04:02 PM EDT, 10/25/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Most major digital assets fell Friday with bitcoin (BTC-USD) hovering near the $67,000 level.

The CoinDesk Market Index, which tracks 126 digital assets, was 2.1% down in the past 24 hours. US stock indexes were mixed with the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding 0.6%, and the S&P 500 0.1% lower.

Bitcoin dipped 2% to $66,874, with its 24-hour trading volume surging 28.2% to $38.57 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. The most popular cryptocurrency was on track for a weekly decline of more than 2%.

Ethereum (ETH-USD), the second-largest digital asset, dropped 2.6% to $2,473 and headed for a weekly slump of nearly 7%.

BNB (BNB-USD), the third-largest digital asset by market value excluding stablecoins, shed 1.6%, while Solana (SOL-USD), the fourth-largest, lost 5.2%.

XRP (XRP-USD) was 3.4% lower, Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) tumbled 5.2%, and Cardano (ADA-USD) fell 3.6%.

The total market value of the cryptocurrency industry decreased 2.2% in the past 24 hours to $2.28 trillion. Total trading volume surged nearly 20% to $89.03 billion.

Price: 205.47, Change: -3.69, Percent Change: -1.76