{"id":5255,"date":"2025-01-02T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:48:47","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-spike-4-while-xrp-surges-11-to-become-top-3-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=5255","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum Spike 4% While XRP Surges 11% To Become Top 3 Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency markets are surging on the first official trading day of 2025, with the top three coins by market capitalization up between 4% and 11% before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/premarket\">U.S. markets open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>CRYPTOCURRENCY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>PRICE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>24-HOUR GAINS +\/-<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0$96,595<\/td>\n<td>+3.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0$3,462<\/td>\n<td>+4.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>XRP <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0$2.40<\/td>\n<td>+10.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: XRP has overtaken <strong>Tether<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>) to become the third-biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, surging to $138 billion at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>CoinDesk on Thursday &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42764832\/bitcoin-ethereum-spike-4-on-thursday-morning-xrp-surges-11-to-become-top-3-crypto\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" ethereum spike while xrp surges to become top crypto>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency markets are surging on the first official trading day of 2025, with the top three coins by market capitalization up between 4% and 11% before U.S. markets open. CRYPTOCURRENCY PRICE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 24-HOUR GAINS +\/- Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) \u00a0$96,595 +3.4% Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) \u00a0$3,462 +4.0% XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) \u00a0$2.40 +10.8% What Happened: XRP has overtaken Tether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-5255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}