Bitcoin Celebrates the New Year With Old Pricing, Holds Steady at $16.7K

Ether followed BTC’s Monday path to stick in its own two-week range between $1,150 and $1,230. The second largest crypto by market value was recently trading at about $1,215, a 1.3% gain from Sunday, same time. Other major cryptos spent the day largely in the green with XRP ( $1.42 ) , the token of the XRP ( $1.42 ) open source public blockchain, XRP ( $1.42 ) Ledger, and MATIC, the token of layer 2 platform Polygon Network, rising more than 4% and 3%, respectively.