Bitcoin’s Become Your Grandpa’s Crypto. Here’s Three Tokens (XRP, ADA, MOT) You Can Actually Get Excited About

Bitcoin is the king. We get it.

Store of value. Censorship-resistant money. A beautiful, world-changing idea wrapped in code and scarcity.

In other words, digital gold.

But let’s be honest for a minute here. Unless your idea of excitement involves nouns like “dow jones” or “government-issued bonds”, Bitcoin’s kinda getting a little boring, isn’t it?

I mean, where’s the fun?

Once upon a time, betting on Bitcoin felt like backing a hot new hyper-growth startup.

Today, the most exciting thing is a Bitcoin price target of $100k on the horizon as a short squeeze draws near.

We’re not exactly talking about world-changing ideas here.

Meanwhile, entrepreneurs are building stuff with way more of a vision.

Stuff with real-world utility.

Stuff that feels more like a hot new hyper-growth startup, and less like an old man stacking silver in his basement.

Coins like Ripple ($XRP), Cardano ($ADA), and Masters of Trivia ($MOT), to name just three.

So, for those of you who’re still stuck in the past, HODLing your way to marginal digital gains, let’s take a look at some of these more exciting projects.

Ripple ($XRP) vs Bitcoin ($BTC)

By now, most of us have probably heard of Ripple ($XRP).

With the whole SEC thing now having dragged out for what seems like forever, it’s been almost impossible to avoid hearing about it.

But if that’s all you know about it, then you’re seriously missing out.

Unlike Bitcoin, XRP is a crypto token that’s actually used for something other than hopium.

In short, it was built from the ground up to make cross-border transactions suck less. And by suck less, I mean go faster and cost less.

Think of it like this. It’s 2 am on a Sunday morning, and you’re working for a major bank and you need to move a few megabucks between Singapore and Zurich.

In the past, your only option was to wait three days and pay a small fortune in inter-bank settlement fees.

Then, along comes $XRP. Built from the ground up to perform exactly this kind of transaction.

Liquidity bridging. Governance and control. Energy efficiency. Speed. Compliance.

It’s got everything that Bitcoin doesn’t.

And did I mention transactions execute literally hundreds of times faster and at virtually zero cost?

It’s no wonder more than 300 major financial institutions have already made the switch.

The only question is, why haven’t you?

Cardano ($ADA) vs Bitcoin ($BTC)

If you know anything about Cardano ($ADA), you might wonder why I’m including it here.

After all, isn’t Cardano the one that’s always putting out new whitepapers?

The one that’s obsessed with peer reviews?

And doesn’t every Cardano update feel like it got signed off by a panel of Nobel Prize laureates?

Yeah, okay. I’ll admit it. On those fronts, Cardano is 100x more boring than Bitcoin.

But, here’s the thing. Much like Ripple ($XRP), Cardano is building something with a much bigger vision than anything Bitcoin HODLers could ever imagine.

We’re talking about full-blown infrastructure for smart contracts and governance.

And, Cardano’s doing it all with an explicit eye towards helping emerging markets flourish.

Things like full-blown digital identity and financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked.

That’s far more than can be said about Bitcoin, whose biggest use case to date is to become the plaything of BlackRock and other ETF peddlers.

Of course, if you’re looking for something with speedy development, Cardano might not be for you.

But, if you want to feel like you’re investing in something with real purpose and real utility, Cardano might just be for you.

Masters of Trivia ($MOT) vs Bitcoin ($BTC)

You know that feeling you get when a crypto project builds something you can actually touch, use, and enjoy?

Something that just works?

Something that doesn’t describe itself as an “interoperable layer-2 modular rollup stack with zero-knowledge sharding something-something-something-something…”!?!?

Something that doesn’t require $1,000 in gas fees and a multi-sig wallet?

No?

Didn’t think so, because there ain’t many projects like that.

But Masters of Trivia ($MOT) is different.

How so?

Well, unlike 99.99% of crypto projects, the MOT Token wasn’t built as a crypto-first project.

Instead, MOT Token emerged out of the Masters of Trivia platform — a popular online trivia gaming platform available across  Android and iOS, and the web.

Basically, the initial idea was born out of the wish to give something back to its community of over 50k Monthly Active Users (MAUs).

Although not in a totally benevolent way.

You see, just like any game, Master of Trivia rewards its users with digital coins.

They get coins for playing.

They get coins for winning.

You probably get the point — the basic idea, of course, is to help drive user engagement.

But here’s the thing. Eventually, most platforms see player engagement taper off. Basically, most people get bored of grinding for meaningless, digital nothingness.

So that’s why Masters of Trivia created the MOT Token.

To make those coins meaningful.

Now, if that sounds a bit pie in the sky, take a minute to go read the executive summary of the MOT Token whitepaper, and it should hopefully make sense.

Or, if you want a tl;dr, overly-simplified version, here goes:

• $MOT will become the native digital currency on the Masters of Trivia platform.
• Users and advertisers can use $MOT to purchase premium content, merchandise, ad spots, etc.
• Because this generates demand for $MOT, the token now has value.
• By rewarding its players with $MOT Tokens, Masters of Trivia just turned meaningless digital coins into something with real-world value.

Now, that’s a start. But the $MOT Token team has a much bigger vision for its projects. (Thank God — it would be a shame to see this confined to one small corner of the internet.)

So what’s the vision?

Expansion across other gaming and education platforms.

Basically, if you take the “Masters of Trivia”-specific bit out of $MOT’s tokenomics, what you end up with is a token that can easily slot into a million different ecosystems.

But that’s not the only bit that makes $MOT so exciting.

Remember how I said this is one of the rare projects where you don’t need a PhD in Crypto Mumbo Jumbo to participate?

That’s because the only “zero knowledge” thing you need to participate in $MOT is zero knowledge about crypto.

Really.

Because $MOT is one of the only crypto projects that’s grown organically out of an existing Web 2.0 ecosystem, it’s also one of the only projects that’s compatible with that ecosystem right out the gate.

Basically, if you can create an account on Masters of Trivia and play a few trivia games, then you’ve got everything it takes to become a $MOT token holder — the entire thing’s built right in.

Or, at least, it will be…
Masters of Trivia literally just launched its public $MOT pinksale public presale this week. So, for now, that’s the only way to get your hands on it until a little later in Q2 2025 when the full launch (i.e., full platform integration) is scheduled for.

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