Crypto Exchange Poloniex Drops 23 Pairs Due To Low Volume

Crypto exchange Poloniex drops more than 20 pairs due to low volume. Many of the pairs were popular in 2017 but have not fallen out of favor so we are reading more today in the coming altcoin news.

During the 2017 altcoin boom, many exchanges listed hundreds of pairs but now the situation is different and many of the altcoins remain generally at rock bottom prices. According to CoinMarketCap, the US crypto exchange Poloniex has 124 pairs. More than 20 of them or about 16 percent have less than a thousand dollar volume daily so it seems this was the reason to be targeted for termination. The exchange stated:

 ‘’We will be removing 23 trading pairs on August 16, 2019, due to low volume. Note that each asset will continue to be independently tradable.’’

More than half of the listed pairs are in ETH, about six are XMR pairings and the rest are stabelcoin pairs for the various obscure altcoins. Some of them include Loom Network/ USDT which has $50 traded in the past day, Status/USDT with just $157, Bancor/USDT trading only $75 per day, FOAM/USDC and the worst performing pair which is the Khyber Network/USDT. Some of the ETH pairs were popular altcoins with high volumes such as Golem, Qtum, GAS, Steem, OmiseGO and Civic but after bitcoin, Ethereum and Zcash as top pairs on the exchange, all others burst into flames. The Monero paris aside from BTC and stablecoins will also be dropped because of the low volumes. This could only be the case of falling volume on that particular exchange because the same pairs on Binance are doing really well.

Compared to two years ago in 2017, the altcoin scene looked a lot different than today and many of the altcoins have now falled off the digital cliff in terms of token price regardless of other developments on the project by the respective teams. Two years ago in August, IOTA was the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market cap which was priced at $0.94 with a $2.6 billion market cap. Today as we can read in the latest cryptocurrency news, IOTA is struggling to say in the top twenty and is down by more than 75%. The Crypto Exchange Poloniex drops the pairs and we shall see if any major fluctuations will happen.