LINK

boogasaurus-lefts

I only just got into LINK this cycle, the other two have been there from the start - happy to do the same tbh

ThriceHawk

Sell XRP for sure. But allocate it to LINK, BTC, and ETH.

cryptolipto

I’ve stopped thinking about as a cycle completely and now I’m just holding the assets I know will be around in 10 years BTC, ETH and LINK

BONERFLEX_

Not financial advice. BTC and ETH are my safest long-term bets/gambles. I like QNT, XRP, H-BAR, LINK and XLM as my high risk long term bets/gambles. There are plenty of other coins that can do well. Do your own research and don't invest anything you are not willing to loose. You will be down 5k tomorrow and up 10k the week after. It's a rollercoaster. Good luck at the casino.

SageLeaf1

Anyone else just loading up on LINK?

ShoeBaD

Well if you weren’t as dumb as you sound, you’d put money into multiple avenues. You’re acting as if crypto isn’t speculation… you are talking shit to some stranger because I said ETH and LINK. Grow up.

iOCharts_

or relatively safer long-term learning, look at established projects like $ADA, $MATIC, $DOT or $LINK. Still volatile, but not hype-only

West-Albatross6774

I would go (Personally) 50% Eth 25% Sol 15% LINK 5% ONDO 5% CC/Plume

romik2821

Good intro 👌 👏 Buy only Good coins ETH , SOL, ADA , LINK , XRP but only when EXTREME FEAR 😨 we kind of still here for another couple weeks 😀 MSCI , FEDs meting in January, by February 15th should have better clarity +ACT meantime can deployed 50% budget rest can be deployed until February . BTC 50% , ETH 30% , SOL 20% some XRP , SUI , ADA ( in&out PEPE) for quick buck

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Chainlink (LINK) has broken its 21-day moving average for the first time since summer, signaling potential upward momentum for altcoins in the next 2-3 months. Analyst Michael van de Poppe highlights this as a positive development, with historical data suggesting similar MA breaks often precede 20-50% rallies in altcoins. However, sustained growth depends on Bitcoin stabilizing above key levels, as altcoin strength remains fragile without a Bitcoin breakout. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

MountainGrape6816

Just dumped losers ADA, DOT, ALGO, AAVE, ATOM, MANA. Needed some long term (since 2021) writeoffs for 2025 tax purposes to offset other gains. I held these way too long, because there was a lot of "don't be a paper-hands" bullying going on. Still holding POL/MATIC, LINK, AVAX, for now. These seem to still have at least some activity. They'll go in case i need more writeoffs in 2026, or if they make any kind of a comeback. But to be honest i don't have much interest in Alts any more. Anything i do, like ZCASH, will be relatively short term and I'll be quick to take profits and cut losses. I don't need any more skeletons in the closet

uthillygooth

lol you have to be a bot “like VET, XLM, LINK, AVAX have all dropped to near pre-bull run prices.”

Ragnarruss

If you're going to buy, now isn't a bad time as things are incredibly low. Just know that it could get worse and is unlikely to get better. Too many bad actors, Trump, Binance, Teams selling too much (XRP, LINK) has destroyed crypto.

Mulvita43

Aye LINK and HBAR here as privacy coins exploded

No_Giraffe_4647

I am slowly accumulating with 4 percent max of my total investment pool and I opted out for diversified approach between most promising chains with real use case application my selection for magnificent 7 future crypto index is: BTC ETH SOL AVAX XRP HBAR LINK

Optimal-Battle-9803

BTC and ETH - 80-90% LINK/POL/SUI etc - 10% or basically amount which you wouldn't care even if it went 0 Just my personal opinion:)

neo-caridina

Got some LINK and CC this year. Will probably get some more if there's a hard drop in 2026.

RastaBooties

>like VET, XLM, LINK, AVAX have all dropped to near pre-bull run prices. That's what people holding dead projects from previous cycles thought, QTUM, NEO, IOTA, EOS, XEM, all these coins were the shit back then, but they just went lower and lower and lower....

SavingsDimensions74

This is why I hold all of the above. Like you said, it’s just money rotating for the best or safest gains. Much like how a river flows to the see. Crypto right now is near rock bottom (of course there is the possibility that it falls off a cliff but I think that unlikely) so it’s a good place to buy sensible coins. What do I mean be sensible? Well utility obviously. There will be winners and losers. The two things that strike me are disrupting banking, the fees and time lag. Hence CRV, XRP & LINK The second, is probability. When I see a TikTok or an IG, my immediate reaction is whether this is real or AI. I’m kinda better on HBAR and TRAC for this. I might be totally wrong on this. Nonetheless, we are entering a new ecosystem. There will be winners and losers. Hence why I play my bets on multiple actors. I only need one to come in. Also, I’m not leveraged and also this is not financial advice

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MountainGrape6816

Just pulled the plug on some long term losers (to offset other gains): ADA DOT ALGO ATOM MANA SHIB Other candidates on the chopping block (some may go before the new years ball drops) POL/MATIC LINK AVAX

KIG45

I should have bought LINK, but I chose DOT.

kirtash93

Chainlink a chain to LINK them all

Particular_Peach_508

BTC/ETH/ICP/LINK Maybe XRP & XLM.

cryptolipto

It took me longer than I thought it would to understand this in 2018 when I was basically all in on VET Now I’m basically all in on LINK

