Coinbase volume signals lack of altcoin interest, BTC dominates

Despite Coinbase's commitment to listing more crypto assets, trading volume on Coinbase Pro shows lackluster investor interest in altcoins while BTC dominates trading volume.

Approximately $461 million was traded in the last 24 hours in Coinbase Pro, according to CoinMarketCap.

Even though the exchange has been adding a variety of new cryptocurrencies over the last few years, the vast majority of the trading activity is concentrated in Bitcoin.

As a matter of fact, Bitcoin accounts for 75.1 percent of the total trading volume on the San Francisco-based exchange.

The other most traded cryptocurrencies on Coinbase Pro are Ethereum with 8.8 percent trading volume, Litecoin with 7.5 percent, and XRP and Bitcoin Cash with 2.4 percent each.

The rest of the cryptocurrencies that are available on the platform including Chainlink, Stellar, EOS, Dai, Ethereum Classic, 0x, Basic Attention Token, Augur, Zcash, Decentraland, Golem, Loom Network, district0x and Civic, combined, had a trading volume of less than $18 million over the last 24 hours, only representing 3.9 percent of the activity on the exchange.

As Coinbase continues to add new cryptocurrencies, it does not seem to be benefiting from them.

MANA, GNT, LOOM, DNT, and CVC each had a trading volume lower than $20,000 over the last 24-hours-meaning they hardly impact the company's revenue.

Over the last few years Coinbase has been criticized for slowing down the adoption of Bitcoin.

Even today, Coinbase continues to promote and add altcoins rather than provide full support for Bitcoin, argued Jameson Lopp and other BTC supporters in the community.