Watch BTC, ETH gain, most altcoins follow suit as September nears end

BTC, ETH See Gains, Majority Altcoins Follow Suit as September Draws Closer to End

As the month of September is just a day away from the end of this year, crypto price charts are making way for the festive season in India as well as other parts of the world. Bitcoin stepped up on Thursday, September 29 with a profit of around 3%. According to the Crypto Price Tracker by Gadgets 360, BTC is trading at $19,477 (approximately Rs 15.8 lakh). The profit is also reflected after bitcoin on international exchanges. According to CoinMarketCap and Binance, the price of BTC on the global platform is $19,509 (approximately Rs.16 lakh).

Ether, riding on the successful launch of Ethereum’s much-anticipated merge upgrade, also turned BTC-like gains on Thursday. According to Gadgets 360’s crypto tracker, ETH is valued at $1,335 (approximately Rs 1.08 lakh), an increase of 3.71 percent.

Most of the altcoins also followed the top two cryptocurrencies and added gains to their portfolios.

These include Binance Coin, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, and Polygon.

The meme-inspired Dogecoin and Shiba Inu also saw gains of 2.23 percent and 2.44 percent, respectively. Their current value is $0.060 (approximately Rs 4.93 and $0.000011 (approximately 0.000909) respectively).

With an overall growth of 3.67 percent in the crypto market cap, the industry is currently valued at $941.32 billion (approximately Rs 76,80,268 crore), as shown by the data. CoinMarketCap,

Meanwhile, there were some altcoins that brought red color to the crypto charts.

Small but significant price drops were seen in Tether, Binance USD, Chainlink, Cosmos and Stellar.