Ethereum On Bang – Hits Top Second Position by Sliding XRP Down After a long time

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Seems like New Year has got the enormous potential for Ethereum, which was struggling to reclaim its second spot. For the first in almost two months, Ethereum overtook XRP and regained its second position on January 02, 2019 following 80% growth in the last 30 days.

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XRP spilled over While Ethereum Gained  7.53 percent (24hrs)

According to Coinmarketcap, the press time value of Ethereum is $146.36 with a positive graph of 7.76% during 24hrs. Consequently, XRP dropped down to its old position, trading with the value of $0.363842.

XRP and Ethereum were running a long-term battle to attain the peak of the total market cap. At the time of writing, the market cap of Ethereum is $15,243,748,057 in contrast to $14,842,594,577 of XRP. However, the major trading for Ethereum market comes with OEX, OKEx, Huobi, Binance and ZBG and unlike. OKEx which held 3.59% Ethereum trading volume today had recently rolled out the perpetual swap based on Ethereum Network for crypto traders. Ethereum oriented perpetual swap by OKEx was aimed to provide greater leveraging power.

On top of all, OKEx itself regains the top position by surpassing Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange. Fruitfully, OKEx held the total market cap of $562,051,937 with an upward change of 9.74% during 24hrs. Whereas, Binance which had crowned as the top cryptocurrency exchange since long has slipped down to the second position with 1.21% change in 24 hrs.

 

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