Bitcoin Remains Above This Major Level, Here Are Other Crypto Movers That Should Be On Your Radar

Author: Lisa Levin | August 04, 2022 02:18am

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the world’s oldest cryptocurrency, traded slightly higher on Thursday, and managed to remain above the $23,000 level.

However, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), the second-most valued cryptocurrency, continued its bull run with the crypto staying above the $1,600 mark for the second day in a row.

Other popular crypto coins, including Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) also recorded slight gains today.

Optimism (CRYPTO: OP) was the top gainer over the prior 24 hours, while Cronos (CRYPTO: CRO) turned out to be the biggest loser.

At the time of writing, the global crypto market cap rose to $1.08 trillion, recording a 24-hour increase of 1.8%. BTC was trading higher by around 0.9% to $23,069, while ETH gained around 1.8% to $1,647 on Thursday.

Investors are now awaiting earnings results from eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY), Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA), Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) and Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ), scheduled for release today.

Here are the top ten crypto gainers and losers over the past 24 hours:

Gainers

 

• Optimism (CRYPTO: OP)

 

Price: $2.07
24-hour gain: 24.4%

• Lido DAO (CRYPTO: LDO)

 

Price: $2.64
24-hour gain: 15.5%

• ApeCoin (CRYPTO: APE)

 

Price: $7.59
24-hour gain: 9.6%

• Fantom (CRYPTO: FTM)

 

Price: $0.3622
24-hour gain: 8.9%

• NEAR Protocol (CRYPTO: NEAR)

 

Price: $4.65
24-hour gain: 8.6%

 

Losers

• Cronos (CRYPTO: CRO)

 

Price: $0.1458
24-hour drop: 3%

• Qtum (CRYPTO: QTUM)

 

Price: $4.01
24-hour drop: 1.1%

• Bitcoin Gold (CRYPTO: BTG)

 

Price: $29.58
24-hour drop: 0.8%

• Fei USD (CRYPTO: FEI)

 

Price: $0.9833
24-hour drop: 0.5%

• Monero (CRYPTO: XMR)

 

Price: $161.98
24-hour drop: 0.5%

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