Most expensive cryptocurrency 2024

Bitcoin ranked as one of the most expensive cryptocurrencies existing by April 2024 - although values changed noticeably. Bitcoin had the most expensive cryptocurrency for a while, but Ethereum was significantly cheaper, with a price that was roughly 30 times less than that of the most well-known digital currency. However, Bitcoin is in a unique position. Ethereum is one of several cryptocurrencies, for instance, that come from blockchains that focus on making financial applications possible.

Bitcoin, or a digital equivalent of gold

When one categorizes the different types of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin stands out as it is one of the few that are essentially meant to store digital value. Some describe Bitcoin as a digital version of gold, purely designed to hold or possibly purchasing power over time. It has no other applications built around it, and is considered too slow to perform financial transactions.

Stablecoins, the less volatile cryptocurrency

Many coins in this ranking stand out as their price seemingly has not changed as much as others. This is because these are stablecoins - cryptocurrencies pegged to the price development of an external asset. This group of digital assets comprise an increasing share within the overall crypto market. Some see these coins as the future of retail payments, whereas others view these coins as a "safe" addition to their crypto investments.

Price development of the top 100 cryptocurrencies as of December 11, 2024 (in U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Price (in U.S. dollars)	24h price change	7d price change	30d price change
Bitcoin (BTC)	$98,714.0	1%	3.1%	20.1%
Ethereum (ETH)	$3,730.50	0.5%	0.6%	18.2%
Tether (USDT)	$1	0.2%	-0.2%	0%
Ripple (XRP)	$2.37	8.6%	-7.4%	307.2%
Solana (SOL)	$225.76	4.3%	-2.5%	3.2%
Binance Coin (BNB)	$688.06	-0.4%	-11.1%	10.9%
Dogecoin (DOGE)	$0.4	0.1%	-1.9%	41.2%
USD Coin (USDC)	$1	0.2%	-0.1%	-0.1%
Cardano (ADA)	$1.08	7%	-10.4%	80.2%
Lido Staked Ether (STETH)	$3,728.84	0.2%	0.5%	18%
TRON (TRX)	$0.28	3%	-25.9%	68.1%
Avalanche (AVAX)	$46.77	3.3%	-14%	45.1%
Shiba Inu (SHIB)	$0	4%	-6.1%	9.9%
Toncoin (TON)	$6.2	6.5%	-12.9%	16.6%
Wrapped stETH (WSTETH)	$4,431.38	0.6%	0.3%	17.7%
Chainlink (LINK)	$23.44	2.1%	-4.6%	67.6%
Polkadot (DOT)	$9.05	7.1%	-20.6%	76.1%
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)	$98,481.0	1.1%	3%	20.3%
Stellar (XLM)	$0.42	4.7%	-16%	288%
Hedera (HBAR)	$0.29	3.5%	-5.2%	434.8%
Sui (SUI)	$3.8	-1.2%	3.8%	17.1%
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)	$538.35	2.3%	-4.3%	23.5%
WETH (WETH)	$3,732.97	0.5%	0.7%	18.1%
Pepe (PEPE)	$0	-4.3%	15.2%	97.1%
Uniswap (UNI)	$16.52	5.9%	5.9%	85.6%
LEO Token (LEO)	$9.33	-0.7%	-2.3%	28.6%
Litecoin (LTC)	$113.89	2.2%	-10.6%	48.2%
NEAR Protocol (NEAR)	$6.73	3.3%	-10.1%	27.9%
Wrapped eETH (WEETH)	$3,935.59	0.3%	0.8%	18.7%
