In a collaboration with cryptocurrency market data platform CoinStats, Benzinga gained insight into which cryptocurrencies saw the best price-performance in 2021—with results that could be surprising to most. Data shared with Benzinga shows some of the top five cryptocurrencies of 2021 are assets so unknown that even the most expert crypto pundits could be surprised by the list. The coin with the highest yearly percentage gain, according to CoinStats data, with an astonishing gain of nearly 39,500 percent is Gala with its current market cap of about $3.6 billion and price of $0.47 per token. This is the native asset of a gaming platform featuring the play-to-earn model to create blockchain games based on the Ethereum blockchain. The second coin that reported the highest gains is Axie Infinity, reaching a price increase of nearly 19,900 percent at its current price of $95.7. This is the token powering a blockchain trading and battling game that is …