Ethereum, meanwhile, spent the weekend drifting in a genteel stupor around $2,500, and then, perhaps inspired by a fresh batch of gossip, leapt vivaciously to $2,578 — a most unseemly 2% rise. Ripple fluttered its eyelashes and achieved a 1% gain, coquetting around $2.18. Solana, having imbibed something unspeakable at luncheon, dashed ahead by over 7% and now reposes at $156, the life of the party. Dogecoin, in its eternal pursuit of fun and the elusive approval of the Twitterati, proved too witty for its own good and tripped over its own paws, head marginally downward. The rest (Cardano, Chainlink, et cetera — one loses count of this season’s debutantes) also rose with an enthusiasm that can only be described as ill-advised. 🥂