BlockBeats news, on August 15, the cryptocurrency market fell across the board. According to HTX market information, Ethereum broke below $4500 this morning, currently quoted at $4568. Bitcoin fell below $118,000 this morning, currently quoted at $118,488. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies dropped to $4.09 trillion, with a 24-hour decline of 3.9%. The three major U.S. stock indices closed nearly flat, with the S&P 500 index rising 0.03%, the Nasdaq falling 0.01%, and the Dow falling 0.02%. The S&P 500 index has set a new historic closing high for three consecutive trading days. Large tech stocks generally rose, with Intel up over 7%.

The altcoin market generally fell, with tokens in the Ethereum ecosystem leading the decline, among which:

REZ 24-hour decline of 16.36%;

SSV 24-hour decline of 15.13%;

ORDI 24-hour decline of 15.48%;

EIGEN 24-hour decline of 15.02%;

TNSR 24-hour decline of 14.8%;

According to RockFlow market data, cryptocurrency stocks generally fell, among which:

Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf (WULF) surged 59.52%, signing two 10-year AI hosting agreements with AI cloud platform Fluidstack, with expected contract revenue of about $3.7 billion over the first 10 years;

Cryptocurrency trading platform Bullish (BLSH) rose over 9.85%, with a trading volume of $2.513 billion;

Circle (CRCL) fell 9.08%, with a trading volume of $2.557 billion;

Coinbase (COIN) fell 0.65%, with a trading volume of $3 billion;

MicroStrategy (MSTR) fell 4.35%, with a trading volume of $6.145 billion;

SharpLink Gaming (SBET) fell 0.13%, with a trading volume of $1.056 billion;

Bitmine Immersion (BMNR) fell 2.04%, with a trading volume of $4.242 billion.