DrestinBlack

LINK

re-patch

Nahh not really unfortunately. LINK‘s adoption/partnerships/technology is amazing, but the token hasn’t even come close to its former ATH and I’m not sure it ever will again… so yes, technically amazing, but constantly underperforming:/ For ETH basically everyone expected it to be around 5-10k by now and it’s been dragging along for years as well now, so not sure if I’d agree on these two

SpontaneousDream

Even better when you short against the BTC ratio. Practically free money. LINK/BTC and ETH/BTC are the obvious ones. Supply BTC on Aave, borrow LINK or ETH, dump immediately for more BTC, then repeat.

platypus_worldwide

I considered and even held AVAX, SOL, ARB, LINK, but in the end, I exclusively hold HBAR

biba8163

> MUH RWA ~2 years ago ETH Bagholders were celebrating **Blackrock tokenization** of Money Market Funds for Institutions saying, "Imagine the transactions, this will a rocket for ETH." - ETH price has dropped ~15% since then - ETH fee revenue has dropped -83% since then - *There have been a total of ~10,000 transactions with a little over ~$1K in fees over a ~2 year period.* The bagholder who responded with this comment has deleted it and will probably never touch ETH again. > And it’s right on ETH. **Can you imagine the number of transactions about to go down?** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1bkm1u1/blackrock_unveils_crypto_fund_first_with_5/kvzup2u/ > Hocus Pocus, CCIP, CCID, VRF, CRE, SWIFT, Magic Oracles will serve you Truths from Golden Data Containers The ChainLink Town Criers didn't fail to shill ChainLink in response to the above comment: - LINK is down -33% since then > BNY Mellon are providing the custody. They use ChainLink CCIP on the backend. > No point in shilling chainlink to these plebs, they don’t understand how this works

Odd-Fun-1482

I bought 1 BTC @ $10,000, sold at $100,000 - so that's a 10x. I did the 'smart' thing by diversifying it into... alt coins. CRO, KCS, XYO, LINK, This was in 2021. Basically sold my BTC at its ATH just to buy alts at their ATH, then they all -80%'d. Should have held, since some alts recovered in 2024 at least half of what they lost, but I sold to free myself of the torment of checking the charts and constant notifications of my phone. I still think about it. What I could have done with that $90,000 gain. S&P, TSFA-GIC, just hold stablecoin and wait for re-entry. To make matters worse I paid taxes on that 90k gain, but just gambled the profit all away. Fuck alts. I don't care how quickly you can turn a profit compared to BTC or trad stocks. I don't care what the charts look like. It's all a gamble,

nugymmer

Just another alt coin. Please just please ask me why I’m only buying BTC from here on in. My only other stack is LINK and it’s a small one. Just limiting my exposure to risks. BTC is the only one I’ll put money into it. There are too many good reasons to stick with BTC and keep it simple and easy and stress-free.

Superb_Conclusion603

I’ve decided on the following allocation for my portfolio: 35% BTC, 25% ETH, 20% BNB, 10% SOL, and 10% LINK.

Protocol_Man123

I have sold Solana a few days ago. Sold Fet also. I now have these 6 --> BTC, ETH, XRP, LINK, SUI, and HBAR.

ZhenyaV

$LINK is not a governance token.

No_Giraffe_4647

If I had to put another chunk like 4000 in crypto it would be like : 2000 BTC 1000 ETH 500 SOL 100 AVX 100 HBAR 100 XRP 100 DOT 100 LINK

nugymmer

Which one's next, LINK?

Individual_Ad_7693

LINK, ONDO & ICP. All on stake.

DaddyDontTakeNoMess

Adoption doesn’t mean price action. Look at LINK. It’s a key infrastructure token for blockchain, but the price only reached about 1/2 of last bull run.

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biba8163

Town Criers will always tell you that this token dumps is a great investment no matter how much you try to clue them in > The Chainlink Cult and hype pushed LINK price to ~$20 in August 2020 at the tail end of the previous bear market. **(October 2023)** > https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20200816/ > Since then, they have dumped about ~200 Million tokens or 60% more tokens into the circulating supply and bagholders who bought into the hype not only missed out on bullrun gains but are down -60% since 2020. > Sergey Nazarov has 450,000,000 more tokens to dump on the market. Where do you think the price is going to go long term with zero demand and zero utility for the token besides bullshit hype? Token not needed. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/172kuqq/daily_crypto_discussion_october_8_2023_gmt0/k4041tj/ They are mesmerized by the **Hocus Pocus Protocol** and will defend this token dump to their dying breath because they fell for all the acronyms > *CCIP, CCID, VRF, CRE, SWIFT, Magic Oracles will serve you Truths from Golden Data Containers* Yet LINK price today is down -40% from 5 years ago in 2020. **Exactly half a decade of dead money investing in it.** https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20200815/

biba8163

Town Criers will always tell you that this shitcoin is a great investment. You try to warn dummies over and over and they are still clueless... > The Chainlink Cult and hype pushed LINK price to ~$20 in August 2020 at the tail end of the previous bear market. **(October 2023)** > https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20200816/ > Since then, they have dumped about ~200 Million tokens or 60% more tokens into the circulating supply and bagholders who bought into the hype not only missed out on bullrun gains but are down -60% since 2020. > Sergey Nazarov has 450,000,000 more tokens to dump on the market. Where do you think the price is going to go long term with zero demand and zero utility for the token besides bullshit hype? Token not needed. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/172kuqq/daily_crypto_discussion_october_8_2023_gmt0/k4041tj/ They are mesmerized by the **Hocus Pocus Protocol** and will defend this token dump shitcoin to their dying breath because they fell for all the shitcoin acronyms > *CCIP, CCID, VRF, CRE, SWIFT, Magic Oracles will serve you Truths from Golden Data Containers* Yet LINK price today is down -40% from 5 years ago in 2020. **Exactly half a decade of dead money investing in it.** https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20200815/

