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Special_Ordinary1951

Link SOL xrp ondo sei

MyEXTLiquidity

Bitcoin but may buy some SOL come summer time. I’m sure that will rebound from whatever the low gets to 

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Post is by: Nakamoto_Wang and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1r16kya/what_coins_are_you_dcaing_into_for_the_next_cycle/ I’m trying to think more in terms of long-term positioning rather than short-term trades. Every cycle, there’s always a new narrative, new hype sectors, and a different set of coins people believe will outperform. But when you zoom out, a lot of the people who actually make it through multiple cycles seem to rely on simple strategies like consistently DCAing into projects they have real conviction in. So I’m curious how others here are approaching the next cycle. From now until the next bull run, which coins are you actually DCAing into? Not short-term flips or meme coins you hope will pump next week, but projects you genuinely believe will still be relevant, liquid, and actively used in the next cycle. Are you sticking mostly with BTC and ETH because of their track record and institutional adoption? Or are you allocating more into other majors like SOL, LINK, or newer ecosystems that you think have better upside? Also interested in how people are thinking about narratives. Each cycle seems to revolve around a dominant theme—DeFi, NFTs, L2s, AI, DePIN, RWA, and so on. Are you building your DCA strategy around specific narratives you believe will lead the next bull market, or are you focusing more on fundamentals regardless of the current hype? For context, I’m currently DCAing into BTC, BNB, and SOL as my core positions. On top of that, I keep a separate watchlist of projects I’m still observing before committing more capital. My current watchlist includes: HYPE / ASTER MONAD / MEGAETH CANTO Palsama / Stable-related plays Would be great to hear: Which coins you’re DCAing into Rough allocation or strategy (if you’re comfortable sharing) Your expected time horizon (next bull run, next halving) Any projects you’re watching but not yet buying Curious to see where the community’s conviction really sits going into the next cycle. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Django_McFly

> Should I buy Pepe or XRP? Or, is there a better option than these two? Would anyone recommend SUI, SOL, or ADA? this can't be real...

harvested

Cause it was all planned. Sacks and the other All In guys had huge Solana holdings at rock bottom VC cost basis but without the liquidity to sell. That is why Trump launched the memes on SOL, it gave them the perfect exit. A couple weeks later Sacks announced he liquidated his positions to "avoid a conflict of interest". Smart really.

Legal-Net-4909

The main thing I’d think about is risk concentration. SOL at 25% plus two newer infrastructure bets means over half your portfolio is tied to higher beta narratives. That’s fine if you’re comfortable with volatility, but it’s usually the part that hurts the most in long drawdowns.

RadiantWarden

At a glance this looks diversified, but in practice it’s a very concentrated bet on one thing: continued risk-on crypto conditions. BTC, ETH, SOL, RNDR, and TIA are all highly correlated in drawdowns. In a real bear market, this isn’t five positions, it’s essentially one trade with different labels. BTC and ETH as a combined 60 percent is reasonable for a long-term horizon, but even those aren’t risk-free. Bitcoin still carries headline and trust risk in a way traditional assets don’t. Markets don’t wait for nuance if new information or investigations resurface, they react first. Ethereum has its own long-standing issues people tend to gloss over: governance concentration, validator centralization, repeated monetary policy changes, and regulatory uncertainty. None of that means either asset is doomed, but it does mean blind set-and-forget thinking is risky. The bigger red flag is SOL at 25 percent. That’s not a conservative allocation, that’s a high-beta conviction bet. If SOL underperforms or runs into another structural issue, a quarter of the portfolio takes the hit immediately. Render and Celestia are fine projects, but they’re narrative-driven. AI and modular chains do very well when liquidity is abundant and sentiment is strong, and they bleed hard when it isn’t. Those work better as satellite positions than core holdings. For a true long-term portfolio, structure matters more than the specific coin list. A healthier approach is to think in layers: A heavy BTC and ETH core One high-conviction L1 or infrastructure play capped around 10 to 15 percent Smaller narrative bets at 3 to 5 percent each And ideally some dry powder so you’re not forced to buy tops or sell into drawdowns Nothing wrong with liking these assets. The question isn’t whether they’re “good projects,” it’s what role each one plays when the cycle turns and things aren’t green anymore. If you can’t explain how the portfolio behaves in a 60 to 70 percent drawdown, it’s probably taking more risk than it looks.

GPThought

60% BTC/ETH is solid for a 5-year horizon - those are the only two with real Lindy effect working in their favor. The 25% SOL is aggressive but defensible if you believe in the high-throughput L1 thesis. My only caution on Render and Celestia: 7.5% each means you need them to 10x+ just to meaningfully impact returns. Consider whether that slot is worth the cognitive overhead of tracking them.

