Forbes Advisors experts, the consumer division of Forbes magazine, compiled a top 10 list of promising cryptocurrencies. The list includes both the largest assets and altcoins.
The top three included Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB. The first cryptocurrency in the publication was dubbed «OG» of the entire sector and digital gold. Ethereum, according to Forbes experts, is a large ecosystem with high utility, while BNB has potential thanks to its deflationary mechanism and the growth of the Binance exchange.
XRP and Solana are in fourth and fifth place. At the same time, among the top-5, only the last coin on the seven-day chart showed a decline — 2.98%.
TRX, HYPE, and the privacy token ZEC were also included in the ranking. Despite the plunge at the beginning of June 2026, the asset has recovered and has almost reached the end-of-May levels. On the monthly chart, ZEC is up 25%, and on the weekly chart — by more than 11%, according to TradingView.
Unexpected assets
Eighth and ninth places in the ranking are taken by RAIN and LEO. The former is a token of the Rain Protocol project—an infrastructure layer that makes it possible to create prediction markets. The protocol runs on Arbitrum, uses an automated market maker, and involves settlement by the market creator or with the help of an AI oracle and a dispute mechanism.
RAIN is positioned as a governance token, however, the DAO has not been created yet, and its value is based on expectations of future project growth. Forbes experts noted a potential inflow of liquidity into the prediction markets sector as a possible factor behind the asset’s price growth.
LEO is a utility token of the iFinex ecosystem, which owns the crypto exchange Bitfinex. The outlet highlighted the built-in deflation mechanism of the asset, as well as certain advantages that holders receive when using products within this brand.
RAIN is trading with a monthly increase of 11.3%, LEO — 2.7%, according to TradingView and CoinMarketCap.
Forbes experts emphasized that they used different criteria when selecting cryptocurrencies. In particular, only assets with a market cap exceeding $5 billion were considered. Meme coins were not evaluated at all.
