BNB

TripTryad

End of an era, I vividly remember getting into ADA and BNB token late 2017. Became the base of what I built. Were my biggest winners. ADA was 2 cents and BNB had just crashed to like .80 cents shortly after Binance launched and put the other exchanges to shame. Good times.

markdrk

I'm going to drop an assist... but I caught [Crypto.com](http://Crypto.com) working with MEXC... using BNB coin and transferring the assets illegally. Around the timeI called them out and reported to regulators [Crypto.com](http://Crypto.com) stopped supporting BNB coin citing it was "illegal" to hold in Canada... when it wasn't. That was when Binance, I believe, was in the USA. Now they are "nomadic"... draw your own conclusions. If you are interested in the story... I have all the transaction details and the way these companies lied every step of the way after stealing my currency. [Crypto.com Scam Exposé | Trump Media Partnership | Crypto.com’s Political Ties](https://www.globalscandals.com/ECI/Crypto%20Scams/Crypto.com/OMBUDSMAN/sumission/)

unknowngloomth

BTC, BNB, SOL, TRON Hyperliquid, Zano and Venice AI,

Lufia321

Most of my investments are down 99% with crypto. I'm only sticking to BTC, BNB and ETH nowadays.

DankShibe

Only for BTC , XRP and BNB. Doge has been in a bear market since January 2025 . Alongside other alts in the top 20

Mr-kebab

Pls don't believe crypto influencers. They only sell greed. My advice is sell everything. And buy only btc and BNB. Btc will fall below 60k. Me personally Im gonna start buying when it drops below 55k. Around that time I'll also buy BnB. And pls don't believe that any crypto coin has a good narrative or is a good project. It's all just 1 big Ponzi scheme. Try to make money if it next time and don't be a bag holder. Don't love a coin. See it all as a scam

brb_im_lagging

Just send to binance and swap at 0.1% fee to USD then withdraw to bank account If binance does not directly support the token, then swap it to one that is, like YourToken to USDC (or to like ETH or BNB) usually at 0.3% then send to binance then swap to USD and withdraw You should be looking at 0.1% fee up to at most 0.4% (0.3+0.1) Anything higher is shit

cyger

Because Binance is the top price suppressor, it suppresses coins like ETH and SOL if they gain too much momentum (bullish or bearish) via wintermute. However it NEVER suppresses BNB for some reason.

dustyballsacks

Sorcery $SOR on BNB

q2subzero

There's lots of Hate for Binance... but people seem to forget the BNB coin is in the top 4 of all crypto currency. With Binance exchange being banned/denied licenses you would think their crypto currency would be in the gutter right now. so why is BNB token still so popular?

Cryptolibraryltd

For this season I am avoiding the altcoin investment except BNB. As because we saw the worst situation of etherium coin in the previous Bull season. For the guaranteed profit on this cycle I am going to investment on Bitcoin and bnb like 80% on Bitcoin and 20% on bnb of my investment.

SheKnows9797

Honestly your current approach already sounds closer to “responsible long-term allocation” than most people in crypto. The main thing I’d be careful about is changing it just for “tidying it up” rather than because your thesis on any of those assets has changed. A few thoughts: * BTC heavy + ETH + some privacy exposure (XMR/ZEC) already gives you diversification across different narratives * SOL/BNB are more ecosystem / platform bets, so swapping into them is less about simplification and more about shifting conviction * “Set and forget” only works if you’re actually comfortable holding through full cycles without reacting to short-term sentiment If anything, the bigger question is not “should I condense” but “do I still believe each of these has a reason to exist in my portfolio 5–10 years from now?” If yes, there’s not a strong need to optimize it further.

bimbobandit2016

Except exchange tokens like BNB and HYPE which can be viewed as shares in a company

No_Respond2227

"Neo invested in Binance in 2017; despite receiving zero dividends or BNB distributions to date, it remains a substantial financial asset for NF and NGD. This is a community asset - it cannot be managed as a personal dictatorship. One of my goals is to resolve and realize the value of this investment within the next two years" https://x.com/dahongfei/status/2015665669954834670 NEO project could be sitting on a goldmine, "investment in Binance in 2017"

Numerous_Ruin_4947

Except BNB and TRX.

radiationholder

HUH? What? Everyone knows BNB; what is hype? Why compare your project against BNB which is one of the most unique tokens in the cryptosphere? There are thousands of projects and you chose BNB? HUH?