Mother-Ask-3453

Hi, you are you doing? My advice for you is to all in at solana. Trust me, in less than 1 year solana is gonna be worth 3 times the price that it is currently (sitting at 84$ today). It’s a life changing opportunity if you have the money to invest. I put 20k into SOL today, I believe it’s one of the best investment opportunities right now.

Hot-Efficiency7190

Forget Render and Celestia, wont do numbers beating ETH and SOL. Even SOL is questionable. Include Hyperliquid HYPE which should grow to dominate trading in crypto, and significant in traditional shares and commodities.

harvested

Good advice for Dec 2024, about when Sacks sold it all. I'd love to see Raoul Pal's trades this year. Was he really holding SUI/SOL bags the whole cycle while high on his own supply? Or was he dumping throughout.

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BlackRibbon69

Solana is way better than SUI, many people are coming to this chain every day it has significant marketshare and actual use cases. So yea if I were you I'd swap my SUI to SOL

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PuzzleheadedBell4057

20% total Crypto for me. 5% ea BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP. It's gonna be one of these that's gonna become the most adopted. It's more than likely gonna be BTC. But who knows. Yahoo used to be the #1 search engine. Excite used to be the #1 social media platform. Books-a-Million was bigger than Amazon. I wanna stake in on more than just one Crypto. Better chance of being in the winner that way.

cl3ft

SOL is the network de jure for pump and dumps, whether it's NFTs, MEMEs or whatever garbage they promote next cycle. It's price is driven by the regular Bitcoin cycle. You should have sold last year, buy when it's way down sometime 26-27 and sell late 2029.

Prahasaurus

>Thanks in advance, from a teacher looking to help out my retirement. I hope you don't teach your students to rush into long-term investments based on Reddit comments. If you are seriously considering Pepe, ADA and XRP, it's clear you have no clue about crypto, and are just gambling. Stop looking for advice about crypto here on Reddit. It's like asking Reddit for legal or marriage advice. Start using crypto and see what is actually happening. You'll soon learn there are really only 3 ecosystems with actual activity: BTC, ETH, and SOL. BTC has limited activity but is the most well known. It has failed to provide much utility and now is rebranding as "digital gold." ETH has by far the most utility, over 60% of all stablecoins, the vast majority of tokenized real world assets, the most advanced DeFi, and will likely form the foundation of future asset tokenization. But few know this because they watch Tik Tok and don't actually use blockchains. SOL is very popular with memes, is not as decentralized as Ethereum but has captured the low end market. It's token is highly inflationary but could improve over time. My advice: 40% BTC, 40% ETH, 20% SOL. But you should take 2-3 months and research yourself before investing anything.

jd999g

Itd too much work to look everyday at stuff like xrp, ada, pepe, fartcoon,doge. You lose almost every time, and when you won, its not as good as BTC. But dont forget SOL its looking like a great buying opportunity to hodl

GreenStretch

Just finished my third cycle. Really nothing other than bitcoin is worth it. Two of the biggest coins, ETH and SOL didn't get very far past their 2021 highs this cycle. ADA didn't come close to matching its $3 peak last cycle. New coins for the next cycle might make money, as SUI did this cycle. After we're deeper into the bear, buying older coins at really historically depressed prices and selling them in the next cycle might be profitable, but the chance of any of them being long term holds like BTC is not great. Coingecko top 100 coins since their all time high. [https://www.coingecko.com/en/highlights/all-time-high-crypto](https://www.coingecko.com/en/highlights/all-time-high-crypto) If you haven't looked at past 10 ten lists to see lots of forgotten coins check this out. [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/)

Alexbobica

You are right. Sorry, around 20% into altcoins, low-caps. Generally speaking, those are approximate allocations. Mostly have my funds in BTC. I had 50% in BTC and 50% in ETH, but then I decided to improve BTC positions and have something in ETH still, but added SOL, 5% each.

erjo5055

I agree regarding the blue chip alts, though I think the ATH issue is more about 2021 being free money fueled mania and 2025 occurring under tighter monetary conditions. I think ETH/SOL will likely have meaningful new ATHs in 2028, though I still think BTC is the best risk adjusted return.

