TOP-10 Crypto for 2018

Everybody knows the names of these projects, but only a few realize what is behind them. Therefore we’ve decided to make an overview of TOP 10 most successful and popular projects.

🌐 Bitcoin

BTC is a leading digital currency. The digital asset was created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Bitcoin ATMs are installed in all parts of the world allowing to exchange bitcoins and cash. This fact proves its wide acceptance in the market. There are many high-profile companies all over the world accepting BTC as a currency, such as Bloomberg, Reddit, Microsoft, and etc.

Within a year its price increased by 240 %, from $2 218,63 to $7 548,56.

🌐 Ethereum

ETH is a rising star in the crypto world being the second most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. Its creator is a Russian-Canadian programmer, Vitalik Buterin. In contrast to Bitcoin, Ethereum uses smart contract technology. Ether is considered to be the most popular coin in India.

Within a year its price increased by 140 %, from $235,25 to $574,07.

🌐 Ripple

XRP was created in 2012 based on Ryan Fugger's concepts. One of the peculiarities of the Ripple protocol is its consensus ledger. Ripple is integrated in such companies as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, National Australia Bank, Siam Commercial Bank, UBS, UniCredit Group, and etc. It is especially popular in Asian countries.

Within a year its price increased by 121 %, from $0,292 to $0,645.

🌐 Bitcoin Cash

BCH is a Bitcoin fork emerged due to splitting of Bitcoin on August 1, 2017 to make transactions faster and fees lower. Thus, at the time of the fork anyone who has already had Bitcoins became the owners of the same amount of Bitcoin Cash.

From July 23, 2017 its price increased by 98 %, from $555,89 to $1102,39.

🌐 EOS

EOS was created as a smart contract platform for decentralized apps by block. one team in July of 2017. To ensure wide distribution of the native token at the launch of the blockchain, one billion tokens are being distributed on the ethereum blockchain so that anyone can launch EOS blockchain. The aim of the platform is to provide decentralized apps hosting, use smart contracts and solve the scalability issues of such blockchains as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

From July 1, 2017 its price increased by 1072 %, from $1,03 to $12,07.

To be continued.