You don’t want to sleep on these 5 under $1 altcoins. That’s because these 5 altcoins are ready to shake up the crypto world. They’re not on everyone’s radar yet. So, your pocket change can turn into life-changing gains. So, catch these altcoins before alt season kicks off in all earnest.
Once alt season starts, it’s going to be a frenzy. You want to position yourself now, not when it’s too late. So, if you’re ready for something else, this video is for you. Stay until the end to find out why these 5 altcoins have an edge.
Cardano ($ADA)
Cardano ($ADA) is always close to or in a spotlight and the first on my list of today’s altcoins. No wonder, really, if you hover among the top 10 crypto coins measured by market cap. So, one of Cardano’s most important updates went live yesterday. That’s the Midnight Glacier Airdrop. As it happened to be, I published a video on how to claim this, only 4 days ago. Check the link here.
The Glacier Drop is live. Congratulations to everyone who worked on Midnight over the last 6 years. It has been a grand marathon of intellectual and practical challenges.
Thank you all for being part of this community. I hope you enjoy the beauty and elegance of our work. https://t.co/jzpckzYnMs pic.twitter.com/A5ZwW8eHNh
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) August 5, 2025
Be aware that there’s a 60-day claim window, so make sure that you don’t miss that. So, according to my calculations, October 5th is the deadline. Make sure to check if you’re eligible and get your share of $NIGHT tokens. Are you one of the 37+ million wallets across 8 chains that qualify for this airdrop?
The Midnight Glacier Drop is live! There is a 60-day window to claim your NIGHT airdrop tokens: https://t.co/VlK23usbHY
— VIPER Staking Team (@viperstakepool) August 5, 2025
So, this is certainly big. However, that’s not all from Cardano. Remember the Chang upgrade in 2024? This included governance. Guess what, recently, the first governance vote took place. This vote was about approving 96 million $ADA or around $71 million, to a 12-month roadmap.
🚨 ICYMI: @Cardano Approves $71M Treasury Spend for Core Upgrades
ADA holders vote ✅ to allocate 96M $ADA (~$71M) toward 12-month roadmap by IO Engineering:
🔹 Ouroboros Leios — higher throughput
🔹 Hydra — faster, cheaper txs
🔹 Mithril — faster node sync
🔹 Acropolis —… pic.twitter.com/FL8uPV7sfH— CryptoPotato Official (@Crypto_Potato) August 4, 2025
This vote of confidence allows IOHK, to proceed with this roadmap. IOHK is the company behind Cardano, led by Charles Hoskinson. He’s the CEO of IOHK as well as of Cardano. Cardano is cementing its potion in the top 100 crypto coins. The current $ADA price is 71 cents with a $25.8 billion market cap.
The Cardano community just made history.
For the first time ever, core development funding has been directly approved by the community – ushering in a new era of decentralized governance.
Thank you all for your support. This is more than a vote of confidence, it’s a shared…
— Input | Output (@InputOutputHK) August 2, 2025
Hedera ($HBAR)
Hedera ($HBAR) stands out for various reasons. One is, of course, its superior technology. I already pointed out various times that Hedera is a hashgraph and not a blockchain. This offers more TPS (transactions per second) that it can handle. So, it’s faster and also offers cheaper transactions. Furthermore, it has superior scalability over standard blockchains. Check out my recent video on Hedera here.
The next thing to look at is its enterprise-grade partnerships and real-world adoption. Let’s take a look at Hedera’s Governing Council. This has some serious big names in it, like Google, IBM, Dell, or Shinhan Bank. That list is a lot longer, by the way.
Huge thank you to Google for hosting the latest Governing Council Meeting this past weekend – a fantastic venue and an amazing few days filled with collaboration and discussion between industry leaders driving the future of #web3! @googlecloud#HelloFuture pic.twitter.com/lu5Aw0kMKX
— Hedera (@hedera) May 22, 2023
In turn, this drives real-world adoption across diverse industries. Think of supply chains, banking, or digital identity. This year I also saw collaborations around AI governance. This included NVIDIA and Deloitte. As a result, Hedera achieved a boost in demand and visibility.
Next up are predictable low fees and strong energy efficiency. So, did you know that Hedera has fixed transaction costs? They are 1/100 of a cent. Businesses like this, since they don’t have to deal with volatile gas fees. They can calculate each exact transaction fee in advance. Hedera also had a great track record on energy usage. For example, it beats firms like Visa, let alone Bitcoin.
In collaboration with @The_Hashgraph, @Deloitte has introduced their Environmental & Social Impact (ESI) Platform – providing unparalleled levels of assurance in environmental impact measurement using #Hedera for corporations to drive net zero goals.
⚙️ https://t.co/3pIOAuL9Tq… pic.twitter.com/5A0uhTRJuj
— Hedera (@hedera) July 10, 2024
With the current $HBAR price at 25 cents, you have a great entry point. Its market cap is $10.4 billion, and all tokens are in circulation.
Stellar ($XLM)
Stellar ($XLM) is a top 15 coin by market cap. Still, it seems as if it’s flying under the radar. At the same time, Stellar is positioning itself for regulatory and mainstream readiness. It actively works toward regulatory compliance.
For example, it’s one of the very few crypto projects that meets ISO 20022 standards. You can see this as a universal language for all electronic financial data exchange. This puts Stellar one step ahead in integration with global payments systems. Check out Cody’s recent video on Stellar.
