcoins Fall Harder Than Bitcoin

In brief

• Altcoins are sliding hard with Bitcoin plunging below $84,000 on Thursday.
• Top tokens like XRP and DOGE reached lows not seen since 2024.
• Others like Litecoin (LTC), Stellar (XLM), Cardano (ADA), and Hedera (HBAR) are in the same boat.

Some of crypto’s largest altcoins, like the Ripple-linked XRP and leading meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE), are trading at their lowest marks since 2024 on Thursday as Bitcoin extends its slide. The top crypto asset has fallen below $84,000 amid a broader market reset, following a rapid run-up in precious metals prices and a new all-time high for gold above $5,600 per ounce. Bitcoin fell to a two-month low price Thursday, but some altcoins are hitting prices not seen in more than a year. DOGE is now down 8% in the last 24 hours, recently changing hands at $0.115. That mark is down 84% below its 2021 all-time high of $0.73. The last time the token traded this low was October 2024, about a month before President Donald Trump was re-elected, kick-starting a frenzy in crypto markets. 

XRP, meanwhile, has slid 7% in the last 24 hours, recently changing hands at $1.78. The token, linked to financial services firm Ripple, made a new all-time high last year of $3.65 after a seven-year drought. But since that time, the token has been sliding alongside much of the rest of the market, dropping more than 51%.  Other popular altcoins that sit near the top of the charts, like Cardano (ADA), Stellar (XLM), Litecoin (LTC), and Hedera (HBAR) are suffering similar fates Thursday, also falling to their lowest marks since 2024. The coins have all fallen 5% or more in the last 24 hours, continuing descents from their long-standing all-time high marks that were established in 2021, or 2018 in Stellar’s case. The fall in prices comes amid more drama regarding the crypto market structure bill, also known as the CLARITY Act. On Thursday, the bill passed a markup session at the Senate Agriculture Committee, thanks to a vote on party lines—with no Democrats voting in favor of the draft.

Senate Democrats indicated they are committed to passing a bill, but said that Republicans and the crypto-friendly White House are putting it at risk by not including provisions that they deem essential to the bill. Liquidations have begun to mount in the crypto space, topping more than $1 billion in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinGlass. The bulk of those liquidations belong to longs, or traders betting on prices to go up, with nearly $920 million in long liquidations accounted for in the last 24 hours.  The slide in Bitcoin and Ethereum is contributing heavily, with the two biggest crypto assets falling 6.3% and 7.7%, respectively in the last 24 hours.  Bitcoin was recently changing hands around $83,811, while Ethereum changed hands at $2,788.