Altcoins soaring: Cardano, Tron, and Stellar (XLM) surge up to 18%

The crypto market has been green today, and in past seven days, the price of Bitcoin and the altcoins has increased rather nicely. Altcoins are leading the market by significant percentages. Out of the top 10 altcoins in the market today, XRP, Tron (XLM), Stellar Lumens (XLM), and Cardano (ADA) lead the growth chart.

After Ripple, at the time of press, Stellar Lumens (XLM) leads, followed by Cardano (ADA), and then Tron (TRX) – the rest of the altcoins follow. On the other hand, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies has increased considerably to $223 Billionfollowing the recent bullish trend of the market. Let’s take an in-depth look at Cardano (ADA), Stellar Lumens (XLM), and Tron (TRX).

Cardano (ADA)

The price of Cardano (ADA) has increased by 13.31% in the last 24 hours, following the bear runs that occurred during the previous seven days. It is important to know that ADA is trading at $0.08459 at the time of writing with a market cap of $2,193,166,519.

There have been lots of developments with Cardano (ADA) in the past two months. The cryptocurrency launched ‘Project Prometheus,’ a project that will make sure the properties of the platform get migrated to digital devices and wallets.

Additionally, the founder of Cardano (ADA) – also the CEO of IOHK have earlier addressed investors about another project known as ‘Project Plutus,’ a project that makes use of complex programming language to improve Cardano.

Lots of ADA trades have occurred on UpBit exchange – taking more than 34% volume there. Cardano surge comes at the time when it got featured on Okcoin together with Ripple and Stellar.

Tron (TRX)

Another cryptocurrency making some bullish runs in the crypto market is Tron. TRX has increased by a significant percentage – before the current bull run, its price was low.

On top of market trend, much of Tron’s price surge has been relatively due to the unveiling of TronWeb – a front-end Javascript API. It is important to know that TronWeb will help to connect people using the Tron protocol.

The announcement was made on the official Twitter page of Tron Foundation:

“Today we are releasing TRONWEB, a front-end javascript API that connects your project to the #TRON blockchain, equivalent to Etheurem Web3.js.”

Subsequently, Tron Foundation seems to be not slowing down on this, and it has stated that there are more upcoming projects to aid Tron’s network very soon.

At the time writing, TRX is trading at $0.02236, thus, increasing by 8.53% if we talk about valuation in the last 24 hours. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrency stands at $1,470,361,529. Tron has recently been listed on BitBay, Binance, KuCoin, and Bittrex.

Stellar (XLM)

Stellar (XLM) has been creating lots of thrills around it, especially when it earlier announced that IBM will be launching a new stable coin, using Stellar’s technology.

Stellar is back again, and as stated above, it just got listed on Okcoin. The blockchain project is expected to launch Lightyear soon – a ledger that helps in managing digital assets.

At the time of writing, XLM is priced at $0.2513, representing a growth of 18.65% in the last 24 hours only. This digital asset has a market capitalization of $4,730,782,855.

In the recent times, the bulk of the trading volume of XLM has been on Binance: XLM/BTC pair was 27.35%; XLM/USDT was 16.31%.

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