Top 5 Hidden gems Crypto Everyone Should Know About
It is very easy to get lost in the crowd in the cryptocurrency market. The cryptocurrency market at this moment has around 8600+ cryptocurrencies and keeping track of each one of them is a hell of a task. Because of the large number of cryptocurrencies in the market, a majority of them are low-performers or coins that do not return as much as they promised they would.
And because the returns are significantly lower than the ones an investor would potentially get from just investing in the top 10, a lot of high-performing coins are neglected and sidelined because of the same. Another reason for neglecting and lower popularity as a worthwhile asset is the fact that these coins don’t make it to the news very often and are pretty quiet.
To that effect, the cryptocurrency market has a few hidden gems. These gems have a loyal community around it and have just enough investors to keep their heads above water. These gems are hidden from the average investor because they aren’t the coins that are projected to do well in the market but do well anyway. These tokens and digital assets usually do well because their project idea and implementation are on point and their community outreach is effective enough to get people to believe in the team.
But the problem with these hidden gems cryptos is that many a time they are very well-hidden, meaning only a very small subset of the investing cryptocurrency community will know of them. This is also mainly because the investor has to be a seasoned one to be able to make a sound investment decision and it takes a lot of experience and capital to know which of these to invest in.
The List of Top 5 hidden gems in the crypto market right now.
*(Price, ATM, Market, Volume and Other data for these altcoins is based on the date when the article was written, Live price , and volume data could be different for you when you are reading this article.)
Nervos Network [CKB]
NERVOS NETWORK PRICE | 24H RANGE: | ATH: | PLATFORM |
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$ 0.011945 | $ 0.011352 — $ 0.013301 | $ 0.019465 (-39%) | Nervos |
MARKET CAP | CIRCULATING SUPPLY | 24H VOLUME | RELEASE DATE |
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$ 287.68M#123 | 24.08B (93%) | $ 45.29M#164 | Oct 24, 2019 |
The Nervos Network describes itself as an open-source public blockchain ecosystem and collection of protocols. The Nervos CKB (Common Knowledge Base) is the layer 1, proof of work public blockchain protocol of the Nervos Network. It reportedly allows any crypto-asset to be stored with the security, immutability, and permissionless nature of Bitcoin while enabling smart contracts and layer 2 scaling. It aims to capture the total network value through its “store of value” crypto-economic design and native token, the CKByte.
Nervos Network is currently into development, they have plan to launch their native smart contract language in next few months.
Nervos Network is backed by 24 Institutional Investors Including Polychain Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Quite a solid hidden gem crypto.
The top exchanges for trading in Nervos Network are currently Binance, Huobi Global, BiKi, CoinTiger, and CITEX.
Price Performance History

Oasis Network [ROSE]
OASIS NETWORK PRICE | 24H RANGE: | ATH: | PLATFORM |
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$ 0.095041 | $ 0.083913 — $ 0.095700 | $ 0.146772 (-35%) | Binance Smart Chain |
MARKET CAP | CIRCULATING SUPPLY | 24H VOLUME | RELEASE DATE |
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$ 142.56M#186 | 1.50B | $ 25.28M#222 | Jan 1, 2021 |
Designed for the next generation of blockchain, the Oasis Network is the first privacy-enabled blockchain platform for open finance and a responsible data economy. Combined with its high throughput and secure architecture, the Oasis Network is able to power private, scalable DeFi, revolutionizing Open Finance and expanding it beyond traders and early adopters to a mass market. Its unique privacy features can not only redefine DeFi, but also create a new type of digital asset called Tokenized Data that can enable users to take control of the data they generate and earn rewards for staking it with applications — creating the first-ever responsible data economy.
Oasis Network Mainnet has been launched and running. It’s a great hidden crypto.
Oasis Network is backed by Leading VC Including A16Z, Accel Partners, Polychain Capital and Pantera Capital.
The top exchanges for trading in Oasis Network are currently Binance, KuCoin, GX.com, Gate.io, and LBank.
Price Performance History

