SOL

oopssomething

This could be just a weird start of alt season. We will see ETH, SOL, XRP do +5% in a day soon.

NatBitty

Need to see ETH, XRP, SOL down another 90% before anything is worth buying. The only future crypto has is 100% BTC.D, or $0.

iTvrsch

Good to hear, i too think highly of SOL. So do you see any future for L2s like ARB or POL?

AnusMistakus

except there are 1000s of other coins released every day. BTC, ETH, DOGE, SOL .... the list keeps getting larger and the same money jumps between projects.

thechadledger

I agree. I believe we will see BTC around that mark and SOL between $70-$75. Honestly I don’t like the fees on ETH so I don’t hold any.

BeefonWeck00

BTC, SOL, TRAC. I can't stomach buying XRP above 35 cents lol

Willing_Gas7868

Fair take. Crypto is just a higher-beta part of the same macro sell-off. When rates, tariffs, and global uncertainty spike, risk assets dump together and crypto gets hit the hardest. Your framing makes sense: if you need the money, de-risk; if not, don’t panic trade. BTC for relative stability in crypto, ETH for balanced exposure, SOL if you’re comfortable with extreme risk. The key issue isn’t “crypto is dead,” it’s that we’re in a messy macro regime with no clear floor yet.

biba8163

> Turns out cycle boys were right all along. You led noobs off a cliff > With these prices already, things are getting clearer for 2025: **(Nov 2024)** > - ETH to $5K looks very realistic now. > - **DOGE** should **easily get past $1** this time. > - **SOL to $400** is too conservative. > - **ADA** could match its **ATH**. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1goeu1f/daily_crypto_discussion_november_11_2024_gmt0/lwnpbmg/ > I started doing an inverse r/cryptocurrency about 3 months ago, when everyone was fudding any alts not called SOL. **(Nov 2024)** > So **I started loading up on alts**. I got just a few of the many that people here were shitting hard on: **ETH, ADA, ATOM, DOT.** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1gmwzf3/daily_crypto_discussion_november_9_2024_gmt0/lwbu2u2/?context=3 I was honestly expecting alt season not to kick off until summer 2025. **(January 2025 )** > But seeing how we've already had a really nice pre-alt season rally in 2024, **I think alt season could kick off early.** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hxr73a/daily_crypto_discussion_january_10_2025_gmt0/m6bhx9w/ > The fact that **Bitcoin maxis are pushing this narrative** so hard, and are becoming so confident **that alt coins are dead and won't rise, is a signal that I should probably start loading up on alts instead of waiting for a bigger dip.** **(February 2025)** > You can literally see in the chart that alt coins have always lagged behind. So it hasn't done anything much different so far. > In every bullmarket Bitcoin pumps first, and alt season comes later. It's nothing new. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1ik9pg4/daily_crypto_discussion_february_8_2025_gmt0/mboo654/

Loose_Development_24

I will buy BTC, ETH, SOL

OkCaterpillar6887

You're looking from inside the bubble. XRP?? SOL??? Don't ask why it's falling, the only cryptocurrency is Bitcoin, everything else is backed by it.

StopRunningBiatch

I am stacking ETH,XRP,SOL,ADA,LINK,XLM like crazyyy ! Pls sell moree I want more Fear in the Market...

Infamous_Impact_9061

Its ok im invested in SOL so im good

Natural_Berry_8007

ETH, SOL, BTC, though I am not buying on the way down, looking for selling to stop.

ConsistentForce3611

Yea. Exchanges let the big players know where leveraged positions are. They are searching and liquidating those positions while making millions. It’s been going on since late September. They sell it as whatever they feel like saying at the time. But, all the bills (government getting involved) are tanking it even more. You think the government wants it an all time highs before clarity act etc? Probably not. Straight market manipulation. XRP, SOL seeing record etf inflows yet getting crushed. Crypto is a fucking joke

shaneween

I guess you’re almost right since its got to $86 right now. I just don’t know how much SOL/BTC/ETH will go lower before we hit the bottom. I’m interested in SOL and ETH and its at $86 and $2000. Should I take the dive now?

