May 4, 2021 09:51 GMTForex Basics Although Bitcoin is the best performing mainstream asset of 2020, beating out gold, stock indices, oil trading, and anything else, Ethereum has outperformed the leading cryptocurrency by market cap by a large margin. Ethereum rallied from $130 to $490 in 2020 alone and remains up well over 180% year-to-date. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has just 60% ROI to show for the year. Ethereum’s added success was fueled by the momentum surrounding decentralized finance. Ethereum benefitted substantially as ETH gas fees soared due to DeFi tokens utilizing the ERC20 sma...