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2024's top crypto performers 🤑

2024's top crypto performers 🤑

While Bitcoin made headlines this year, surging to a six-figure all-time high, other cryptos outperformed it.

Stephen Graves
December 26, 2024

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📝 What you need to know

While Bitcoin’s surge to a new all-time high over $100,000 dominated the headlines this year, buoyed by the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs and an influx of institutional investment, it wasn’t the year’s top performer.

Decrypt has crunched the numbers to find the best-performing crypto assets of 2024, from meme coins to crypto stocks!

Bigger Gains Than Bitcoin: Top-Performing Crypto Assets of 2024

Bitcoin hit a record high this year, boosted by U.S. spot ETF approvals and Trump’s election—though some assets did even better.

The Year in Crypto: Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Bring More Investors Into Crypto

Bitcoin ETFs became a lightning rod for institutional capital this year, while spot Ethereum ETFs opened the door for other assets.

Another Publicly Traded Firm Just Adopted a Bitcoin Reserve Strategy

Matador Technologies is following in MicroStrategy’s footsteps, sharing a board member with Japanese firm Metaplanet—another Bitcoin buyer.

AI Meme Coins Creating ‘New Super Cycle Narrative’: Gate.io

The crypto exchange argues that the autonomous issuance of meme coins by AI bots can “drive a new narrative.”

😂 Meme of the Day

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