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The cryptocurrency market rallied for the second day in a row on Tuesday, with the market capitalisation gaining 3.5 percent to reach $2.79 trillion as of 1400 hours GMT. The largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin price surged by 1.77 percent to reach $58,308. With this increase in price, the market capitalisation of the biggest cryptocurrency has reached 1.10 trillion. Ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, jumped 6.96 percent to reach $4,649. With this increase in price, the market capitalisation of ETH has reached $546.2 billion.

Similarly, XRP price went up by 3.81 percent to reach $1.02. The market capitalisation of XRP stands at $101.8 billion after this increase. Likewise, Cardano (ADA) price gained one percent to reach $1.61. Its market capitalisation has reached $52.7 billion with this increase.

Following suit, Dogecoin (DOGE) price surged by one percent to reach $0.222. With this increase in price, the market capitalisation of DOGE has reached $29.3 billion.

Meanwhile, a relatively new crypto coin, omicron, which bears the same name as the new Covid-19 variant, has seen a massive spike recently, outperforming major cryptos Bitcoin and Ether. The token OMIC has surged over 900 percent since Saturday to reach an all-time high of $689. Its market cap has soared to over $400 million. The cryptocurrency was trading at $379.61 as of 08:40 GMT on Tuesday.

CoinDesk described the rise of the obscure token as an example of “peak irrationality,” since the cryptocurrency rallied owing to its name. The B.1.1.529 coronavirus strain (Omicron) was named after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet by the World Health Organization on Friday. Experts say that OMIC is far from being a safe haven asset.

The OMIC coin is built on ethereum scaling technology Arbitrum. The token was created as a fork of the OlympusDAO DeFi protocol. Each OMIC DeFi token is said to be backed by a basket of assets, “giving it an intrinsic value that it cannot fall below.” The total supply of the crypto token is capped at 1 million, which means that the majority of its tokens are yet to be mined and traded.