Scuttlefuzz

Those are the blue chips I am talking about. If you bought SOL/ETH at the peak last cycle, you barely made a profit on paper, more than likely they held assuming it would higher and are now at a loss or sold at a loss. Same goes for XRP except this applies to 2018 top blasters. New alts that can run on hype can probably see some short-lived gains but alts in general are not in a good spot when BTC is now the only one that can truly break new ground cycle to cycle. I think the "speculation" phase for long term alts is done, it's going to take real use cases and adoption to have sustained upside. Those charts are not going to paint a pretty picture with the way things are going. Of course you can always be a cycle trader, buy the pico bottom and get out whenever, but viewing these as HODL because it's never going to zero might be a big mistake.

erjo5055

For 98% of coins I agree. Most are useless shitcoins, but there are a few exceptions with some form of future. I believe ETH, SOL and maybe XRP will likely be around in some form for quite awhile. BTC has already won its place though, the others are still battling.

Chambana_Raptor

HOW are these peoole so fucking dumb. I DCA'd during the bear down to a cost basis of <$20K for BTC, <$1500 for ETH, like TWENTY FIVE for SOL. Started my sell ladders after BTC crossed last cycle's ATH. Timed the top almost perfectly this time with over 50% of my BTC holdings sold ~$120K. It was hovering there for MONTHS. It was SO easy. HOW did these morons not sell?? Not even a LITTLE profit taking?? I went almost 10X on SOL. Kept with tradition and rode the DOGE waves for what...5X all in? Only thing I didn't quite get out of was ETH but I still made enough to triple the buys I made during the last winter, when the next one comes. Now my profits have been rotated into foreign index funds that are up almost 30% in 6 months (always bet against Trump!). In a year, I'm going to start stacking back up. And most of this sub will still be idiots. Whatever, I guess. Thanks for being our exit liquidity, gang 🤑

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Post is by: tyrex93 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1r09sz2/hard_truth_in_a_liquidation_cascade_nobody_cares/ Seeing way too many posts rn trying to rationalize the drop. ""Is it Warsh?"" ""Is it the ETFs?"" ""Tech stocks?"" Tbh it doesn't matter. When BTC wicks down to test $60k and SOL nukes 16% in a day, you aren't trading fundamentals anymore. You're trading a liquidation engine. The market is hunting leverage and the books are thin. Learned this the hard way last cycle. I had the right ""thesis"" (bearish), but when I tried to hedge during a flash crash, the network was congested, main exchange UI lagged, and by the time my order filled, slippage ate the whole profit. I was right but still got rekt because I couldn't move. Since then, my SOP for days like today is different. I don't look for news, I look for access. 1. Stop trying to catch the knife on-chain during peak congestion. If you tried swapping SOL yesterday at the lows, you probably failed 3 times or paid a massive prio fee. When the chain is melting, on-chain is a gamble. 2. Redundancy is the only ""safe"" asset. I never keep my whole stack on one venue anymore. Exchanges go down or lag when it gets volatile (saw that ""dirty tape"" yesterday). I keep a secondary account funded just for these moments. I use BYDFi as a backup (not a rec, just where I keep a spare clip) specifically so I can hedge immediately without waiting for a 45-min confirmation when the mempool is clogged. 3. Check Funding, Not Just Price. Before you revenge trade a long because ""it looks cheap,"" look at funding. It flipped deeply negative yesterday. That means the market is overcrowded with shorts paying longs. Usually a signal the flush is mechanical, not fundamental. If you survived the last 24h without panic selling the bottom, you won. Don't try to be a hero and make it back in one candle. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

brandonholm

Oh but I do. I’ve been studying the market since 2013. I even used to mine ETH in the early days, and I have used it extensively, and can confidently say that it has no real use case. SOL is even worse.

No-Wrap3568

I keep all my crypto self-custodial by using the Cypherock cold wallet as my main vault as it lets me store multiple wallets (BTC, ETH, XMR, SOL, DOT, USDT, etc.) with separate seed phrases, but no need to write anything down thanks to Shamir’s Secret Sharing (keys split into 5 parts, only 2 needed to recover). For instant access, I connect it via WalletConnect to swap/send from my phone without exposing keys. For smaller/meme coins, I use a hot wallet like Rabby on mobile, keeping them separate from my main stack. This setup gives me both secure long-term storage and daily usability without the stress of managing multiple seed phrases or relying on centralized exchanges. Hope it helps!

BlackRibbon69

You don't understand the market, study ETH and SOL use cases please. Even if investing in altcoins is a casino, ETH and SOL are casino owners so you are buying their stocks, not the spins in slot machines

Glyzzza_

I'll go for SOL, ETH and BTC

030burneR

SOL to juicy Right now

defi_farmoor

Crypto doesn't care about promises from politicians. BTC dropping alongside equities tells you everything: macro still drives price short-term. Tariffs, rate uncertainty, dollar strength. None of that changed because someone signed an executive order. The interesting signal is actually in the ETF flows. XRP and SOL pulled inflows last week while BTC bled $689M. That's not retail panic. That's institutional rotation into higher-beta assets. Long-term the regulatory clarity helps, but expecting a president to pump your bags is peak cope.

