Altcoins under $1 can trigger a psychological reaction. They are cheap, so they have lots of growth potential. That’s what a lot of people may think. And I agree, they can have lots of growth potential, but not because they are cheap. The growth potential is not in the price, it’s in the fundamentals.
So, finding altcoins under $1 can still lead to massive profits. However, you need to know where to look and what to look for. I found four altcoins that are quietly building momentum. They can explode in value at any moment. This video is your roadmap to under-$1 altcoin success in 2025. So, keep watching until the end.
Stellar ($XLM)
Stellar ($XLM) is designed to offer fast and low-cost cross-border payments. Its native $XLM token helps with this. It’s like what Ripple does with $XRP. Stellar has been around since 2014. During that time, Stellar saw 22 different upgrades to its protocol. Stellar validators vote on these upgrades or protocols. Once they accept the upgrade, it goes live on mainnet.
Now there’s a 23rd upgrade coming, Protocol 23. This is the first Protocol that gets its own name, Whisk. That’s for easier reference. This upgrade has two major improvements.
Today’s the day. Whisk (Protocol 23) goes live with 8 upgrades that change how Stellar is built.
Vote at 10AM PST | 17:00 UTC. pic.twitter.com/2EWpP84bGh
— Stellar (@StellarOrg) September 3, 2025
- It makes development on Stellar more intuitive and efficient.
- It enhances increased transaction volumes with lower latency on the network. This means faster confirmations with fewer delays.
Furthermore, Stellar’s RWA ecosystem keeps growing. There are partnerships with, for instance, Paxos and Ondo. Two major tokenization specialists. Stellar targets $3 billion in tokenized asset value on its chain this year.
We’re bringing USDY — the world’s most popular tokenized US Treasuries asset by number of holders — to the @StellarOrg network.
With billions in payment volume flowing through Stellar, we’re excited to introduce a better form of money to a network built for real-world utility.
— Ondo Finance (@OndoFinance) April 18, 2025
Institutions also keep buying $XLM. Partnerships with IBM, MoneyGram, and Franklin Templeton also reinforce Stellar’s goal. Like, cross-border payments and also CBDC development.
Franklin Templeton (@FTI_DA) has been at the forefront of institutions harnessing the power of blockchain and tokenization — and they choose Stellar.
Great convo Robert Crossley, Garand, and
Rebecca Park at #Meridian2024. pic.twitter.com/lMBWKyb6Rp— Stellar (@StellarOrg) October 16, 2024
The current $XLM price is 38 cents. It’s up 298% over the last year. $XLM’s market cap is $12 billion. However, after 11 years, there are only 31.8 billion $XLM in circulation, out of 50 billion. That could and should be much better. Nonetheless, once $XLM breaks out, it can easily reach $1, which is above its 7-year-old ATH of 87 cents. That’s a 3x from here.
This looks like a good zone to start buying Stellar $XLM before a breakout to $1! pic.twitter.com/w1OrX07KZ8
— Ali (@ali_charts) September 3, 2025
Cronos ($CRO)
Cronos ($CRO) is the native token for crypto.com. That’s a top 10 centralized exchange, and $CRO ranks as the third token measured by market cap for CEXes. $CRO has been around since mid-2019.
The biggest recent news for Cronos was the partnership with Trump Media Group. That was a rather surprising event. The Trump Media Group announced a $6.4 billion treasury play in Cronos.
– A historic day for $CRO. Trump Media Group CRO Strategy announced a $6.42b U.S. Dollar treasury play. See the press release for more info on the proposed Business Combination and important info about $YORK, $YORKW and $YORKU. Here’s what you need to know:
– A definitive… pic.twitter.com/kgMC1GEVHn— Kris | Crypto.com (@kris) August 26, 2025
No surprise, here, that the $CRO price went soaring after this news. It went from 16 cents to 38 cents in only 2 days. The ticker will be $MCGA or Make CRO Great Again. This makes the Trump Media Group the largest holder in the world of $CRO tokens with 6,313,000,212 $CRO. This is currently worth around $1 billion. However, there’s also $5 billion in equity via a line of credit.
Why $CRO is surging hard today?@cronos_chain | $0.165 | +25.34% (24h)$CRO just went nuts with a 25% pump. Multiple catalysts hitting at once.
🟢The good:
• Trump Media’s “Blue Chip ETF” includes CRO with 5% allocation – institutional legitimacy
• Cronos POS v6 upgrade… pic.twitter.com/9s5kDarJle— Keval Gala (@kevalgala03) August 26, 2025
Trump Media Group also filed a Blue Chip ETF. This includes a 5% $CRO allocation. Canary Capital also refiled a staked CRO ETF with the SEC. However, there will be no clarity from the SEC until 8th October.