jawni

Well if I was starting from scratch I'd buy SOL (50%), ETH (25%), BTC (25%). But since I own those already, now I'm looking at: ENA, HYPE, PUMP. If I go for small caps: CARDS, AVICI, AIXBT

jawni

>SOL is bleeding pretty damn bad. yeah, that's the point behind this thread, everything is cheap, meaning unless the corresponding fundamentals dropped as much as the price, then it should be a more attractive asset. Solana is far and away the most competitive chain to ETH, it took the opposite approach to scaling which now looks even smarter as Vitalik is questioning the execution ETH's L2-centric roadmap, onchain metrics are already top of the industry but even then they've been improving, tradfi inflows are steady, RWA adoption continues to increase, Solana is still the preferred chain for most project launches and is generally the first place where emerging narratives and use cases proliferate(AI agents, DePIN, etc). Not to mention we're now 2 years away from the last outage, and since then 10+ other chains have had downtime(mostly ETH L2s and Sui), yet no one cares. New L1s have popped up, but none of them have really gained any traction. You had Plasma launched by Tether, Monad super hyped up, Tempo, Keeta, none of these are really doing anything, so it seems clear that the networks effects of Ethereum and Solana have given them a strong moat. I can't see any new L1s challenging them if the recent launches are trending this way and I doubt any old L1s will catch up. Outside of Solana lacking a more competitive perps protocol, there isn't really much specific weakness in the ecosystem. Solana has been steadily progressing towards the original North star of "decentralized NASDAQ", teams from other networks understand how important Solana is and now even L1 coins like MON, ZEC are getting put on Solana. Coinbase/Base has upped their Solana support, devs from Near(who are very respected) made SolSwap. Even if you kind of bearish on crypto in general, you should be extremely bullish on Solana relative to the industry IMO.

David_Const345

Honestly, you’re not crazy for feeling this way. What’s happening isn’t really about XRP or SOL doing something wrong, it’s more of a broader market reset. After prices ran up, a lot of people started taking profits at higher levels, which creates selling pressure. At the same time, there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the wider economy, so when things feel shaky, crypto is usually one of the first places people pull money from. On top of that, when new money slows down, prices tend to fall faster, and leverage getting liquidated makes the drops look sharper than they really are. It feels like 2021 or 2022 because corrections always feel heavy while you’re living through them, but this isn’t a full collapse, it’s more of people moving to cash and waiting. Strong coins often get sold first simply because there are buyers at higher prices. You’re asking the right question though, understanding why the market moves like this matters way more than trying to time the perfect buy or sell.

stacey2623

Nothing to do but hold. Especially in coins that have utility such as XRP, ETH, BTC, SOL, XLM, HBAR, XDC, etc

Necessary-Nature-380

I wouldn't trust anything that's not BTC or ETH (unless it's less than $1200). Even the high cap alts like XRP and SOL are finished.

Distinct_Fly_4291

Crypto is in a bear market. It will eventually turn around. Hold onto your crypto - don’t panic and sell now. Get some dry powder together and purchase some high quality tokens, eg BTC, ETH and SOL while they’re cheap and HODL. Now’s the time to set the stage and create some generational wealth.

khai0001

You're holding XRP and SOL? Man I feel you

iTvrsch

SOL is bleeding pretty damn bad. Any chances of recovery or when it'll achieve parity? What about LINK?

Sangy101

All I have to say is that I bought SOL at $10 before the last crash and was so mad I didn’t sell it at $40. Annnnd now, during this crash, it’s near $100. So if you’re not at your sell point, just hold.

SubstantialPlenty301

Lol wut. That's called a bank transfer dawg. Or a check. Or access to a bank account. I was really hoping for a better use case. I think tokenization could be huge compared to where it is today but that's separate from investing in ETH or SOL directly.

degen5ace

Better than SOL I’m fuuuuh

OkTune7507

Ditto, except I might swap ETH for SOL depending on if it’s raining or not.

No_Giraffe_4647

Would be stronger with BTC ETH SOL XRP CC HYPE

chaitanya1015

It will further go down. See you SOL at $40

Last_Cauliflower1410

Probably so im just buying SOL and staking it😂😂

SanMarinoStacker

I swapped my SUI for SOL so I could at least stake it. Kinda wishing I only had BTC as it hasn’t dropped as hard as my alts

Shichroron

I am not blaming Solana. I am pointing that Solana is investable (deriving its value from) because it is the most powerful engine for spam, scam and casinoing. That's not a "SOL bad" opinion. That's here is the value of Solana (and why I think it will raise in value)

RussFromPublic

truthfully just going to be DCAing into BTC, ETH, LINK and SOL! Mindset shouldn't change

confusedguy1212

Just a friendly reminder to all SOL boys and girls who are having a reckoning. ETH forgives you and welcomes you wholly with open arms. Come help us make crypto and finance better!

