Bitcoin (BTC)
Market Cap: $251,835,035,442
Price: $14,840.30
Daily Volume: $9,396,470,000
Circulating Supply: 16,825,150 BTC
Max Supply: 21,000,000 BTC
Ethereum (ETH)
Market Cap: $93,862,639,837
Price: $905.20
Daily Volume: $3,746,400,000
Circulating Supply: 103,383,790 ETH
Max Supply: No Data Available
Ripple (XRP)
Market Cap: $45,101,742,776
Price: $0.567417
Daily Volume: $1,924,560,000
Circulating Supply: 79.21 Billion XRP’s
Max Supply: 100 Billion XRP’s
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Market Cap: $32.5 Billion USD as of 1/3/18
Market cap is a useful metric for comparing different cryptocurrencies. Google “cryptocurrency market cap” to see the current state of play.
Bitcoin is always number one, with a market cap of around $114 billion as of January 2018. Ethereum is second, with a market cap of around $82 billion. Ripple is third, with a market cap of around $38 billion. Bitcoin Cash is fourth, with a market cap of around $29 billion. Cardano is fifth, with a market cap of around $25 billion.
The rest of the top 15 looks like this:
6) Litecoin: $15 billion
7) NEO: $10 billion
8) Stellar Lumens: $9 billion
9) EOS: $8 billion
10) NEM: $6 billion
11) IOTA: $5 billion
12) Dash: $4 billion
13) Monero: $4 billion
14) TRON: $3 billion
15) Bitcoin Gold: $2 billion
| Coin | Market Cap | Price | Circulating Supply
| —— | —— | —— |——
| Bitcoin (BTC) | $197,724,944,816 | $11,138.50 | 17,645,900 BTC
| Ethereum (ETH) | $103,023,542,890 | $1,074.28 | 96,082,931 ETH
| Ripple (XRP) | $40,812,460,557 | $1.22 | 33,316,931,119 XRP
| Bitcoin Cash (BCH) | $29,265,739,930 | $1643.99 | 17,802,275 BCH
| Cardano (ADA) | $16,392,397,429 | $0.59 | 27,913,000 ADA
Total market cap at the time of writing was: $(395B)
1. Bitcoin (BTC)
2. Ethereum (ETH)
3. Ripple (XRP)
4. Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
5. Cardano (ADA)
6. Litecoin (LTC)
7. NEM (XEM)
8. Stellar Lumens (XLM)
9. IOTA (MIOTA)
10. Dash (DASH)
11. Monero (XMR)
12. NEO (NEO)
13. EOS (EOS)
14. BitConnect Coin (BCC)
15. TRONIX (TRX)
(1) Bitcoin (BTC)
Market Cap: $249,928,987,994
Price: $15,063.00
Available Supply: 16,598,625 BTC
(2) Ripple (XRP)
Market Cap: $92,085,527,822
Price: $1.19
Available Supply: 77,305,853,786 XRP
(3) Ethereum (ETH)
Market Cap: $68,558,217,952
Price: $671.17
Available Supply: 101,790,506 ETH
(4) Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Market Cap: $43 031 838 797
Price: $2 553.65
Available Supply: 16 988 950 BCH
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is currently the largest blockchain network, followed by Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin.
In 2017, Bitcoin’s value soared from $1000 to just under $20000 before dropping down to around $13000 at the end of the year. Since then, its value has risen and dropped sporadically from day to day, dragging smaller cryptocurrencies like Ether and Ripple along with it.
Bitcoin (BTC) is the first cryptocurrency to ever be created. It is also the coin with the largest market cap as of January 2018. Bitcoin is considered to be digital gold and a safe haven asset in times of economic uncertainty.
Ethereum (ETH) is currently the second-largest virtual currency by market cap after Bitcoin. Ethereum was launched in 2015 and had become the largest cryptocurrency community within 3 years, with 50% of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) decided to be deployed on Ethereum’s Blockchain.
XRP (XRP) is often referred to as Ripple and belongs to Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company. XRP is used mostly for payments and transfers between different currencies, crypto coins or fiat money such as USD or EUR.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a fork of Bitcoin that was created in August 2017 with some improvements over the original Bitcoin codebase. The aim of this fork was to speed up transactions, decrease fees and make other technical improvements that were not possible on the original Bitcoin blockchain.
Litecoin (LTC) was created by Charlie Lee in 2011 and intended as an alternative to Bitcoin with faster transaction times and lower fees. Litecoin’s mining algorithm also makes it easier for regular people without specialized mining hardware to