DeaderthanZed

Because other than eth all those other projects are dinosaurs. They failed to gain users and lost all their mindshare outside Reddit (which, if you still use Reddit for crypto you’re also a dinosaur.) The new coins that were hyped like sei, SUI, Ondo, etc also had no users (other than SOL), but they did have fresh capital and mindshare.

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yunghogungho

SOL went up 10x and tons of memecoins went 100x+. There was plenty of euphoria

-Real-

i stabled when SOL hit 120 git gud

Outrageous_Fee8230

This is not financial advice. 1. BTC (stop here I say but for fun…) 2. XMR (truest privacy coin, kraken or an exchange, and arguably number one except it is designed to be more like money and less like gold) 3. ETH (main crypto for use foundation but some may replace with SOL) 4. LINK (unique function as oracle) 5. QUBIC (unique concept, fastest at processing transactions, but hard to buy without using an exchange like Exolix) 6. OpenClaw Coin (meme and not associated with the local AI project except the name, fun to follow) There are others such as SUI which may replace one of the above but those are just my pics. This is not financial advise.

Upstairs-Friendship2

SOL

BigSean_125

$HYPE $XRP later $SOL

This-Adhesiveness-52

Only buying ETH and LTC, maby some SOL but XRP is just paid influencers that promote the hell out off that coin. It is almost as worthless as a memecoin. Banks gonna switch to another xrplikecoin that's cheaper when xrp gets to expensive. It's all hype. That it's even in the top 5 is crazy. That promotion team really paid off. BTC is to expensive.

Expensive_Wall_7889

Well I trade meme coins so rn SOL is down it’s a win win for me cuz meme coms uses SOL That’s why I’m buying Sol so even if it ain’t pumping I still can use it for meme trading

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Post is by: AdAncient6591 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1qzgpxs/the_global_pulse_and_the_sovereign_response/ The Global Pulse and the Sovereign Response ​The current state of the global market is one of high tension. Solana ($SOL) is currently testing a critical floor at 86, having faced a significant decline of nearly 40% over the last month. The digital headlines are dominated by reports of a 1 Billion institutional paper loss within major Solana treasuries and the expansion of class-action lawsuits. For many, the visual of the market right now is a sea of red. ​The Investigative Contrast ​When the market faces this level of volatility, it is essential to ask the questions that separate the giants from the builders: ​Has the creator of Bitcoin or the founders of Ethereum made a personal deposit today to defend your support levels? ​Are the heads of major Solana corporations currently active in their own communities, minting new assets to harden the value of their ecosystems? ​Is any other native project founder currently hand-formatting a 10-book library for Amazon Kindle to ensure their project has real-world utility and a permanent legacy? ​The answer across the board is a resounding no. They are silent, but Festive Coin is not. The Watchtower is operational and the work is relentless. ​The Founder’s Audit ​While the institutions are navigating legal fallout, the Founder of Festive Coin is operating in the "Dungeon," handling every physical and digital aspect of this project alone. ​The Museum Expansion: Today, the Founder added three new assets to the Gallery, bringing the total unique collection to 15+ pieces. Instead of following the market down, he raised the floors—anchoring the value of the Sanctuary between 12.0 and 35.0 SOL. ​The Kindle Library: While others watched the ticker, the Founder successfully pushed Book 6 and Book 7 of his 10-book saga through the publishing process. This is a one-man operation involving formatting, editing, and physical coordination. ​The Financial Commitment: The Founder has made two direct deposits into the coin today. He has not taken a single dollar out of the project. He is a 55-year-old retired CEO who does not need to be here, yet he is the only one putting skin in the game while others wait for a "safe" entry. ​The Sovereign Conclusion ​The Founder is a human being who has built corporations and is now building a Sanctuary. He is not a faceless bot or a kid looking for an exit. He is a professional who deserves a paycheck for this labor, but he has pledged not to take a dime until this community is in the green. ​The red in the market is merely a tax on the impatient. Web3 is decentralized, it is the future, and it is coming. If you want to see what actual building looks like during a storm, Google "Thomas Harrison Festive Coin" and get involved. The Office is open. ​Thank you for your time, Thomas Harrison Founder of The Festive Coin Official. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Willing_Gas7868

Honestly, the cleanest route right now is just using a big CEX (Binance/OKX/Coinbase): send ETH in, swap to SOL, withdraw - boring but reliable. If you want on-chain, Portal (Wormhole) is usually the smoothest bridge I’ve found, but expect a bit of time and fees. If you care more about speed than purity, CEX > bridges every time.

