Crypto On Oct. 3: Bitcoin Holds $19,000, Ether Below $1,300

The crypto market opened Monday with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) a tad down. However, the world's biggest cryptocurrency BTC was able to retain the $19,000 price level while ETH slipped below $1,300.

As per an earlier report, the $19,000 and $1,300 price levels are minor support regions for BTC and ETH, respectively.

The trading volume of BTC jumped 27.17% in the last 24 hours, while that of ETH surged 38.30%. On the other hand, BTC dipped 0.71% while ETH dropped 1.33% in the same period.

According to data from CoinMarketCap, BTC and ETH tokens were priced at $19,175 and $1,292, respectively, as of 12.08 a.m. ET. The crypto fear and greed index was in the "extreme fear" zone and valued at 24.

BTC was up 1.6% in the last seven days, while ETH's price was down 0.86%.

Every other top 10 crypto coin in the market showed bearish movement, except Binance Coin (BNB) which was up 1.01% to $285.31. Solana (SOL) was down 1.57% to $32.33, Cardano (ADA) was down 2.07% to $0.4225, Dogecoin (DOGE) was down 2.04% to $0.05952; and Ripple (XRP) was down 5.72% to $0.4472.

The top losers in the crypto market were Chainlink (LINK), which was down 2.32% to $7.17; Cosmos (ATOM), which slipped 4.21% to $12.25; Quant (QNT), which was down 4.18% to $134.07; and STEPN (GMT), which dropped 4.14% to $0.616.

The top gainers included Elrond (EGLD), which was up 2.56% to $49.06; Maker (MKR), which was up 4.87% to $769.08; PancakeSwap (CAKE), which was up 2.37% to $4.67; and Reserve Rights (RSR), which was up 5.77% to $0.009881.

Metaverse tokens were bearish as of 12.10 a.m. ET with The Sandbox (SAND) down 2.71% to $0.8123 and Decentraland (MANA) down 2% to $0.6815.