Top 10 Cryptocurrencies To Look Out For in 2021

3 min readAug 17, 2021

Cryptocurrencies are making waves in the media every single day. With new cryptos popping up every week and the volatility of the market it can become overwhelming trying to keep up with the best cryptocurrencies on the market. We will gauge the top 10 cryptocurrencies to look out for this 2021 and how they are doing.

10 . Filecoin

Year to date performance — up 657%

Market value: $12 Billion

File coin has made some impressive gains this year and made our list at number 10. Filecoin started this year trading at $24.35 and is currently trading at $51.44.

9. Iota

Year to date performance — up 686%

Market value: $7 Billion

Iota is another cryptocurrency to look out for this year. Iota started this year trading at $0.29 and is currently trading at $0.83.

8. Cardano

Year to date performance — up 703%

Market value: $46 Billion

Cardano has also had a stellar year this far and has surprised many cryptocurrency investors. It started the year trading at $0.18 and is currently trading at $1.35.

7. VeChain

Year to date performance — up 804%

Market value: $13 Billion

Vechain focuses on supply chain management and has performed well so far this year. It started trading in January at around $0.018 and is currently sitting on $0.087.

6. FTX Token

Year to date performance — up 830%

Market value: $5 Billion

FTX Token has come out of the blue and experienced massive gains in a short amount of time. Its price at the start of the year was $5.77 and has since then spiked to $32.47.

5. Binance Coin

Year to date performance — up 1,260%

Market value: $79 Billion

Binance is a cryptocurrency trading platform that has seen massive growth in the first half of this year. It started trading this year at $37.38 and is currently sitting on $319.10.

4. Solana

Year to date performance — up 1,602

Market value: $7 Billion

Solana claims to have the ability to support over 50,000 transactions per second and has seen unprecedented gains in the coins’ young history. It started trading this year at $1.51 and is currently sitting at $29.81.

3. Terra

Year to date performance — up 2,348%

Market value: $6 Billion

Terra is our number three pick for the best-performing cryptocurrency so far this year. It started trading at $0.62 this year and has since climbed to $9.05.

2. BitTorrent

Year to date performance — up 2,500%

Market value: $5 Billion

BitTorrent is one of the star performers in the cryptocurrency space this year. It started trading at $0.0003 in January and is currently trading at $0.0027.

1. Dogecoin

Year to date performance — up 8,039%

Market value: $45 Billion

The cryptocurrency that is on everyone’s lips including Elon Musk is Dogecoin. It has seen by far its best year this far. Its price in January was just $0.0047 and has since increased to $0.22. This makes it our number 1 performing cryptocurrency of 2021 and is certainly a cryptocurrency to look out for in the future.

All of these cryptocurrencies have had a phenomenal year and their growth potential is extraordinary. We are only in the first half of the year and if these trends persist there is a lot of money to be made on these specific coins. There are a lot of other cryptocurrencies to look out for too but so far these have been the outstanding performers for the year 2021.