Aptos (APT)	$12.13	4.4%	-16.5%	1.7%
Internet Computer (ICP)	$12.59	3.4%	-15.8%	39.8%
Ethena USDe (USDE)	$1	0.2%	0%	0.1%
USDS (USDS)	$1	-0.1%	-0.3%	0.8%
POL (ex-MATIC) (POL)	$0.61	5.5%	-14.8%	51.8%
Render (RENDER)	$9.66	10.3%	9.1%	58.1%
Ethereum Classic (ETC)	$32.95	7.7%	-8.5%	45.7%
Hyperliquid (HYPE)	$14.7	4.5%	25.9%	0%
Cronos (CRO)	$0.18	7.8%	-16.3%	22.2%
VeChain (VET)	$0.06	0.7%	-15.9%	117.9%
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET)	$1.77	3.2%	-8.1%	19.5%
Bitget Token (BGB)	$3.23	16.5%	88%	147.3%
Bittensor (TAO)	$590.91	2.5%	-14.2%	3.9%
Aave (AAVE)	$284.78	1%	14.2%	52.5%
Mantle (MNT)	$1.24	4.7%	17.2%	62.1%
Kaspa (KAS)	$0.16	0.7%	-0.9%	6.4%
Arbitrum (ARB)	$0.99	2.3%	-10%	58.4%
MANTRA (OM)	$4.26	3.7%	12.9%	205%
Filecoin (FIL)	$6.44	2.9%	-22.1%	54.5%
Algorand (ALGO)	$0.44	7.2%	-11.8%	210.7%
WhiteBIT Coin (WBT)	$24.98	0.3%	6.4%	20.1%
Monero (XMR)	$191.21	9.4%	-5.9%	20.6%
Dai (DAI)	$1	0.2%	-0.1%	-0.1%
Stacks (STX)	$2.27	4.8%	-13%	12.3%
Fantom (FTM)	$1.21	3.1%	-4.2%	54.5%
Cosmos Hub (ATOM)	$8.46	6%	-20.1%	58.8%
OKB (OKB)	$54.07	1.7%	-7.8%	21.3%
Celestia (TIA)	$7.04	4.2%	-17.2%	27%
Immutable (IMX)	$1.82	4.3%	-18%	37.1%
dogwifhat (WIF)	$2.95	1.7%	-10.8%	-2.2%
Ethena (ENA)	$0.98	1.4%	6.3%	48.8%
Optimism (OP)	$2.29	2.5%	-12.5%	39%
Bonk (BONK)	$0	1.3%	-11.5%	48.4%
Injective (INJ)	$28.19	4.4%	-14.6%	7%
The Graph (GRT)	$0.28	4.8%	-14.7%	53.3%
Theta Network (THETA)	$2.57	6.4%	-14.9%	74.8%
Ondo (ONDO)	$1.75	7.6%	-0.2%	92.9%
Solana Swap (SOS)	$4.53	20.5%	92.8%	-6.1%
Worldcoin (WLD)	$3.06	5.7%	-7.3%	41.8%
Sei (SEI)	$0.58	3.7%	-18.4%	20.5%
FLOKI (FLOKI)	$0	2.3%	1.4%	34%
Binance-Peg WETH (WETH)	$3,730.75	0.2%	0.8%	18.3%
THORChain (RUNE)	$6.3	2.3%	-10%	0.4%
GALA (GALA)	$0.05	10.8%	-11.7%	98.2%
Quant (QNT)	$142.95	2.2%	-11.6%	111.9%
Coinbase Wrapped BTC (CBBTC)	$98,678.0	1%	3.2%	20.1%
JasmyCoin (JASMY)	$0.04	-2.5%	-2.2%	79.6%
Rocket Pool ETH (RETH)	$4,187.69	0.8%	0.9%	18.4%
The Sandbox (SAND)	$0.75	5.6%	-19.3%	158.3%
Kelp DAO Restaked ETH (RSETH)	$3,851.56	0.7%	0.7%	17.9%
Brett (BRETT)	$0.18	9.7%	-10.3%	64.6%
Beam (BEAM)	$0.03	-0.3%	3%	63.3%
First Digital USD (FDUSD)	$1	0.2%	0.2%	0%
Mantle Staked Ether (METH)	$3,927.57	0.2%	0.7%	18.9%
Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL)	$1.69	-0.2%	3.9%	419.6%
Lido DAO (LDO)	$1.87	3.1%	-10.3%	49.3%
Maker (MKR)	$1,861.14	1%	-19.1%	24.6%
Raydium (RAY)	$5.62	15.8%	10.6%	3.6%
EOS (EOS)	$1.07	3.6%	-21.3%	93.6%
Flare (FLR)	$0.03	1.4%	-13.5%	108.8%
Kaia (KAIA)	$0.27	5.1%	-24.6%	106.9%
KuCoin (KCS)	$13.03	0.9%	-2.4%	20.2%
Pyth Network (PYTH)	$0.43	7.2%	-20.1%	-2.6%
Movement (MOVE)	$0.69	-9.9%	0%	0%
Gate (GT)	$12.06	2%	-6.8%	26.3%
Renzo Restaked ETH (EZETH)	$3,844.98	0.8%	0.9%	19.1%
Jupiter (JUP)	$1.12	6.5%	-12.9%	-8%
Arweave (AR)	$22.97	4.9%	-15.4%	19.9%
Tezos (XTZ)	$1.45	1.8%	-15.9%	103.3%
Helium (HNT)	$8.33	4.8%	-2.5%	27.1%
Flow (FLOW)	$0.95	5.8%	-22.9%	55.1%