Bitcoin, Solana & Ethereum in the green, meme coins and metaverse tokens increase

By Nidhi Bhardwaj: The prices of top cryptocurrencies on 3 January traded in the green, with the global crypto market cap increased by 0.94 percent to $806.11B, followed by a spike in total crypto market volume by 30.76 percent to $23.47B. The value of Bitcoin recorded gains of 0.28 percent from yesterday to stand at $16,692.99 as of (1000 IST).

As the market recovered, the value of Ethereum rose by 1.17 percent to $1,214.86. The prices of other top currencies like Solana advanced by 12.83 percent to $11.25 in the last 24 hours and Cardano grew by 1.55 percent to $0.253299. XRP registered gains of 4.97 percent to $0.343865.

As per the CoinMarketCap, the value of Monero is down by 0.31 percent to $148.32. Dash and EOS, on the other hand, advanced by 3.31 percent to $43.22, and 0.01 percent to $0.880029, respectively.

The top gainers on Tuesday were Lido DAO, Solana, BitDAO, and Terra Classic, with a rise in value by 13.11 percent, 13.07 percent, 10.43, and 9.15 percent, respectively, whereas OKB, Toncoin, Internet computer and UNUS SED LEO were among the losers.

Meme coins grow

Meme coins registered gains in the last 24 hours. The value of Dogecoin also witnessed an increase in value by 2.16 percent to $0.071491. This increase was further recorded in Shiba Inu by 0.93 percent to $0.000008.

Metaverse tokens record increase

The price of Decentraland was up by 2.96 percent to $0.310124. The Sandbox increased by 3.71 percent to $0.404427 and Axie Infinity advanced by 1.96 percent to trade at $6.37.