Are These Cryptos the Next Bitcoin or Ethereum?
While there are literally thousands of cryptocurrencies, when it comes to the big dogs, there are really only two: Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin is the original crypto, created in 2009, and Ethereum was created as a “Bitcoin killer” in 2015. Together, the two comprise nearly two-thirds of crypto’s $1.3 trillion global marketcap, with Bitcoin alone comprising nearly one-half.
Although their prices have been volatile, both cryptos have provided exceptional long-term returns since their respective inception dates. That is part of the reason why investors have been piling into alternative cryptocurrencies, in the hopes of picking out “the next Bitcoin or Ethereum.” But how likely is it that another crypto can rise in prominence like the two market leaders?
Here are three cryptocurrencies that various experts and market analysts think have a shot at being contenders.
Solana
Solana quickly became a favorite among traders to become “the next” Ethereum in late 2021, when its price shot up to over $260. Since then, it has fallen dramatically to less than $40 as of June 2022. However, the crypto market in general has been hammered in 2022, and Solana still maintains a market cap of about $13.5 billion, good enough to rank it as the ninth-largest cryptocurrency.
One of the reasons that Solana has often been hyped as a crypto of the future is that it is the only major cryptocurrency blockchain that uses proof-of-history. Proof-of-history is meant to be extremely fast when compared with the proof-of-work protocol used by cryptos like Ethereum, and it also has lower fees.
Solana claims it can process about 50,000 transactions per second, compared with the 15 to 45 transactions per second handled by Ethereum. This can allow Solana to scale up rapidly, one of the major requirements for a coin to catch or even surpass industry leaders Bitcoin and/or Ethereum. Read More...