hodler1992

SOL already is below that 94-97$. There is no support zone left retail is long long gone. The five people in this sub actually having any money left does not have any effects on the prices

Blaze69X

the 0.05 SOL buffer tip is the most underrated advice here. i see so many people trying to swap their entire balance and then wondering why it fails. its usually not the chain, its just you not having enough to pay for the rent of the new token account.

oopssomething

+10% on my SOL short and market just opened

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Party_Operation_9711

BTC ETH LINK HBAR SOL XRP in that order for me

77sleeper

I hold BTC, XRP, Hbar and SOL. I am only buying BTC

oopssomething

I'm shorting SOL at the moment, placed a stop loss at 4% profit but it just keeps on going, bearmarkets are for profit making

Aerocryptic

I’m surprised that L2s shitters didn’t dump more based on last Vitalik’s announcement. Meanwhile SOL took a hit probably because of it

oopssomething

SOL around $20 should be a safe buy, anything higher is madness

financeguruIB

Good plan. You think SOL Will be a good buy when it’s guys 40-60$? I think so but a lil skeptical

kingjoeg

Why are you even holding an altcoin in a bear market? The year following a bull market is pretty much always a year of a bear market, and it's only February. SOL is going down much further than this. Consolidate to Bitcoin in a bear market or sell to cash

No-Culture2985

BTC holding strong above $100k, but alts are lagging. Thinking of rotating some into SOL for the ecosystem plays. What's the sentiment on layer 2s right now?

MemeyOreos

been watching SOL for defi stuff and SEI cause it's fast af for trading apps. both ship actual products

marko-v

Where is the bottom for SOL?

harvested

Notice how Raoul Pal pushed coins that got hit the hardest? He was on podcasts claiming millionaires would be printed from memecoins. He was pushing smoking chicken fish which has basically gone -99%. His largest bag was SUI, more like SUIcide watch, -77%. Followed by SOL, -61% And finally ETH, -56%. People actually pay him subscription fees to access this alpha. His videos and tweets still get tons of engagement. Yes I know he is charismatic, but please stop following these charlatans. It would not surprise me if he was dumping his bags the entire cycle.

Aerocryptic

Why not? You could buy back later even if it’s a bit higher if it ever shows bullishness. Better risk off than losing a large part of your value SOL doesn’t have any meaningful support between 40 and 100. The other issue is that it pumped on memecoin hype which is now absolutely dead.

A_friendly_goosey

Really regretting having a big bag in SOL right now. I can't imagine it going up to mid 100s anytime soon. I have a feeling its all going to drop further but at this point I cant bring myself to sell.

jd999g

If you looked at it 1 year ago. You would of crapped yourself in joy. Blue chip and Btc are good ones to hold long term. Nothing is garenteed in life but, give it 6 months, the crypto market is depressed and should do some sort of recovery. P.s. im not a financial advisor. I would however take that 1500 in profit and put it into SOL or an a.i. project. Like TAO. And check back in 6 months. And if you wanna be stupid buy $CLASH..its really a good program that will probably take off huge, but its not a good idea in your case.

Shreyash-kunn

instructions unclear, accidentally paid 1 SOL in priority fees to buy a $10 meme coin. 💀

noviwu97

Almost everything mentioned here. I wouldn't go past BTC, ETH, SOL, and HYPE if you're a newbie

rainwizard39

Yeah, SOL under $30 was my best buy, and I would have bought more, but I got turned off because I listened to everyone saying it was dead. Reddit just follows the popular narrative at the time.

CoinHelpGuy

Dude that Banxa/TrustWallet mess sucks—I've seen this before where funds "vanish" to random addresses but are actually stuck on Solana network. Your USDC isn't gone, just trapped on Solana (not Ethereum/Base).Quick fix: Download Phantom wallet (Solana only), import your seed phrase, swap USDC to SOL there (super cheap), then bridge/send to Base or Coinbase for Polymarket.Hit my DMs if you get stuck on the wallet import or swap—happy to walk you through it step by step.

