Today, the cryptocurrency project Elrond saw a surprising double-digit surge of 24% in the price of its native coin EGLD. In contrast, the overall crypto category slipped 2% as investors processed through the Federal Reserve's decision yesterday to increase interest rates by 0.75% -- marking the largest single-day hike since 1994.
EGLD is often called eGold, which seems fitting today as its price across cryptocurrency exchanges jumped as high as $57.50 over the past 24 hours -- it has retraced a bit since then, however. It also had a whopping 85% pump in trading volume over the same timeframe as a mini-FOMO run that appears to be occurring around one of the few bright spots today within the crypto space.
At the time of writing, most other cryptos in the top-10 projects based on market value were trading down including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, Cardano, and XRP. By comparison to those other blockchains, Elrond's website boasts that it's 1000 times faster than it used to be and able to process 15,000 smart contracts per second while providing settlement for each of those transactions in seconds for only fractions of a penny.
EGLD is often called eGold, which seems fitting today as its price across cryptocurrency exchanges jumped as high as $57.50 over the past 24 hours -- it has retraced a bit since then, however. It also had a whopping 85% pump in trading volume over the same timeframe as a mini-FOMO run that appears to be occurring around one of the few bright spots today within the crypto space.
At the time of writing, most other cryptos in the top-10 projects based on market value were trading down including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, Cardano, and XRP. By comparison to those other blockchains, Elrond's website boasts that it's 1000 times faster than it used to be and able to process 15,000 smart contracts per second while providing settlement for each of those transactions in seconds for only fractions of a penny.