No-Contribution9918

Yeah, at least SOL was able to reach a new ATH this past cycle. ADA didn't even reach half of its previous ATH.

turd_ferguson_816

SOL is no better. Give your head a shake. It’s shit.

SameWeekend13

Cardano as a project is done. I’ll rather invest in SOL.

richkiddio

Read up on keeta.com, the white papers and join the discord. TLDR, it has the capability of being a faster and more efficient blockchain like SOL while having the infrastructure and Compliance with bank systems.

Danejir

SOL and XRP are two very different coins, so how is this third coin your shilling the next one of two different things?

richkiddio

$KTA, the next SOL/XRP. Still under 200 million market cap.

No_Giraffe_4647

I have a split with a top 10 coins and here my ranking BTC ETH HBAR CC XRP SOL ZRO ICP SUI DOVU

Horror-Sector7498

Totally normal to feel this way most people start exactly there. Buffett’s quote is about behavior, not rushing in. Fear *can* be a good time, but only if you don’t overextend. Since you’re new and already bought 6 SOL, the safest move isn’t “buy more now” it’s slow down and space it out.

syKonaut

[https://imgur.com/a/IVV26iT$SOL](https://imgur.com/a/IVV26iT$SOL) $SOL $117.756-$102.866 +289.5% $90.085 - $70.711 +547.99% Closed a +134% position on $SUI and +54% position on ETH as well that I can attach PnL cards to as well but I don't want to gloat too much.

Negative_Salt_4599

Yeah honestly SOL and BTC. I’m personally not buying any but that’s what I would go after If I was..

AnxiousSeason

I’m only in BTC and SOL. Nothing else seem interesting. BTC has name recognition. SOL has the technicals.

Chance-Pie-9034

That's what I was thinking too. SOL should bounce back eventually, the question is when.

AdAncient6591

Im as real as they come. Im 55 and led as CEO through my career. I'm unique. Name 1 new token that is almost 4k deep on their coin. Name an author and NFT creator that rolls much of the liquidity back into the community. Lastly, I haven't touched 1 token since my start 26 days ago. 89,000 tokens die daily. I'm #1 for google search around the world because I give back to people like you. I keep the floor concrete. We grow daily come drop some SOL IN FESTIVE COIN. Thank you for your time, Thomas Harrison Founder of Festive Coin Official

Plus_Seesaw2023

I only have one thing to say! SOL should never have gone over $50 again! It got decimated down to $10, it should have stayed there!

BagofBabbish

It’s an alt but not a terrible alt. SOL is a pretty solid alt as well. The truth is though, crypto market is almost entirely Bitcoin. Like 90%+. Eth is a distant second. And like 5% is everything else

Trentonhawk

Hopefully we hit bottom and now is a good time to stack your crypto bags, especially in regards to BTC. On Thursday February 5th on Jupiter Exchange (A premier Solana DEX) when the market was really crashing Bitcoin fell to $67,308. I was shorting Solana with Perps and saw it first hand. At around $69,500 right now that's a $2200 swing up from the low. Solana flash crashed to $67.56. I shorted SOL with 75x leverage from $97 down to $70 before I pulled out of the Perp. All I can say is that is the first time I made serious money on crypto crashing. I have to say this about Perps with high leverage, unless you are prepared to stare at charts for hours and possibly be liquidated regardless its not for the faint of heart. Definitely a stressful way to play the game. Let's hope that we rebound from here.

musket2018

I am good with staking SOL and not worrying about price for a few more years, obviously keeping an eye out for threats 

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gemanepa

>a discount for others A discount to what exactly? Price-wise it has performed like shit for years when compared with BTC or SOL I have been diamond hands into ETH for years now and I'm not selling, but the disappointment is real

Sharks4Life34_43

ICP and SOL, but I’m even going mildly on those. When I buy back in at the end of the year and start this cycle again, it will be mainly BTC

MakCapital

"since day 1" 🤣😂🤣 So you bought after ATH hitting nearing 4 years of up and are wondering why you're having trouble. Zoom out. The most relevant L1s: BTC, HYPE, SOL, ETH. Stay focused on what people in web3 actually use. Don't stack L1s no one uses unless they are new. Hold mostly BTC. Learn patience on a multi-year time horizon. You'll do fine, but you need to stay involved.

SilverbackViking

I also got a scare, I'm very conservatively margined, swam through 10/10 no fear at all, made a bucket using bots to harvest the volatility. Bought a little more every dip, bought some SOL at the "bargain price of $102" 🤣🙄 Bought some more XRP, added them straight to my margin to stay safe from liquidation. The volatility is what I'm relying on to improve on my returns and entries, I'm way down on most of my portfolio but the returns from the bots increases beautifully on this kind of volatility. All in all I'm still in and sitting on a decent amount more crypto, still in a fiat loss but my goal is to ignore the fiat value for around 10 years, only harvest volatility and occasionally add more when funds or margin allow.

