Crypto prices today: Bitcoin & Ethereum increase, market remains in the green

On Friday, the prices of top cryptocurrencies noticed gains unlike yesterday. The global crypto market cap has increased over the last 24 hours.

Crypto prices on 20 January

By Nidhi Bhardwaj: The prices of the top cryptocurrencies on 20 January remained profitable. The value of Bitcoin traded at $21,098.13, with an increase of 1.58 percent in the last 24 hours. The value of Ethereum was up by 1.78 percent to $1,554.77, as compared to its yesterday’s value of $1,530.01.

The global crypto market cap gained by 1.50 percent to $$981.84B in the last 24 hours. The total crypto market volume plunged by 33.07 percent to $$40.11B.

At the time of writing this article, the value of Polygon and Dash increased by 0.80 percent to $0.953424 and 3.72 percent to $49.55, respectively. As of (0930 IST), XRP advanced by 3.15 percent to $0.390873. However, the value of Avalanche marked gains of 1.26 percent to $16.16, and Monero was up by 3.65 percent to $166.44.

BNB registered an increase of 1.40 percent to $294.94, along with a surge in Cardano by 2.53 percent to $0.339430. However, Solana’s value fell by 1.30 percent to $21.33.

Top gainers and losers of today

Today’s top gainers were Frax Share, Engine Coin, Nexo, and Ape Coin. On the other hand, the losers were Kava, Decentraland, Compound, and Solana, according to CoinMarketCap.

Meme coins record growth

Meme coins have traded in the green over the last 24 hours. The value of the Shiba Inu rose by 1.97 percent to $0.000012. The growth was further witnessed in the value of Dogecoin, which grew by 0.43 percent to $0.081624.

The Sandbox and Axie Infinity increase

The price of Decentraland was lowered by 1.56 percent to $0.646712. Contrastingly, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity both improved by 1.85 percent to $0.703556 and 2.74 percent to trade at 8.38, respectively.