Bitcoin’s recent bullish run continued with another minor leg up that drove it to a high of $43,000. Most altcoins have produced similar slight increases; some, such as Shiba Inu and XRP, have exploded with massive double-digit pumps.
Ever since last Friday, when the cryptocurrency began its rapid ascent from $37,500, the BTC landscape has remained significantly more positive. Bitcoin surged to and beyond $40,000 in a matter of hours for the first time since mid-January.
The asset remained relatively calm, around $41,500 during the weekend before it initiated another price increase. This time, the bulls drove it to $43,000 for the first time since the market-wide correction started on January 21st.
As of now, BTC has been unable to reclaim that level decisively and has retraced by a few hundred dollars. Nevertheless, its market capitalization has surged above $800 billion. Just last week, the metric was down below $700 billion.
Most alternative coins followed BTC on the way up with impressive gains in the past several days. Ethereum, for example, struggled to remain above $2,000 just a week or so ago. Now, though, the second-largest cryptocurrency stands well above $3,000 and even challenged $3,100 a few hours ago.
Binance Coin, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, and Terra have marked similar gains in the past 24 hours of between 2% and 4%. More impressive increases come from Dogecoin and Avalanche.
However, Ripple and Shiba Inu have taken the main stage from the larger-cap alts. SHIB has exploded by more than 20% in a day, as reported earlier, and stands near $0.00003.
XRP, on the other hand, is up by approximately 13%. As a result, the asset tapped a three-week high at over $0.75.
More gains come from Quant (17%), BitTorrent (16%), LEO (14%), Kadena (13%), Loopring (12%), Gala (10%), and Fantom (10%).
The crypto market cap has increased by about $60 billion since yesterday and stands at $1.950 trillion.
