XRP Like Altcoins That Could EXPLODE After Jan 20

On Monday, Donald Trump takes the oath of office and becomes the 47th President of the US. And the industry is more hopeful about regulatory clarity and friendly policies from the US Government than at any time ever.

Could this lead to a Crypto “Golden Age”? We don’t know. But some projects are in MUCH better position to benefit from a new Trump administration than others. Today, we look at 3 legacy altcoins we haven’t talked about in a while that should get a nice bump from the Trump White House.

1) Litcoin (LTC)

Our first project today is an old friend, Litecoin. You may remember a couple of cycles ago, it was “Litecoin for payments and Bitcoin for savings”. Or “Litecoin is silver to Bitcoin’s gold” Litecoin is still a great project. But Litecoin more than any other project got hurt from the emergence of Tether and USDC for crypto payments.

That said, Litecoin is still everywhere and popular for transactions. This Bitpay data shows that Litecoin is still popular for payments and moving money around. Litecoin has completed 300 million transactions in its long history. And 92 million were in 2024. So adoption and growth are accelerating on the Litecoin Network.

Then there’s the ETF talk. Canary has already filed an S-1. That’s the first big stage in trying to get ETF approval. They’ve amended it to make it more attractive to new incoming SEC chair Paul Atkins.

But as we’ve said in lots of other videos anyone but Gary Gensler to head the SEC is addition by subtraction. Atkins is a crypto guy though and has been on the board of the asset tokenizing platform Securitize for 5 years.

That means approvals for legitimate projects, like 13-year-old Litecoin are in much better hands and more likely. The possible ETF is already one sign of how LTC benefits from the incoming Trump administration.

And quietly, $LTC holders have earned 69% in the last 12 months. It’s currently the #25 project by market cap. It’s only one spot away from becoming the most successful Bitcoin hard fork. It does that when it overtakes Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Litecoin’s PoW mining algorithm Scrypt lets Bitcoin miners mine Litecoin too. This means it’s a decentralized network.

Thanks to Mimblewimble, Litecoin processes more privacy-based payments. They do more confidential transactions than any other network. It’s a great privacy play, too. To many, Litecoin never went away. But if you think it did, it’s back in a big way. What’s your favorite way to do crypto payments? Let us know in the comments below.

2) Ethereum (ETH)

If there’s one project whose behavior is hard to understand in this market by its price, then it’s Ethereum. It’s up a decent 20-ish% in the last 3 months but down almost the same amount in the last 30 days. There’s almost no retail interest in Ethereum and with that it’s fallen off many peoples’ radars. But does that mean no one is transacting there? No. Here are the last 7 days of transactions on Ethereum. Look at who the top senders and receivers are. For those of you who may not know, Wintermute is a huge market maker like DWF for the industry.

Other than Wintermute and one private wallet address, every other top sender and receiver is an exchange wallet. Binance, Coinbase, and Bybit are in the lead. Coinbase is particularly interesting here. They and Coinbase Pro are custodians for most of the Ethereum ETFs in the US. So what’s happened? Retail has moved to EVM for faster, cheaper transactions or to Layer 2 networks. You already know that Arbitrum and Optimism are popular and getting more popular daily. Scroll, Blast, and others are coming online. But the big difference is Base.

Base, in a very short time, has done 1.6 billion transactions on its network. Plus, it’s the easy way for Americans to get on-chain directly from their Coinbase exchange account. And all this benefits Ethereum. It’s one of the reasons CB is such a huge sender and receiver of ETH every day. And there’s the fees.

This recent transaction batch from yesterday on Base shows a fee of $476 in ETH. And this batching happens many times a day so the Ethereans are making money. Lastly, it’s important to understand that Ethereum is still one of the leading projects no matter what people say. When it’s down like this, it is a good time to buy. I haven’t even gotten into the possible expansion of ETFs that will likely happen under Trump.

Most who trade in crypto are momentum traders. They find a trend, like AI Agents now, and try to trade it while the trend is upward and make some money. But often real money, life-changing money, comes from looking where others aren’t. It’s buying good assets at depressed values and waiting for the market to correct itself. And that’s what you are doing if you get Ethereum here. No one is talking about ETH except in negative tones. When it comes back, this dip from $4000 to $3200 will look like one of the great buying opportunities of the year.

3) HBAR

And finally today, another blue-chip project we don’t talk about too often. Hedera Hashgraph. As a semi-private blockchain, many don’t want to associate with Hedera or $HBAR. But we have to face facts. What they don’t have in decentralization, they do have in positioning in the RWA market. They also have the unique position of being one of the few cryptos that have been approved for many years in the US. Every exchange open to Americans will offer $HBAR, unlike some other more popular tokens.

Hedera is also one of the leading ISO20022 coins. That’s a global compliance standard for financial transactions.  We haven’t talked much about this standard, but every ISO20022 project is in a great position to grow from a Trump administration. Coinbase Prime, which is a good proxy for US institutional interest in a project, just accepted $HBAR so institutions can buy it more easily. This is yet another sign that more demand and liquidity are coming to Hedera.

Trump likes crypto. He uses it and owns it. He wants clearer regulations and for the US to become the global leader in crypto. And ISO-20022 tokens like Hedera’s $HBAR are already ahead of other tokens. Others will be trying to go through the (hopefully) clearer compliance regulations to come from the SEC, CFTC, or other US agencies.

We’ll be hitting on this topic more and on Hedera specifically in future videos. But there are clear ways these 3 projects benefit from the new Trump administration. And there are some great, less obvious reasons, too.

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