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1) Bitcoin (BTC)
Price: $57,000
Market capitalization: $1.1 billion
CoinMarketCap Rank: 1
Created in early 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, the first cryptocurrency is, in fact, a distributed LEDGER where users send funds directly to each other, peer-to-peer, without an intermediary.
There is no need to convince anyone who has been in the cryptosphere for a while that investing in Bitcoin is profitable. Especially when on December 16, BTC surpassed $20,000, the all-time high (ATH) of 2017.
So far, Bitcoin is one of the most profitable assets in history, outperforming big names like Amazon, VISA, Microsoft and JP Morgan in terms of ROI by several orders of magnitude.
The top ten cryptocurrency contenders for 2021 start with the king of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC).
2) Stellar (XLM)
Price: $ 0.13
Market capitalization: $ 2.9 billion
CoinMarketCap Rank: 15
Stellar (XLM) is a blockchain network for storing and transferring money. It was established in 2014 to increase financial integration in different regions of the world and help companies exchange value.
3) Tezos (XTZ)
Price: $ 2.09
Market capitalization: $1.6 billion
CoinMarketCap: 19
Tezos (XTZ) created its own blockchain network for smart contracts that it aims to evolve. One of its tasks is to avoid the mistakes of Ethereum and Bitcoin by enabling hard forks. Adaptability, an open structure and the influence of validators (bakers) on the network are its main advantages.
4) Cardano (ADA)
Price: $ 0.19
Market capitalization: $ 6 billion
CoinMarketCap Rank: 7
The vision outlined by the creators of Cardano (ADA) is impressive. The goal of the team, led by eccentric visionary Charles Hoskinson, is to provide a tool for creators, innovators and visionaries to create positive global change.
5) Polkadot (DOT)
Price: $ 6.59
Market Capitalization: $5.9 Billion
CoinMarketCap Rank: 8
Polkadot (DOT) is an open source sharding protocol that enables the transfer of data and tokens between different blockchains. It is characterized by interoperability, which aims to create a private and fully decentralized network for the development of applications and services.
Its native DOT token has three purposes: network governance, operations and the creation of parachutes (parallel chains) through linking.
A recent listing on most major cryptocurrency exchanges boosted the price of DOT to an ATH of $6.84 in early September. Despite the correction, the cryptocurrency price has stabilized and is growing faster, setting the stage for positive price action in 2021.
