Cryptocurrency Prices were in the green with Bitcoin, Ethereum trading with gains and altcoins such as Solana, Binance and others also rising on Monday morning. Aptos (APT) was the most popular crypto.
Crypto market capitalization rose 1.31 percent to $936.06 billion and trading volume rose 39.41 percent to $46.29 billion, according to data from Coinmarketcap.com at 8:30 a.m.
Today’s top winner was Klaytn (KLAY); it was up 24.07 percent to $0.1783. The biggest loser was Chain (XCN), which traded at $0.0579 with a loss of 3.72 percent in the last 24 hours to Monday morning.
Cryptocurrency prices
Bitcoin: BTC rose 1.16 percent to $19,430.37.
BTC traded at a loss for most of October 23. But around 10:45 PM, BTC experienced a sudden buying momentum that lifted the price from a low of $19,150 to a high of $19,400 and well beyond at 11:55 PM.
Its lowest intraday trading price was $19,124.20, while volume was up 53.35 percent to $24,514,492,696.
Ethereum: Ethereum’s price rose 3.14 percent to $1,353.69 in the last 24 hours through Monday morning.
ETH traded at a loss for most of October 23, and it too, like BTC, experienced sudden buying interest around 23:00 which took it away from $1,313 levels to $1,366 levels in 4 hours.
The lowest price for ETH was $1,302.91. ETH’s trading volume increased by 47.42 percent to $10,679,550,409.
Other Altcoins: Solana’s (SOL) price rose by 1.42 percent to $28.84 today.
Ripple (XRP) fell 0.25 percent to $0.4625 and 24-hour trading volume was up 19.72 percent to $1,023,368,249.
Cardano (ADA) rose 1.43 percent to $0.3591. Cardano’s 24-hour trading volume increased by 12.23 percent to $391,138,650.
Binance (BNB) was up 1.64 percent at $275.20. Its 24-hour trading volume increased by 28.36 percent to $505,871,493.
Meme Coins
Dogecoin (DOGE) rose 0.73 percent to $0.06018. Its 24-hour trading volume increased by 27.1 percent to $196,745,216.
Shiba Inu was up 0.08 percent to $0.00001004.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Yearn.Finance (YFI) rose 0.53 percent to $7,696.64. Its 24-hour trading volume increased by 11.16 percent to $18,436,344.
Avalanche (AVAX) was up 2.39 percent to $16.25 and 24-hour trading volume was up 49.56 percent to $194,218,195
Aave (AAVE) traded up 7.01 percent to $88.39, and its 24-hour trading volume was up 79.68 percent to $129,556,865.