{"id":29869,"date":"2022-09-23T05:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=29869"},"modified":"2022-09-23T05:21:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:21:50","slug":"cryptocurrencies-up-amid-cardanos-vasil-hard-fork-xrp-leads-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=29869","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrencies up amid Cardano&#8217;s Vasil hard fork, XRP leads gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bitcoin bounced back above US$19,000 in Friday morning trading in Asia as Cardano announced a successful hard fork to their upgraded Vasil network. XRP led gains among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See related article: <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/cryptocurrency-lobby-group-gets-court-approval-to-weigh-in-on-sec-vs-ripples-xrp-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Cryptocurrency lobby group gets court approval to weigh in on SEC vs Ripple\u2019s XRP lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Fast facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bitcoin was up 4.2% in the past 24 hours to trade at US$19,307 at 10:30 a.m. in Hong Kong, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/exchanges\/binance\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>. Ethereum gained 5.6% to trade at US$1,327, narrowing the decline over the past seven days to 9.6%.<\/li>\n<li>Cardano\u2019s token ADA was up after Input Output Hong Kong announced successfully hard forking the Cardano blockchain as part of the Vasil upgrade early this morning, a move that is expected to improve scalability and efficiency. ADA rallied 4.2% at US$0.46.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>XRP led gains amongst all cryptocurrencies, rising over 20% to trade at US$0.49, following the grant of another motion that set Dec. 9 as a deadline for third-parties to submit motions to seal evidence in the case.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>XRP\u2019s recent gains have helped it overtake Binance\u2019s USD stablecoin as the sixth largest token by market capitalization. BNB was trading up 3.5%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gains in cryptocurrency markets differed from declines in major US equity indexes a day after the U.S. Fed\u2019s rate announcement on Thursday morning in Hong Kong time, with the agency signaling more aggressive monetary tightening into 2023. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.4%, the S&amp;P 500 Index ended 0.8% lower, and the Nasdaq Composite Index lost 1.4%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>See related article: <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/markets-bitcoin-price-stuck-under-us19000-ether-falls-xrp-bounces-back\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Markets: XRP bounces back, Bitcoin stuck under US$19,000, Ether loses more ground post-Merge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/markets-cardanos-vasil-hard-fork-lifts-cryptocurrencies-xrp-gains-lawsuit\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin bounced back above US$19,000 in Friday morning trading in Asia as Cardano announced a successful hard fork to their upgraded Vasil network. XRP led gains among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. See related article: Cryptocurrency lobby group gets court approval to weigh in on SEC vs Ripple\u2019s XRP lawsuit Fast facts Bitcoin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44],"tags":[1264,81,618,615,2032,674,7390,58],"class_list":["post-29869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ada","tag-cardanos","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-fork","tag-gains","tag-hard","tag-leads","tag-vasil","tag-xrp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/golden-coins-of-ada-cryptocurrencies-cardano-coin-2022-05-01-23-15-45-utc-1260x841.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29871,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869\/revisions\/29871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}