The crypto market has been picking steam towards the end of September, seeing a recovery rally ahead of the year’s last quarter. Here are the top crypto tokens to watch at the end of 2024.
Top 4 Crypto Tokens to Watch in Q4 2024
1. Sui (SUI)
SUI is one of the first movers in the broader crypto market recovery rally. During the past month, SUI’s price has been on an upward trend, recording a surge of around 80% in the last 30 days.
SUI’s total market cap reached more than $4.6 billion today, September 25.
The L1 blockchain is designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone.
SUI has been focused on providing users with the best DevEX in the crypto industry, covering the Web3 developers’ needs including the following:
- Easy user onboarding
- Scalability
- Security
Upcoming SUI Plans
The team behind Sui recently announced upcoming plans via their X account including the following:
Circle’s native token USDC is coming to Sui
USDC is the largest regulated dollar-backed stablecoin in the industry. Sui is making history as the first Move-based chain to have native USDC, giving users a better experience, whether they’re using dApp in DeFi, gaming, DePin, cross-border payments, commerce, and more.
The partnership will help further Sui’s leading position in DeFi.
On September 17, the team at Sui announced that the project was ranked as number 10 in the industry based on TVL and this is due to their ability to make DeFi more secure via allowing easy access to the safest and most robust on-chain digital dollars to the Sui community.
Wormhole is also getting ready to ensure that users will be able to easily migrate to the native USDC once the stablecoin goes live on the network. Wormhole is the leading interoperability platform powering multichain apps and bridges at scale.
CCTP to Launch on Sui
Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) will launch on Sui, enabling devs to build cross-chain flows from other chains including Solana, Ethereum, and more.
Considering the important plans that the Sui team has scheduled, the token’s price will most likely continue to surge in Q4 as well.
2. Aptos (APT)
After seeing a volatile trend in September, APT also recorded an upward price trajectory in the past week with a surge of over 41%.
Regarding APT’s price trajectory in the past month, the digital asset recorded a surge of around 15% in the last 30 days.
The coin’s price rally accelerated following September 18 when the whole crypto market rallied on the Fed’s decision to cut interest rates in the US. Today, the market cap of the token is over $4 billion.
New Price Trigger for APT
Aptos, the L1 blockchain, recently announced via X an important game-changing event – Aptos Foundation teamed up with the Ignition AI Accelerator – backed by Nvidia, Tribe, and DISG to turbocharger AI startups across APAC and beyond.
Key Benefits of the Partnership
- Fusing Aptos’ blockchain expertise with AI’s explosive potential, the stage is set for a stage of a new class of tech founders ready to redefine the crypto and AI industries.
- The Ignition AI Accelerator is the launchpad for APAC’s next-gen AI entrepreneurs.
- The partnership is set to break the barriers of AI adoption, leveraging Microsoft OpenAI Service and unlocking global markets.
Bashar Lazaar, head of Grants and Ecosystem at Aptos Foundation said that the growth potential for AI is unmatched and this partnership is set to empower the new wave of AI tech founders a pioneers all over the world.
The partnership is a catalyst for the next wave of innovation that will most likely continue to boost APT’s price in Q4 2024 as well.
3. Metis (METIS)
Analyzing METIS’ price trajectory over the past month, we see that the token started an upward trend during the second week of the month. In the past week, however, METIS recorded a more significant surge of around 30%.
The price surge also debuted on September 18 when the crypto market really started to pick up steam following the Fed’s decision.
Today, September 25, the total market cap of the token is over $243 million.
Gaming Takes a Quantum Leap
On September 17, the team at Metis announced via X an important partnership that takes gaming straight into the future.
They called the step forward, the GameFi Quantum Leap – a Metis and ABGA Accelerator Program in partnership with Google Cloud. ABGA is a club centered around Web3 games.
What to Expect from the New Partnership?
Here’s what users can expect from this new partnership:
- Metis offers devs fast transaction speeds, low costs, scalable infrastructure, and guidance for entering Web3.
- ABGA provides users with resources from GameFi to traditional gaming areas.
- Google Cloud offers public cloud computing services that run on the Google Cloud Platform.
The team at Metis also announced that in order to facilitate the transition a $10 million fund has been allocated for the following:
- Fueling innovation
- Supporting promising projects
- Driving the growth of the GameFi ecosystem on Metis
During the 6-12 month incubation period, projects will also get support at every development stage.
This new partnership will fuel the gaming industry even more, making METIS, the Metis project’s token, another viable choice for a successful trend this year and beyond.
4. Sei (SEI)
Sei, the first sector-specific L1 blockchain, brings a new approach to the industry with its capabilities of boosting the functionality and performance of DEXes.
The SEI token’s price trajectory over the past month is also worth watching, as the coin recorded a notable 31% increase in price over the past 30 days.
The coin’s price trajectory started to move upward stronger following September 18 as well, reaching a market cap of over $1.6 billion today, September 25.
Recent Sei Achievements
During the past week, Sei recorded various achievements that make the ecosystem stronger which they detailed in a recent post.
These include the following:
- A new ATH in daily users and TVL – in the past 6 months, the daily active users on Sei have grown significantly hitting over 50,000 in August.
- Sei Creator Fund Rounds 3 and 4 were revealed with $500,000 in funding to support developers and gaming creators.
- The Gauntlet Gaming Competition brought $50,000 in prizes to incentivize users.
- OKX’s rewards for Sei DeFi Season have doubled to 106,400 SEI per day.
Also, new project integrations that generate yield are worth mentioning.
Yield-Generating New Integrations
On September 24, the team at Sei announced new integrations via X, highlighting that Seiyan ETH and Super Seiyan ETH, the new yield-generating LSTs from Nucleus and Dinero entered the Sei ecosystem.
Sei also mentioned that with the new Jellyverse integration, new incentives are now live, and this will bring on board even more users to the blockchain.
The announcement triggered a significant price surge for the SEI token today due to the various opportunities that these new yield-generating integrations bring.
Considering the latest new integrations and deployments of Sei, the project is definitely on its way to seeing more success and price surges during Q4 2024.
