Marchés : Bitcoin et Ether en hausse ; Dogecoin reste le plus grand perdant du top 10 des cryptos

Bitcoin and Ether gained in Asian trading on Wednesday afternoon, with Dogecoin continuing to lead declines across the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies.

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Faits rapides

• Bitcoin inched up 0.17% over the past 24 hours and was trading at US$16,813 by 4:30 p.m. in Hong Kong, and Ether gained 0.16% to US$1,209, according to CoinMarketCap.
• Dogecoin declined 1.91% to US$0.07257. Twitter CEO Musk said in a Wednesday Tweet that he will resign as CEO “as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job,” after Twitter users voted to oust him as company chief.
• Cardano dropped 2.18% to US$0.252, despite Cardano’s developers recently déploiement a series of improvements aimed at scaling the blockchain network and decentralized applications built on it. 
• Tron rose 1.08% to US$0.05483 after Tron founder Justin Sun a affirmé Valérie Plante. to Bloomberg on Wednesday that China saw Hong Kong as a trial ground for crypto regulation.
• Asia equity markets were mixed following Wall Street’s gain overnight. Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.68%, the Shanghai Composite Index decreased 0.17%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index inched up 0.22%.
• After the Bank of Japan unexpectedly loosened its bond yield cap, Japan’s 10-year government bond yield extended to 0.48% on Wednesday, the highest since 2015.

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