Top Cryptocurrencies
From Bitcoin to Ether to tether to Dogecoin and so list goes on, today there are thousands of different cryptocurrencies and that can be too much to start with cryptos, so, to catch a overview of which cryptos are top performing we created a list of 30 top cryptocurrencies in October 2022, to get you idea what on the what's there. A cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a state gov or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It is a decentralized system for verifying that the parties to a transaction have the money they claim to have, eliminating the need for traditional intermediaries, such as banks, when funds are being transferred between two entities.
This list is last updated on 23 Oct, 2022.
50 Top Cryptocurrencies in the world 2022 are as follow:
1 Bitcoin(BTC)
Price $19,344.91 | Market Cap $370,199,894,813
Circulating Supply 19,188,643 BTC
Oldest of all crtptos is top most crytocurrency in market today by both market cap and price, Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.
2 Ethereum(ETH)
Price $1,345.99 | Market Cap $163,879,093,737
Circulating Supply 122,373,863 ETH
Ethereum is most Popular crypto in the market and have second to highest market cap crypto. Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capitalization. Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin.
3 Tether(USDT)
Price $1.00 | Market Cap $68,478,195,527
Circulating Supply 68,473,108,027 USDT
Tether, is an asset-backed cryptocurrency stablecoin. It was launched by the company Tether Limited Inc. in 2014. Tether Limited is owned by the Hong Kong-based company iFinex Inc., which also owns the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange. tether is third highest crypto by market cap.
4 USD Coin(USDC)
Price $1.00 | Market Cap $43,799,686,846
Circulating Supply 43,801,399,860 USDC
USD Coin is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar. USD Coin is managed by a consortium called Centre, which was founded by Circle and includes members from the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Bitcoin mining company Bitmain, an investor in Circle. USD is crypto with fourth highest market cap.
5 BNB(BNB)
Price $274.27 | Market Cap $43,794,914,147
Circulating Supply 159,980,102 BNB
BNB launched July 2017, which started as an Ethereum token and later moved to Binance Smart Chain (BSC), launched September 2020. BSC later merged with the older Binance Chain and was rebranded into BNB chain. BNB is fifth highest by market cap.
6 XRP(XRP)
Price $0.4479 | Market Cap $22,458,129,337
Circulating Supply 49,887,015,710 XRP
Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network created by Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company. XRP is sixth highest by market cap.
7 Binance USD(BUSD)
Price $0.9999 | Market Cap $21,626,069,990
Circulating Supply 21,628,100,611 BUSD
BUSD, or BinanceUSD is a US Dollar pegged stablecoin issued by Binance. According to Binance it is backed 1:1 by a reserve of US Dollars and was founded by them in partnership with Paxos who is the issuer of the token. Paxos holds the reserves only partially in cash deposited in their US bank accounts with the other part held in U.S. Treasuries. binance in 2022 is seventh highest crypto by market cap.
8 Cardano(ADA)
Price $0.3613 | Market Cap $12,405,856,948
Circulating Supply 34,305,829,645 ADA
Cardano is a public blockchain platform. It is open-source and decentralized, with consensus achieved using proof of stake. It can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency, ADA. Cardano was founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. Cardano is in position eight in crypto market by market cap.
9 Solana(SOL)
Price $28.44 | Market Cap $10,130,081,197
Circulating Supply 358,386,104 SOL
Solana is a public blockchain platform with smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL. Solana achieves consensus using a proof-of-stake mechanism and its model, known as "proof-of-history" mechanism. Solana have ninth highest marekt cap in cryptocurrencies market
10 Dogecoin(DOGE)
Price $0.0603 | Market Cap $7,882,582,014
Circulating Supply 132,670,764,300 DOGE
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system as a "joke", making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time. It is considered both the first "meme coin", and, more specifically, the first "dog coin". Dogecoin is Tenth highest by market capitalization in crytocurrency market.
11 Polygon(MATIC)
Price $0.8913 | Market Cap $7,757,656,440
Circulating Supply 8,734,317,475 MATIC
Polygon (formerly MATIC Network) is an Indian blockchain scalability platform. It addresses the challenges faced by Ethereum such as high fees, poor user experience, and low transaction count per second. One of the methods used to address these issues is providing a framework for Proof of Stake transactions. It aims to create a multi-chain blockchain ecosystem compatible with Ethereum. Polygon uses MATIC as its native token.
12 Polkadot(DOT)
Price $5.93 | Market Cap $6,694,387,800
Circulating Supply 1,129,701,841 DOT
Polkadot is a blockchain platform and cryptocurrency. It is designed to allow blockchains to exchange messages and perform transactions with each other without a trusted third-party.
13 Dai(DAI)
Price $0.9999 | Market Cap $6,239,875,418
Circulating Supply 6,241,884,324 DAI
Dai (or DAI, formerly Sai or SAI) is a stablecoin cryptocurrency on the Ethereum blockchain which aims to keep its value as close to one United States dollar (USD) as possible through a system of smart contracts and the decentralized participants which those contracts incentivize to perform maintenance and governance functions. Dai is maintained and regulated by MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) composed of the owners of its governance token, MKR, who may vote on changes to certain parameters in its smart contracts in order to ensure the stability of Dai.
14 TRON(TRX)
Price $0.06154 | Market Cap $5,663,405,510
Circulating Supply 92,285,379,471 TRX
TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles as its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix (TRX). It was established in March 2014 by Justin Sun and since 2017 has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore, established in the same year. It was originally an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, which switched its protocol to its own blockchain in 2018.
