According to a recent study, Ripple, BAT and Dash cryptocurrencies have come to the fore among the altcoins that the crypto community has sought the most in the brutal bear market of 2018.
Ripple, BAT and DASH stand out
According to the research conducted by Uphold, it is concluded that the interest especially in BAT and Dash increased significantly between January 2018 and January 2019.
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Uphold is a cloud-based real-time financial services platform that enables people to send and convert money or assets securely and free of charge.
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Although 2018 was extremely bad for the crypto market, Uphold experienced growth and carried the number of registered users to 1 million. The company also states that the number of transactions and wallets in this bear market has doubled compared to the previous year.
According to data revealed by Uphold, during the bear market, Ripple, BAT and Dash
Uphold’s blog points out,
“Dash grew by 281% and BAT by 183% during 2018. Ethereum grew by 70%, BTG by 54%, BTC by 41% and LTC by 24%.”
However, things get weird when compared to the previous year’s data. Because in this case, the biggest loss of holder number among the major cryptocurrencies has occurred in Bitcoin and Litecoin. Bitcoin has fallen from 60% to 40%, and Litecoin from 11% to 4%.
On the other hand, interest in XRP has increased in 2018. There is a 39% increase in the number of XRP holders compared to the previous year.
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