biba8163

Dummies still haven't learned to count and avoid predatory token dump projects no matter how much you try to help them. > Shitcoins have rug pull tokenomics which are hidden by partnership and technology memes **(April 2023)** > - Avalanche 76 Million to 326 Million since 2020 (330% inflation in 2 years) > - Hedera 6.6 Billion to 30 Billion (400% inflation in 2 years ) > - Algorand 1.1 Billion to 7 Billion (530% inflation in 2 years) > The irony is that people who invest in projects like this think Dogecoin's 4% yearly inflation is too high. These shitcoins last a cycle or two, see IOTA, ICON, OMG, etc, while something like Doge will continue to be around https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/12vattj/are_shitcoin_and_meme_coins_the_same_thing/jhatz9r/ > the market gives you indicators of who the sure losers are: **(August 2024)** > After being -90% since 2021 ALGO, ATOM, DOT, HBAR, etc ....are like another -50% since the beginning of 2024. The thing these chains all have in common is predatory tokenomics without any demand for the token. > Doubling down on losers and buying dying projects from previous cycles is a great way to keep losing more money https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1elzgdl/what_l1s_do_you_think_have_a_lot_of_potential/lgweq5l/ > - ALGO has 4+ BILLION more in circulating supply since when it was $2. Much harder to reach $2 with that much more supply and that many fewer investors. **(August 2024)** > - Pretty much every single poor gullible soul who bought ALGO since 2019 is at a loss > - When everyone is at a loss, people are looking at a lot of different price points to exit a shitcoin they've been burned in. History shows these shitcoins never reach anywhere near ATHs https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1el3b04/daily_crypto_discussion_august_6_2024_gmt0/lgrgdyr/ > The Chainlink Cult and hype pushed LINK price to ~$20 in August 2020 at the tail end of the previous bear market. **(October 2023)** > https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20200816/ > Since then, they have dumped about ~200 Million tokens or 60% more tokens into the circulating supply and bagholders who bought into the hype not only missed out on bullrun gains but are down -60% since 2020. > Sergey Nazarov has 450,000,000 more tokens to dump on the market. Where do you think the price is going to go long term with zero demand and zero utility for the token besides bullshit hype? Token not needed. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/172kuqq/daily_crypto_discussion_october_8_2023_gmt0/k4041tj/ Lastly, look at at XRP token dump and the price action over a 8-year period. | coin | prev. ATH mkcap(price) | current mkcap(price) | Δmkcap | Δprice | Δsupply |:-----------|------------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | XRP | $141 Billion ($3.65)| $113 Billion ($1.86) | -19.86% | -51% | 56.9%

biba8163

> These two areas could be a boom for Ethereum: Stablecoins and Real World Assets (RWA) Bagholder Bingo. The **stablecoin marketcap has gone up 200% and ETH has gone down -40%** in that time frame. | | Nov. 2021 | Oct. 2025 |:-----------|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | Stablecoins | $0.11 Trillion | $0.32 Trillion | ETH | $4,800 | $2,900 The **RWA Meme** has been around since 2018. **You will NEVER:** - trade AAPL,NVDA,MSFT,etc shares in your Ethereum address by connecting to MetaMask and going over to Uniswap - be able to go to Robinhood and withdraw AAPL,NVDA,MSFT,etc shares to you Ethereum/Solana address - trade NYSE regulated stocks outside the financial system of brokerages, DTCCs, etc and natively on Ethereum/Solana public blockchains > Blackrock already focusing in that direction. *~2 years ago ETH Bagholders were celebrating Blackrock tokenization** of Money Market Funds for Institutions saying, "Imagine the transactions, this will a rocket for ETH." **There have been a total of ~5,000 transactions with under ~$1K in fees over a ~2 year period.** > *"BlackRock unveils crypto fund first with $5 million minimum"* > And it’s right on ETH. **Can you imagine the number of transactions about to go down?** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1bkm1u1/blackrock_unveils_crypto_fund_first_with_5/kvzup2u/ https://etherscan.io/token/0x7712c34205737192402172409a8F7ccef8aA2AEc > Prices move regardless of fundamentals. We are concentrating upon the infrastructure and capabilities of the network. I operate from the belief that, eventually, price will match the value. It's the end of 2025 and **big dummies still don't realize crypto doesn't have fundamentals.** But for a good laugh, lets look at ETH in a common fundamental metric. **Price-to-Sales (P/S), a Fundamental Valuation Metric** QQQ heavily weighted towards tech companies currently has P/S ratio (marketcap/revenue) of approximately 6.16 and is considered overvalued because it's much higher than it's historical average. NVDIA for perspective has a P/S of 23 because it's priced as a hyper growth tech stock whose revenue has gone from ~$10 Billion in 2020 to $130 Billion today and continues to grow. Using that same metric, compare popular cryptos which collect fee revenue and distribute them to their staking token holders and you see that **ETH is comically overvalued by fundamental metrics.** | Network | Daily Fees | Marketcap. | P/S |:-----------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | QQQ | -- | --- | 6.16X | TRON | $6.9 Million | $26 Billion | 10.4X | LINK | $164K | $8.9 Billion | 149X | ETH | $330K | $360 Billion | 3,000X ETH is a double speculative asset that historically has a 0.96 correlation coefficient to BTC. *ETH only appreciates when BTC goes on parabolic bullruns.* Otherwise like the rest of crypto, it does nothing relying entirely on BTC for any appreciation of value and then *loses 70% to 90% of its value when BTC goes into a bear market.* - Summer 2017, ETH hits ATH of $400 after BTC hits local top of $3,000 - January 2018, ETH hits ATH of $1,400 after BTC hits cycle top of $20K - May 2021, ETH hits ATH after BTC tops out in April 2021 - Nov 2021. ETH hits ATH in December after BTC tops out in November 2021 - August 2025. ETH briefly touches past 2021 ATH after BTC breaks $120K

