The broader crypto market has seen its value grow by 3.6%. Solana leads the push among high market-cap cryptocurrencies after registering a 10.2% uptick in the last 24 hours.
Data from crypto.news shows that, at last check, Solana (SOL) was priced at $158.25. It spent the previous day oscillating between a low of $142.78 and a high of $158.58.Â
Solana price chart, May 1 â Aug. 24 | Source: crypto.news
The uptick in the coinâs price was accompanied by a 24-hour trading volume of $4 billion occasioned by more than 19 million SOL tokens changing hands.
The amount made SOL the third most traded cryptocurrency in the last 24 hours, after Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
Like their top five counterpart, the two largest digital assets by market capitalization also registered green arrows, with BTCâs price moving up more than 5% to $64,164, and ETH jumping 6.61% to $2,771, moving it ever closer to the $3,000 level.
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Solanaâs spike came on the heels of U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinting at the likelihood of an interest rate cut in September.Â
Powellâs promise to adjust Fed policies to protect the American job market from further loss and to ensure a smooth economic transition after the upcoming U.S. presidential elections in November, seemed to have calmed jitters in the market.
Recently, crypto watcher Ali Martinez suggested that SOL may be on the cusp of forming whatâs known as an Adam and Eve pattern. That pattern could potentially push SOL to $164, he says. That would kickstart the cryptocurrencyâs march to $220.Â
#Solana might be shaping up for an Adam & Eve pattern, suggesting a potential rise to $164. If $SOL clears that resistance, we could see a 33% surge toward $220! pic.twitter.com/vAEl9GsK9D
â Ali (@ali_charts) August 23, 2024
Currently, that resistance level is only $9 away, and thereâs no telling which way the market could go in the coming days.Â
While SOL was the best performer among the top 10 biggest cryptocurrencies, other lower capped coins such as SATS (Ordinals), dogwifhat (WIF), Bonk (BONK), and Pepe (PEPE) did much better.
In the last 24 hours, the value of SATS has gone up 28%, while WIF and BONK surged by 20.8% and 14.4% respectively.
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