Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the world’s oldest cryptocurrency, moved lower, falling below the $24,000 mark on Friday.

The second-most valued cryptocurrency, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), meanwhile, rose slightly as Ethereum developer Angsar Dietrichs said that the ETH developers had decided to bring forward the scheduled date of the merge from Sept. 19 to Sept. 15.

Other popular crypto coins, including Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), and Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) remained in red today.

At the time of writing, the global crypto market cap fell to $1.14 trillion, recording a 24-hour decline of 1.5%. BTC was trading lower by around 2.4% to $23,960, while ETH edged higher by around 0.2% to $1,890.50 on Friday.

Investors are now awaiting earnings results from Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) and Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPB), scheduled for release today.

Here are the top ten crypto gainers and losers over the past 24 hours:

Gainers

• Ankr (CRYPTO: ANKR)

Price: $0.04913
24-hour gain: 40.3%

• Theta Fuel (CRYPTO: TFUEL)

Price: $0.08136
24-hour gain: 20.2%

• Huobi Token (CRYPTO: HT)

Price: $5.28
24-hour gain:18.9%

• Ethereum Classic (CRYPTO: ETC)

Price: $41.63
24-hour gain: 7.6%

• Bitcoin Gold (CRYPTO: BTG)

Price: $31.61
24-hour gain: 7.5%

Losers

• THORChain (CRYPTO: RUNE)

Price: $2.87
24-hour drop: 7.1%

• Lido DAO (CRYPTO: LDO)

Price: $2.57
24-hour drop: 6.8%

• Convex Finance (CRYPTO: CVX)

Price: $7.25
24-hour drop: 6.4%

• Arweave (CRYPTO: AR)

Price: $14.59
24-hour drop: 5.8%

• Elrond (CRYPTO: EGLD)

Price: $65.11
24-hour drop: 5.6%