Algorand (ALGO) Trading Down 17.7% This Week

Algorand (ALGO) traded down 8% against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 10:00 AM Eastern on February 5th. One Algorand coin can now be bought for $0.0980 or 0.00000139 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Algorand has a market capitalization of $869.26 million and $66.39 million worth of Algorand was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Algorand has traded 17.7% lower against the US dollar.

Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Cronos (CRO) traded down 7.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0768 or 0.00000109 BTC.
• Avalanche (AVAX) traded 7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $9.31 or 0.00013216 BTC.
• Hedera (HBAR) traded 7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0861 or 0.00000122 BTC.
• Internet Computer (ICP) traded down 7.7% against the dollar and now trades at $2.50 or 0.00003555 BTC.
• NEAR Protocol (NEAR) traded down 6.4% against the dollar and now trades at $1.11 or 0.00001573 BTC.
• Cosmos (ATOM) traded down 4.2% against the dollar and now trades at $1.97 or 0.00002797 BTC.
• Fetch.ai (FET) traded 8.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000239 BTC.
• PayProtocol Paycoin (PCI) traded down 6.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0604 or 0.00000086 BTC.
• Theta Fuel (TFUEL) traded 7.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0146 or 0.00000021 BTC.
• Akash Network (AKT) traded 14.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.31 or 0.00000443 BTC.

Algorand Coin Profile

ALGO uses the hashing algorithm. It launched on June 11th, 2019. Algorand’s total supply is 10,000,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 8,869,527,544 coins. The official website for Algorand is algorand.foundation. The Reddit community for Algorand is https://reddit.com/r/algorandofficial and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Algorand’s official message board is forum.algorand.org. Algorand’s official Twitter account is @algofoundation and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “The Algorand Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software, which was initially designed by Silvio Micali and a team of leading scientists. With core beliefs in the establishment of an open, public and permissionless blockchain, the Algorand Foundation has a vision for an inclusive ecosystem that provides an opportunity for everyone to harness the potential of an equitable and truly borderless economy.The Algorand platform is a public, a permissionless pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that solves the “blockchain trilemma” of achieving scalability, security, and true decentralization all at once.Performance on the Algorand platform exceeds 1000 transactions per second (TPS) with a latency of fewer than 5 seconds, putting it on par with the throughput of major global payment networks without compromising security or decentralization.”

Algorand Coin Trading

It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Algorand directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Algorand should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, Gemini or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Algorand using one of the exchanges listed above.

ALGO/USD price chart by TradingView