XRP, Solana and Bitcoin rocket over weekend BusinessCloud

The cryptocurrency market enjoyed large weekend gains despite falling back slightly in the last 24 hours.

At the time of writing (7am UK), market leader Bitcoin is closing on $47,900, up $4,000 on Friday morning. BTC is up 8% over seven days.

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Solana jumped from $141 to $169 and is 21% up on its price last Monday. With a market cap of $50.3 billion, it has usurped XRP to move into sixth spot in the valuation table.

Ripple’s coin moved from 96 cents on Friday to break through $1. On Monday morning it sits at $1.03, up 6% over seven days, with a market cap of £48.4bn.

Binance Coin (BNB) rocketed from $389 to $419 in three days, which leaves its seven-day price increase at 18%. It has jumped above Cardano into third place by market cap, with both worth more than $70m. 

The proof-of-stake blockchain platform’s ADA token improved from $2.12 on Friday to $2.19 yet is the only major coin to be down over the course of a week (3%).

Smart contract blockchain platform Ethereum (ETH) climbed from $3,000 to top $3,350. The world’s second most valuable crypto is 8% up over seven days.

Polkadot (DOT) improved from $29 on Friday to $31 and is 4% up in a week.

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Meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE) improved from 20c to 21.6c and is also 4% up in a week.

The overall market cap of the more than 12,200 coins is at $2.11 trillion, up from $1.93tr on Friday.

To see how the valuations of the biggest movers and shakers – and main coins – have changed over the last few days, click here.

For valuations of the top 250 coins by market cap (updated every 15 minutes), their market cap plus 24-hour price change and volume traded, see below.