Digital currencies have had a great year based on the five months up to June 1st. So far cryptocurrencies have outshined traditional investments like oil, gold, and popular stocks. The market valuation of all 2,000+ digital currencies is now close to a quarter of a trillion dollars. There’s also been a steady $40-100 billion dollars in trade volume every 24 hours over the last few weeks. In comparison, the top performing traditional asset is oil, which is up over 29% since the beginning of the year.

Oil and gold’s performance over the first five months of 2019.
This is followed by stocks like Nasdaq (+15%), S&P (+13%), Dow Jones (+10%), and Nikkei (+6%). One troy ounce .999 Gold (Au) prices have remained around the same value over the last five months but gained 0.46% since Jan. 1. On the first of the year, the price of one ounce of silver was $15.49 but the value has lost 7.48% with current prices at $14.33 per troy ounce of .999 silver (Ag).

The Top 5 Crypto Market Leaders
A great majority of cryptos gained much more value than most of these traditional assets combined. The top runner of 2019 is binance coin (BNB) which has gained 450% this year. BNB has climbed from $6.19 per coin on Jan. 1 to $34.06 at today’s opening prices. Litecoin (LTC) is the second largest 2019 market leader with 265.85% gained when the price was $30.46 on the first of the year and $111.44 per LTC today.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: news.bitcoin.com