Stellar also has some major financial partnerships and adoption going on. This includes strategic partnerships with global financial institutions. Think of PayPal and MoneyGram. This allowed Stellar to help massive cross-border remittance flows. Most notably in Latin America and Africa. This resulted in remittance flows in Q1, 2025, exceeding $1.5 billion.
In 2021, @StellarOrg & @MoneyGram set out to democratize access to financial services globally. Two years later:
📈 Cash-in: 40+ countries
📈 Cash-out: 170+ countries
📈 30+ wallet integrationsAn exciting milestone, but it’s only the beginning.
Happy 2 years with MGI! pic.twitter.com/vwneWyNJ0E— Stellar (@StellarOrg) June 10, 2024
This shows Stellar’s focus on global remittances and financial inclusion. One of its goals is to ‘bank the unbanked’. Stellar’s infrastructure provides a vital bridge between TradFi and decentralized alternatives. This addresses the needs of underbanked populations around the world. At the same time, it positions $XLM at the forefront of a multi-trillion-dollar remittance industry.
“The UN approached us with a problem: delivering aid is tough when correspondent banking fails or people are unbanked.”
The solution: instant aid delivery via U.S. dollar-backed digital assets, powered by Stellar. @rajachak75 in @TheStreet ⬇️https://t.co/SE7ldcP5ct
— Stellar (@StellarOrg) June 18, 2025
With the current $XLM price of 39 cents, Stellar is looking good. Its market cap is $12.2 billion. However, out of 50 billion $XLM tokens, only 31 billion circulate. That’s not impressive at all, and centralization is an issue for Stellar.
Pudgy Penguins ($PENGU)
With Pudgy Penguins ($PENGU) we enter the realm of memecoins. However, this is not just a memecoin. No sir, this is a memecoin that’s available in a pluche version in stores around the world. World domination is around for the Penguins, or is it?
Well, mainstream meme branding and virality are high on its agenda. The Penguins attract billions of GIPHY and TikTok views. On TikTok, they have almost 33 million likes!
Furthermore, it has physical toy launches at major retailers. Like Walmart and Target. This is a unique mix of Web3 and real-world presence. As a result, $PENGU has become one of the most recognized and relatable meme brands in crypto. On that note, there are also partnerships with giants like Nascar and Lufthansa.
Fun fact: Thanks to our partnership with @Walmart, 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a store that sells Pudgy Penguin toys! pic.twitter.com/7kpqTO26fy
— Pudgy Penguins (@pudgypenguins) June 17, 2025
Not to forget, of course, that the Penguins are also a blue-chip NFT collection on Ethereum. Currently, it outpaced leading NFT brands like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks. Well, maybe not in price yet, but most definitely with viral content as described before.
Canary Capital filed for an SEC-recognized fund tying $PENGU tokens and NFTs together. This brought a massive price surge for the $PENGU token. The current $PENGU price is 33 cents. It has a market cap of $2 billion, and all $PENGU already circulate. So, that’s good. It also saw a 118% increase over the last 30 days.
The @CBOE files the CANARY PENGU ETF 19b-4.
With this filing, the $PENGU and Pudgy Penguins NFTs ETF becomes only the second memecoin-style ETF, after DOGE, and first filing with NFTs to enter the @SECGov’s formal review process, joining coins such as BTC, SOL, XRP, and DOGE. pic.twitter.com/xtmHi6C8u8
— Igloo (@IglooInc) June 25, 2025
Ethena Labs ($ENA)
Ethena Labs ($ENA) is one of the big winners of the Genius Act and the last of today’s altcoins. As you may know, this Act is all about stablecoins. Well, Ethena immediately launched the $USDtb stablecoin in the US. Thus becoming one of the very first projects to comply with the landmark GENIUS Act.
At the same time, it also partnered with Anchorage Digital. This is a federally regulated crypto bank. This resulted in Ethena being able to offer compliant, transparent stablecoin issuance. Sometimes you just need to be fast and smart.
Ethena is set to become the first stablecoin developer whose product has a clear path to full compliance with the U.S. GENIUS Act
Through our partnership with @Anchorage, the only federally chartered crypto bank, USDtb will move onshore to become a U.S. federally regulated… pic.twitter.com/TVmsIGVZ5Y
— Ethena Labs (@ethena_labs) July 24, 2025
This brings me to the next step in which Ethena Labs shines. That’s innovative DeFi and stablecoin technology. The Ethena Protocol offers synthetic dollars, like the $USDe. Add yield-bearing stablecoins to the equation, and you get the picture. $USDe is now the third-biggest stablecoin by market cap. Yes, you heard that right, straight after $USDT and $USDC.
Whales also like $ENA. Our X friend Ali Martinez posted that whales just bought up over 1 billion Ethena $ENA. So, Ethena also has explosive ecosystem growth and partnerships. That should not come as a big surprise. It’s integrated with DeFi leaders like Aave, Curve Finance, and Uniswap. Ethena’s TVL is $9.5 billion and rose by 50% in only one month.
Whales just bought up over 1 billion Ethena $ENA. What do they know that we don’t? pic.twitter.com/i8xqXmHC6Q
— Ali (@ali_charts) August 5, 2025
With a 58 cent $ENA price, you have a good entry. $ENA just had a big token unlock, so now is a good time to enter. It has a $3.8 billion market.
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