Today’s top ten crypto assets account for a large portion of the current $797.95 billion valuation of the crypto economy. Many of these have become some of the most popular altcoin projects today. So, what are the most watched coins lately? According to major analytics platforms, investors follow Cardano, XRP, BNB and many more cryptos. Data aggregation sites for cryptocurrencies, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap, allow customers to add their favorite coins to a watch list. Bitcoin, which is on approximately 4,848,865 watch lists today, is at the top of the top ten most watched cryptocurrencies in 2022. Here are the details…
Bitcoin became the most watched coin
As 2022 comes to an end, crypto market and price aggregation websites such as coinmarketcap.com (CMC) and coinecko.com (CG) are offering watchlists so visitors can review their favorite cryptocurrencies or perhaps the coins they hold in their portfolios. Basically, a watchlist is a specific set of crypto assets that a person chooses to watch, and it displays all other crypto assets that the person doesn’t care about.
In traditional finance, investors also have watch lists for stocks and commodities. So they can track the market value of an asset. Looking at the top ten crypto assets, each coin has data on how many users have chosen a particular coin to add to their watchlist. On CG and CMC, Bitcoin (BTC) is the top coin in terms of watch lists.
BTC, ETH, Cardano, BNB: most watched coins in 2022
Of the top ten cryptocurrencies, BTC, ETH, ADA, and BNB were among the most recorded coins on watch lists. Currently, Bitcoin (BTC) is on the watchlist of 1,192,111 people on CoinGecko and on the watchlist of 3,656,754 on CMC. This equates to more than 4.84 million watchlists in total. Ethereum, on the other hand, reached a total of 4,109,238 watchlists, of which 1,104,484 were from CG and 3,004,754 from CMC. Following BTC and ETH, those on the watchlist include Cardano (ADA) with 2.94 million people, BNB with 2.45 million, and XRP with around 2.21 million.
ADA, BNB and XRP are followed by DOGE with 2.14 million, Polygon (MATIC) with 1.84 million and Tether (USDT) with 1.52 million. Dollar-pegged assets are the least watched group among top cryptos today. USDT leads with 1.52 million, while BUSD is on the watch list of 351,265 people. Just above BUSD is the stablecoin USDC, which is currently watched by 358,911 people. Out of the top ten crypto assets, the Shiba Inu (SHIB) is on the watchlist of 2,382,306 people. cryptocoin.comAccording to data, the coin is in the 15th largest market cap position.