Even though the larger cryptocurrency market has gone up and down, lots of digital assets have done well since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016.
We now have a landscape littered with dozens of projects, many doing quite well. A small number of those assets are tethered to American firms; they, too, are doing well and attracting both retail and institutional investment. Here are some of those projects.
Strong Performers Amidst Market Volatility
Since Trump’s election win, a number of projects have managed to withstand the market’s ups and downs and keep on delivering major returns. Even as the overall cryptocurrency market has gone through several price corrections and a few bearish stretches, these top-performing coins have somehow found a way to keep on winning.
At the front of the line for profitability are cryptocurrencies such as HBAR, XRP, XLM, and ADA. These U.S.-centric projects have been not just growing but galloping since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Since then, their use cases have diversified. They have clearly defined roles in the payments ecosystem and beyond. The projects underpinning these tokens have made progress in establishing partnerships and integrating their technologies across sectors. These particular cryptocurrencies—and several others that could be named—could be seen as potentially part of an investment strategy that emphasizes long-term holds and relatively stable assets.
The Hedera Hashgraph network’s native token, HBAR, has drawn significant attention due to its enterprise-ready consensus algorithm, which allows for a level of performance and security that’s hard to find in other blockchain platforms. Businesses that want fast, secure blockchain solutions are finding HBAR quite appealing. Ripple’s XRP token, despite its ongoing legal troubles with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), remains an important part of the payment ecosystem, offering a level of performance that’s hard to find in other platforms. Meanwhile, Stellar’s XLM token and Cardano’s ADA token have both shown pretty strong fundamentals. They’re also doing some very interesting things.
These projects have the potential to become strategic reserves. This is luring large institutional investors. They view these assets as ones that could weather the storm of market turbulence and, at the same time, deliver substantial growth over time.
What about retail investors? These projects continuing to grow in adoption and use makes them much more appealing. Again, appeal is much stronger than it used to be.
The Rise of Exchange Tokens
These blockchain projects are not the only ones generating tokens that have performed strongly lately. In fact, a number of tokens issued by cryptocurrency exchanges have also turned out to be some of the strongest performers in the market. As the broader cryptocurrency market has developed, and as trading activities have become ever more concentrated in cryptocurrency exchanges, these exchange tokens have yielded some impressive returns.
Some solid growth in exchange tokens has been observed since Trump’s electoral victory. Three examples that directly reward their holders for governance and more are BGB (Bitget Token), TKX (Tokex Token), and GT (Gate.io Token). As shown in the figure, their prices have significantly appreciated since November 2020. And as with a lot of cryptocurrencies, this appreciation has occurred in an upward trajectory with numerous bumps along the way. These bumps could be called short-term volatility, but exchange tokens have a lot of advantages for their holders that have been noted on this blog before.
Top 10 Large-Cap Gainers Since Trump’s Election Win
Despite the price drop, many projects remain in solid profit since Trump’s election victory.
The top gainers are primarily U.S.-based projects, which could enter strategic reserves, such as $HBAR, $XRP, $XLM, and $ADA.
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The success of tokens created by exchanges demonstrates how significant centralized exchanges are becoming in the crypto landscape. They remain resilient during periods of market volatility and act as key digestion points for new users and new capital entering the ecosystem. Exchange tokens also show that institutional interest in the cryptocurrency market is growing; exchanges are now looking for new ways to diversify their revenue streams and offer more services to their users.
Exchange tokens are on the rise, and this also shows how cryptocurrency is moving toward decentralization and innovation. For exchanges, the best way to stand out is to offer a native token with real utility. That has become increasingly common, and now these tokens are being used by a lot of people for a lot of different things, including trading fee reductions and staking.
Looking Ahead: The Future of U.S.-Based Crypto Projects
The digital economy’s global stage seems set for U.S.-based crypto projects. They’re in the place of most clarity in a regulatory sense and have the kind of institutional interest that not all parts of the market enjoy. Assets like HBAR, XRP, XLM, and ADA have the kind of coverage – from either the development teams themselves or from the kind of institutions that get these things – that puts them in a more favorable light.
Furthermore, the ongoing achievements of exchange tokens such as BGB, TKX, and GT highlight the vital part that exchanges will execute in propelling the next expansion in the crypto domain. When the user numbers increase, and these users search for the perks of native tokens, it is clear that exchange-based projects will be among the winners in this space.
To conclude, the crypto market has faced many challenges, yet the outlook over time for a number of large-cap projects remains robust. Assets based in the U.S. and tokens from exchanges in the U.S., in particular, have shown very nice gains. They have the potential to continue to grow and hit even higher levels, since they’re being added to strategic reserve portfolios and attracting more and more interest from institutions. If you’re trading retail or are an institutional backer, these projects are ones to keep an eye on.
Disclosure: This is not trading or investment advice. Always do your research before buying any cryptocurrency or investing in any services.
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