Serenaded

No, generally altcoins will have some type of pump alongside ETH/BTC, but it's unlikely all altcoins will pump again. That being said, SOME altcoins that are #1 in its usecase will have cycles. (These are my picks) 1. Ethereum for Defi. (more established, decentralised and fairly launched than SOL) 2. XMR for privacy. 3. KAS for trilemma. (technological factors on newish projects that haven't had a cycle yet usually drive altcoins the most) 4. DOGE for memecoins (memecoins are dead but DOGE seems to always come back. I hold 0 DOGE but would not bet against it, traders like its predictable inflation) Etc, I mean only the coins that are the king of their usecase will actually have some type of long-term conviction. It seems like a lost cause now but you'll be surprised how fast these projects can 10x under FOMO. Crypto is the future every 4 years, then 3 years in between it's not the future.

LoveSexDraems

SUI CLANKER ZEC SOL. Btc just hit its 1 year low, hopefully SOL Is next

Where-Da-hoes-at

That makes a lot of sense. I was literally just throwing SOL into the fee grinder for nothing. Cheers for the analogy

oopssomething

Will SOL ever be three digits again?

AnusMistakus

or those who bought DOGE at 0.40 or SOL at 240

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NoAverage9216

Funny how Reddit hated SOL 3-4 years ago now it’s the safe alt to buy. Lol never listen to Reddit

TheWatchers666

Invest longterm...BTC, SOL and ETH Spare cash and "play" money as I call it...always study up on tokenomics, projects, partners and applications of the tech. Take the SUI blockchain for an example and have a read up on what's partnered up with it. It's one I personally did ok last year (Jan actually) from 0.53 - 5.00 when I took profit. But it's mainly about the study and once it doesn't have a cat face on it lol 😅

jawni

Majors: SOL, HYPE Mid Caps: ENA, PUMP Small Caps: AVICI, CARDS All of these projects have been fairly successful and are at good prices. Pretty much what I'm holding now if you add ETH.

MakCapital

Would be a tard to buy L1s people don't use and make no money. Seriously, just open Defilama and look at activity & fees lol. Not hard. SOL & HYPE have issuing and trading cornered. BTC & ETH lead as SOV. All this crap no one uses like Algo, Cardano, XRP, Hbar... pointless. Being manipulated by drowning bag holders running many accounts. Users or out of discussion.

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tldr; Two decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, Step Finance and CrossCurve, suffered hacks resulting in losses exceeding $30 million. Step Finance, based on the Solana blockchain, lost 261,854 SOL (approximately $26 million), while CrossCurve reported a $3 million loss due to a smart contract vulnerability. Both platforms are taking steps to address the breaches, including notifying authorities and offering bounties for the return of stolen funds. These incidents occurred amid a declining crypto market, with major tokens like Bitcoin and Ethereum experiencing significant drops in value. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Long_Lecture_1080

Alt season was exclusive to SOL and a few shortlived risers like TIA and SUI. Meme crap drained all the life out of the alts. Many of the alts like KSM and ATOM did not even get to close to their ATHs and likely now dead coins. Doubt there will ever be any more of the mega pumps from 2020 and 2021.

PixelPirate_2024

Open Rust Rocket on Telegram and just send SOL to the SOL address in the bot wallet to start.

Miserable_Hold422

$SOL is full of jeeters, selling for quick profits, and sometimes even for just $5! $WHALLY is here to change that mentality, we'll be needing a community of diamond holders in order to achieve that! Others panic sold yesterday, and some jeeters locked in out their profits already, Some people who bought from the bottom of $WHALLY sold for profits, and it's okay but they we're fully clipping their bags as if it was an attack! Rest assured, the team is here, and we'll bounce back together and higher! Let's send $WHALLY all together chads! Together, we will all make a difference!

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After a lot of research, (I will be pummeled here because its unpopular) I believe Hedera is destined to be one of the winners, for a variety of reasons. It is not a blockchain, it uses a DAG hashgraph architecture that avoids many of the problems of blockchains (congestion, variable gas fees, front running, high energy use) . It has security (ABFT), proven velocity(10K TPS), speed (<3 sec finality), fixed, low cost (.0001 / transaction), proven scale (71B completed transactions (no including voting as SOL claims), very low energy usage (\~0.000017 kWh per transaction), it is EVM compatible to connect with ETH DeFi, ISO 20022 certified for financial use cases including RWA tokenization, a governing council of 39 global enterprises including Google, Boeing, Dell, Mondelez, LG, IBM, etc.). Hedera has never really played the press release pump game of other cryptos and it is not well known or liked in the retail crypto gambling space. Its current market cap is a tiny fraction of SOL or ADA. In my opinion, it's the "AMZN" of the crypto world in 10 years.

