Avalanche's AVAX tops market cap of Solana’s Sol, Coinbase pops 8%
Quick Take
- Avalanche surpassed Solana in terms of market cap of their native tokens.
- Coinbase shares rose 8% amid slow trading.
The market cap of Avalanche's native AVAX token surpassed Solana's, reaching $3.47 billion compared to Sol's $3.43 billion.
The coins were both down, with Solana showing a sharper decline of 5.7% over the last 24 hours and 22.7% in the past week.
Solana is losing two of its most popular NFT projects, after DeGods and y00ts announced plans days ago to migrate over to Ethereum and Polygon.
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Volume was low, but most crypto-related stocks were trading higher with shares of Coinbase up 8% after reaching an all-time low earlier this week. Galaxy Digital popped 10%, and Robinhood rose 5%. MicroStrategy bucked the trend to trade slightly lower at 10:35 a.m. ET.
Bitcoin and Ethereum were both down by a slight 0.5% and 0.1%, respectively, over the past 24 hours. Traditional markets were up, with the S&P 500 jumping 1.6% and the Nasdaq rising by 2.3%.
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