Best crypto under $3: XRP, TRX, SUI, TON
XRP, TRX, Sui and Toncoin attract capital as low-priced large caps regain appeal
Sub-$3 majors are drawing renewed attention as traders look for liquid names with clear narratives but a lower dollar entry point than Bitcoin or Ethereum.
XRP and TRX anchor the payments and settlement segment, combining deep order books with large, established user bases. Sui and Toncoin sit on the infrastructure side of the market, pitching high-throughput smart-contract platforms tied to new developer ecosystems. All four trade comfortably below $3 per token but rank among mid-to-large caps by market value, keeping slippage relatively low compared with smaller altcoins. Their near-term potential hinges on whether network usage and on-chain activity can justify continued capital rotation into this price bracket.
XRP
XRP remains one of the most liquid non-stablecoin assets, trading around $2.1 with multi-billion-dollar daily volumes and a top-five market cap. The token underpins Ripple’s cross-border payments stack and a broader ecosystem of remittance and liquidity products, giving it a clearer enterprise narrative than many altcoins. Recent price action has been choppy but structurally higher than previous cycles, reflecting a mix of speculative flows and longer-horizon positioning around institutional adoption. As regulatory headwinds gradually ease and more payment corridors go live, XRP continues to be treated as a high-beta way to express the “blockchain remittances” theme at a sub-$3 unit price.
TRON (TRX)
TRX trades near $0.28, comfortably inside the under-$3 bracket but with a market cap north of $26B and strong 24-hour turnover, keeping it one of the most liquid altcoins. The Tron network processes large volumes of stablecoin transfers and DeFi transactions, so demand for block space and staking tends to provide a baseline of organic activity. Price performance has been relatively resilient versus many peers lately, with volatility muted by steady on-chain cash-flow metrics. For market participants tracking “steady earn” chains rather than pure speculation, TRX is frequently viewed as a lower-priced proxy for stablecoin settlement growth.
Sui (SUI)
Sui currently changes hands around $1.6, with close to a billion dollars in daily trading volume and a multi-billion-dollar market cap, placing it among the more established new-wave L1s under $3. Built around a high-throughput architecture and the Move language, Sui targets consumer-grade applications such as DeFi, gaming and social products that require low latency and fees. Incentive programs, active developer tooling and a growing roster of ecosystem apps have kept it in the conversation as one of the more serious “next generation” smart-contract chains. As long as TVL, daily active users and transaction volumes continue to trend upward, SUI is likely to remain a core candidate for traders seeking sub-$3 infrastructure exposure.
Toncoin (TON)
Toncoin trades close to $1.6–$1.7 and sits in the mid-cap range by market value, with healthy spot volumes relative to its size. Its key differentiator is tight integration with the Telegram ecosystem, where wallet and mini-app features give TON a direct path to a huge potential user base. That distribution advantage has supported steady growth in payments, DeFi and gaming experiments built natively on TON, even during broader market drawdowns. With unit price still well below $3, Toncoin offers what many traders see as a leveraged bet on messenger-driven crypto adoption—provided that user metrics inside Telegram continue to climb and the app’s Web3 strategy maintains momentum.
Recently we wrote that XRP traded near $2.08 on Wednesday after another rejection from the $2.12 zone, a level that has blocked every attempt to shift short-term sentiment.
