Both Ethereum and XRP stand to benefit from this trend continuing. stocks we like better than Ethereum › Although it's important to avoid getting caught up in focusing on short-term changes in key cryptocurrency metrics, sometimes there's reason to believe in the emergence of larger trends that have big financial implications for your assets. And during the past 30 days and before, that's exactly what's happening for one metric that's particularly important to the future of both Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), as different as the two chains are in terms of their stated goals and technical implementations.