TuxRuffian

> With anything really. Gonna have to disagree here. For BTC HODLing is all I do, but w/allot of the smallcaps, I don't HODLing is always the best move. I agree that checking balances too often is more likely to hurt then help, but you can manage risk w/o constant interaction. For smallcaps or MCs that I don't intend on HODLing, I utilize margins with predifined SLs, TPs, TSs, etc. via OTOs _(Buy when prices hits X and sell when it reaches your TP or drops to your SL)_ and trailing stops so I can set it and forget it. It stops your emotions at any given point in time from clouding judgement and you can always edit open orders if you want. Just apply good old fasion Risk MGMT. BTC and other large caps are a different story though. They stay in my Trezor. I seperate the SOL and ETH that I HODL there as well and never mix it w/the SOL/ETH I use for token swaps, etc. TL;DR: HODLings great for some things, but not others IMHO. There is no one universal rule that is best.

hoppeeness

Agreed. Anything with actual use cases and only the leaders in those areas. Sad for AVAX and such as SOL and ETH are the chosen winners. There are others like HBAR or maybe XLM that are being accepted by major industries and don’t compete directly with SOL or ETH.

jawni

>ADA Community is not on Reddit. Well I don't know who else would be commenting in /r/cardano if not the ADA community, especially since this thread is making it pretty obvious that any people with negative opinions are being banned. >It's somewhere between X and GitHub. lol thanks for the laugh. Relatively speaking the Cardano community on X is large compared to here, but that's only because X in general has a much larger crypto community then reddit. Relative to other altcoins, Cardano is easily one of the biggest alt communities here, or at least it's been that way from 2017 to recently. I've noticed it drop off a bit in the last year or so, but it's pretty obvious that there is a pro-Cardano bias in this sub compared to other alts. It's the only altcoin that ever has posts about minor protocol upgrades or really just any largely inconsequential shit that still gets upvoted. Any other alt coin, even with major news, will rarely get upvoted and rarely have positive comments. If you're ranking the bias of altcoins from positive to negative in this sub it goes: ETH, then ADA, then a big gap, then ALGO/DOT, then ICP/HBAR, and then you have a massive gap and it's SOL being mostly hated, then another massive gap and it's the purely hated projects like BSC, XRP, TRX, etc.

ThrowRA-hamburger

Honestly, BTC at 5-10 years, you're probably fine. I'd personally split future buys between BTC and some other solid stuff like SOL, or SEI, even ETH, for more upside potential, but that's just me

The-Happy-Mannequin

Yeah I’ve learned my lesson (again). Only buying BTC from now on and maybe 1 or 2 alts. (Already have ETH and SOL)

edakaya240

If BTC revisits $35k, many large alts could realistically retrace 40–70% from current levels, with weaker narratives underperforming and strong L1s and infra coins holding up better. I’d selectively accumulate assets with real adoption and liquidity (like ETH, SOL, and quality infrastructure tokens) while reducing exposure to purely speculative names. For confirmation of a bottom, I’d look for declining selling volume, stabilization of BTC dominance, and a shift in macro risk sentiment alongside higher-timeframe market structure holding.

ssv84

Unfortunately it should be no altcoins in a wallet at all. Only the main assets can come back one day, like BTC, ETH and probably SOL. And we can built some strategies on top of them. But for other assets it’s just casino

WiseSilverWolf

I was hoping to be able to sell all my crypto (BTC, ATOM, SOL, SUI, ETH, Kaspa) but im down at least 40% on each altcoin and down at least 20% on BTC. If things ever go back to Pre-October 2025 prices im selling everything and moving over to covered call stocks that pay me monthly and weekly dividends (BTCI, QQQI, SPYI, TSII, NVII).

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UhUhWaitForTheCream

That’s good gains, but it didn’t make it a parabolic run up. Normally bull markets in the past projects do 500-1000% more than their previous ATH. SOL was a good mid term trade coin that’s all

