Cryptocurrencies surge with Bitcoin breaking $30k and Ether jumping.

Bitcoin surged past the US$30,000 mark to the highest in about 11 months, leading a rally of all top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies, including Ether, while Solana gained. US equities closed mixed as investors look to a series of economic readings this week to get a better sense of which way the Federal Reserve may jump with interest rates. The total crypto market capitalization jumped 3.40% in the past 24 hours to US$1.23 trillion. In the NFT market, the Forkast 500 NFT index edged up 0.17% to 3,941.20 in the 24 hours to 09:00 a.m. in Hong Kong, but dropped 2.41% for the week.