As Bitcoin (BTC) cruises towards $48,000 and leads a broad crypto market rally, higher risk-tolerant crypto investors are scouring the smaller cap altcoins markets on the hunt for the best crypto to buy now.
Bitcoin is up 6% in 24 hours after strong inflows into newly launched spot Bitcoin ETFs on Thursday.
Continued upside in the US stock market, positive seasonality around the time of the Chinese New Year and building FOMO are likely also supporting upside in the BTC market.
Bulls are targeting a near-term retest of yearly highs in the $49,000 area.
Ether (ETH) was last up just over 3% in 24 hours and above $2,500 as per CoinMarketCap.
Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA) and XRP (XRP) were up between 2-3%.
But smaller altcoins often experience much larger intra-day moves, offering traders/investors the prospect of faster gains.
Let’s take a look at Friday’s best performers and assess whether they might be the best crypto to buy today.
Solana’s largest and most popular meme coin Bonk (BONK) has suddenly pumped up 20% on Friday.
BONK was last around $0.0000127 and probing for a breakout above its late-January highs.
A break above the 50DMA at $0.000013 could open the door to a swift move back to yearly highs around $0.000018.
With a market cap of last around $800 million, BONK remains a strong meme coin candidate to deliver 10x or more gains this bull market.
As a result, BONK could well be the best crypto to buy today.
Decentralized gaming network Beam (BEAM) is up over 15% in the past 24 hours, as per CoinMarketCap.
That pump has seen the token reclaim a market cap of more than $1 billion dollars.
BEAM was last around $0.0215, with bulls eyeing a retest of yearly highs in the $0.023s.
A break above here could open the door to a retest of
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