
A wave of investor optimism led several altcoins—the crypto term for tokens that are not Bitcoin or Ethereum—to post big gains on Thursday following a stock market rally driven in part by the Federal Reserve raising rates a quarter of a percent.
The cryptocurrencies associated with the Polygon, Avalanche, and Aptos blockchains spiked more than 10% as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were up on Thursday morning.