On July 18, 2021, Bitcoin.com News examined the top five most expensive crypto assets and at that time there were two digital currencies valued at five digits in value, two tokens with four digit US dollar prices and one valued at three digits valued at three digits. Today, much has changed, but today, bitcoin and tokens yearn finance are still the only two tokens with a five-digit USD price value, and below them are a total of five crypto assets trading at four-digit prices.
Top crypto assets by price per unit in August 2022
Just a year ago, the crypto economy was worth roughly$1.33 trillionon July 18, 2021, with bitcoin (BTC) trading at $31,615 per unit. At that time, one other crypto asset was worth five orders of magnitude in US dollar value, as year finance (YFI) was trading at $28,611 per unit.
Even today, both of its tokens are the most expensive crypto assets per coin in terms of USD value. However, both Bitcoin and Yearly Finance are trading at much lower values than they were 386 days ago.
At that time, Bitcoin.com News reported that the most expensive crypto assets, excluding tokenized gold cryptocurrency The top five reportedly included; BTC; YFI,; MKR;es,and. bch. Bitcoin is currently trading at $23,846, but is still worth 5 digits in USD value, and yearn finance (YFI) is trading at $11,455 per coin.
Following YFI are pax gold (PAXG), perth mint gold (PMGT), ethereum (ETH), tether gold (XAUT), and maker (MKR PAXGand. PMGTis pegged to the value of an ounce of pure gold, with a slight premium on both coins.
XAUTis also pegged to one ounce of gold, but at the time of this writing is trading at a discount to the spot gold price. Removing the three gold tokens from the equation, the top five most expensive crypto assets not including gold tokens during the second week of August 2022 areBTC, YFI,ETHBNR, MKR, BTC, YFI,, ETHand; BNB.
When the crypto economy was worth$3.13 trillionin November 2021 andwhen BTCwas trading at $68,766 per unit, YFI was trading at just under $30K per unit. Wonderland (TIME) was $8,725 per coin on November 10, 2021, but today it is worth$11.21
Last year, Ethereum was $4,861a piece; with ETHit is now $1,773. Maker (MKR) was $3,199 a coin and is down to $1,136 today. Olympus (OHM) traded at $946 and is now $13.61 a single coin, while Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was $722 a piece but is $143 today.
The newcomer to the top five most expensive crypto assets of the year, Binance Coin (BNB) was swapped at $663 but is now down to $324. While it is interesting to look at crypto assets in terms of 5, 4, and 3-digit US dollar values and the most expensive crypto assets, it should be noted that often people unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies look at them like stocks.
With the exception of undivided non-fossil token (NFT) assets, most cryptocurrencies are divisible. The vast majority of cryptocurrencies are divisible to eight decimal places, meaning that all of the most expensive crypto assets listed above can be purchased in fractions. For example, instead of buying an entire coin, you can buy $15 worth of Bitcoin (BTC), $20 worth of Ethereum (ETH), $33 worth of Ian Finance (YFI
The data published in this article was recorded on August 8, 2022 at 11:55 p.m. EDT, while the recorded datais compared to the November 10, 2021 statistics via archive.orgalso included in the editorial.
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