{"id":6059,"date":"2023-02-01T04:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:11:08","slug":"metaverse-coins-overtake-bitcoin-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/metaverse-coins-overtake-bitcoin-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaverse Coins Overtake Bitcoin In January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The native tokens of Metaverse projects kicked off 2023 with a strong start, outpacing their performance from the previous year. Among the biggest projects, SAND and MANA significantly outperformed Bitcoin in terms of one-month gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Bitcoin, a leading cryptocurrency, saw a 40% increase this month, Ethereum and BNB experienced gains of 32%. However, the Metaverse tokens MANA and SAND captured investors&#8217; attention with impressive rises of 152% and 90% respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decentraland&#8217;s native token, MANA, began the year at $0.29 and surged to as high as $0.80 within the month. Nevertheless, sales in the final days led to a slight retreat to $0.745.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MANAUSDT-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"Metaverse Coins Overtake Bitcoin In January\" class=\"wp-image-6060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MANAUSDT-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MANAUSDT-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MANAUSDT-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MANAUSDT-390x220.webp 390w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MANAUSDT.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Despite the lack of an increase in user numbers within the Decentraland application according to on-chain data, a series of positive developments in the Metaverse universe appears to have motivated investors to purchase MANA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concurrent with the surge in MANA, there were also upward movements in its biggest competitor, The Sandbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SANDUSDT-1024x527.webp\" alt=\"Metaverse Coins Overtake Bitcoin In January\" class=\"wp-image-6061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SANDUSDT-1024x527.webp 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SANDUSDT-300x154.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SANDUSDT-768x396.webp 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SANDUSDT.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SAND kicked off the new year at a price of $0.375. Despite the Metaverse token soaring by 125% to $0.85 until the previous week, it is ending the month at $0.73, marking a 90% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there haven&#8217;t been significant developments for The Sandbox throughout the month, February is shaping up to be a critical period for the SAND token. In the upcoming days, some SAND tokens will be unlocked for long-term investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You may also like this content<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The native tokens of Metaverse projects kicked off 2023 with a strong start, outpacing their performance from the previous year. Among the biggest projects, SAND and MANA significantly outperformed Bitcoin in terms of one-month gains. While Bitcoin, a leading cryptocurrency, saw a 40% increase this month, Ethereum and BNB experienced gains of 32%. However, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[70,318],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaverse1","tag-bitcoin-news-and-content","tag-metaverse-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}