Popular ‘alt-coin’ Solana was up the most among the top 10 coins in a generally upbeat Monday morning for a cryptocurrency market that found support over the weekend.
Bitcoin was up 5.7% in Monday’s early deals, trading at US$57,408, whilst Ethereum was up 7% to US$4,335.
Solana gained 8.3% to around US$204, whilst the other popular potential ‘Ethereum challenger’ Cardano ADA advanced 6% to US$1.58. Polkadot – which links and unifies other crypto platforms – meanwhile saw its DOT coin rise by 7.2% to US$35.98.
The doggy Meme-coins were lagging behind with Dogecoin up 3.2% at US$0.2059 and Shiba Inu up 3.5% at US$0.0000393.
Elsewhere, Binance Coin (BNB) was up 4.25% at US$611.65 and Ripple’s XRP gained 5% to US$0.9774.