trading volume has slowed across many cryptocurrency trading platforms during the rout in global assets triggered by the ukraine crisis a potentiality troubling sign for a sector that has billed itself as alternative to traditional finance bitcoin’s aggregated daily spot trading volume on coinbase bitstamp ftx gemini itbit kraken and lmax digital was around 3 billion according to data from researcher skew that’s compared with previous highs of roughly 5 billion in the beginning of december at one point thursday bitcoin lost about 27 billion in market value