Crypto markets are seeing for the most part green today, July 21, proceeding with the energy of the current week's rise. The best ten altcoins are positively recovering quality today, up as much 8 percent, as indicated by Coin360, with Bitcoin (BTC) just marginally in the green, drifting close to yesterday's levels.
The top cryptocurrency is currently trading at $7,426 at press time, up just under 1 percent on the day. Bitcoin saw an intraday low of $7,246.
Top altcoin Ethereum (ETH) 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. The total market cap is down from this week’s peak of almost $300 bln.
Among the top ten cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap, Stellar (XLM) and IOTA (MIOTA) are up the most on the day, seeing over 7 and almost 5 percent growth respectively.
Other than stable coin Tether, Cardano (ADA) is seeing the least 24-hour growth of the top ten coins, up only 1.53 percent. Cardona is, however, seeing major growth on the week, boasting a whopping 23 percent price increase.
Yesterday, July 20, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) reported that BTC futures daily average volume have 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.
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