iOCharts_

beyond btc and eth, the projects i see most often in serious long-term portfolios are SOL, LINK, AR, OP, ATOM, AVAX, AAVE and MKR. they aren’t risk-free, but they solve real problems and already have users

Glyzzza_

SOL, MATIC, ADA, LINK, AVAX, ATOM, FIL, and Arbitrum – strong fundamentals, real use cases, and long-term potential.

Valyarian

LINK, DOT, TAO, PYTH, SOL, UNISWAP, QNT, and another utility coin you deeply understand and your set for life.

ThriceHawk

LINK

ThriceHawk

LINK. Almost every major tradfi, defi, or crypto project out there relies on or uses them. Even the US government.

ThriceHawk

Have to include LINK in that list. Almost every major tradfi, defi, or crypto project in general uses them.

DanielGomez902

Your entire response to all of this is based on your own preconceived notion of what crypto does. “Nobody in their right mind” and “nothing burger” is just your way of saying “I don’t understand what this does or why it’s happening” I read the articles and am very knowledgeable beyond what I’d ever take the time to explain in a Reddit comment. You asked for proof so I gave you some. There’s hundreds of other bullish articles and future projects about the industry I could show. I’m not gonna write an essay on every article and why it’s there. Your “research” is just repeating Reddit buzzwords like “nothing burger” Is that really the best argument you can come up with? If you actually read the articles and somehow came to the conclusion that every meaningful crypto transaction will happen on a private blockchain that no one else ever touches then I really can’t help you bro. Nearly every article lists a currently publicly tradable blockchain you can buy today. For example you asked “who’s accepting large payments in crypto” and then immediately dismissed PayPal because it’s using stablecoins that’s literally what people will accept large payments with dummy DOVU is a crypto project built on Hedera by the way. it solves one of the hardest real world problems which is verifiable ecological credits tracked on a blockchain with an immutable audit trail. Europe is literally creating a massive use case needed starting next year https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/eu-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-financial-obligations-commence-amid-proposed-scope-expansion-to-include-new-downstream-products Tokenization is the future of the world you and I probably agree that 99 percent of crypto projects are complete shit but the 1 percent that provide real government compliance like MiCA and other legal frameworks will produce actual winners that you’ll see in a few years. Yes some systems will go private but the tokenized RWA industry is projected to grow so large that there will be room for both institutions and public crypto infrastructure like ETH and LINK and Hbar (fixed fraction of a cent transaction fees with next to no energy usage) If you think everything ends up private and isolated you’re missing the scale of what’s being built

Randomized007

I'm 50% btc, 15% eth, the rest are SUI, XRP, SOL, LINK, AVAX, QNT, ONDO & HBAR

jawni

>Where does the fundamental value of BTC come from as opposed to any other digital asset? Everyone talks about decentralization, consensus, etc, but those are properties of blockchain and not the specific BTC asset. You could accomplish the exact same thing with ETH, XRP, LINK, DOGE, etc - the value proposition I feel lies in the blockchain architecture and not the specific coin being used in a blockchain fashion If bitcoin(the asset) only exists on Bitcoin(the network) then it inherits those properties. BTC mostly is digital gold because it was first successful crypto, this allowed the network to grow and strengthen. If any other crypto was the first and especially if it was PoW, it would probably be digital gold instead. >Is it simply the capped supply of 21M tokens (I think) making it deflationary? Tokenomics are a factor, that controls supply, but without demand it's moot. >Why can't I just create a new coin XYZ that is also deflationary? Like previously mentioned, this solves for the supply, but without any other beneficial properties, there will not be any demand for it. >Why won't that have the same potential to be digital gold? Because no other coin will have as mature of a network securing it combined with a supply that's only slowly releasing and hard capped, combined with a supportive community who is resistant to change to BTC. I think ETH could be considered digital gold as well, the supply isn't capped but burn mechanics mean the supply won't grow out of control and will even deflate in some conditions, but ultimately it has demand without that narrative. >What makes the prices move? There is no definitive answer because it's an everchanging mix of factors and there are *some* fundamentals. Mostly it's just signs of increased adoption spurring buying but there are also macro factors, like being a hedge to fiat/money printing so you hold more BTC than your local currency. Or you're trading stocks but you feel the stock market is temporarily overvalued so you rotate into BTC. And then legislation is a big factor that will spur or hinder adoption and subsequently move the price.