Chief_Kief

BNB

ozera202

If you think my doge is not going to pump next run your a retard …. It pumped 2018 ,2021 , 2024…. It will pump some level with every bull run . I just gotta remember to take profits and not screenshots 🫠 fml . Only coins I buy are Doge , Sol , BNB .

Weird_Evidence6587

With the market currently flushing out leverage and testing absolute macro patience, the focus has drastically shifted away from pure hype. A lot of people are quietly DCA-ing into solid Layer-1s like Solana and BNB that are actually holding up structural volume, while the risk-on capital is heavily rotating into Real-World Assets (RWA) and AI utility protocols. Honestly, the best move right now isn't chasing whatever is pumping on Twitter, but grabbing the boring infrastructure plays with actual fee generation while everything else is bleeding. What sectors are you leaning toward?

Dull_Door_9376

SOL, LinK, BNB

Anonimo1sdfg

BTC 25% ( in x2 etf BITX) BNB 20% ( in x2 etf XBNB) BGB 20% HYPE 15% OKB 10% SOL 10% ( in x2 etf SOLT)

HSuke

I wouldn't put BNB and TRX together. BNB is all right and has utility. TRX has insanely high network fees. $1 transfers, $5 swaps. And that's even after energy and bandwidth discounts. Considering how centralized the network is, you'd expect low fees, but the opposite is happening. This network makes no economic sense.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

I concur. People keep downvoting BNB / TRX-related posts. Yes, those projects are centralized, but at least they kept up with BTC. Honestly, it makes me feel slightly less regarded that I also hold BNB / TRX when I look at my ETH holdings.

bimbobandit2016

BNB bouncing off the current trendline for the 12th time on a weekly timeframe. Thanks CZ for keeping us BNB holders safe

CryptoAnarchyst

Yes… I did… made $300k on Sol and $700k on BNB but I rotated into BTC from them… I dislike bnb but it’s better chain than Solana

CryptoAnarchyst

You know what… don’t play the fucking guessing game… lmao… geez man, no wonder you’re stuck on Solana . Listen bub, I retired at 42 because of crypto. I made more on trading Solana and BNB than your entire net worth. I also learned that Solana was dead as soon as SBF turned out to be a douche. So check your attitude, and maybe loan something by looking into the facts instead of talking stupid shit

TheForesightGuy

ETH, BTC, ADA (sniff) and BNB, and some of the stables

bimbobandit2016

Buying BNB is like buying a crypto condom. So safe

bimbobandit2016

It is good that Binance is facing competition from all sides. We have a marauding Hyperliquid below it in market cap, with a weak Ethereum above it in market cap. This creates the perfect incentive structure for Binance not to drop the BNB price too low, but also try pump it to overtake ETH. Also creates incentives for more staking rewards and active development of Binance. I'll trust the Chinese to win this one, they have the highest IQ in the world.

jawni

Actually they do kind of matter, and are starting to matter more and more. Look at any of the most important "fundamentals" or metrics, and the top of the list will also be the most valuable protocols. ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX, HYPE, these 5 are kind of in their own league and what do you know? They're also some of the most highest valued chains. The highly valued projects with bad fundamentals? Those are starting to drop off. I mean, it's not perfect, you have projects like pump.fun that make $1m per day and have value accrual to the token, but the token seems dead regardless.

bimbobandit2016

$BNB is the comfiest hold in all of crypto. You just know Binance will catch you when you fall

