Last Friday, Donald Trump released his official memecoin\u200a\u2014\u200aOFFICIAL TRUMP aka Trump\u00a0coin.<\/p>\n
Since then, Trump coin has skyrocketed over\u00a05,000%:<\/p>\n
Trump coin has returned more in 5 days than the S&P 500 did in over three decades. One trader reportedly turned $1.1M into $23M in just 90 seconds trading Trump\u00a0coin.<\/p>\n
And get this. Trump coin is now worth more than $40 billion, the same valuation as Ford\u00a0(F).<\/p>\n
If you think those are reasons enough you should buy Trump coin too, please don\u2019t. You\u2019ll miss the big crypto opportunity of\u00a02025.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not saying memecoins like Trump coin will all crash tomorrow.<\/p>\n
But understand that the only reason why memecoins have been so popular in the last few years is because there was nothing else happening in crypto. Serious investors completely avoided this industry.<\/p>\n
Building a legitimate crypto business in America has been basically illegal. Entrepreneurs who wanted to build real crypto businesses risked jail\u00a0time.<\/p>\n
This put innovation on \u201cpause.\u201d I\u2019d chat with builders at crypto conferences and they\u2019d say things like, \u201cI\u2019d love to build this but I don\u2019t want to go to\u00a0jail.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a constant regulatory barrage. Crypto banks were shut down by the government. Founders and funds were sued. Protocols were subject to constant surveillance sweeps.<\/p>\n
With no regulatory framework to launch real projects that create value, the only incentive was to make speculative meme\u00a0coins.<\/p>\n
\u201cMememakers\u201d can easily create and launch tokens. But entrepreneurs trying to build real products step in regulatory quicksand. Want to launch a dog token? No problem. Want to build actual financial infrastructure? Here\u2019s your subpoena.<\/p>\n
In short, the entire crypto industry was like a beach ball held underwater. Crypto innovation was frozen by hostile regulations. But that\u2019s all changed\u00a0now.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump and the new pro-crypto Congress (comprised of both pro-crypto Democrats and Republicans) are a complete rejection of the anti-crypto folks who\u2019ve dominated government in recent\u00a0years.<\/p>\n
Think of it like taking the handcuffs off thousands of entrepreneurs at once. Expect the coming innovation surge to shock people who think crypto is just about speculation.<\/p>\n
Memecoins will continue to exist. After all, anyone can create one with just a few\u00a0clicks.<\/p>\n
But investors now have a much better alternative\u200a\u2014\u200areal crypto businesses solving real-world problems, aka\u00a0DePin.<\/p>\n
DePin stands for (De<\/strong>centralized P<\/strong>hysical I<\/strong>nfrastructure N<\/strong>etworks).<\/p>\n And it\u2019s all about solving real-world problems using blockchain.<\/p>\n Unlike most of crypto, I can explain how DePin projects work to my\u00a0mom.<\/p>\n Consider Hivemapper, for example, which is building the next Google\u00a0Maps.<\/p>\n I love Google Maps Street View feature. But wouldn\u2019t it be even better if it updated every day, not once per\u00a0year?<\/p>\n This is the problem Hivemapper (HONEY) is trying to solve. It\u2019s creating a live view of the world\u2019s\u00a0roads.<\/p>\n Hivemapper makes a 4K, high-definition dashcam anyone can buy and attach to their rearview mirror. The camera automatically \u201cmaps\u201d the roads as you drive around, while you collect HONEY tokens in return. Hivemapper then feeds these images into its global map. Hivemapper contributors across the globe have already mapped 414 million km worth of roads. It\u2019s growing 4X faster than Google Maps did in its early\u00a0days.<\/p>\n And Hivemapper now counts three of the world\u2019s top 10 mapping companies as clients. It has a real shot at breaking Google Maps\u2019 monopoly.<\/p>\n Crypto\u2019s superpower is enabling individuals across the world to band together and achieve things only huge corporations could do. DePin puts crypto\u2019s superpower front and\u00a0center.<\/p>\n Helium<\/a> pioneered DePin back in 2018. It built the world\u2019s largest Internet of Things network with the help of its worldwide community. Now, there are hundreds of crypto protocols tackling some of the biggest industries on the\u00a0planet.<\/p>\n Look at this Messari chart showing the rapid growth of various DePin projects in\u00a02024:<\/p>\n Source: Messari<\/em><\/p>\n Real crypto businesses solving real-world problems. This is what serious investors with deep pockets like investment banks and hedge funds are interested in. That\u2019s where their dollars will flow\u00a0to.<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t be more bullish on DePin as we enter a new era for crypto in\u00a0America.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re interested, I just wrote a special report on 3 early-stage cryptos to buy in 2025. They all belong to the DePin sector. Click here to read about\u00a0them.<\/a><\/p>\n For more insights, <\/strong>subscribe to my investing letter The\u00a0Jolt\u26a1.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I publish fresh research on stocks and crypto every Monday and\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n Click here to subscribe.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Stephen McBride, Chief Analyst at <\/em>RiskHedge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t buy Trump coin. Buy DePin cryptos instead.<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Friday, Donald Trump released his official memecoin\u200a\u2014\u200aOFFICIAL TRUMP aka Trump\u00a0coin. Since then, Trump coin has skyrocketed over\u00a05,000%: Trump coin has returned more in 5 days than the S&P 500 did in over three decades. One trader reportedly turned $1.1M into $23M in just 90 seconds trading Trump\u00a0coin. And get this. Trump coin is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}