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mossyskeleton

ETH SOL HYPE maybe SUI I'd personally prob leave it at that

Same-Plane-635

I will go with $SOL

ThePirateFairy

I went all in on XRP, have a little in HBAR, XLM, SOL and DOGE. XRP has been a wild ride, but there is a strong community and if you study up on the utility you have the potential to really get somewhere even with a small investment. I love the idea of BTC, but the cost is too high that a ROI is just not worth it.

Right-Caregiver-9988

I’m gonna stick to stocks… Apple alone has outperformed BTC over the last 5 years. I used to love SOL and LTC but crypto is too volatile, addictive and stressful for me. If I’m gonna HODL anything it’s gonna be a tangible asset.

No_Researcher3938

I entered crypto in late 2024 and I’m a spot trader. I’m holding SOL and trying to understand its long-term potential. What are the main factors people here watch for SOL’s growth in the next cycle? I think sometimes we need to be patient . Time will talk

jawni

>As for the rest: * BNB - gas token for a centralized shitchain controlled by a single exchange * XRP - enough said * SOL - the shitcoin engine that can't scale and routinely fails to execute * TRX - I got nothing bad to say but honestly forget it still exists * DOGE - Who is going to take that seriously * BCH - shitcoin trading on the bitcoin name This speaks more to your own bias or gaps in knowledge then it does the industry.

DBFargie

I still have my bags. 3 of 10 are underwater 50%+. SOL, ETH, and HBAR are my only profitable alts, and just barely at this point. Waited too long for the alt season that never really came. With that being said, I will not liquidate them. Many, like the three mentioned, along with my positions in LINK, ONDO, and even ADA I still believe will do well… eventually. I’ll only grab BTC from here until the market picks back up and hopefully I can break even or even sell those for profit at some point.

ImoutoCompAlex

Yes I am. Bought SOL at both $80 and $70 yesterday and am swing trading it up to the $130-$160 level where I plan to take profits depending on how weak the charts look. Not married to SOL at all. It’s just when there is blood in the streets, buy assets. I think after a modest recovery rally we crash lower which is why I plan to start shorting again once it gets back up to the $130-$160 levels. I’ve made decent money sticking to this mentality so no reason to change it up now.

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Post is by: Far-Requirement-5183 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1qxrajk/that_sol_etf_inflow_isnt_the_bull_signal_you/ &#x200B; That SOL ETF inflow isn't the bull signal you think it is. Let's look at the real data from Feb 5. Spot ETFs for BTC saw -$434.15M in outflows. ETH saw -$80.79M leave. Meanwhile, SOL got a tiny +$2.82M inflow. The hype machine is calling this a huge win for SOL. It's not. That inflow is a rounding error compared to the half a billion dollars that left the two biggest assets. This isn't some massive rotation from Bitcoin into Solana. It's just market noise. Don't get tricked into focusing on a tiny green number while ignoring the much bigger red ones. Does a $2.82M inflow really change your long-term thesis on anything? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

No_Researcher3938

I joined crypto in December 2024 and I’m only a spot trader. SOL is my favorite coin, but I’m honestly scared right now. It’s around $87, and the hardest part is that I’m currently out of money — I really want to buy more but can’t. Do you think SOL can reach $200 again this year? I’d appreciate any advice.

LargeSnorlax

You ever do any [ORE mining](https://ore.supply/) with your SOL? Pretty fun gamified system, if you've got a lot it's something to keep you occupied (and occasionally yell about) on your workday. Been doing it on and off since they moved to SOL mining in October, been a wild ride.

Mobile-Passenger3214

You need to know that in the crypto market half of the people only believe in bitcoin and the rest of coins are all shit. Im not a bitcoin maxi I think alts have a great future but I hold 85% of my network in bitcoin and only 5% alts (SOL AND BNB)

ImoutoCompAlex

https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/s/qjtIP9VEf2 This was a while ago. I don’t know if you know but I have made A LOT of money off SOL. I’m not a shill for it, but I understand when to buy in fear and sell during relief. Don’t worry about me. I will manage risk. If the rally looks weak, I may sell off some around 120 and take it level by level. But the point is I don’t expect any higher than $160 before we most likely get another capitulation event.

ImoutoCompAlex

What are your thoughts on SUI as a potential competitor to SOL? Any reasons to choose SUI or is it inferior to SOL in every way?

