Crypto markets are seeing mostly green today, July 21, continuing the momentum of this week's upswing.
The top ten altcoins are solidly regaining strength today, up as much 8 percent, according to Coin360, with Bitcoin only slightly in the green, hovering near yesterday's levels.
The top cryptocurrency is currently trading at $7,426 at press time, up just under 1 percent on the day.
Top altcoin Ethereum has seen more significant growth over the past 24 hours, up almost 5 percent and trading at $466 at press time.
The altcoin is holding weekly gains of almost 8 percent, peaking at over $500 on July 18.
Total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies is hovering around $282-283 bln, currently at $282.7, up about 2 percent over the past 24 hours to press time.
Among the top ten cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap, Stellar and IOTA are up the most on the day, seeing over 7 and almost 5 percent growth respectively.
Other than stablecoin Tether, Cardano is seeing the least 24-hour growth of the top ten coins, up only 1.53 percent.
Yesterday, July 20, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reported that BTC futures daily average volume has increased by 93 percent in Q2 over Q1. The number of open contracts on Bitcoin futures also increased by 58 percent.
This week's crypto market growth got further encouragement yesterday, July 20, when the CEO of crypto trading platform BitMEX suggested Bitcoin's current bull run may give way to a price point of $5,000 before heading to $50,000 in 2018.
Crypto Markets See Solid Upswing, Bitcoin Pushes $7,500
에 게시 됨 Jul 21, 2018
by Cointele | 에 게시 됨 Coinage
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