UhUhWaitForTheCream

I think LINK just lacks the cross chain liquidity which FOLKS is solving

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UhUhWaitForTheCream

I love LINK but is FOLKS a better return on investment? Similar scope of project but folks is a small market cap atm

Electrical-Penalty44

The value of all cryptos is based on speculation. Every. Single. One. If it wasn't only a few would have any value at all (meaning priced above $0) and ETH and LINK would be at the top.

biba8163

**The Age of Shitcoins is Over** > If BTC hits $100K AND Trump gets elected AND Gary Gensler gets fired AND the FED does a few rate cuts AND the stock market does well AND my Alt gets an ETF, then my Alt will surely moon! - $100K BTC, $110K BTC, $120K BTC! - Pro-Crypto Scammer President! - Gary Gensler fired! - FED cuts rates 3 times! - Stock market up 15% YTD! - ETH gets an ETF! ETH still -35% from 2021 high - XRP gets an ETF! XRP still -50% from 2018 ATH - LINK gets an ETF! LINK still -35% from 2020 high - LTC gets an ETF! LTC still -80% from 2021 ATH - HBAR gets an ETF! HBAR still -80% from 2021 ATH **The Alt Marketcap is Shrinking** The total Alt marketcap: - down -40% from 2021 - never reached 2021 levels throughout the bullrun - went up 5.4X from 2017 to 2021. Now it can't even reach levels from 4 years ago. | | Dec. 2017 | Nov. 2021 | Dec. 2025 |:-----------|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | BTC | $0.32T | $1.23T | $1.76T | Total Alt | $0.282T | $1.52T | $0.90T | Stablecoin | $0.001T | $0.11T | $0.32T | Total Crypto| $0.603T | $2.86T | $2.98T

TheQuietOutsider

LINK fuels defi. truly the god coin

biba8163

> my shitcoin has great fundamentals, why does it keep going down?!!! **Fundamental problem with crypto is that it has no fundamentals** - Cannot Generate Value for Shareholders - No Product to Sell - Token is the Product that you sell **Crypto Speculative Tokens are Marketed as High Growth Tech Companies** - Crypto is 100% speculative (Bitcoin itself is speculative) - Alts market themselves like Tech Companies which take time for adoption and growth - Unlike Tech companies Alts offer no innovative products and services that generate revenue - The only thing Alts sell is the Token itself **Price-to-Sales (P/S), a Fundamental Valuation Metric** QQQ heavily weighted towards tech companies currently has P/S ratio (marketcap/revenue) of approximately 6.16 and is considered overvalued because it's much higher than it's historical average. NVDIA for perspective has a P/S of 23 because it's priced as a hyper growth tech stock whose revenue has gone from ~$10 Billion in 2020 to $130 Billion today and continues to grow. Using that same metric, compare popular cryptos which collect fee revenue and distribute them to their staking token holders. | Network | Daily Fees | Marketcap. | P/S |:-----------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | QQQ | -- | --- | 6.16X | TRON | $6.9 Million | $26 Billion | 10.4X | LINK | $164K | $8.9 Billion | 149X | ETH | $330K | $360 Billion | 3,000X

biba8163

**Fundamental problem with crypto is that it has no fundamentals** - Cannot Generate Value for Shareholders - No Product to Sell - Token is the Product that you sell **Crypto Speculative Tokens are Marketed as High Growth Tech Companies** - Crypto is 100% speculative (Bitcoin itself is speculative) - Alts market themselves like Tech Companies which take time for adoption and growth - Unlike Tech companies Alts offer no innovative products and services that generate revenue - The only thing Alts sell is the Token itself **Price-to-Sales (P/S), a Fundamental Valuation Metric** QQQ heavily weighted towards tech companies currently has P/S ratio (marketcap/revenue) of approximately 6.16 and is considered overvalued because it's much higher than it's historical average. NVDIA for perspective has a P/S of 23 because it's priced as a hyper growth tech stock whose revenue has gone from ~$10 Billion in 2020 to $130 Billion today and continues to grow. Using that same metric, compare popular cryptos which collect fee revenue and distribute them to their staking token holders. | Network | Daily Fees | Marketcap. | P/S |:-----------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | QQQ | -- | --- | 6.16X | TRON | $6.9 Million | $26 Billion | 10.4X | LINK | $164K | $8.9 Billion | 149X | ETH | $330K | $360 Billion | 3,000X

biba8163

> as the alt space dies off the truly strong projects that will last will rise above as beacons **Fundamental problem with crypto is that it has no fundamentals** - Cannot Generate Value for Shareholders - No Product to Sell - Token is the Product that you sell **Crypto Speculative Tokens are Marketed as High Growth Tech Companies** - Crypto is 100% speculative (Bitcoin itself is speculative) - Alts market themselves like Tech Companies which take time for adoption and growth - Unlike Tech companies Alts offer no innovative products and services that generate revenue - The only thing Alts sell is the Token itself **Price-to-Sales (P/S), a Fundamental Valuation Metric** QQQ heavily weighted towards tech companies currently has P/S ratio (marketcap/revenue) of approximately 6.16 and is considered overvalued because it's much higher than it's historical average. NVDIA for perspective has a P/S of 23 because it's priced as a hyper growth tech stock whose revenue has gone from ~$10 Billion in 2020 to $130 Billion today and continues to grow. Using that same metric, compare popular cryptos which collect fee revenue and distribute them to their staking token holders. | Network | Daily Fees | Marketcap. | P/S |:-----------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | QQQ | -- | --- | 6.16X | TRON | $6.9 Million | $26 Billion | 10.4X | LINK | $164K | $8.9 Billion | 149X | ETH | $330K | $360 Billion | 3,000X

nugymmer

I don’t know so much about that. The first one you listed - the devs control quite a large percentage of the token supply. Maybe it is a God coin. Maybe not. That said I have more faith in LINK than I do in XRP or SOL.

