What happened in crypto market today: Ripple RLUSD Expands in Africa

The overall cryptocurrency market capitalization is $3.9 trillion, down by 1.5% in the past 24 hours. The trading volume stayed at $124 billion. Till now, 18,591 coins have been monitored. Bitcoin and Ethereum dominance are 56.6% and 13.4%respectively.

Major Crypto Events Today

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24 Hour Crypto Market Update

Bitcoin trades at $111,023, down by 0.8% in 24 hours. Its market cap is $2.22 trillion, while trading volume is $38 billion. Bitcoin maintains dominance as the leading cryptocurrency with a 56.6% share of the global market.

Top 3 Trending Cryptocurrencies : World Liberty Financial (WLFI Token) leads trending tokens, trading at $0.1841 with $1.5B TV, down 15%. Portal of Bitcoin (POB) follows, priced at $0.04632 with $49M TV, up 64%. Pump.fun (PUMP) trades at $0.00432 with $448M TV, rose by 6.6%.

Top 3 Crypto Gainers : In the last 24 hours, TDCCP (TDCCP) gained 67.7% with a trading volume of 5.4M at a price $0.3147 . Portal of Bitcoin (POB) is priced at $0.04555 with $54M volume, up 57%. AxonDAO Governance Token (AXGT) rose 33.4% at $0.07501 with $927K TV.

Top 3 Crypto Losers : Neon (NEON) dropped 22.6%, priced at $0.146% with $9.3M trading volume. Collector Crypt (CARDS) fell 20.3% to $0.1934 with $154.9M volume, while Mythos (MYTH) slid 17.3%, trading at $0.07316 with $2.4M volume.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market cap is down by 3.0% in the last 24 hours at 159B. DeFi is dominant at 4.1%, and its trading volume is $6.64 billion today.

Stablecoins market capitalization is $289 billion, indicating 0.2% growth over the past 24 hours. The trading turnover is $90.25 billion with high liquidity and investment dependence.

Fear and Greed Index Today

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Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index 48 (Neutral) September 5, 2025. The Fear and Greed Index is stable to Neutral from yesterday (51), Last week  (50), and Last Month (54). This indicates that the investor is optimistic about the crypto market.

Latest Crypto Market News Today

Over the past 32 hours, Justin Sun’s linked wallet moved 60M WLFI tokens to Binance, sparking concerns of hidden selling. However, Justin Sun denied manipulation and claims that they were just minor test deposits and splits on addresses.

Michael Saylors MicroStrategy , may finally qualify for the S&P 500 after reporting a $14 billion unrealized profit from Bitcoin last quarter. If included, index funds would need to buy about 50 million shares, or $16 billion worth, giving mainstream institutions automatic exposure to the company’s massive $70 billion Bitcoin treasury.

Wyoming has added Hedera to its Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) project, making it the only new blockchain chosen in the state’s latest evaluation. FRNT, the first U.S. state-issued stablecoin, already runs on seven blockchains. The reason behind Hedera was its speed, reliability, and compliance, which reinforced Wyomans' ambition to be a leader in blockchain-powered public payments.

Supported by robust global usage, RLUSD is a USD-pegged stablecoin that Ripple has introduced in Africa in collaboration with Chipper Cash, VALR, and Yellow Card to enable cross-border payments, remittances, and DeFi applications. Ripple is also testing RLUSD in Kenya with Mercy Corps Ventures to offer drought and rainfall insurance to farmers to increase climate-resilient financial services.

On October 21, the Federal Reserve Board will host a Payments Innovation Conference about the future of money and technology. Governor Christopher J. Waller emphasized the role of innovation to satisfy consumer and business demands. It will include talks about stablecoins, AI in payments, tokenization, and the convergence of traditional and decentralized finance, and will be streamed live.

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