​​Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of October; BTC, ETH All-Time | Token Map

​​Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of October; BTC, ETH All-Time Highs, Meme Rally Continues

November is here, and our monthly overview of the crypto market shows that October on the whole has been a good month for investors. Most coins are up, some are up massively, and a few have seen falling prices.

Compared to September, October – already dubbed “Uptober” – was a far better month. Helped by the launch of the first bitcoin futures-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US, the likes of bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) both reached fresh all-time highs during the month, with bitcoin briefly touching the USD 67,000 mark for the first time ever, and ETH nearing USD 4,500.

Noteworthy is also that BTC and ETH not only saw single-day all-time highs in October, but that the month also marked both coins’ highest monthly close ever on all major exchanges.

In October, nearly all of the top 10 coins by market capitalization had a good month, with many of the major coins seeing gains of around 30% for the month.


The only coin from the top 10 list that did not rise over the course of October was cardano (ADA), which instead fell by just over 11%. The losses for ADA in October came after another weak month in September, when the coin fell by 26%. To be fair, however, ADA has seen good performance if we look further back, with the coin more than doubling in price in August and it's still up by more than 2,000% in a year.

In terms of other coins from the top 10 list by market capitalization, there’s no way around mentioning shiba inu (SHIB). The self-proclaimed “dogecoin killer” has climbed from being essentially worthless at the beginning of the year, to entering the top 10 list of the most valuable cryptoassets and flipping the original dogecoin (DOGE) in October.


Over the course of the month, SHIB, now ranked as the 8th most valuable cryptoasset, rose by 870%.

Lastly from the top 10 list, it’s also worth noting the performance of the major smart contract and DeFi-focused assets ethereum, solana (SOL), and polkadot (DOT), which all rose by 30%-40%.