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March came and went, and in-between we had a myriad of major news coming the Cryptoverse's way. BTC didn't miss out on a chance for a new all-time high either, surpassing USD 61,500. But let's check out the situation in more detail below.
Top 10 Coins in March & Q1
For BTC, it was the sixth month of consecutive gains. Also, among the top 10, there is a single coin whose price fell over the past month: Cardano dropped 4.3%. However, at the very end of March, IOHK, the developers behind Cardano, announced that ADA’s block production is fully decentralized, with stake pool operators in the community now responsible for the blocks produced.
Yet, other coins saw significant increases to their prices, with the winner of the ten being filecoin (FIL), entering this list with a whopping 445% rise. It's the only coin with a triple-digit rise. This could be a result of a number of news that came in March surrounding the project, including Internet company The9 Limited purchasing Filecoin mining machines and hosting agreement amounting to approximately USD 2m with a Filecoin mining service provider, as well as Grayscale Investments announcing its new Filecoin Trust.
The other coins all had double-digit increases in March, ranging from DOT's 14% to BNB's 38%.
As expected, the last quarter is entirely green. All but one coin had triple-digit rises: litecoin (LTC) went up 52.5%.
The top 10 coins among the top 50 by market capitalization all had triple-digit rises. At the very top is chiliz (CHZ) with a rise of nearly 875%. Just yesterday, it was announced that all 250,000 Professional Fighters League (PFL) Fan Tokens launched in partnership with Chiliz and blockchain company Socios were sold out in 10 minutes.
The relatively distant second place is occupied by holo (HOT) and its 534% increase. The next in line is filecon, while theta fuel (TFUEL) and bittorrent token (BTT) appreciated between 362% and 301%. Meanwhile theta token (THETA), terra (LUNA), and hedera hashgraph (HBAR) are up 295%-201%. Lastly, klaytn (KLAY) and vechain thor (VET) increased 181% and 127.5%, respectively.
Top losers in March
The past quarter is showing major gains and nearly all of the top 10 coins in this group appreciated more than 1,000%.
At the very top is pancakeswap (CAKE) with a massive rise of 3,144%. Behind it are LUNA and HOT, who have both increased nearly 2,800%.
Next in line are five coins all of which appreciated between 1,100% and 1,900% - the already-mentioned CHZ, BTT, and TFUEL are in this group, in that order. The two others are solana (SOL) and dogecoin (DOGE). Dogecoin certainly had an eventful quarter as well, being the topic of Tesla's Elon Musk's tweets, as well as catching interest of the (in)famous WallStreetBets subreddit.
Last two are HBAR 985% and avalanche (AVAX)'s 890%.
Top losers in Q1
Eeehh... Hmmm... There's nothing!
Well done, quarter!
Winners & losers from top 100 in March & Q1
Out of the top 100 coins by market capitalization, orbit chain (ORC) stands in the first place in March, as the only coin that appreciated 2,238%. Others on the list went up less than 1,000%. ORC is followed by CHZ, then DENT's 717%, HOT, and FIL. STORJ with 391.5% is in the 7th place, before TFUEL, enjin coin (ENJ)'s 362%, and decentraland (MANA)'S 335%.
On the opposite end, the coins that finished red among the 100 are XEM, voyager token (VGX) with 24%, fantom (FTM) with 13%, and the mentioned ADA. Besides these, HT, bridge oracle (BRG), and OKB all dropped less than 1%.
In the past quarter, DENT is at the top, appreciating 6,330%. Then come ORC, pundi X (NPXS), bitmax token (BTMX), and harmony (ONE), which are all up between 4,000% and 4,920%. Next in line is CAKE, having appreciated 3,205%, followed by LUNA's 2,837% and HOT's 2,787%.
As for the red coins among the top 100 in the past quarter: celsius network (CEL) dropped 5%. That's all. Once again - well done, quarter.
Everyone in crypto should take a moment to appreciate what a great quarter the past 3 months were. Maybe the most… https://t.co/Vca0NKpNlT
— Mike Novogratz (@novogratz)