Following a few consecutive days of price slides, bitcoin finally bounced off by adding $4,000 of value. Most alternative coins are well in the green as well, with impressive daily increases from Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, Terra, The Sandbox, and more.
Ever since last Friday, when news broke about a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, the price of the primary cryptocurrency has been suffering. It went from a daily high of over $59,000 to a low of $53,500 in a matter of hours, resulting in nearly $1 billion in liquidations on a daily scale for leveraged traders.
The weekend saw a brief recovery attempt, in which BTC exceeded $55,000, but it was short-lived as the bears intercepted the move. As a result, they pushed bitcoin south again, and the asset found itself around $53,500 once more just hours ago.
However, this is where the landscape changed. Instead of going further south, BTC started to reclaim ground and jumped by more than $4,000. Consequently, it touched $58,000, but it has retraced slightly now to just over $57,000.
Its market capitalization, which was close to breaking below $1 trillion yesterday, is now up to almost $1.1 trillion.
The altcoins also went down hard as bitcoin was dumping. Ethereum dipped below $4,000, and even though it tried to surpass $4,100 during the weekend, it stayed below it for the most time. Now, though, a 7% daily increase has driven the second-largest cryptocurrency well above $4,300.
Binance Coin has reclaimed $610 after a 5% daily surge. Solana (8.5%), Cardano (6%), Ripple (6%), Polkadot (8.5%), Dogecoin (3.5%), Avalanche (4.5%), Shiba Inu (4.5%), and Terra (6.5%) are all well in the green as well.
More gains come from The Sandbox (22%), Zilliqa (17%), Gala (17%), Stacks (14%), KuCoin Token (14%), WAX (14%), PancakeSwap (13%), Enjin Coin (12%), and more.
The cryptocurrency market cap is up by more than $130 billion in a day and has exceeded $2.7 trillion on CoinGecko.
