Made in the USA Coins Continue to Shine and Are Worth Almost $500 Billion

But most of us are small investors, and we can't invest in every single US project. So, how do we choose?

"Made in the USA" coins continue to shine and are worth almost $500 billion. But most of us are small investors, and we can’t invest in every single US project. So, how do we choose?

Today, we look at two of the top "Made in the US" projects. Ripple (XRP) and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR). And we ask the question, which will have a better rest of 2025? Which would you pick? Let’s see which one we picked.

Recent Performance

If we are going to compare Ripple and Hedera, then we should first look at how they’ve done recently. To do that, we will look at 2 time periods. First, we will look at the last year. Then we will look at the returns for 2025 so far. And we’ll compare the performance.

Ripple’s $XRP has had a crusher of a last 12 months. It’s up an enormous 401% in that time. Of the coins in the top 300, $XRP is the #8 performer in the market in the last 12 months. Better than Sui. Better than Monero. Even better than Bitcoin, who is up 65% in the last 12 months. Virtuals Protocol is the only non-meme coin with a better performance in the last 12 months.

And we see in the chart that the climb started in mid to late November. Not coincidentally, this is in line with Trump’s clear victory in the election. Along with its correct implications that the next SEC would settle the XRP case and be more friendly to work with in general. Both are true, by the way. The increasing clarity for $XRP’s future as a result of the upcoming settlement has been a boon for the XRP Army.

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On January 1, the $XRP price was $2.32. At its current price of $2.54, this is an ROI of 8.6%. That’s still good performance in what’s been an uneven market with lots of chaotic activity like Trump’s tariff policies. So $XRP is in at 450% and 8.6% respectively. Now for Hedera.

Let’s see how Hedera (HBAR) did. We know it did not do as well in the last 12 months. But how well did it do? Hedera’s $HBAR had a very respectable 91% ROI in the last 12 months. It’s huge push happened in mid-late November as well through mid-December. $HBAR is mostly non-trending since that time, moving between 15c and the recent high at 37c. Yes, that’s a big, wide range. But it’s still non-trending. The solid support just under 15c held up, and $HBAR has been on a slow, steady rise since.

For 2025 so far, on January 1st, the $HBAR price was 29.4c. At its current price of 21c, this is a loss of just under 30%. So $HBAR’s returns are 91% and -30%, respectively. This seems like an advantage for Ripple. But is it? Let’s see.

Latest News & Future Prospects

On the XRP front, recent news is mostly around acquisitions. First, it’s a huge acquisition of Hidden Road. This gives them access to a global prime broker for institutional trades.

Second is the offer, not accepted, to buy Circle, the operator of USDC. You could say, as the XRP Army is saying, that this acquisition is to dominate the stablecoin market. Or you could say it’s because Ripple’s RLUSD is a failure. It could still become successful someday. Yet, today it has less than 50 daily users and fewer than 100 transactions a day. It’s failing. And Ripple needs a stablecoin to help implement its CBDC products to emerging market governments.

On the Hedera front, it’s doing a deep dive into RWA with a new permissioned chain so regulated assets can list with compliance from its regulators. It will work well with stablecoins or even CBDCs, too. The full launch is coming sometime next quarter.

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