[Today's Global Coins of Interest] Bitcoin·Aster·Zcash & Others

Suehyeon Lee

Summary

The virtual asset-related keywords receiving the most attention are Bitcoin (BTC), Aster (ASTER), Zcash (ZEC), Kaito (KAITO), and Litecoin (LTC).
In the case of Aster, DeFiLlama's decision to delete the volume metric has elevated the verification of wash trading to an essential investment risk.
Litecoin is drawing investor attention as a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) application was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

According to Token Mindshare, the token metric of AI-based Web3 search platform Kaito (Token Mindshare, a metric that quantifies the influence of specific tokens within the virtual asset (cryptocurrency) market) top gainer, as of the 6th the top five virtual asset-related keywords people are most interested in are Bitcoin (BTC), Aster (ASTER), Zcash (ZEC), Kaito (KAITO), and Litecoin (LTC).

Bitcoin drew attention after surpassing the $125,000 level the previous day, setting a new all-time high. It is currently trading on CoinMarketCap at 123,738.73 dollars, down 0.39% from the previous day.

Aster drew attention today as DeFiLlama deleted Aster's perpetual futures volume metric (perpetual volume). Regarding this action, DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi said on X, "Recently Aster's futures volume showed movements almost identical to Binance's volume," and "Aster does not provide underlying data such as order origin or trade execution details, so it is impossible to verify whether wash trading occurred. We will delete Aster's volume metric until verification." Currently, Aster is trading on CoinMarketCap at 1.83 dollars, down 8.23% from the previous day.

Zcash recently made headlines after Grayscale opened the Zcash Trust to qualified investors. Zcash is currently trading on CoinMarketCap at 157.81 dollars, down 2.11% from the previous day.

Kaito is believed to have seen an increase in online mentions after co-founder Yu Hu revealed Kaito's future plans and vision at the recent Token2049 conference in Singapore. Kaito is currently trading on CoinMarketCap at 1.45 dollars, up 3.62% from the previous day.

Litecoin recently attracted attention when it was reported that RexShares and Osprey filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a Litecoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF). The product is reported to be under the '1940 securities law,' and it is not reported to be an application under the new general listing standard. Meanwhile, Litecoin is currently trading on CoinMarketCap at 120.12 dollars, down 1.11% from the previous day.

In addition, investors appear to be interested in Dune, Base Protocol (Base), Partcoin (FARTCOIN), ZeroGravity (0G), Billions (Billions), and others.