Upgraded XMR Becomes Best Performer Among Top 15 Coins: Analysis

The upgraded XMR coin becomes the best performer among the top 15 coins by market capitalization as we are reading more in our latest monero news.

The privacy-focused cryptocurrency became the best performing coin among the top 15 tokens by market cap after it launched the network update over the past week. The upgraded XMR ranked 14^th by market cap and trades at $127, increasing by 5% in the day, trimming the weekly losses to less than 4%. At the same time, other major coins from the top 15 which are less than 3% in a day. XMR increased today after a slight reaction to the expected update which was launched on Saturday.

Initially announced in August 2020, Monero’s latest Oxygen Orion update brings some more important improvements to the network at a time when the regulators are getting increasingly worried about the privacy coins. The latest update brings the so-called compact linkable spontaneous anonymous group feature.

As per the Monero blog, the CLSAG update allowed smaller and tighter transactions and will also reduce the transaction size by about 25%. This will also improve the transaction times by 10% and will bolster privacy with Dandelion ++ which is a feature that aims to protect users’ IP addresses. The latest update release comes not too long after another speed and security-centric upgrade named Nitrogen Nebula was launched which was one of the many upgrades that went live in the past few months.

Right before the release, Monero enjoyed an increase in price and moved up by about 35% in a month and 125% in a year while the US Department of Justice released a new report that explains the risks of end-to-end encryption along with the US Internal Revenue Service which declared war on privacy coins, offering a bounty of about $625,000 to crack Monero’s privacy code.

Now, Monero scales up to 20 times while compared to the other upgrades, there will be no change to Monero’s mining algorithm was frequently modified to disadvantage the ASIC miners. The project’s upgrade from 2019 included RandomX which means that the network no longer needs changing to its mining algorithm for ASIC resistance. Though not directly related to the upgrade the development of the community project is progressing. The community developers have been working on the atomic swap which allows users to exchange Monero for other coins. The proposal for the project has reached full funding as of late.