The top eight cryptocurrencies featured here all have a market cap above $6 billion.
1. Toncoin (TON)
Toncoin was developed by Telegram, a company that offers an encrypted messaging platform, in 2018. Telegram eventually abandoned the project and it was taken over by the TON Foundation.
Price: $5.38
Market cap: $13.61 billion
2. BNB (BNB)
BNB is the cryptocurrency issued by Binance, which is one of the largest crypto exchanges. BNB was originally created as a token to pay for discounted trades, but Binance Coin can now be used for payments, as well as purchasing various goods and services.
Price: $544.26
Market cap: $79.46 billion
3. Shiba Inu (SHIB)
Shiba Inu is an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency and popular memecoin, created in 2020 by a founder called Ryoshi. Shiba Inu, despite its fluffy mascot and meme notoriety, has some serious money behind it and sits in the top 15 cryptocurrencies ranked by market cap.
Price: $0.00001664
Market cap: $9.81 billion
4. Bitcoin (BTC)
As the granddaddy of them all, Bitcoin is often the token people reference when they talk about crypto. Bitcoin has a mysterious creator â allegedly Satoshi Nakamoto â who introduced the currency in 2009.
Price: $61,395.45
Market cap: $1.21 trillion
5. Solana (SOL)
Solana is a newer cryptocurrency that was created in 2019 by Anatoly Yakovenko. The platform is known for its ability to power smart contracts, decentralized finance apps, NFTs and more.
Price: $146.56
Market cap: $68.66 billion
6. TRON (TRX)
TRON, established in 2017, is a decentralized blockchain for creating applications. Its native token is TRX. The Tron Foundation acquired well-known peer-to-peer network BitTorrent in 2018.
Price: $0.1544
Market cap: $13.37 billion
Bitcoin Cash was created to restore the decentralized nature of Bitcoin. The crypto formed after the Bitcoin blockchain forked in 2017, which is when the original blockchain diverges into two separate paths. The coin was created to handle more transactions at once, which reduces fees and speeds up how fast a transaction takes place.
Price: $318.15
Market cap: $6.29 billion
8. Dogecoin (DOGE)
Dogecoin takes its name from a Shiba Inu meme and was created by software engineers Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus in 2013 to basically poke fun at the quick rise in Bitcoin prices. Dogecoin has an unlimited number of coins and can be used for payments or sending money.
Price: $0.1055
Market cap: $15.43 billion