dimitry_sx

$TON $LINK and of course BTC-ETH-SOL

biba8163

> People just aren’t buying alts The Age of Shitcoins is Over > If BTC hits $100K AND Trump gets elected AND Gary Gensler gets fired AND the FED does a few rate cuts AND the stock market does well AND my Alt gets an ETF, then my Alt will surely moon! - $100K BTC, $110K BTC, $120K BTC! - Pro-Crypto Scammer President! - Gary Gensler fired! - FED cuts rates 3 times! - Stock market up 15% YTD! - ETH gets an ETF! ETH still -35% from 2021 high - XRP gets an ETF! XRP still -50% from 2018 ATH - LINK gets an ETF! LINK still -35% from 2020 high - LTC gets an ETF! LTC still -80% from 2021 ATH - HBAR gets an ETF! HBAR still -80% from 2021 ATH

binary_quasar

Think objectively and don't get swept up in project narratives, most of them are vaporware. In practice, this usually looks like only buying Bitcoin and ETH, maybe SOL/LINK if you have a larger risk appetite. Investing requires conviction, but conviction breeds emotions and emotions will never make you a better investor. Conviction that the underlying value of a given project's progress, development, and utility should be higher in the future. Most altcoins barely have much progress made and are still being developed, so they strongly focus on the utility narrative, meaning they are trying to **sell you a solution to a problem.** If somebody is trying to sell you a solution, then you must ask yourself how impactful the problem is and if blockchain or smart contracts are the **best** way we can address it. The answer is usually no and there are often better solutions to the problems altcoins are trying to solve. Bitcoin built the entire space and almost all of it is built on Ethereum, while LINK provides oracle data to almost everything. This is real utility and no other coins come even relatively close to providing this much for the space. This is the infrastructure of the entire sector. These are the only plays I have even an ounce of conviction for. Everything else, you should catch on pumps and sell the second you smell weakness. Otherwise, you are now a long term holder of somebody's dogshit.

Squash_Confident

FART & BONK No, but seriously a healthy split of BTC and ETH, maybe some LINK.

biba8163

> If BTC hits $100K AND Trump gets elected AND Gary Gensler gets fired AND the FED does a few rate cuts AND the stock market does well AND my Alt gets an ETF, then my Alt will surely moon! - $100K BTC, $110K BTC, $120K BTC! - Pro-Crypto Scammer President! - Gary Gensler fired! - FED cuts rates 3 times! - Stock market up 15% YTD! - ETH gets an ETF! ETH still -35% from 2021 high - XRP gets an ETF! XRP still -50% from 2018 ATH - LINK gets an ETF! LINK still -35% from 2020 high - LTC gets an ETF! LTC still -80% from 2021 ATH - HBAR gets an ETF! HBAR still -80% from 2021 ATH *What is the investment thesis for Alts now? What could possibly propel Alts to new ATHs?* > Consolidating, when we boom to 110k alts will go bananas (December 2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hcz79l/daily_crypto_discussion_december_13_2024_gmt0/m1uit1k/ > btc to 110k tmr smashing the alts to outerspace. (December 2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hhfmsi/daily_crypto_discussion_december_19_2024_gmt0/m2sq87h/ > BTC dominance can still go higher. We would need a leg up to 110k more or less, consolidate there and then alts will go ballistic (December 2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hcz79l/daily_crypto_discussion_december_13_2024_gmt0/m1wde9n/

biba8163

> If BTC hits $100K, Trump gets elected, Gary Gensler gets fired, the FED does a few rate cuts, the stock market does well AND my Alt gets an ETF, my Alt will surely moon! - $100K BTC, $110K BTC, $120K BTC! - Pro-Crypto Scammer President! - Gary Gensler fired! - FED cuts rates 3 times! - Stock market up 15% YTD - ETH gets an ETF! ETH still -35% from 2021 high - XRP gets an ETF! XRP still -50% from 2018 ATH - LINK gets an ETF! LINK still -35% from 2020 high - LTC gets an ETF! LTC still -80% from 2021 ATH - HBAR gets an ETF! HBAR still -80% from 2021 ATH What is the investment thesis for Alts now? What could possibly propel Alts to new ATHs? > Consolidating, when we boom to 110k alts will go bananas (December 2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hcz79l/daily_crypto_discussion_december_13_2024_gmt0/m1uit1k/ > btc to 110k tmr smashing the alts to outerspace. (December 2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hhfmsi/daily_crypto_discussion_december_19_2024_gmt0/m2sq87h/ > BTC dominance can still go higher. We would need a leg up to 110k more or less, consolidate there and then alts will go ballistic (December 2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hcz79l/daily_crypto_discussion_december_13_2024_gmt0/m1wde9n/

JustStopppingBye

>They might even be paying in a stable like USDC. [They sure can but then it converted to LINK.](https://blog.chain.link/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion/) Nice try though.

uncapchad

Because they don't have to keep buying or holding Link. Institutional users interact with the architecture through subscription models or private environments where costs are abstracted or pre-funded. Node operators can also be configured to accept zero payment. So it's possible the LINK has already been bought or will be funded by a pool. It's not auto-magic that more LINK will be bought. They might even be paying in a stable like USDC.

uncapchad

and none of these adoptions will do anything for a token's price. Ditto for projects with MasterCard, Visa, SWIFT, WesternUnion etc etc etc. Chainlink has been adopted by various organisations, tech consortiums and protocols for a variety of RWA activities. It's no surprise DTCC chose an architecture which integrates into the Chainlink stack. LINK's price is down 58% this year, despite all of these announcements.

