Investing.com - Ethereum rose above the $259.13 threshold on Saturday. Ethereum was trading at 259.13 by 18:37 (07:37 GMT) on the Investing.com Index, up 0.73% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since Saturday, February 22, 2020.
The move upwards pushed Ethereum's market cap up to $28.54B, or 10.01% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Ethereum's market cap was $135.58B.
Ethereum had traded in a range of $256.97 to $266.71 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Ethereum has seen a drop in value, as it lost 7.53%. The volume of Ethereum traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $19.35B or 14.05% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $237.8917 to $285.7459 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Ethereum is still down 81.79% from its all-time high of $1,423.20 set on Saturday, January 13, 2018.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Bitcoin was last at $9,615.1 on the Investing.com Index, down 0.60% on the day.
XRP was trading at $0.27211 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 1.06%.
Bitcoin's market cap was last at $175.37B or 61.49% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while XRP's market cap totaled $11.95B or 4.19% of the total cryptocurrency market value.