CaptainRelevant

BNB

Dull_Door_9376

Good analysis I have to agree and i really feel ethereum is becoming a stable coin. I would invest in BTC, Solana, BNB and maybe a little chainlink During next 1-4 months. Thats my play. Ai coins could have a strong rebound also in a coming bull run but these theme coins like gaming was before can easily fade or go crazy we never know

Patient_Craft2195

been around since 2020 and this feels almost identical to mid 2022. same group therapy threads, same "is this 2018 again" posts, same alt bleed.what im watching — stablecoin supply (USDT and USDC printing usually leads bottoms by a few weeks), hashrate near miner shutdown levels, and ETF flows finally stopping the bleed. none of those have flipped yet which is why im also not FOMO-ing here.solana, BNB, XRP holding up cleanest. agree most other alts are zombies until macro turns.

WhaleWilliam

XRP actually has a good floor price. But the token inflation is just too high to reach that. BNB will hit $10,000 long before xrp hits $100

TripTryad

Ehh, I once had just shy of maybe 3k BNB tokens back in late 2017 shortly after Binance launched and BNB crashed to about .80c. I sold a little over 2k of them, but if you look at where it went, I would have been better off holding it until it hit 650 or so in the next bull market. That being said, what I sold back then I put into LINK/ADA/BTC and unfortunately LTC (which was a bust basically). So I still came out waaaay ahead and it became the foundation to where I am now, so Happy Ending, lol. Still grinding though. I love this space, and finance in general is my hobby. 🥂

bimbobandit2016

Good thing about $BNB is that you sometimes get spared from the bigger drawdowns like today

BeeFamous5681

"RSI on the 15m just hit below 30 on BNB — historically that's been a strong bounce zone. Worth watching."

Prnce_Chrmin

> Coins have short lives, and they rarely beat their first ATH established during previous cycle. So like ETH, SOL or BNB?

Casartelli

I sold 4000 BNB at $2

xianthus

BTC, BNB, ETH, and SOL. Any other alt coin thats mentioned is just people hoping you to buy their bag. Source: DOT bagholder

Hopeful_Meeting_7248

Outside of the biggest coins like BTC, ETH, SOL or BNB there's absolutely no point in holding any other older coin in hope that it'll blow during next bull market. Coins have short lives, and they rarely beat their first ATH established during previous cycle.

Funk010

Bought one whole btc back in the day for 987,-. Then started "trading" and lost 0,7 of it.  My 82 BNB wich i kept since i bought around low 6, sold at 26,-. Had feeling it didt do much to long. Im an idiot.

neen209

Too many… I bought 1000 BNB at $10 & sold at $14 (I believe I lost in sats) I had close to 2 million doge one time. I bought $5000 of TRX at 2 cents & it shot up to I believe 24 cents in like 3 days. When I sold, I had 4 BTC. Threw all that BTC into alts & lost majority of it. Had 20k XRP bought at 5 cents…sold a long time ago at like 20 cents. Had like 25k invested in Tellor when it was at like $20….sold it like a month before it ran up to like $600 Honestly…there are so many more instances, but I just got sick to my stomach typing this all out, that I am going to stop now.

MisterrSir

Bought BNB at 70 cents and sold on $4. I knew it was going to be huge but I was too addicted to trading wildly and hadn't learned to just HODL.

Choice_Potato_6279

It makes sense, BNB is easy to use and Binance focuses on tokenomics, people forget that crypto are supposedly a currency, if it's backed by the biggest exchange and they do burns to rise it on price then it will beat Ethereum that's mostly for technical nerds, being nerdy won't win you popularity.

Aerocryptic

You really need to zoom out for more than a year when you talk about valuations. If you did so, you would have seen that current valuation is just in the middle of the range it's been in since 2021. And all your hopes of a bullish breakout all rely on the performance of a company that has more head winds than tail winds in the long term. Yeah I don't like BNB and I don't understand how any crypto head can root for these crooks.

cyger

This is why the passage of the clarity act is so important. Bianance has been suppressing the value of any crypto save for BNB.

bimbobandit2016

BNB is the only alt that matters. Binance will kill the rest so BNB can thrive

bimbobandit2016

To be honest the ETH valuation is not the best measuring stick in this market. The Bitcoin valuation is and that just broke out into bullish territory for BNB

Choice_Potato_6279

Keep downvoting plebbitors, you've bet on the wrong horse, like it or not BNB will keep outperforming.

