Investing.com - Major cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin fell as the week drew to an end in Asia.
Bitcoin rose 1.39% to $8,198.9 by 12:57 PM ET (04:57 GMT). The coin continued to gain steam after surpassing $8,000 for the first time this week.
Other digital tokens fell though. Ethereum dropped 1.53% to $254.31, XRP slid 2.81% to $0.39516, and Litecoin was down 7.54% to $129.566.
The total market cap rose to $262.2 billion from $261.1 billion the day before.
Institutional cryptocurrency platform Bakkt will start testing its two physically-delivered Bitcoin futures contracts on July 22, but a final launch date is not confirmed yet.