15 Shiba Inu(SHIB)
Price $0.000009973 | Market Cap $5,453,239,309
Circulating Supply 549,063,278,876,302 SHIB
Shiba Inu token (ticker: SHIB) is a decentralized cryptocurrency created in August 2020 by an anonymous person or group known as "Ryoshi". Shiba Inu has been characterized as a "meme coin" and a pump-and-dump scheme. There have also been concerns about the concentration of the coin with a single "whale" wallet controlling billions of dollars' worth of the token, and frenzied buying by retail investors motivated by fear of missing out (FOMO).
16 Wrapped Bitcoin(WBTC)
Price $19,330.83 | Market Cap $4,723,807,533
Circulating Supply 244,980 WBTC
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is a project created by a group of developers and organizations to facilitate the interaction between different blockchains. The main figures of this undertaking are BitGo, Kyber Network, and Ren.
17 Uniswap(UNI)
Price $6.16 | Market Cap $4,670,392,309
Circulating Supply 762,209,327 UNI
Uniswap is a cryptocurrency exchange which uses a decentralized network protocol. Uniswap is also the name of the company that initially built the Uniswap protocol. The protocol facilitates automated transactions between cryptocurrency tokens on the Ethereum blockchain through the use of smart contracts.
18 Avalanche(AVAX)
Price $15.82 | Market Cap $4,665,599,548
Circulating Supply 297,272,901 AVAX
Avalanche is a decentralized, open-source proof of stake blockchain with smart contract functionality. AVAX is the native cryptocurrency of the platform.
19 UNUS SED LEO(LEO)
Price $4.09 | Market Cap $3,888,144,850
Circulating Supply 953,954,130 LEO
Bitfinex is a cryptocurrency exchange owned and operated by iFinex Inc registered in the British Virgin Islands. Their customers' money has been stolen or lost in several incidents, and they have been unable to secure normal banking relationships.
20 Litecoin(LTC)
Price $52.82 | Market Cap $3,758,277,727
Circulating Supply 71,459,719 LTC
Litecoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open-source software project released under the MIT/X11 license. Inspired by Bitcoin, Litecoin was among the earliest altcoins, starting in October 2011. In technical details, the Litecoin main chain shares a slightly modified Bitcoin codebase.
21 Chainlink(LINK)
Price $6.92 | Market Cap $3,383,491,652
Circulating Supply 491,599,970 LINK
Chainlink is a decentralized blockchain oracle network built on Ethereum. The network is intended to be used to facilitate the transfer of tamper-proof data from off-chain sources to on-chain smart contracts. Its creators claim it can be used to verify whether the parameters of a smart contract are met in a manner independent from any of the contract's stakeholders by connecting the contract directly to real-world data, events, payments, and other inputs.
22 Cosmos(ATOM)
Price $11.70 | Market Cap $3,326,675,639
Circulating Supply 286,370,297 ATOM
Cosmos (ATOM) is a cryptocurrency that powers an ecosystem of blockchains designed to scale and interoperate with each other. The team aims to "create an Internet of Blockchains, a network of blockchains able to communicate with each other in a decentralized way." Cosmos is a proof-of-stake chain. ATOM holders can stake their tokens in order to maintain the network and receive more ATOM as a reward.
23 Ethereum Classic(ETC)
Price $22.68 | Market Cap $3,111,691,088
Circulating Supply 137,542,330 ETC
Ethereum Classic is an open source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions executed on a public Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
24 FTX Token(FTT)
Price $22.92 | Market Cap $3,034,759,592
Circulating Supply 133,261,305 FTT
FTX is a Bahamian cryptocurrency exchange. FTX is incorporated in Antigua and Barbuda and headquartered in The Bahamas. As of February 2022, the exchange has over one million users. FTX operates FTX.US, a separate exchange available to US residents. FTX was founded for the purpose of generating as much wealth as possible to be used for charitable causes following the earning to give principle of effective altruism.
25 Stellar(XLM)
Price $0.1103 | Market Cap $2,831,633,084
Circulating Supply 25,593,775,087 XLM
Stellar, or Stellar Lumens, is an open source, decentralized protocol for digital currency to fiat money low-cost transfers which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies.
26 Cronos(CRO)
Price $0.106 | Market Cap $2,668,410,868
Circulating Supply 25,263,013,692 CRO
Crypto.com is a cryptocurrency exchange company based in Singapore. As of 2022, the company has 50 million customers and 4,000 employees. The platform's official Cryptocurrency is Cronos. The platform's launched its official Cryptocurrency and blockchain, Cronos.
27 Monero(XMR)
Price $143.77 | Market Cap $2,611,431,004
Circulating Supply 18,191,723 XMR
Monero(XMR) is a decentralized cryptocurrency. It uses a public distributed ledger with privacy-enhancing technologies that obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility. Observers cannot decipher addresses trading monero, transaction amounts, address balances, or transaction histories
28 NEAR Protocol(NEAR)
Price $2.99 | Market Cap $2,412,001,574
Circulating Supply 815,206,009 NEAR
balance_scale NEAR Protocol is a new smart-contract platform that delivers scalability and usability. Through sharding, it will linearly scale with the number of validation nodes on the network.
29 Algorand(ALGO)
Price $0.3192 | Market Cap $2,239,775,185
Circulating Supply 7,057,004,387 ALGO
Algorand is a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.[1] Algorand's native cryptocurrency is called ALGO. Algorand, which has a negligible energy consumption per transaction, commits to be carbon-neutral,[8] and even announced in April 2022 it was carbon-negative.
30 Quant(QNT)
Price $179.10 | Market Cap $2,156,222,863
Circulating Supply 12,072,738 QNT
Quant Network is a blockchain-technology company that is looking to achieve universal interactivity between blockchains using its Overledger OS blockchain operating system. It supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Binance Chain, Stellar, EOS and IOTA.
