Largest cryptocurrencies climb on Ethereum, Litecoin increases

Published: Feb. 4, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. ET

All of the largest cryptocurrencies were up during morning trading on Friday, with Ethereum ETHUSD seeing the biggest move, rising 6.40% to $2,827.44.

Litecoin LTCUSD rose 2.92% to $112.52, while Bitcoin Cash BCHUSD rallied 2.83% to $286.50.

Bitcoin BTCUSD and Polkadot DOTUSD rallied 2.73% to $37,971.58 and 2.38% to $19.21, respectively.

All of the largest cryptocurrencies were up during morning trading on Friday, with Ethereum

ETHUSD

seeing the biggest move, rising 6.40% to $2,827.44.

Litecoin

LTCUSD

rose 2.92% to $112.52, while Bitcoin Cash

BCHUSD

rallied 2.83% to $286.50.

Bitcoin

BTCUSD

and Polkadot

DOTUSD

rallied 2.73% to $37,971.58 and 2.38% to $19.21, respectively.

Dogecoin

DOGEUSD

increased 1.73% to 14 cents, and Uniswap

UNIUSD

increased 1.73% to $10.51.

Ripple

XRPUSD

and Cardano

ADAUSD

rounded out the increases for Friday, climbing 1.21% to 61 cents and 0.21% to $1.06, respectively.

In crypto-related company news, shares of Coinbase Global Inc.

COIN

rose 2.10% to $185.12, while MicroStrategy Inc.

MSTR

climbed 2.41% to $348.27. Riot Blockchain Inc.

RIOT

shares increased 4.67% to $15.48, and shares of Marathon Digital Holdings Inc.

MARA

climbed 4.07% to $22.07.

Overstock.com Inc.

OSTK

rallied 1.76% to $46.75, while Block Inc.

SQ

increased 3.79% to $105.35 and Tesla Inc.

TSLA

climbed 1.57% to $905.17.

PayPal Holdings Inc.

PYPL

inched down 0.91% to $123.17, and Ebang International Holdings Inc. Cl A

EBON

shares increased 2.14% to $1.20. NVIDIA Corp.

NVDA

rose 1.37% to $242.76, and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

AMD

climbed 0.91% to $121.74.

In the fund space, the Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF

BITQ

,
which is focused on pure-play crypto companies, rallied 2.08% to $15.21. Blockchain-focused Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF

BLOK

climbed 1.74% to $32.13. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust

GBTC

,
which tracks the Bitcoin market price, climbed 4.34% to $25.70.


Editor’s Note: This story, which tracks nine of the top cryptocurrencies and excludes stable coins, was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones, FactSet and Kraken. See our market data terms of use.