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Anders Bylund, The Motley Fool
Sat, June 20, 2026 astatine 9:50 AM CDT 6 min read
The crypto marketplace moves fast. Even successful the AI-boom epoch of utmost banal marketplace volatility, Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) terms swings marque the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) look dull successful comparison:
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On that note, I'm wondering what I learned, missed, oregon forgot successful the crypto marketplace implicit the past mates of years. Using crypto information from CoinMarketCap and the time-machine powers of the Internet Archive, I checked retired the apical 15 cryptocurrencies of June 19, 2024. Then I compared the database to today's data, 2 years later.
Here's what I found.
June 2024 apical 15 cryptocurrencies: Two-year performance*
| Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) | $118,603.40 | $63,168.88 | $1.29T | $1.26T | -47% |
| Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) | $3,763.25 | $1,702.39 | $434.4B | $205.5B | -55% |
| Tether (CRYPTO: USDT)† | $1.00 | $1.00 | $112.6B | $186.3B | +65%† |
| BN (CRYPTO: BNB) | $599.25 | $577.37 | $88.4B | $77.8B | -4% |
| Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) | $139.03 | $69.29 | $64.2B | $40.2B | -50% |
| USDC† (CRYPTO: USDC) | $1.00 | $1.00 | $32.8B | $74.9B | +128%† |
| XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) | $0.4936 | $1.13 | $27.4B | $70.7B | +129% |
| Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) | $0.1256 | $0.08 | $18.2B | $12.9B | -36% |
| Toncoin (TON) aka Gram (CRYPTO: GRAM) | $6.88 | $1.60 | $16.8B | $4.3B | -77% |
| Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA) | $0.3881 | $0.16 | $13.9B | $5.9B | -59% |
| Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) | $0.0000186 | $0.00000475 | $11.0B | $2.8B | -74% |
| Avalanche (CRYPTO: AVAX) | $27.38 | $6.16 | $10.8B | $2.7B | -78% |
| TRON (CRYPTO: TRX) | $0.1168 | $0.32 | $10.2B | $30.3B | +174% |
| Polkadot (CRYPTO: DOT) | $5.97 | $0.97 | $8.6B | $1.6B | -84% |
| Chainlink (CRYPTO: LINK) | $14.38 | $7.93 | $8.4B | $5.8B | -45% |
Data source: CoinMarketCap.
*Price alteration compares 2024 to 2026 prices.
†Stablecoins: Since the terms remains ~$1.00 by design, the "change" file reflects marketplace headdress maturation instead.
Many of the names are familiar. Eight of the aged apical 10 are inactive successful the apical 10 marketplace headdress database today. But their values person changed dramatically. Bitcoin is down 47%, Ethereum dropped 55%, and Solana took a 50% haircut. Toncoin and Cardano fell retired of the apical 10 with terms drops of 77% and 59%, respectively.
Toncoin changed its sanction to Gram conscionable a week ago, going backmost to the archetypal sanction from 2018. That's conscionable a sanction change, though the Telegram messaging work present intends to marque much usage of its in-house cryptocurrency.
Meanwhile, Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson had a impermanent fallout with the Cardano community. These days, Hoskinson claims that this cryptocurrency volition turn larger than Bitcoin implicit time. A task worthy little than $6 cardinal catching up with Bitcoin's trillion-dollar marketplace worth is an ambitious idea.
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