5 Best Performing Cryptocurrencies of 2021

4. Fantom (FTM)

Gain in Price in 2021: 12958.61%

Fantom is a fast, highly scalable open-source blockchain platform used for trading digital assets and providing decentralized finance services to developers. The Fantom platform uses a unique in-house consensus algorithm, and has allowed transaction speeds of under two seconds to developers. The native cryptocurrency of the blockchain platform is FTM. 

Users of Crypto.com, a main portal allowing an entry point to digital assets for a worldwide community of over 10 million users, can purchase FTM with more than 20 fiat currencies, and spend the crypto at approximately 60 merchants globally via the Crypto.com Visa Card.

The total supply of FTM is 3.175 billion tokens, of which 2,134,638,448 FTM are currently in circulation, with the remaining coins subjected to gradual release through 2023. What sets FTM apart from other crypto is its unique mechanism, which allows considerably higher capacity and two-second transaction, in addition to superior security as compared to traditional proof-of-stake mechanisms. 

FTM is also compatible with Ethereum and Binance Coin standards, in addition to its own Fantom OPERA tokens running in circulation. In 2021, FTM was one of the top performing cryptocurrencies of the year, offering a 12958.61% return.