Crypto’s Cyclical Nature To Spark New Growth In Older Tokens

Top Crypto Tokens to Watch: COTI, POL, ADA, XRP Poised for 2025

Perhaps more than any other financial market, the crypto industry is characterized by some vicious price swings. This volatility stems from the cyclical nature of crypto, which ebbs back and forth between periods of insane growth, followed by sharp corrections and periods of consolidation. 

Since Bitcoin’s conception in 2009, we’ve seen four major cycles in the crypto industry. We’re currently in what many believe will be a new, extremely vigorous bull run, with BTC reaching a new all-time high earlier this year, followed by consolidation and another massive leap forward driven by Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election. 

While many crypto investors are focused on identifying the hottest new tokens, the cyclical nature of the market means that there is lots of potential for more established tokens to make some incredible gains, so let’s look at some of the hottest prospects as we approach 2025. 

COTI

First launched back in 2017, COTI stands for “Currency of the Internet” and aims to transform payment infrastructures for businesses and individuals alike. 

The COTI Network is designed to be an enterprise-grade fintech platform and it wants to cater to businesses, developers, merchants, governments and consumers, helping them to process decentralized payments simply and swiftly. In many ways, it’s quite different from other L2 projects, capable of processing both online and offline payments, and it can support hundreds of different crypto tokens, stablecoins and even credit card payments. 

One of COTI’s recent innovations was the launch of Garbled Circuits, which represents a key advance in private transactions. The technology uses sophisticated cryptography to protect sensitive information in public transactions, obscuring details like the token involved, the amount sent and the recipients, while ensuring they can still be verified by anyone. In addition, there are plans in place to improve COTI’s infrastructure and make it more efficient and faster, so it can scale to support thousands of transactions per second, in excess of what other, zero-knowledge-based L2s can achieve. 

Given its impressive technology, its future plans and its progress so far, there’s every reason to keep an eye on COTI in 2025.  

POL

The native token of Polygon, another hot Ethereum L2, POL is used for paying gas fees, staking, governance and more besides. 

Polygon is a red hot project in the Ethereum ecosystem, akin to a kind of express train on a subway. A zkEVM-based network, it uses a variety of technologies to process Ethereum payments faster and with lower costs. 

POL is a new token launched last year that’s gradually replacing Polygon’s original native token MATIC, bringing more utility to the ecosystem. It’s a part of the Polygon 2.0 initiative, which sees Polygon evolving into a zkEVM network that can support application-specific blockchains, or secondary networks for individual dApps. One advantage of POL is that users can stake the tokens to secure these application-specific networks, earning additional rewards. 

As Polygon goes from strength to strength within an Ethereum ecosystem that continues to enjoy supremacy in the realm of smart contract blockchains, POL is looking like a solid bet for the future. 

ADA

Like COTI, Cardano also dates its inception back to 2017, and it provides a compelling alternative to Ethereum for smart contract-capable dApps. Cardano is distinguished from other networks as an open-source, research-driven blockchain where development is driven by a scientific philosophy. 

ADA is the native token of Cardano, serving as the vehicle for payments and smart contract executions, similar to the role of ETH on Ethereum. It also boasts additional functionality, such as staking, restaking, delegation and governance. 

Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinsin is highly respected in the crypto industry as one of its most knowledgeable innovators and he envisions ADA at the heart of a financial operating system that will be somewhat similar to the SWIFT network in traditional finance. Ultimately, he aims for Cardano and ADA to become a universal protocol for digital payments, available to everyone at ultra-low costs. 

Hoskinson has said it may take years for Cardano to achieve its ambitions, but the project has made good progress with a community encompassing more than four million members globally. 

XRP

Few cryptocurrencies attract more controversy than XRP, which is either loved or hated by crypto enthusiasts, with no middle ground. 

XRP is one of the oldest digital assets in existence, having launched back in 2012, just three years after Bitcoin itself. It’s the native token of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, which is a blockchain that’s designed to facilitate global settlements for financial institutions. 

What’s interesting about XRP is its disconnect from the rest of the crypto industry. If Bitcoin’s price goes up, most tokens generally follow suit, and the same happens if the price of BTC declines. But that’s not the case with XRP. 

XRP steers its own course, and while the price of Bitcoin has more than tripled this year, XRP’s price remained flat all year, until a sudden spike in the last month. The main factor here is Donald Trump. During his election campaign, Trump vowed to replace SEC Chairman Gary Gensler if he won, and having done so, Mr. Gensler promptly announced he will step down from that role. 

It’s a significant development for XRP, because Ripple has been battling an SEC lawsuit for several years now, mainly due to Gensler. With a new chairman in place, it seems likely that the SEC will drop its campaign against Ripple, and that could pave the way for XRP to start making some massive gains. 

Conclusion 

Crypto appears to be poised for another great bull run, and it’s sure to spark more interest in established tokens like COTI, POL, ADA and XRP. 

After all, these longlived tokens have already shown they are viable assets, with comprehensive utility and legions of passionate supporters backing them for the long term. While there’s no such thing as a sure bet in the world of crypto assets, it seems likely that these tokens will continue to take on growing importance in the world of digital finance.