VicoxLegal

Hi! Good question about these classic altcoins from the previous cycle. In 2025, most are still in the top 30 by market cap and maintain active development, although they haven't recovered their 2021 all-time highs: ADA (Cardano): Charles Hoskinson continues to push upgrades (like zk and partner chains), but the hype has died down and it hasn't delivered on all the promises made back then. Solid in research, but slow in mass adoption. VET (VeChain): They just launched the Hayabusa upgrade (new staking and tokenomics), focused on a real supply chain with enterprise partnerships. It's not exploding in price, but it's advancing in practical utility. LINK (Chainlink): It remains the king of oracles, with CCIP growing and a lot of TVS in DeFi/RWA. Strong partnerships (Coinbase, etc.), probably the most "alive" on the list. LTC (Litecoin): Classic for fast/cheap payments, with ETF filings and some index inclusion. Stable, but without major recent innovations. DOT (Polkadot): Upgrades like Polkadot 2.0 and JAM are on the way for better interoperability, but low price and tough competition at layer-0. Ultimately, they have matured more as infrastructure than as "moonshots," and their future depends on real adoption rather than hype.

cryptolipto

LINK will be the only one standing long term for sure

Dubb18

Any that have a lot of institutional interest...SOL, AVAX, ONDO, LINK, etc.

cardanianofthegalaxy

Surviving cycles and actually worth holding for profit are two different things. Outside the top 10 its clear that LTC has staying power but price action sucks. Personally I think only ETH, SOL, BNB and LINK are worth holding into the next cycle.

A-Stock-A-Day

Cycle survivors (dinos that stick around like ADA/XRP): * **ETH** — L2 king, ETFs, DeFi backbone. Immortal. * **SOL** — Speed + memes + adoption, too big to fade. * **XRP** — Banks/utility + reg wins, eternal zombie. * **ADA** — Research vibe + upgrades, slow but survives bears. * **LINK** — Oracles needed forever, no competition kills it. * **BNB** — Binance empire fuel, burns + utility = longevity. Most memes/new L1s ghost, but these have real ecosystems/moats. 90% alts die anyway, stick to top 20.

WorthDazzling1861

got scared bc i thought he was gonna be naming shit like SOL, LINK, ADA, etc, but no its jus this bullshit

RamoneBolivarSanchez

“ARB and TIA have great technology” The fact you’re conflating (worthless) governance tokens with the underlying stack show how baseless any/all of these “investments” have been. Celestia is the protocol, TIA is the token that arguably exists for zero reason. Same can be said with ARB as a token. Nobody needs ARB to use Arbitrum. You should read about tokenomics before doing things like this. It’s the reason why Uniswap is a great protocol but UNI as a token is garbage. Or what Chainlink is important for oracles, but LINK itself brings virtually no utility to retail holders.

biba8163

I can say, I've warned about these shitcoins back from 2017/2018 and every one of these shitcoins are down -70% to -95%. People who are still defending these shitcoins are either noobs who recently got lured into them or are getting paid. > - VEN/VET (Vechain) is an ICO to fund a private company which they say is a non-profit organization which they say DNV GL bought an equity in. > - Sunny Lu is always smirking because he's making money off the biggest scam in crypto right now. **(2018)** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8k1xzb/daily_discussion_megathread_may_17_2018_at_1200am/dz586oa/ > Don't worry, *a new round of shitcoins will be coming with new hype. Soon people will be shilling about Cosmos, Polkadot, Hydera Hash, Fantom, Radix, etc.* Some of these other coins that are in the top 25 will be gone the way Stratis, Golem, MaidSafe, Bitshares, SingularDTV which were in the top 25 at this time in 2017. **(2019)** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/bjohvq/daily_discussion_may_2_2019_gmt0/emd4p9j/ > And *like I predicted new shitcoin scams like Cosmos, Polkadot, Hydera, Fantom, etc did pump. And expecting these scams to be around in a few years is just as foolish as those people in 2019 who were expecting Stratis, NEO, IOTA, EOS, etc to be around* **(2023)** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/17506yp/daily_crypto_discussion_october_11_2023_gmt0/k4ecz87/ > The Chainlink Cult and hype pushed LINK price to ~$20 in August 2020 at the tail end of the previous bear market. > Since then, they have dumped about ~200 Million tokens or 60% more tokens into the circulating supply and bagholders who bought into the hype not only missed out on bullrun gains but are down -60% since 2020. > Sergey Nazarov has 450,000,000 more tokens to dump on the market. *Where do you think the price is going to go long term with zero demand and zero utility for the token besides bullshit hype? Token not needed.* > You are betting that gullible crypto bros will fall for the bullshit oracle and partnership hype which will overcome the dumping of useless tokens the founder and insiders gifted to themselves. **(2023)** https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/172kuqq/daily_crypto_discussion_october_8_2023_gmt0/k4033vi/

Noracleio

The future of these "old-guard" coins like ADA, VET, LINK, LTC, and DOT is determined by whether their continued development and real-world utility can outweigh the market's current hype cycle, which often favors newer narratives. Projects like LINK and DOT are showing strong fundamentals with major infrastructure upgrades (CCIP and Polkadot 2.0/JAM Protocol) and aggressive institutional focus (LINK's RWA data streams, DOT's supply cap), positioning them to remain highly relevant in the Web3 ecosystem despite price volatility.

