Bitcoin Edges Lower Following Jobs Data; Pepe Emerges As Top Gainer

Bitcoin BTC/USD moved lower, with the cryptocurrency prices below the $29,000 level on Friday.

Ethereum ETH/USD also edged lower, trading close to the key $1,900 mark this morning.

The US economy added 253,000 jobs in April, beating market expectations of 180,000 and versus a revised 165,000 gain in March. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in April, versus market expectations of 3.6%. Average hourly earnings increased by 0.5% to $33.36 in April.

Pepe PEPE/USD was the top gainer over the prior 24 hours, while Stacks STX/USD turned out to be the biggest loser.

At the time of writing, the global crypto market cap fell to $1.20 trillion, recording a 24-hour decline of 0.1%. BTC was trading lower by 0.3% at $28,967 while ETH fell by around 0.1% to $1,901 on Friday.

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

Gainers

  • Pepe PEPE/USD

Price: $0.000002894
24-hour gain: 80.3%

  • FLOKI FLOKI/USD

Price: $0.00005409
24-hour gain: 59.6%

  • BitDAO BIT/USD

Price: $0.4997
24-hour gain: 3.2%

  • Sui SUI/USD

Price: $1.35
24-hour gain: 1.5%

  • WOO Network WOO/USD

Price: $0.2991
24-hour gain: 1.5%

Losers

  • Stacks STX/USD

Price: $0.7301
24-hour drop: 6.5%

  • Lido DAO LDO/USD

Price: $1.87
24-hour drop: 5.2%

  • Render Token RNDR/USD

Price: $2.19
24-hour drop: 4.8%

  • Optimism OP/USD

Price: $2.04
24-hour drop: 4.3%

  • Huobi Token HT/USD

Price: $3.14
24-hour drop: 4.1%

 

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