Major coins were flat but Dogecoin DOGE/USD and Shiba Inu rose higher as a weekend dominated by the latter came to an end on Sunday evening. The global cryptocurrency market cap fell 1% to $2.54 trillion.
What Happened: DOGE shot up 10.07% to $0.27 over 24 hours. For the week, the meme-themed coin has risen 14.07%.
SHIB was up 7.32% at $0.00003795 over 24 hours. Over a seven-day trailing period, the coin has risen 40.64%.
Over the weekend, SHIB saw a massive spike, reaching an all-time high of $0.00004442 on Sunday. At press time, it was trading 15.46% below that level. Currently, it is the thirteenth-largest coin by market capitalization, as per CoinMarketCap data.
The apex cryptocurrency, Bitcoin BTC/USD, rose 0.41% to $61,416.82. Over the last seven days, it has fallen 1.57%.
Ethereum traded 0.67% lower at $4,114.90 over 24 hours. For the week, it is up 6.11%.
DOGE and SHIB were among the top gainers over 24 hours, but the largest gains were seen in Mina, THORChain, and Harmony coins.
Mina rose 12.67% to $4.70, THORChain was up 11.22% to $12.54, and Harmony traded 10.31% higher at $0.95 in the period.
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Why It Matters: A petition imploring Robinhood Markets Inc HOOD to list SHIB has garnered 306,324 signatures as of press time.
Recently, the self-described DOGE-killer has also benefitted from the buzz surrounding non fungible tokens after “Shiboshis” were launched.
On Sunday, Shiba Inu received a setback, with Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk confirming that he did not own SHIB but only BTC, ETH, and DOGE.
Musk’s response came after Dogecoin millionaire Glauber Contessoto cited a recent Benzinga article about one-third of United States cryptocurrency investors owning DOGE.
Meanwhile, more U.S. residents would be able to access cryptocurrency as Walmart has put in 200 Bitcoin ATMs across its stores.
On the institutional side, the Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF BTF launched on Friday, which gave U.S. investors yet another choice exchange-traded fund choice.
The launch of ProShares Bitcoin ETF BITO last week led Bitcoin to touch a new all-time high.
Bitpanda Chief Product Officer Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad commented on the development in an emailed note.
“BITO opened exposure to Bitcoin to a large segment of investors who already have a brokerage account for buying stocks and ETFs, but not for crypto,” wrote Enzersdorfer-Konrad.
“BTC’s rally has renewed faith in the asset and the market and has seen sentiment move more positively in the broader crypto market. Bitcoin is not showing any signs of slowing down.”
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