The crypto markets gained over the weekend, with global market capitalisation pushing one percent higher to US$929.7bn.
Ethereum outpaced bitcoin, having fared particularly well in the past 24 hours with a 2.1% jump to US$1,337, although its has been drawing back in Monday’s early trading hours.
Ether (ETH) saw a late-Sunday rally, but has retracted this morning – Source: currency.com
Bitcoin acted in similar accord, if a bit less dramatically, as is currently changing hands at US$19,332.
Top Monday risers in the large-cap altcoin space include Polygon (MATIC), which underwent a 6.5% upshot to bring its market cap to US$7.7bn.
Cardano is also trending upwards having added 2.1%, though the blockchain network is still running cold week on week, as is Solana (SOL) and Polkadot (DOT).
There are a number of smaller network tokens to keep an eye on, including South Korea-based Klaytn (KLAY), which just jumped over 22% following a tokenomics revamp.
There’s still a long way for the metaverse-focused blockchain to go though; KLAY is a shocking 86% down year to date.
The Neo and Elrond blockchains added around 4% each, making them also among the top daily risers.
Today’s best-perform decentralised finance (DeFi) tokens include AAVE, Curve and Synthetix (SYN), all three of which added over 3%.
On the flip side, MakerDAO’s market capitalisation dropped over 3%.
While still significantly up against the week following a remarkable recent rally, Huobi Global’s HT token cooled off, shedding around 4.5% of its US$1.3bn market cap.