XRP, Ethereum [ETH]and Litecoin [LTC] go up two digits when 2018 will end

The weekend before Christmas Eve seems to have brought with it the Christmas spirit as XRP, Ethereum and Litecoin become the biggest gains in the top 10 cryptocurrencies.

XRP, the second largest cryptocurrency, increased by as much as 16% at the time of writing and its prices rose to $ 0.42 and market capitalization followed its lead to reach $ 17.43 billion , becoming the biggest gain in the top 10 cryptocurrencies.

Source: CoinMarketCap

Prices for XRPs were traded sideways and in a constant position in the range of $ 0.36 to $ 0.38 for most of the 24-hour time period. On December 24th, 7:24 UTC, prices broke the trend and reached $ 0.39, after which prices fell and started a rally that brought prices to $ 0.42. The event decided to stop and continued and reached an all-time high of $ 0.432.

The 24-hour trading volume has reached a whopping $ 1 billion, and most of the trading volume is provided by a Japanese exchange Bitbank through the XRP / JPY exchange pair.

Ethereum, which was on the verge of taking over XRP to regain its old spot, failed and became the second largest gainer as its price increased by more than 15%. The market capitalization of ETH is currently equal to $ 15.38 billion, with 24-hour exchanges at $ 3.93 billion.

Source: CoinMarketCap

Similar to XRP, ETH had normal movements over the 24-hour time period. ETH started trading at $ 129 on December 23 and remained on track until December 24 at 5:19 UTC. After this point, prices have taken off and reached a maximum of $ 151, making it the second best gainer.

Outside of the $ 4 billion trading volume, ETH gets its trade volume contribution from the OEX stock exchange as it contributes $ 194 million of total trading volume.

Litecoin became the third largest gain of the last week of December 2018, with a gain of 11.39% just below Ethereum. The price of LTC was $ 36.43 with a market capitalization of $ 2.17 billion.

Source: CoinMarketCap

LTC has had a rocky journey with massive volatility in the 24-hour time frame. Prices started trading at $ 32.96 and reached a low of $ 32.69 in a couple of hours on December 23rd. Prices on their roller coasters made a couple of ups and downs.

The high points of LTC's journey over the 24 hours were $ 33.75, $ 34.15, $ 35.54 and finally reached a record high of $ 36.52.

The 24-hour trading volume was $ 614.77 million and was provided by Bitbox via the LTC / BTC trading pair.

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Akash is your usual Mechie with an unusual interest in encryption and day trading, ergo, a full-time AMBCrypto journalist. He holds XRP because of peer pressure, but otherwise he found a day of trading with that little capital he owns.