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The yearly chart of BNB/ETH is hilarious. https://imgur.com/a/zsHb3Me It's so obvious that BNB will eventually flip ETH

bimbobandit2016

I think $BNB has bottomed. It seems to respect the 200 week EMA the most. All aboard!

Dull_Door_9376

1. Solana 2. Ethereum 3. BNB 4. Chainlink Strengt. Look at coins holding above prior bear market low.

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Out of BTC, any crypto may never reach ATH again. ETH is the most likely IMHO, but it may go to zero (it's possible), and so it may any other crypto, with a greater likelihood. TBH, as an investment, a Blockchain-related ETF looks better than any shitcoin, and it is a matter of opinion if Solana or Polygon are shitcoins. Paradoxically, I see more potential resilience in CEX coins (BNB, CRO,…) than in most shitcoins, just like I see more upside in Coinbase than in Solana, Polygon, Dogecoin,… The tech will stay. Incumbent companies will probably stay. Specific implementations (blockchains) and coins,… time will tell.

TechTuna1200

Tron and BNB also reach ATH. BNB is up 1200x from 2017 and did on par with bitcoin in this bull run. Tron keep making new higher after each cycle as well.

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Aerocryptic

Tech wise there's 0 improvement. The only upside BNB has over ETH is the manipulation / crime ingredient

bimbobandit2016

All in on BNB at $600. Looks like a classic case of the Chinese copying Western technology(ETH) and improving over time till they are eventually at par. The BNB/ETH chart is telling of this and BNB will surely catch up to ETH's prices range of $2-4k by next cycle

bimbobandit2016

Just buy BNB. If you can't beat them, join them

LargeSnorlax

This isn't the stock market, there are no blue chips here, ETH is no different than TRX and that's no different than BNB which is no different than XRP. You're gambling over hype, not investing > In fact pretty much every major tech stock has blown btc out of the water in the past 5 years. Recency bias is silly, of course tech (ai) is overperforming in the ai boom > when the narrative of btc was digital gold. Bitcoin is a payment network, don't listen to other people telling you narratives No one should have cryptocurrency as their entire asset portfolio, it's a high risk investment with wild swings, and overperforms/underperforms depending on how it swings and trades. If you want safe go buy ETFs, no barrier to entry Either way, picking and choosing random dates to cherry pick points is pointless, you can make a million narratives, Yoyo here is going to be back here posting in a year (because he's a troll) with some other random nonsense and I'll make fun of him then too

Dull_Door_9376

You need to follow the money ofc ... Blue Chips; Solana, BNB, Ethereum, Chainlink. Etf capable Buy the bottom. Sell within reason. 3-4 X Narrative driven coins like a.i chips is still possible. Crypto is not dead ..

shadyghxst

How did you get this USDT and how did you even get into crypto? Anyway you need a little BNB to be able to send the Usdt to any exchange and sell it for cash. You don’t have to swap to BNB. But since you’re clueless about any of this I suspect you’re being scammed or about to be scammed.

awhitesong

BNB always seems to go up

rarely92

Wheres ETH, BNB, SOL?

alami9

“BNB has a quantum-safe chain coming”? They published a paper, not a chain. Their own May report calls it future research, “not a response to any immediate threat.” Nothing is live. The test cut throughput \~40% and blew transaction size from 110 bytes to \~2,500 - and that’s using ML-DSA-44, the weakest Dilithium tier, picked to limit the damage. They still lost 40%. P2P and KZG aren’t even in scope yet. Every BNB key today is still ECDSA and exposed. That’s not a quantum-safe chain, it’s a benchmark proving how painful the retrofit is.

