After a bullish May, Bitcoin rallies towards all-time highs as June looms promisingly in the book for the crypto market. As has usually been the case in June, crypto is still (mostly) feeling sluggish, with Bitcoin and Ethereum sticking to their supposed summer habit of discounted trading—a small decline after the month’s rally—but many of the small market actors are punching above their weight… In June 2025, below are five outstanding cryptocurrencies that investors and traders should be keeping a close eye on.
1. Binance Coin (BNB)
Binance Coin is about to have what could be a game-changing month. BNB Smart Chain is currently slated to release its much-awaited Maxwell upgrade, which will seek to reduce block times down to 0.75 seconds and process as many as 100 million daily transactions. As just one more upgrade in a series, Lior TZ, in April, and the Pascal hard fork before it sped it up and made things more Ethereum-compatible.
Technical indicators of BNB are also signaling that its bull run is far from being over. On the weekly chart, a textbook cup and handle pattern has formed, a favorite among traders for predicting breakouts. If market conditions stay favorable, we could see a big run of BNB towards the $1,000 mark. With its blend of technical innovation and bullish momentum, it is one of the most exciting assets to track this month.
2. Polkadot (DOT)
Finally, we can see Polkadot 2.0 rollout elastic scaling the final portion of a long-promised impending Polkadot 2.0 upgrade. The great thing about this feature is that parachains can dynamically draw on extra resources when demand dictates it to be, dynamically improving performance and scalability in real time (assuming successful tests on Kusama).
Also, with an attractive 11.5% staking reward, crypto is currently luring yield-seeking investors. According to technicals, DOT is rebounding off a strong double bottom around $3.60 and building up a bullish harmonic pattern. High-stakes incentives and infrastructure improvements have the potential to lead to a solid price rally in June for the price of DOT.
3. PEPE
Back when PEPE was being thrown around as ‘nothing more than another meme coin, ’ PEPE was already displaying strong technical momentum. It has formed a daily flag, and the price has just erupted above a tough 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level. The upswing is also adding to the excitement of an imminent golden cross (when the 50-day and 200-day moving averages cross each other), which may signal a major upward move.
According to wallet tracking, large holders (aka whales) have been steadily stacking PEPE. PEPE has support in the community and technical confirmation and could certainly be back testing the all-time high of $0.000028. Whatever your position on the meme coin hype as a skeptic or supporter, you can’t deny that the current bandwagon rolling is well worth jumping on.
4. Solana (SOL)
All indicators show Solana’s continuing blockchain innovation leadership, and June could be a watershed as the Alpenglow upgrade is deployed. In this overhaul, the platform is replacing the existing proof of history and TowerBFT consensus, hoping to speed up the latency and performance of real-time applications. This is the biggest architectural shift post the launch of Solana.
From a trading perspective, SOL is providing numerous bullish signals on a daily time frame, including a bullish flag and a falling wedge. It’s also forming a golden cross, which suggests a breakout is about to materialize. Solana has a very successful month as it positions itself well with top-tier speeds and a strong developer ecosystem.
5. Monero (XMR)
Monero is back, in a big way. Privacy is making a comeback. Privacy coin, which was the original privacy coin, has risen more than 12.6% to $392, on a surge in interest for anonymous financial transactions as the world becomes more concerned with its data privacy. As of February 2018, Monero’s core features — ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT – remain the standard by which other projects judge transaction confidentiality.