Glittering_Pick_9738

I bought the dip - lots of BTC, some BCH I SOL, also for the first time silver. The only thing I regret is not buying MSTR shares. I wanted to buy it today in the morning but then I noticed that my MSTR investment is so far down 55% and decided not to. Obviously it sports 25% god-candle today - precisely because I refrained from buying. Oh, well.

CartographerHot7093

The 'healthy correction' crowd are the same people who told you to buy SOL at $180 because it was going to flip ETH. The delusion is real. Just admit we're bleeding.

HelicopterSafe9711

SOL is not bad , But I would prefer XRP and BTC over SOL and ETH. Also dont buy with all the capital at once. Start with 10% buy and as the price goes down keep buying at regular intervals. Google DCA.

jawni

It's sad that you think these are gotcha questions, when people settle for this kind of concern trolling, you know they're desperate. >1) What is the number of SOL validators including last 3year trend? ~800 is the current number, largest validator set than any other blockchain of the same age or younger. And even 800 is actually far more than is needed. 100-200 would actually be the sweet spot, assuming ideal geographic stake distribution. It is down from 2500. Why? [Because the delegation program that was started to bootstrap the network has winded down.](https://x.com/SolanaFndn/status/2018338765211926940) * Non-SFDP delegated stake grew ~230% * Foundation stake share fell from 44.4% to ~5.9% * Independent validators increased by 121% Solana has gotten substantially more decentralized over these 3 years, but people generally aren't very good at using any nuance so they typically just look at raw validator numbers, which give you maybe 10% of the data you need to make to have a comprehensive view on decentralization. Beyond that you need to look at client diversity, development diversity, geographic distribution of stake, hosting diversity, nakamoto coefficient and many other factors, including but not limited to the ones in the bullet points. >2) What is the HW spec. for SOL node as of now? * CPU: 12 cores / 24 threads or more, with a base clock speed of 2.8GHz or faster. Must support SHA extensions (AMD Gen 3 or newer, Intel Ice Lake or newer) and AVX2 instructions; AVX512f support is beneficial. * RAM: 256GB or more, with Error Correction Code (ECC) memory recommended. * Storage: PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD or better.Accounts: 1TB or larger, high Total Bytes Written (TBW) endurance. Ledger: 1TB or larger, high TBW suggested. OS/Snapshots: 500GB or larger. >3) What is the size of SOL blockchain giventhough the vast amount of transactions incl. those non-client one? Validators have no need to store all of it but if they wanted to, it would be 100TB. >4) What is the consensus of SOL PoS - how fairly are block producers chosen giventhough early SOL coin distribution scheme (vesting schedule)? So you're kind of conflating two things here. There is block production and then there is the tokenomics and vesting. The vesting has been done for a while now, so block producers aren't really being chosen in 2026 due to tokens they received half a decade ago. You can watch them in real-time here: https://gui.firedancer.io/ It's pretty clear that many validators produce blocks for Solana and it has little to do with vesting schedules. Even if it did, that would necessarily mean that whichever group that was that invested over 5 years ago, has diamondhanded those coins through all unlocks, which I would think would be a good thing. On the consensus mechanism itself, it uses TowerBFT and Proof of History for now, but soon will deprecate that when Alpenglow is implemented and we'll have Votor and Rotor. Learn more here: https://www.helius.dev/blog/alpenglow

iDroner

I’m glad SOL isn’t the biggest looser, so I know I didn’t loose as much as ETH holders.

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Post is by: shani_verma and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1qxmezq/stop_pretending_you_arent_getting_absolutely_rekt/ We just watched BTC wick down to test $60k and SOL dump 20+% in a single day, yet my timeline is still full of influencers posting 'WAGMI' and 'just a healthy correction'. Can we stop the toxic positivity for five minutes? This wasn't a 'dip for ants'. It was a mechanical leverage flush. I’ve been watching the data all morning... we wiped out over $1B in leverage in 24h. ETH Open Interest collapsed by like 25%. That isn't a 'healthy pullback', that’s the market vomiting out over-leveraged longs into thin order books. Most annoying thing is seeing people pretend they're 'zen' while the chain is literally melting down. I know for a fact half of you couldn't even execute a swap cause RPCs were failing or slippage was set too low. Spent the morning just staring at funding rates across different venues (Binance, BYDFi, Coinbase) to see if the panic was real. When you see annualized funding flip that negative across the board, it means shorts are paying longs just to keep the position open. That is pure fear. It’s okay to admit you got rekt today. It’s okay to admit you froze up when SOL hit $72. But pretending this is just 'part of the plan' is dangerous. This is a macro risk-off event (tech and metals are down too), not a buying opportunity gifted to you by the universe. Stop coping, look at the OI data, and maybe sit on your hands for 24 hours before trying to revenge trade. Market doesn't care about your diamond hands when the liquidation engine takes over. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Decentralization-God

