KEY POINTS

  • The best performers were DOT, ATOM, BCH, LUNC and LINK
  • The worst performers were LIDO, CEL and HNT
  • In the last seven days, BTC rose by 0.5%, while ETH was up by 5.45%.

The crypto market opened on a bullish note Friday as leading cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) were up by 3.35% and 2.40% respectively in the last 24 hours.

The prices of BTC and ETH as of 12.04 a.m. ET were $19,876 and $1,668, according to the data from CoinMarketCap. These cryptocurrencies have major resistance zones at the $20,000 and $1,700 price levels respectively.

Data from Alternative.me confirmed the crypto market sentiment was in "extreme fear," while the price predictability remained tough. Moreover, the value of the Fear and Greed Index was 22. In the last seven days, BTC rose 0.5%, while ETH increased by 5.45%.

The other top 10 cryptocurrencies were also in green, with Binance Coin (BNB) up by 2% to $285.30; Cardano (ADA) up by 2.80% to $0.49; Solana (SOL) up by 7.12% to $34.73; Polkadot (DOT) up by 4.97% to $7.54 and Ripple (XRP) up by 4.13% to $0.346.

The best performers in the crypto space included Chainlink (LINK), which was up by 10.03% to $7.77, Cosmos (ATOM), which was up by 10.21% to $14.05, and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), which was up by 10.40% to $129.96.

Terra Classic (LUNC) was another bullish performer, which rose by almost 100% in the last seven days and 13.36% in the last 24 hours to $0.000537. According to the algorithm by Bitnation, the maximum price of LUNC by the end of the year is predicted to be $0.000954.

The top losers in the crypto market included Lido DAO (LIDO), which was down by 0.61% to $1.94, Celsius (CEL), which was down 2.63% to $1.32, and Helium (HNT), which was down by 9.58% to $4.80.

Interestingly, metaverse token The Sandbox (SAND) was up by 3.07% to $0.7922 and Decentraland (MANA) was up by 3.87% to $0.9453 as of 12.29 a.m. ET.

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