Ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) benchmark interest rate decision, major virtual asset prices are showing a mixed trend.

At 8:26 a.m. on the 26th, on the global virtual asset market tracker CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin was trading at $80,162, down 0.41% from 24 hours earlier. Over the same period, Ethereum was trading at $2,327, down 0.55%. In contrast, XRP (Ripple) was up 0.29% at $1.29, and BNB was also up 0.52% at $738.72.

This is seen as stemming from growing wait-and-see sentiment among investors ahead of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) rate decision. The Fed…