Since the weekend, the cryptocurrency market has been on the upside trend. The market cap of the entire ecosystem is now above $247 billion and Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, is valued above $9K at press time.

Bitcoin, despite being a major determinant of the ecosystem’s trend, still has some cryptocurrencies ahead of it in terms of performance as the market trends up. Dash, Bitcoin SV, RAVEN, among some other cryptocurrencies have been ahead of Bitcoin since 30 days ago, a report has confirmed.

According to information shared by Crypto Differ, a research an analytical platform that offers an update about cryptocurrency assets, 15 cryptocurrencies significantly performed better than Bitcoin in the last one month.

TAP (XTP), a digital asset that claims to offer one-stop services for crypto users, led the table with 451% gain in 30 days. TAP stayed ahead of Bitcoin by 22.6 times in the last one month.

Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Dash, owing to its tremendous performance in the last few days, outpaced Bitcoin by 8.8 times after adding 176% to its value in the last 30 days.

Dash had a great performance in the last few days. Dash made steady gains for 3 consecutive weeks and was the top performer in the market on Sunday, January 26, with 10% added value. The positive gain displayed by Dash reveals that buyers were keen to accumulate.

On the upside trend, Dash tested the $142.3419 region which attracted buyers before the cryptocurrency made slight regress, and it is now valued $112 at press time.

Dash to Have 1 Million Users in Venezuela by Year-End

Aside from the tremendous price growth Dash witnessed lately, the number of persons using Dash cryptocurrency in Venezuela has been surging since May 2018, and there are indications that before we move into 2021, the number of participants would have reached 1 million.

As reported by a PR representative of Dash, Mark Mason, the number of Dash active user wallets in Venezuela, since December 2019, has risen by 29%, and 562% since May.

“This is NOT total installs, ‘active devices’ shows how many devices that have been online at least once in the past 30 days,” Mark stated.

From May to December there has been a 562% increase in active android devices using #Dash wallet app in #Venezuela 🇻🇪 Growth for December was 29% 📈🚀 This is NOT total installs, 'active devices' shows how many devices that have been online at least once in the past 30 days. pic.twitter.com/06v6jtYPbN — Mark Mason (@StayDashy) January 20, 2020

Based on the present growth rate of the active wallet users, and some other factors like economic crisis affecting Venezuela, the number of Dash active users in the country may rise to 1 million by year-end.

For quite some time, Dash has been the leading cryptocurrency in Venezuela, even ahead of Bitcoin and other top cryptos, hence more reason to believe that Dash would see great growth in the country.