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XRP and Shiba Inu are two of the more popular cryptocurrencies to watch.
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Many investors believe XRP has the potential to disrupt the international payments system.
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Shiba Inu is a meme token but now has a Layer-2 blockchain solution.
All in all, the crypto market is having a good year. There have certainly been ups and downs, given some of the volatility, but if you look back to Donald Trump’s presidential election victory last November, many of the big cryptocurrencies are up significantly since then, although not all.
Trump’s new regulatory regime has ushered in a more welcoming environment for cryptocurrencies and businesses focused on the sector. This has made many investors more bullish on crypto’s future than ever.
Two of the more popular cryptocurrencies, XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) and Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB), have been on different paths, with XRP soaring since Trump’s election win and Shiba Inu struggling to gain traction. Which cryptocurrency is more likely to be a millionaire maker: XRP or Shiba Inu?
XRP has been one of the best-performing cryptos since Trump’s win — if not the best. The token has clearly benefited from a change in leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which led the agency to drop an appeal in a long-standing lawsuit against Ripple, the company behind XRP. That had clearly been an overhang on the token. And the SEC is likely to eventually approve a spot-XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) this year.
Investors looking ahead to what’s next for XRP should pay attention to its network and its ability to participate in international payment transactions. It can process up to 1,500 transactions per second at minimal cost.
It’s also part of a broadening ecosystem that includes Ripple and its more traditional financial clients, Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD, and the company’s recent acquisitions of the prime broker Hidden Road, and more recently the stablecoin platform Rail.
Ripple Chief Executive Officer Brad Garlinghouse is confident that XRP can attract traditional international payments from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which lets financial institutions all over the world send payment instructions to one another. Garlinghouse has made comments on what he believes to be a high error rate at SWIFT, and he thinks there is a prime opportunity for XRP to gobble up 14% of its payment volume during the next five years.
Shiba Inu has had an interesting run since its huge ascent that started in 2020. First launched as another meme token and basically a joke that’s a play on Dogecoin, the token has begun to move in another direction. Sure, it’s still a meme token with a powerful social following, but in 2023, the Shiba Inu team launched Shibarium.