biba8163

> LINK is going strong...while the others are dying Hocus Pocus, bagholding Chainlink Town Crier. LINK is doing exactly what shitcoins do: - Lose value in USD - bleed like a gutted pig against BTC | Date | LINK/BTC | |------------|-------| | Dec. 2020 | ████████████████████ 0.000646 | | Dec. 2021 | █████████████ 0.000404 | | Dec. 2022 | ████████████ 0.000393 | | Dec. 2023 | ███████████ 0.000350 | | Dec. 2024 | ███████ 0.000238 | | Dec. 2025 | █████ 0.000151 |

biba8163

**Hocus Pocus!!!** Every time LINK is mentioned, **bagholding Chainlink Town Criers appear out of nowhere to defend this token dump shitcoin.** > *CCIP, CCID, VRF, CRE, SWIFT, Magic Oracles will serve you Truths from Golden Data Containers* Yet LINK price today is down -35% from 5 years ago in 2020. **Exactly half a decade of dead money investing in it.** https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20200815/

DaddyDontTakeNoMess

LINK is a critical infrastructure piece for blockchain, but don’t confuse its use with positive price action. Blockchain adoption has risen but the price of LINK hasn’t.

Longjumping-Bonus723

LINK is going strong because it's integrated into the tradfi world while the others are dying because they are old chains just like CD-ROM. Don't know about VET though.

BTCWallahFXEmpire

Chainlink is among the most fundamentally strong projects despite its token LINK's underperformance compared to other hopium cryptocurrencies. It remains the industry-standard oracle for real-world data and secure on-chain information delivery.

Chirag_S8

Considering this, the setup is actually quite conservative for a beginner. A large investment in BTC would be justifiable only if your aim was to hold for a long time and not to trade. However, you are very spread out at the highest risk place. Ten or more positions of 1% each will not have much impact and will be more difficult to monitor. A lot of beginners use the same approach of having a few assets which they understand very well. Having BTC and ETH as the core of your portfolio is a good idea. Investments in SOL and LINK can be viewed at a higher risk, but still as reasonable bets for growth. The rest can be categorized as “speculative” which means that the projects are not dead, but their volatility and uncertainty are higher. If anything, you might want to take the smallest positions to your strongest conviction assets and not to buy new coins which you do not understand at all. It is usually simpler portfolios that are easier to endure in the long run.

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platypus_worldwide

HBAR SOL AVAX ARB LINK I have faith

brewmasterlite

What’s everyone’s thoughts on LINK?

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aistreak

If I were trading frequently, I’d pick HBAR as it has lowest fees. So: 1. HBAR 2. LINK 3. XRP Each of these 3 have ETF’s and utility.

aistreak

Even for trading, I’d pick ones with utility, relative high upside potential and low downside. I’d measure the latter with market caps: Eg: XRP sits at $120B marketcap. That’s VERY high for a crypto that’s not ETH or BTC. We could see it drop down to 5-10B on bad news, losing 95% of its value. Whereas for upside, highest I see it reaching is ETH’s market cap, which sits at 375B. So 3X upside potential. It carries high downside, low reward potential. In crypto, if your coin can’t 10x or more, it’s not high reward. XRP is going live with its first bank license, but the adoption there.. well it’s just one online bank so far. It has plenty of competitors who are looking to modernize as well, albeit perhaps not with a direct competitor like XRP. LINK, on the other hand, has high upside potential and low downside potential. Downside, on terrible news it could hit 5B marketcap, a 40% reduction in value. Upside, from its 9B marketcap, should it reach ETH’s marketcap, that’s 39X. Relatively, that’s low downside, high upside. Does it have a path to get there? Unlike XRP, LINK isn’t trying to become a bank. Instead it’s focused on infrastructure and its adoption is rising fast. Relatively recently, It’s partnered with Swift and indirectly the 11,000+ banks that adopt Swift. Then there’s the DTCC, which has trillions flowing through it. Unlike XRP, LINK isn’t married to banking. It’s supporting the entire infra for crypto. So going back to original question. If I were to trade a coin, I’d prefer some stability with monster upside potential, like LINK. I would be wary of ones with market caps that look overvalued, as they could wipe out over 90% of their value on bad news. As always, DYOR NFA.

jormor4

What do you all think of the future of DOGE? I’ve been wondering if its it’s too silly to earn the respect of new big money and too big to be a real moonshot at this point. The ties to Elon were once viewed as positive but sentiment there has shifted majorly too. I hold some but will look for an exit when the time is right. It’s insane to me that it’s got a much bigger marketcap than LINK, XLM, XMR, LTC, etc.

TG_King

Also, Chainlink isn’t a blockchain. It’s a network of oracle networks, or DONs (decentralized oracle networks). The LINK token generates value through staking, on-chain transactions for certain services including CCIP, and also off-chain revenue which is put into the reserve. Chainlink has some of the best tokenomics in all of crypto and somehow the incredibly outdated “token not needed” narrative still survives.

cryptolipto

It’s crazy how little people actually know about LINK

Steezy_Steve1990

Ah, okay. For some reason I thought LINK was only being used for governance but I guess I was mistaken.

cryptolipto

Every CCIP transaction uses LINK. Every time someone does something with a Coinbase wrapped asset across chains it will use LINK

Steezy_Steve1990

Chainlink really is showing its staying power in crypto. This is going to be one of the fundamental blockchains for crypto’s future. My only problem with Chainlink is that I don’t get the purpose of the LINK token. It doesn’t seem to have much value other than speculation. I’d love to invest in Chainlink but the actual LINk token doesn’t seem like a good way.