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The historical top 10 cryptocurrencies (2014-2022) 📊
Rank 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
January snapshots of every year
Some quick data ✨
Bitcoin has stayed as the #1 cryptocurrency consistently Ripple/XRP has consistently been in the top 10 Though not consistently in the #2 spot, Ethereum stayed in the top 10 consistently after it was launched in July 2015 Litecoin was consistently in the top 10 from 2014 to 2021 but fell off the list in 2022 Omni, PayCoin, Quark, Megacoin, Ethereum Classic, Steem, IOTA, Augur, NEM, and Chainlink have only been in the top 10 once in all 9 years prior to 2022
January 2014
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $11,379,661,042.38 $933.53 2 LitecoinLTC $659,900,583.81 $26.83 3 XRPXRP $197,241,280.51 $0.02523 4 PeercoinPPC $152,073,508.09 $7.23 5 OmniOMNI $110,826,236.25 $178.90 6 NxtNXT $63,360,014.02 $0.06336 7 NamecoinNMC $60,232,061.64 $7.84 8 BitShares PTSPTS $24,630,584.87 $19.31 9 QuarkQRK $21,670,928.49 $0.08771 10 MegacoinMEC $18,931,093.85 $0.8765
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January 2015
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $3,616,325,669.88 $264.20 2 XRPXRP $586,350,663.43 $0.01893 3 LitecoinLTC $69,101,167.20 $1.96 4 PayCoinXPY $53,186,750.90 $4.31 5 BitSharesBTS $34,255,564.35 $0.01371 6 MaidSafeCoinMAID $18,266,242.67 $0.04036 7 NxtNXT $16,068,879.42 $0.01607 8 StellarXLM $15,717,689.11 $0.004416 9 DogecoinDOGE $15,405,093.44 $0.0001583 10 PeercoinPPC $10,115,663.80 $0.4601
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January 2016
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $6,467,437,079.85 $430.01 2 XRPXRP $201,799,631.27 $0.006017 3 LitecoinLTC $152,873,521.20 $3.48 4 EthereumETH $73,843,277.55 $0.9719 5 DashDASH $19,794,713.11 $3.24 6 DogecoinDOGE $14,940,681.50 $0.0001458 7 PeercoinPPC $9,756,958.98 $0.4263 8 BitSharesBTS $8,591,687.58 $0.003386 9 StellarXLM $8,436,464.84 $0.001744 10 NxtNXT $6,863,998.34 $0.006864
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January 2017
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $16,050,414,525.76 $998.33 2 EthereumETH $715,049,311.31 $8.17 3 XRPXRP $231,408,729.09 $0.006368 4 LitecoinLTC $221,718,485.96 $4.51 5 MoneroXMR $190,983,552.40 $13.97 6 Ethereum ClassicETC $122,202,803.82 $1.40 7 DashDASH $78,524,019.74 $11.23 8 AugurREP $43,994,859.70 $4.00 9 MaidSafeCoinMAID $43,862,002.88 $0.09692 10 SteemSTEEM $36,999,609.61 $0.1612
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January 2018
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $276,634,593,972.51 $16,477.59 2 XRPXRP $130,853,590,978.56 $3.38 3 EthereumETH $111,670,506,535.05 $1,153.17 4 Bitcoin CashBCH $47,096,266,034.81 $2,786.88 5 CardanoADA $26,147,944,637.95 $1.01 6 NEMXEM $16,584,480,283.80 $1.84 7 LitecoinLTC $15,766,509,797.32 $288.45 8 TRONTRX $13,126,926,719.67 $0.1997 9 StellarXLM $12,508,160,612.42 $0.6996 10 IOTAMIOTA $11,314,255,332.03 $4.07
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January 2019
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $71,206,795,852.79 $4,076.63 2 EthereumETH $16,442,429,109.11 $157.75 3 XRPXRP $15,028,369,642.24 $0.3684 4 Bitcoin CashBCH $2,928,444,441.06 $166.84 5 EOSEOS $2,605,701,210.90 $2.88 6 LitecoinLTC $2,354,185,201.46 $39.30 7 StellarXLM $2,306,881,891.24 $0.1204 8 TetherUSDT $1,910,347,640.98 $1.02 9 Bitcoin SVBSV $1,586,211,999.90 $90.38 10 TRONTRX $1,533,052,180.50 $0.023
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January 2020
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $134,469,548,249.08 $7,411.32 2 EthereumETH $14,875,569,429.66 $136.28 3 XRPXRP $8,474,172,239.53 $0.1955 4 TetherUSDT $4,133,500,727.77 $1.01 5 Bitcoin CashBCH $4,080,035,773.48 $224.10 6 LitecoinLTC $2,778,396,524.61 $43.55 7 EOSEOS $2,559,643,917.93 $2.70 8 Binance CoinBNB $2,194,781,442.97 $14.11 9 Bitcoin SVBSV $2,003,156,469.14 $110.87 10 MoneroXMR $940,587,960.20 $54.10
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January 2021
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $609,409,213,147.03 $32,782.02 2 EthereumETH $111,309,985,610.91 $975.51 3 TetherUSDT $21,340,101,768.04 $1.00 4 LitecoinLTC $10,610,100,156.81 $160.19 5 XRPXRP $10,254,417,776.80 $0.2258 6 PolkadotDOT $8,995,148,461.43 $10.03 7 Bitcoin CashBCH $7,845,655,333.38 $421.79 8 CardanoADA $6,377,915,101.91 $0.205 9 Binance CoinBNB $5,942,182,740.66 $41.15 10 ChainlinkLINK $5,453,374,284.89 $13.65
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January 2022
Rank Name Symbol Market Cap Price 1 BitcoinBTC $895,688,387,523.14 $47,345.22 2 EthereumETH $455,713,570,380.85 $3,829.57 3 Binance CoinBNB $88,637,570,485.46 $531.40 4 TetherUSDT $78,373,882,136.14 $1.00 5 SolanaSOL $54,552,495,291.77 $176.38 6 CardanoADA $46,129,061,735.77 $1.38 7 USD CoinUSDC $42,562,534,941.23 $0.9998 8 XRPXRP $40,838,984,413.81 $0.8591 9 TerraLUNA $32,335,168,164.92 $89.37 10 PolkadotDOT $29,361,884,232.15 $29.73
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