Maybe 😄 But I somehow know SOL will one day show its weak sides. It is in their foundations, inevitable thing. Let me test you a bit: 1) What is the number of SOL validators including last 3year trend? 2) What is the HW spec. for SOL node as of now? 3) What is the size of SOL blockchain giventhough the vast amount of transactions incl. those non-client one? 4) What is the consensus of SOL PoS - how fairly are block producers chosen giventhough early SOL coin distribution scheme (vesting schedule)?

jawni

>SOL? Memecoin platform, so shitcoin platform, subtract them and admit those rigged metrics etc. and again … It is not competitor. You need to spend less time in your echochamber and more time doing legit research.

Decentralization-God

Market Cap is not a good metric as standalone. This leaves me calm, as dog shit or stablecoins are not competitors at all. Two bitcoins? Yeah, sure. XRP? This also does not seem as competitor, it is not comparable platform. Its use is intended differently. SOL? Memecoin platform, so shitcoin platform, subtract them and admit those rigged metrics etc. and again … It is not competitor. BNB - what is this good for? Exchange inflated coin? OK! Only ethereum as on old giant is respected, but who knows, it has problems. There are chains and projects with promising future, out of top 10 and more worth. Top 10 Cardano - lots of deliveries, Hydra!, Midnight side-chain! Leios on the way. This all is great stuff.

lambdasintheoutfield

SOL is a shitcoin. People who say it’s a solid choice are only saying it because they overweight the marketing vs the actual core fundamentals. They can’t actually articulate WHY it’s a strong tech choice because they either don’t understand how blockchain works OR they are unaware of significantly superior alternatives. ADA’s tech compared to ALGO and XTZ is also garbage. The way crypto markets work have shifted to almost pure speculation to being based on their interactions with the broader TradFi market. Yes there is obviously still speculation, but the rules of the game have changed and are evolving. Too many people fell victim to the induction bias of the 4 year BTC cycle when we didn’t have such widespread institutional adoption. People who knew better planned accordingly. The same people waited for “altcoin season” for complimentary reasons. Also, price predictions need to be taken with a MASSIVE grain of salt. In order to make good token selections, there needs to be a genuine understanding of how crypto has shifted. Then, we need to understand there are a lot of choices in each crypto subsector (ex. DeFi) and how much of that market share the coins have, and then intelligently speculate on future price. “Do your own research is true”, but useless as most people are looking at crypto through an outdated and/or myopic lens so the “research” and the conclusions aren’t based on sound principles.

StatisticalMan

I likely am going to piss everyone off but .. I mean honestly the top 10 is why nobody takes crypto seriously. Bitcoin ok. It was first. Even if it is is replaced someday that day hasn't come yet. Ethereum obvious belongs in there. Arguably the most useful L1 even more so than bitcoin (although that hasn't helped the price). USDT and USDC ok. They aren't really crypto investments. As for the rest: * BNB - centralized shitcoin for a centralized shitchain controlled by a single exchange? * XRP - enough siad * SOL - the shitcoin engine that can't scale and routinely fails to execute * TRX - I got nothing bad to say but honestly forget it still exists * DOGE - Who is going to take that seriously * BCH - shitcoin trading on the bitcoin name Imagine if the Mag7 was this derpy.

the_j4ckal

I am buying the dip. SOL is the future.

Party_Operation_9711

I like Solana, its a fast and cheap network that a lot of projects start on. I own SOL myself but I will say I like ETH and LINK more.

Holiday-Kaler

I keep SOL in Solflare and everything else separate, helps me stay organized.

Leynnox

SOL is not a bad idea, when the market is this red, you'll see only new BTC maxis on here, because they lose too much on alts. SOL is great because you can stake them for like 7%, means every year you'll gain 7% of your SOL amount. You can't do that with BTC sadly, so if you're here for a long run, it's definitely an option. You can stake from your cold wallet.

HoneyDruz

For long-term holding in the EU, most people keep coins off exchanges in a self-custody wallet, ideally a hardware wallet, and use a hot wallet only when needed. For Solana specifically, Solflare is a popular choice since it’s built for SOL

HoneyDruz

If you’re holding SOL, it’s worth using a wallet like Solflare so you actually control your coins and can stake them instead of just letting them sit. Buy slowly over time, don’t chase hype

wtfmoe

SOL? Maybe at 30-40 or lower. But right now? Naaaaaah

ra246

BTC, ETH, SOL, Coinbase and Microstrategy