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Most large cryptocurrencies were up during morning trading on Friday, with Polygon seeing the biggest move, rising 1.60% to 87 cents.

Seven additional currencies posted upswings Friday. Dogecoin rallied 1.27% to 7 cents, and Ethereum rallied 1.03% to $1,815.30.

Polkadot rose 0.78% to $5.35, while Uniswap climbed 0.74% to $5.32. Ripple rose 0.54% to 46 cents.

Bitcoin and Solana rounded out the increases for Friday, with gains of 0.54% to $26,874.30 and 0.05% to $20.39, respectively.

On the other hand, Cardano posted the only drop, falling 0.41% to 37 cents.

In crypto-related company news, shares of Coinbase Global Inc. sank 0.33% to $60.06, while MicroStrategy Inc. rose 0.67% to $289.50. Riot Platforms Inc. shares climbed 1.45% to $11.23, and shares of Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. climbed 0.32% to $9.41.

Overstock.com Inc. declined 1.59% to $18.26, while Block Inc. inched down 0.39% to $59.29 and Tesla Inc. rallied 1.37% to $179.32.

PayPal Holdings Inc. rose 0.41% to $61.52, and Ebang International Holdings Inc. shares rallied 5.09% to $5.99. NVIDIA Corp. shed 1.51% to $312.00, and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. dropped 2.03% to $105.74.

In the fund space, the Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF, which is focused on pure-play crypto companies, rose 0.06% to $6.70. Blockchain-focused Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF inched down 0.15% to $19.97. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which tracks the Bitcoin market price, climbed 0.76% to $14.53.


Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.


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