04:09 PM EDT, 09/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Most major digital assets were mixed late Wednesday, with bitcoin (BTC-USD) advancing above the $60,000 level.
The CoinDesk Market Index, which tracks 134 digital assets, dipped 0.1% in the past 24 hours as Wall Street pared gains following a 50-basis-point federal funds rate cut.
The Nasdaq 100 was down 0.3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.1% lower and the S&P 500 shedding 0.2%.
Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, rose 0.2% to $60,160 with a 24-hour trading volume of $38.7 billion, up 4.2%, according to CoinMarketCap data.
Ethereum (ETH-USD), the second-largest digital asset, dropped 1.5% to $2,316.
BNB (BNB-USD), the third-largest digital asset by market value excluding stablecoins, gained 0.1%, while Solana (SOL-USD), the fourth-largest, fell 1.9%.
XRP (XRP-USD) lost 2.3%, while Cardano (ADA-USD) and Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) added 0.3% each.
The US 10-year Treasury yield closed at 3.694%, up from Tuesday's close of 3.64%, while the five-year yield closed at 3.477%, up from 3.431%.
The total market value of the cryptocurrency industry increased less than 0.1% in the past 24 hours to $2.08 trillion. Trading volume grew 8.4% to $78.85 billion.
Price: 162.64, Change: +0.19, Percent Change: +0.12