{"id":55836,"date":"2022-01-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55836"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:32:02","slug":"coingecko-top-30-cryptocurrency-market-cap-rose-176-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/coingecko-top-30-cryptocurrency-market-cap-rose-176-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"CoinGecko: Top-30 cryptocurrency market cap rose 176% in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, the combined market capitalization of the 30 largest cryptocurrencies rose by 176%, hitting a historical high above $2.5 trillion in November. Against a protracted correction in December, the figure declined, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/publications\/reports\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The average return of the five key cryptocurrencies over the year stood at 2,913%. Much of the figure was driven by the Solana (SOL) project, whose return on investment exceeded 11,000%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-full\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"960\\\" height=\\\"540\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-2-4.png\\\" alt=\\\"CoinGecko: Top-30 cryptocurrency market cap rose 176% in 2021\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-161542\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-2-4.png 960w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-2-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-2-4-768x432.png 768w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/publications\/reports\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Analysts noted the strong returns of altcoins in 2021. The prices of four tokens in the top-30 by market capitalization rose by more than 10,000%. Among them, Fantom (FTM) showed the best momentum, with its price rising by 14,279%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-full\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"960\\\" height=\\\"540\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3-4.png\\\" alt=\\\"CoinGecko: Top-30 cryptocurrency market cap rose 176% in 2021\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-161543\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3-4.png 960w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3-4-768x432.png 768w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/publications\/reports\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the year, the Bitcoin dominance index fell by 30 percentage points to just over 45%. The Ethereum metric, by contrast, rose by almost 11 percentage points, reaching 22%.<\/p>\n<p>The total market capitalization of the five largest stablecoins over 12 months rose by $127 billion (+469%), exceeding $140 billion. The segment leader is Tether \u2014 the USDT supply rose by 275%, to $78.4 billion. In second place was USD Coin (USDC) with $42.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/2021-in-figures-bitcoin-records-nft-gamefi-boom-and-the-rise-of-ethereums-l2-solutions\">ForkLog&#8217;s annual report<\/a>, the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market peaked above $3 trillion in 2021, and Bitcoin and Ethereum reached new price highs.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, the combined market capitalization of the 30 largest cryptocurrencies rose by 176%, hitting a historical high above $2.5 trillion in November. Against a protracted correction in December, the figure declined, according to CoinGecko in its report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Top-30 crypto market cap rose 176% in 2021; Solana led gains.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1098,1252],"class_list":["post-55836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coingecko","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"55","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Top-30 crypto market cap rose 176% in 2021; Solana led gains.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55838,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55836\/revisions\/55838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}