Crypto Price Update August 26: BTC at $63K, ETH Hit $2.7K, TRX Soars into Top 10

The crypto prices in the market today have exhibited mixed movement sprung from the rally ignited over the weekend. The investor confidence surrounding the market continues to rise as the market demonstrates impressive resurgence. Consequently, the total market cap now rests at $2.24 trillion even though the value declined marginally by 0.07% over the last day.

Notably, the investor sentiment in the market looks positive as evident in the crypto fear and greed index. According to Alternative data, investors’ emotions reflect ‘Greed’ with the metric pointing to 55, up by one point from yesterday’s 54 and a significant jump from 28 last week. Below is an overview of the crypto market and how the top 10 coins reacted over the last day.

Top Crypto Prices Today

The price of Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has continued to trade above the $60,000 mark, showing positive signs for its future trajectory. According to CoinMarketCap data, Bitcoin traded at $63,733 at the time of writing, indicating a 0.36% decline in the last 24 hours. Also, the price of the asset has traded between the range of $63,607.57 and $64,893.52 within the recorded time.

Moreover, the steady positive flows into Bitcoin ETFs signify increasing institutional investor interest in the asset. Per Soso Value data, Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) saw a total daily net inflow of $252 million as of August 23.

The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, has seen a marginal loss in the last 24 hours. Per CoinMarketCap data, the price of ETH dropped by 0.64% at the time of writing to change hands at $2,736. Unlike BTC, Ethereum’s negative ETF flows continue into this new week. According to the same tracking platform, the total daily net flows of ETH as of August 23 was -$5.70 million. Notably, ETH traded between the range of $2,731.68 and $2,789.27 in the last 24 hours.

Other Altcoin Prices

The Solana price increased by 1.42% at press time to trade at $159.53. Additionally, Solana saw a low and high of $156.59 and $162.03 respectively. Meanwhile, XRP dropped within the last day. CMC data shows that the price of XRP slipped by 0.76% to trade at $0.5965. Its 24-hour lows and highs were recorded at $0.5928 and $0.6055.

Binance Coin (BNB), the fourth-largest cryptocurrency dropped notably in the last 24 hours. At the time of writing, the coin declined by 1.76% to trade at $562.92 and maintained a 24-hour range of $561.79 and $579.86 respectively.

Tron (TRX) has recorded the most gains among the top 10 cryptocurrencies. At the time of writing, the coin spiked by 4.07% to trade at $0.1666 as of writing, having one-day lows and highs of $0.1599 and $0.1674. Earlier today, Coinfomania reported that the Tron community has successfully increased the network’s energy cap to 120 billion, causing for reduced gas fees, and increased activities within the ecosystem. This recent update and the meme coin frenzy in the SunPump ecosystem have further propelled TRX to secure the #9 spot among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap.

Meanwhile, Toncoin (TON) saw little gains over the last day, jumping by 0.8% to reach $0.1558. The memecoin market has shown mixed reactions in the last 24 hours. Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), the two largest memecoins have had varied movements within this time. While DOGE added 0.04%, SHIB declined by 0.12%. Thus, DOGE and SHIB traded at $0.1087 and $0.00001492 respectively.

Top Trending Crypto Gainers Today

Sunpepe (SUNPEPE) skyrocketed by 64.11% to reach $0.004831

Artificial Superintelligence Alliance gained 11.69% to $1.33

xodex (XODEX) moved up by 11.61% to $0.00027

Bittensor (TAO) surged 5.64% to $343.09

Fantom (FTM) added 4.30% to $0.5082