FTXACCOUNTANT

[BNB Chain](https://beincrypto.com/bnb-chain-quantum-test-slows-network/) was already proven “quantum” safe

josef3110

While I do agree with the first sentence, I actually disagree with the second. The problem with degen money is, that it is lost after being spent. It may be that people fall for the next scam or meme coin again and again - but at some point in time they have lost everything they have, and stop spending. Other people are smarter and learn after one or more big losses, but they either stop with crypto activity at all, or go for the more serious legit project out there. Actually, one does not have to spend so much time to read and investigate for legit projects. They are pretty easy to find: 1) Have a proper decentralization. i.e. not XRP 2) Have a decent operational track record, i.e. no outages of the chain (not SOL) 3) are running independent from a CEX, i.e., not BNB. 4) does not have a shady creation background, i.e. not TRX.

uncapchad

looks like BNB, AXS, Aster and ALGO. I cry buckets at AXS. I had 10000 AXS which got swallowed in the FTX debacle. Managed to rescue the rest but the AXS wasn't even worth compensating at the time. Now look! Life is cruel.

Ezlo37

BNB pump out of nowhere

WhaleWilliam

You can make money with VC backed tokens. But only once all the pending unlocks are complete. For example BNB is almost fully unlocked now and the circulating supply is deflationary at -5% a year

cyger

They need to, so they can suppress the price via wintermute. Binance has done this repeatably with ETH and SOL, (NEVER BNB)

theultimateusername

got really into leverage at the end of the last bullrun and was impatient, put around 2BTC, 15 ETH and around 100 BNB as collatoral for $100k trades at 10x. for some dumbass reason i shorted near the bottom (around 16k) expecting it to dip a couple of thousand dollars. of course it hit mid-15's and shot up from there and burned what would be around a quarter of a million dollars worth today. needless to say i dont leverage trade anymore 😃

ronyoutoo

Not holding onto BNB I bought at $2

bimbobandit2016

Can't trust any alt outside of BNB right now. Might warm up to Hyperliquid as well if it can sustain its valuation

Chaoslava

Exactly. ETH went 5 bucks ahead of ATH and the only coin that did something interesting was BNB. Everything else just floundered. Even BTC only doubled in price from its previous ATH, last cycle it was more than 3x its old ATH.

Togtelekker

There are many non-profitable altcoin projects, in fact probably 99% are not profitable, these will fail. Most of the initail projects never got into profit mode and thus they had a weaker pump in the next altcoin season and then they die, they have had many years to get into profit and failed, so one can expect failure of all such project. Currently several tokens are above their 200 MA - Near, Fet, Tron, Ton, GT, MX and a few others. Exchange tokens have been profitable, the exchanges make billions. Ethereum which has such a large marketcap is a complete failure with too high fees and people rather using Sol, Tron, Polygon etc. Now all the layer 2 s might work trhough too, but not profitiability of most exchanges. So don't expect any token to just hit new ATHs. But there will be switch to altcoin season, eventually Sol, Tron, BNB, Ton etc marketcaps will get (at least combined) more than Ethereum and will slip the altcoin space into dominance and then even dead projects will pump for a while. The fact that some major alts are pumping now is already making Btc.D struggle now. Also at a certain point the tokens become too cheap for projects that actually make a profit, that's when market forces come back in and the chart violently reverses. So no, there will definitely be another altcoinseason, but your specific tokens might never see a new ATH.

Unable_Agent9595

zcash BCH and BNB have been done of the very best plays it looks like. I had them all and sold due to needing the money. I never planned on selling, but the family member got sick. I had to stop working still out of work.

BlazedAndConfused

Sold BNB on a stop loss at .25cents

Bogdanoff_dump_it

Selling BNB at $40 thinking I’m a genius lol

WhaleWilliam

That's why BNB is up this month when Bitcoin is down. Also bnb currently has a -5% yearly inflation rate. Lower than Bitcoin, Eth, and xrp

EnumaElishGenius

So this news will lead to a new bull run for crypto? I am still deep in red with BNB and Aster. Hope Binance is in the news again so it will all pump up again. I bought some BNB at 1000$.

