Ten Tokens That Hit a New High in This Cycle After Hitting a Staged High in the 2021 Bull Market

or: Babywhale, Techub News

After the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the Bitcoin spot ETF, many people expected a market scene of "tens of thousands of coins rising together" like in 2021, but the reality gave a heavy blow: except for Bitcoin directly reaching $100,000, a large number of "altcoins" that shined in the last bull market not only failed to set new highs in this round of market, but are still hovering at the bottom.

To some extent, this may also indicate that as cryptocurrency investment gradually becomes mainstream in the United States, new funds will be concentrated on high-quality targets, just like U.S. stocks. In this round of market, some tokens that once reached the peak in the previous bull market have once again become the darlings of profit seekers in this round. The author has counted some tokens that hit a new high in this round after hitting a staged high in the 2021 bull market, but the scope of understanding is limited and may not cover all tokens that meet this situation.

SUN

In 2021, when "Alt L1" was very popular, EVM-compatible L1s including Fantom, NEAR, Avalanche, etc. took over the overflow traffic due to the high cost of Ethereum Gas. In this, Solana did not follow the trend, but rebuilt an ecosystem outside of EVM. With the support of SBF, the founder of FTX, which was at its peak at the time, and the team's own operations, the price of SOL soared from less than $1 when it was first listed on the exchange to over $200.

But then, as the overall market went from crazy to calm, coupled with the collapse of FTX, SBF, one of Solana’s biggest supporters, was imprisoned, SOL fell to around US$7, and well-known NFT projects on Solana left one after another. Many investors believed that Solana’s story might end here.

To the surprise of these people, in this cycle, Solana has regained new vitality thanks to the rise of Meme. Coupled with the rise of several ecological projects such as the re-staking project Jito, the price of SOL has been rising all the way and broke through the high of nearly US$260 set in early November 2021 nearly a week ago.

BNB

As the only public chain among "exchange platform coins" that has truly achieved ecological diversification, BNB issued by Binance has been impressive both in its "resistance to decline" in the bear market and its rise in the bull market. In the bear market of 2022, BNB fell all the way from its highest level of around $660 in May 2021 to below $200. Although the decline is not small, compared with many tokens that have fallen by more than 90% or even almost to zero, BNB can be regarded as an asset with a higher "value preservation rate".

Later, with the market recovery and Binance launching Launchpool and Launchpad projects at an almost crazy frequency, BNB also continued to advance and broke through the price high of the previous bull market on June 24 this year, reaching a maximum of US$700. Compared with the dismal exit of Huobi's HECO Network, BNB still has a lot of potential value worth further exploration both within the exchange and on the BNB Chain.

TRX

The record high of Tron token TRX in this cycle is both unexpected and reasonable. The issuance of USDT has approached 140 billion, and Tron has been the first choice for USDT transfer for quite a long time. Although Tron has been surpassed by Ethereum in USDT issuance and is obviously inferior to Ethereum in actual application scenarios, it has to be admitted that at least in terms of capital flow, Tron is still the only choice for USDT holders.

According to DefiLlama data, the TVL on Tron is about $7.555 billion at the time of writing this article, and the figure once exceeded $10 billion in March this year. The price of TRX reached a high of $0.18 on April 17, 2021. Three and a half years later, on November 12, two weeks ago, TRX hit a new high and rose to more than $0.22 in the following days.

TON

The emergence of TON can be traced back to the ICO era, when Telegram raised $1.7 billion for its token Grams through ICO financing and planned to launch The Open Network (TON), but a lawsuit from the SEC put everything on hold. This typical SEC-style lawsuit, which looked like securities in every way, was not finally settled until 2020, and Telegram also paid the price of not being able to continue the development of TON.

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