Over the past 24 hours to Saturday morning, the prices of most cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), have risen, but Ethereum (ETH) continued to fall for three days in a row now.
The global crypto market cap increased by 0.47 percent to $965.23 billion. However, total crypto market volume fell 22.33 percent to $65.28 billion, as of 8:30 a.m., according to Coinmarketcap data.
The top winner was Chiliz (CHZ). It was up 9.59 percent to $0.2153. The biggest loser was Celsius (CEL), down 11.76 percent to $1.59. The most popular crypto was ETHPoW (ETHW).
Cryptocurrency prices
Bitcoin: BTC rose 0.94 percent to $19,911.07.
BTC’s upward journey was interrupted sometime around 18:54 on September 17 when the price had fallen from around $19,700 levels to $19,400 levels in approx. 3 hours.
The lowest intraday trade price was $19,400.08, while volume was down 14.49 percent to $30,408,932,814.
Ethereum: Ethereum’s the price fell 1.49 percent to $1,440.95 in the last 24 hours through Saturday morning.
ETH’s trading was highly volatile and has been on a downward journey since the day of the merger event. Although ETH was trading with gains most of the time in the morning of September 16, it was around 17:29 when ETH recorded a drop from about $1,470 level to about $1,406 level within 3 hours.
The lowest price for ETH today was $1,415.58. ETH’s trading volume decreased by 39.14 percent to $15,796,468,688.
Other Altcoins: Solana’s (SOL) price rose 0.18 percent to $32.70 today.
Ripple (XRP) rose 8.11 percent to $0.3504 and 24-hour trading volume was down 6.28 percent to $1,397,243,211.
Cardano (ADA) rose 2.64 percent to $0.4783. Cardano’s 24-hour trading volume fell 12.64 percent to $578,784,229.
Binance (BNB) was up 1.57 percent at $276.41. Its 24-hour trading volume decreased by 25.31 percent to $775,575,034.
Meme Coins
Dogecoin (DOGE) was up 2.97 percent to $0.06066. Its 24-hour trading volume decreased by 32.19 percent to $223,561,072.
Shiba Inu was up 0.45 percent to $0.00001169.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Yearn.Finance (YFI) rose 2.44 percent to $8,753.79. Its 24-hour trading volume increased by 20.29 percent to $44,988,127.
Avalanche (AVAX) was up 1.47 percent at $18.32 and 24-hour trading volume was down 18.13 percent at $425,795,721.
Aave (AAVE) traded up 1.71 percent to $80.07, and 24-hour trading volume was up 27.66 percent to $120,781,827.