GlorionToken

BSC is still underrated for new projects. Low fees and fast transactions make it ideal for gaming and creator economy tokens. Interesting times ahead for the BNB ecosystem!

sshegem

Best believe they arent done YET - an altcoin purge is coming. Majority will literally die, only a few will survive. BNB ETH TAO KAS are a few that will survive and thrive

Dubb18

I'll give some lesson-learned examples. I once bought and sold BNB between $30-$40 to go all in on another coin. That coin is now down 99%, and if I had kept some BNB, I'd be sitting on a nice profit right now. I once bought several ETH at sub $1K and went all in on another coin. That coin is now down 99%, and if I had kept some ETH, I'd be sitting on decent profit there too. I now diversify my portfolio. I have bought some high risk tokens that are currently down, but I've also kept stuff like AVAX and SOL in my portfolio which have some solid fundamentals and some good upside (IMO) over the coming years. Also, I don't have all my savings in crypto. Also have it in an IRA, 401K, and other stuff.

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GreenStretch

If by top three you mean ETH, BNB, and SOL, then they're the platforms for the pump and dump.

AkoSiDagS002

Metamask was my first wallet too and for some reason it got hacked! Never showed my seed phrase to anyone nor SS it! Transferred some Matic from binance, it cleared so then i transferred all my BNB and never saw it. Looked at the transactions and it was auto sent some to another wallet which was then transferred to another! Then my Matic disappeared! Never again! Now i am using hardware wallet and onchain\_wallet for my hot! faster and better UI!

Educational_Gap_8445

I keep seeing complaints about BitMart withdrawals taking forever and honestly I don’t get it. been using the platform for 4 months now, withdrawn BTC and BNB multiple times, and the longest wait I’ve had was maybe 15 minutes tops. maybe some folks aren’t fully verified or something? because my experience has been way less dramatic.

King_Esot3ric

I dont use Binance, but it has a chain with a DEX. (BNB)

Melowicz

Bitcoin and Etherum! Thinking also about BNB, SOL and XRP, but i don't trust these coins enough...

kiradotee

If you "have been hodling BTC since 2013" how come it's been "not enough to change my life"? I stupidly sold BNB after making 16x on it after 3-6 months. I would be a millionaire if I held it for longer. If I held BTC since 2013 I would have a palace now, with a private runway, helipad and a private spaceship. 

FTXACCOUNTANT

BNB is really embracing AI

Crypto_future_V

BNB Chain cooking with AI payments integration. Real utility incoming.

Dull_Analyst269

That‘s the BNB coin?

Seriousoldman

I believe crypto (that is BTC, ETH, BNB and little else) is in the beginning of a good upside move. Everything aligns. The long term charts, the growing adoption by traditional finance, the regulatory evolution, etc.. But I expect the price recovery to be slow at first (meaning, still quite slow during the next few months).

IndustrialPuppetTwo

In fact it's really just the opposite. Unless you want to learn the hard way like most of us and loose thousands of dollars only invest in Bitcoin. IMO I'd wait because it's most likely going to crash. Come September start buying in if it's below $70k. It might end up at $50k, if it does buy more, but it will cycle again so plan on holding for years to come. If you are in your 20's and have money to throw away then DCA in Bitcoin but don't mess around with shitcoins. If you have to mess around with something else then buy ETH when it tanks and maybe even BNB. Just stick to BTC ;)

cyger

Yes, because Binance manipulates the price as much as possible. Always sending Eth, Solana and rising alts to winter-mute to suppress bull-runs (never BNB). Talk about a centralized chain.

cyger

Yes, because Binance manipulates the price as much as possible. Always sending Eth, Solana and rising alts to winter-mute to suppress bull-runs (never BNB)