Orchid [OXT]
ORCHID PROTOCOL PRICE | 24H RANGE: | ATH: | PLATFORM |
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$ 0.473877 | $ 0.422330 — $ 0.482102 | $ 14.94 (-97%) | Ethereum |
MARKET CAP | CIRCULATING SUPPLY | 24H VOLUME | RELEASE DATE |
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n/a | n/a (total 1.00B) | $ 91.07M#116 | n/a |
Orchid (OXT) is the native token of Orchid, a cryptocurrency-powered virtual private network (VPN). Launched in December 2019, Orchid describes itself as the world’s first incentivized, peer-to-peer privacy network. Its aim is to overcome internet freedom limitations by using cryptocurrency payments to allow anyone to purchase bandwidth from any participating provider. This is done using so-called probabilistic nano payments, which occur using OXT, an ERC-20 standard token on Ethereum.
Orchid App and Network has been released in 2019.
Orchid is backed by seasonal investors including A16Z, Sequoia Capital, and Polychain Capital.
The top exchanges for trading in Orchid are currently Binance, Huobi Global, OKEx, VCC Exchange, and BiONE.
Price Performance History

Flamingo [FLM]
FLAMINGO FINANCE PRICE | 24H RANGE: | ATH: | PLATFORM |
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$ 0.341615 | $ 0.292014 — $ 0.347265 | $ 1.23 (-72%) | NEO |
MARKET CAP | CIRCULATING SUPPLY | 24H VOLUME | RELEASE DATE |
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$ 51.24M#332 | 150.00M (60%) | $ 53.64M#151 | Sep 28, 2020 |
Flamingo is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform based on the Neo blockchain and the Poly Network interoperability protocol. It combines several DeFi applications into a single ecosystem: a cross-blockchain asset gateway (wrapper), an on-blockchain liquidity pool (swap), a blockchain asset vault, a perpetual contract trading platform (perp), and a decentralized governance organization (DAO).
Flamingo launched PREP, DAO and Staking last year, making it a worthy hidden gem crypto in the market.
Flamingo is founded by Hongfei Da who is also the co-founder of NEO Blockchain. Flamingo is backed by IDG Capital.
The top exchanges for trading in Flamingo are currently Binance, OKEx, BitZ, FTX, and VCC Exchange.
Price Performance History

Keep Network [KEEP]
KEEP NETWORK PRICE | 24H RANGE: | ATH: | PLATFORM |
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$ 0.317072 | $ 0.306631 — $ 0.349830 | $ 2.20 (-86%) | n/a |
MARKET CAP | CIRCULATING SUPPLY | 24H VOLUME | RELEASE DATE |
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$ 151.30M#175 | 477.17M | $ 2.62M#542 | n/a |
Another hidden gem crypto, Keep is an incentivized network for storing and encrypting private data on the public blockchain. The network is made of off-chain containers for private data known as keeps, while the KEEP work token enables it to be completely permissionless. Keep solves the main problem holding back blockchain adoption: that data on public blockchains are public. With Keep, developers can finally build fully decentralized apps.
Keep Network Recently launched tBTC: The first “killer app” on its network.
Keep network is backed by leading investors including A16Z, Fenbushi Capital, and Polychain Capital.
The top exchanges for trading in Keep Network are currently HitBTC, Kraken, MXC.COM, Uniswap (V2), and Hoo.
Price Performance History

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Disclaimer:
Altcoins listed in this article are based on the author’s research. The author is not holding any of these altcoins. Always do your own research before investing in any cryptocurrency.

Hitesh Malviya is the Founder of ItsBlockchain. He is one of the most early adopters of blockchain & cryptocurrency enthusiast in India. After being into space for a few years, he started IBC in 2016 to help other early adopters learn about the technology.
Before IBC, Hitesh has founded 4 companies in the cyber security & IT space.
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