April was a breath of fresh air for cryptocurrency investors. The market turned on its heels after a brutal first quarter that saw countless coins fall off a cliff.
Bitcoin paved the path forward, posting a 29.97% gain on the month, according to WorldCoinIndex.
Ethereum charged ahead, gaining 50.19%, while Dash gained 50.78%.
Ripple and Neo went a step further, up 59.44% and 60.18% respectively. IOTA jumped 72.87%; NEM jumped 78.85%; Bitcoin Cash jumped 87.33%; and Stellar jumped 93.46%.
Monero and Litecoin lagged a bit behind, posting 29.95% and 24.74% gains respectively.
Cardano and a number of altcoins went even further and more than doubled in the last month. Here’s a list of coins that crossed that barrier:
| Coin | Percentage Increase |
| Wabi | 100.10% |
| Bounty0x | 102.92% |
| 0x | 104.29% |
| Bread | 108.17% |
| Zilliqa | 108.90% |
| Cardano | 112.33% |
| Poet | 112.52% |
| Reddcoin | 120.49% |
| Adtoken | 121.47% |
| Loopring | 126.65% |
| Sonm | 127.99% |
| Substratum | 129.81% |
| Zencash | 135.86% |
| Wanchain | 136.08% |
| Siacoin | 136.31% |
| Wax | 138.18% |
| Monaco | 138.67% |
| Kyber | 148.67% |
| Gifto | 148.90% |
| TRON | 158.71% |
| Dentacoin | 159.82% |
| Aeternity | 159.95% |
| Bitshares | 165.87% |
| Deepbrain | 166.23% |
| EOS | 176.75% |
| Golem | 185.70% |
| Smartmesh | 189.22% |
| Payfair | 201.23% |
| Aelf | 228.46% |
| Zclassic | 307.75% |
| Groestlcoin | 370.27% |
The list of coins with eye-popping gains is so large, we couldn’t include them all.
However, despite the huge gains, many of the coins above are still worth less than they were at the start of the year, when the market took a turn for the worse.
How did your favorite coin perform in the last month? Let us know in the comments!
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