With the price of Bitcoin being a bit shaky, trading at the $48K to $50K mark, the top five altcoins have shown growth over the last 24 hours. With that, these coins were measured through their price performance and social activity.

The Importance of Social Strength in Crypto

Social activity is actually a very important indicator of a project when it comes to crypto since it indicates the strength of the community behind the crypto. LunarCrush has been used as a common tool to find the social strength of a certain crypto project.

As per Ben GCrypto, the top five were not ranked sequentially but rather as a whole with each of them showing impressive growth over the last 24 hours. The tweet included the 24-hour price change, the market capitalization, trading volume, and its major exchange.

Top 5 Altcoins for December 16

Fantom

• Cryptocurrency ticker: FTM

• 24 hour price change: 14.3 percent

• Total market capitalization: 4 billion USD

• Trading volume: 527 million USD

• Major exchange: Binance

Elrond

• Cryptocurrency ticker: EGLD

• 24 hour price change: 13.8 percent

• Total market capitalization: 6.5 billion USD

• Trading volume: 442 million USD

• Major exchange: Binance

IoTex

• Cryptocurrency ticker: IOTX

• 24 hour price change: 15.8 percent

• Total market capitalization: 47 million USD

• Trading volume: 47 million USD

• Major exchange: Binance

Solana

• Cryptocurrency ticker: SOL

• 24 hour price change: 10.1 percent

• Total market capitalization: 56 billion USD

• Trading volume: 3.5 billion USD

• Major exchange: Coinbase Pro

Terra

• Cryptocurrency ticker: LUNA

• 24 hour price change: 10.4 percent

• Total market capitalization: 24.2 billion USD

• Trading volume: 2 billion USD

• Major exchange: Binance

What are Altcoins?

According to the story by Time, when it comes to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has been established as the top cryptocurrency leaving other coins called "altcoins." With that, ever since then, there have been thousands of new altcoins or "alternative coins."

Altcoin, in a more general term, refers to any type of cryptocurrency as opposed to Bitcoin. With that, although Ethereum is still considered an altcoin, due to its massive growth and popularity, some would argue that it is more than just an "alternative coin" but rather standing top crypto on its own.

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15,000 Types of Cryptocurrencies

As of the moment, there are more than 15,000 types of cryptocurrencies as recorded in December of this year as per CoinMarketCap. To add, a large chunk of the cryptocurrency market, however, is made up of Bitcoin at 40% and Ethereum at 20% during the time the article was written.

The remaining altcoins in the market reportedly make up around 40%. To expand, this means that as of the moment, there are literally thousands of other coins that are being exchanged in the metaverse.

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Written by Urian B.