Altcoins See Mild Gains While Bitcoin Hovers Around $8,100

Friday, Oct. 4 - The top-20 crypto markets are solidly in the green, with just a few reporting mild losses, according to data from Coin360.

Bitcoin has been trading sideways after its slump from $8,400 to $8,100.

The price of BTC has remained in a narrow corridor between $8,009 and $8,314 today, the price points which mark the low and the high of the leading crypto on the day.

At press time, BTC is trading at around $8,131, up a modest 0.31% and trying to keep in the green.

Ether - the market capitalization of which is currently $18.8 billion - has gained 1.53% over the past 24 hours to trade at $174.80 as of press time.

XRP is also solidly in the green, seeing a 3.78% growth over the day and trading at $0.253 at press time.

None of the top cryptocurrencies are reporting double-digit gains at press time, while the major winners are Cardano, Litecoin, and Monero, with 4.11%, 3.81%, and 4.58% respective growth.

Blockchain interoperability platform Cosmos - which stands behind the 22nd largest coin Cosmos - disclosed a "High-severity security vulnerability" that was found in consensus engine Tendermint Core.

The vulnerability reportedly affected all versions of Tendermint, on which Cosmos is built.

A research report published by cyberintelligence company Prevailion showed that around 72,000 devices in 2019 alone were infected during a suspiciously cheap yet successful malware campaign to steal cryptocurrency.