BULLISH 🚨 CANARY JURT FILED FOR A SPOT $CRO ETF pic.twitter.com/i5wcxTe8k0
— That Martini Guy ₿ (@MartiniGuyYT) May 30, 2025
After that late August surge, the $CRO price has been slowly moving back to 23 cents. However, Crypto Front on X stated that when $CRO breaks the 26 cents resistance, it can go to $1.54. Possible? Maybe. But that’s a 6x from here.
$CRO needs to break it’s single biggest resistance at $0.26
From there there’s little resistance and an expansion to $1.54 is what usually happens with charts 📊 like this one
Target 🎯: $1.54 pic.twitter.com/OpjiPLCbAy
— CRYPTO FRONT (@cryptofrontio) August 27, 2025
Sei Network ($SEI)
With Sei Network ($SEI) we have one of the financial altcoins. On Sei everything relates to finances. So, let’s dive straight in and see what has been happening on Sei Network.
In January 2024, Sei’s TVL was only $5 million. Ever since, it grew 120-fold, to $600 million. Although, currently, it slipped to $578 million. Part of this success story is two developments.
- Sei is now integrated to MetaMask. This gives a potential 100+ million users exposure to Sei.
- The Giga upgrade. This should enable 200,000 TPS (transactions per second) once it goes live.
🦊 @MetaMask is live on Sei.
100M+ MetaMask users now have seamless access to the fastest L1.
EVM Moves Faster on Sei. ($/acc) pic.twitter.com/TcjxPTQi9A
— Sei (@SeiNetwork) August 6, 2025
Since I mentioned Giga, let’s take a closer look at this. Sei’s mission is to scale the EVM. Whiteboard Crypto gives a good explanation in this video of what Giga is. So, in a nutshell, Web2 apps, like Google, require 100k complex TPS. Most of Web3 can’t deliver that. Hence, Giga, with 200k TPS. This is a 50x performance improvement. Now Web2 can integrate with Web3.
BREAKING: 200,000 TPS on Sei Giga devnet pic.twitter.com/a885AnARO5
— Sei (@SeiNetwork) August 21, 2025
In early August, Sei had over 1 million daily active addresses. Come early September, Sei had 60 million total wallets. Check these charts on Dune. That’s now almost 65 million. Sei also already onboarded over 200 projects on its mainnet. So, plenty of action is going on.
The current $SEI price is 32 cents. With an almost $2 billion market cap, there’s plenty of room for growth.
Ethena Labs ($ENA)
With Ethena Labs ($ENA) we leave the realm of altcoins and enter the world of stablecoins. Ethena issues the $USDe. This is a synthetic dollar stablecoin on Ethereum. Within a short timeframe, it took the 3rd spot measured by market. That’s directly behind Tether’s $USDT and Circle’s $USDC. Now, that is impressive.
Right now, Ethena is preparing to activate the ENA fee switch. This is a proposal which dates to November 2024. The Risk Committee approved this feature and proposal. To make this easier to understand, it allows holders to earn potential yields of over 5%. This, in turn, is driven by two factors.
The Ethena Foundation is pleased to share that the @wintermute_t proposal to enable an $ENA fee switch has been approved by the Risk Committee
The Foundation will be working with the Risk Committee to crystallize parameters for fee switch activation by 30th November, with… https://t.co/S1sjgg1arL
— Ethena Labs (@ethena_labs) November 15, 2024
- Increased $USDe stablecoin supply
- Integrations on top centralized derivatives venues.
As a result, the Ethena team expects an increased demand for its token and higher staking incentives.
Recently, Ethena Labs also brought $sUSDe (staked $USDe) to Avalanche. This offers scalable and low-cost DeFi earning opportunities. Of course, it also expands Ethena Labs’ cross-chain ecosystem.
Avalanche adds two giants to DeFi 🔺
sUSDe from @ethena_labs is live, a scalable reward-bearing stable asset.
Together with @pendle_fi it unlocks fixed and variable yield markets on Avalanche’s low fee, sub second rails. pic.twitter.com/WQ9ARWOcql
— Avalanche🔺 (@avax) September 12, 2025
The current $ENA price is 70 cents. However, last week it was 85 cents. This indicates that a break-out is in the cards. The current ATH is $1.52, from over a year ago. With a $4.8 billion market cap, $ENA can fly past that ATH once the bull run continues in earnest.
So, which of these four altcoins is your favorite? If I didn’t mention your favorite altcoin, let me know in the comments. Also, make sure to join our social media channels on X and Discord.
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