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2 years ago on
March 03, 2022
2022 has currently been off to a shaky start, with warnings of further drops and estimations of the next all-time high.
Regardless of the volatility, New York to Beijing's financial regulators has started to take the cryptocurrency seriously or take the risk of being left behind. The crypto market is already worth more than $3 trillion. It has been a reasonably good week for the market, a relief from the recent reds.
As of Monday morning, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at about $38,000, and Ethereum (ETH) was trading at about $2,600. Here are a few lesser-known cryptocurrencies to watch, including the much anticipated FIREPIN Token (FRPN), which is expected to be a valuable asset for the future of the metaverse.
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A lot of people like Cardano (ADA) because it has a unique process and technology. It has an approach that is based on academia. Before putting out its rules, the non-profit that runs Cardano (ADA) put together a team of scientists and other academics from some of the best universities in the world to look over their code.
Money Making
As a third-generation cryptocurrency, Cardano (ADA) also wants to fix the problems that have been growing with the first-generation Bitcoin (BTC) and the second-generation Ethereum (ETH). They want to move away from the proof of work model, which is just one of many problems with these earlier coins.
Technology
It has been said that it will soon be able to process a million transactions per second because of its speed and new technology. However, with these fast speeds comes the issue of centralisation.
Thus, Cardano (ADA) is not only one of the most technologically advanced cryptocurrencies out there, but it is also now the seventh-largest cryptocurrency in the world.
Blockchain by Blockchain
Avalanche (AVAX) is a tool for making your own blockchain networks and decentralised apps (dApps).
It was made by Ava Labs, and it's one of many projects, like ADA, that wants to overtake Ethereum (ETH) as the most popular smart contract platform in the blockchain ecosystem.
At 4,500 transactions per second, Avalanche also claims to be able to grow bigger and more quickly than Ethereum does. It has built its own decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem and a number of Ethereum-based DeFi projects have been able to work with it.
At the start of last year, AVAX was trading at only around $3. By late November, it had reached an all-time high of more than around $145, overtaking Dogecoin (DOGE) and becoming one of the world's top 10 cryptocurrencies.
If you buy it now, it costs about $70 and has a market value of more than $18 billion.
Metaverse
FRPN, rather than rebuild the well-established networks, it wants to be a project that helps shape, build and connect this next generation of the virtual world. It's just started its pre-sale, which some people consider the best time to buy.
