Crypto news update, April 22 -- Bitcoin prices crossed the $88,100 mark on Tuesday, April 22, driven by global liquidity and renewed institutional interest in the crypto market.

Even as the cryptocurrency market capitalisation witnessed a slight drop of 0.30 per cent over the past 24 hours to $2.74 trillion, according to data on CoinMarketCap, the total market volume rose 28.69 per cent to $86.64 billion.

Further, volume of stablecoins was at $81.9 billion, which is 94.54 per cent of the total crypto market 24-hour volume; and DeFi trade was at $6.55 billion, which is 7.56 per cent of the total crypto market volume, CoinMarketCap data showed.

Bitcoin, the world's largest crypto token by circulation, saw an increase of 0.63 per cent tra...