TheMastaBlaster

When the solar flare wipes the grid there's potential for years to rebuild. Might be SOL if youre on the side of the planet that gets smoked lol

toniistheworst

sure, you can have your reasons obviously. but still, statistically speaking, the odds of you making more money than on btc by just holding altcoins are close to zero. historically at least. and over the past 10+ years, there were hundreds and thousands of altcoins that made exactly the same promises like you mentioned. "its the future", "its gonna flip bitcoin because bitcoin is soooo slow", "its much more efficient", "the usecase!!!!", "but defi!!!" etc etc.. and despite all these narratives, bitcoin always came out on top. after almost 10 years of this happening every single time, i think you have to really start asking yourself why it should be any different in the next 10 years. its not like these ideas and narratives are anything new after all as well. people have been going crazy about defi, stablecoins and all these topics for years and years. and yet, bitcoin always came out on top. im not a maxi btw, but thats how it is. so, why should these narratives matter now? i personally truly dont have an answer to this which is why i personally treat altcoins as short-term plays only. i know that some of them can run hard but i also know that 99.9% of them will become practically worthless in a few years and that the remaining 0.1% will still very likely do worse than bitcoin. so youre essentially betting on tradfi, defi, rwas etc having a long-term impact on price when theres literally no single example of this making a lasting difference yet. i dont see how that bet is worth it to be honest. SOL as well; had a huge run-up in 2021 and since then keeps gradually losing against bitcoin. the whole run in 2023/2024 was only a significantly lower high compared to the one in 2021 when measured in bitcoin. its always the same thing. always. you can also see it for yourself: look at all your altcoins you held/hold and find one, just one, that consistently made new all time highs against bitcoin for multiple years / several cycles (except \[maybe\] bnb, ill give you that one haha ;)). if you cant find one, ask yourself if it makes sense to then continue to hold eth and sol long-term. you know my opinion, i think youre heavily missing out on profits overall but yea. try to think about the other side of the coin (pun absolutely intended).

biba8163

If you look at ETH in any fundamental valuation metric it is MASSIVELY overvalued. For instance, looking at ETH fee revenue, ETH has a a P/S of 2,200 even with the recent drop. **Price-to-Sales (P/S), a Fundamental Valuation Metric** | Network | Daily Fee Revenue | Marketcap. | P/S |:-----------:|:------------:|:------------:|:------------:| | ETH | ~$350K | $280 Billion | ~2,200X Compare that to tech companies which generally have a very high P/S, **ETH's value in any fundamental metric is comical. ** - 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 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. - PLTR has a has a P/S of 130X is considered MASSIVELY OVERVLAUED I tried to explain this to clueless ETH Maxis that ETH's value is not based on fundamentals and ETH/SOL/BNB/TRON and even all of ETH's L2s are just competing networks that will have to get cheaper and cheaper in order to compete for stablecoin dominance. > in order to compete with other chains, Ethereum will have to scale and that has seen the rise of L2/sidechains which results in loss transaction fees and MEV tips essentially stealing value from ETH. **This essentially turns Ethereum, Solana, BSC, Tron, L2/Sidechains, etc into competing networks for DeFi casinos and rails for StablecCoin transfers where they have to remain cheap** or utility and users will move to competing chains. **(September 2024)** https://np.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1f9ef5k/daily_general_discussion_september_5_2024/llmkgtm/ And look at what happened. ETH's fee revenue has dropped -80% from ~$1.5M to $350K since that time (Tron's dropped -60%) and transactions have also migrated to cheap ETH L2s which have stolen a ton of the value from the network. https://www.theblock.co/data/on-chain-metrics/ethereum/ethereum-miner-revenue-daily

Cute_Paper_5262

I've been swapping my SOL to XMR through [safestexchange.com](http://safestexchange.com) the past few months.

Django_McFly

It's not *buy whenever and hodl* on "majors"... whatever that even means given what SOL and ETH did. Both of them were only above their 2021 high for like 5 hours before crashing below it. There were good gains to be made, but you have to make strategic entries now. You have to buy when it's in the shitter. BTC fell to $17k. SOL to $20. ETH was $900. As long as you started getting in by the time it was 2X off the bottom, you made out like a bandit. What you don't want to do is top tick, wait four years and find out that had you bought USDC instead and put it into Aave, you'd have made that 5% in a (singular) year.

Illustrious-Boss9356

I don't really consider BCH an "alt", in fact I think owning 1-1-1 BTC-BCH-BSV, is owning 1 "Bitcoin". But it's the stuff like XRP, ETH, SOL, L2's, L3's, etc etc... Infinite chains!

Escapement_Watch

Just look at the BTC/ETH ratio and calculate the drop that way very simple. Then do the same for BTC/SOL if btc was 35k it is not hard. but general rule all alts go to zero against bitcoin over time.

magister10

OK folks. I just jumped overboard. 20K in realized losses. Been holding mainly BTC, ETH, SOL and AVAX since early 2021. Was 30K up the highest. Probably hundreds of hours on youtube, coinmarketcap and listening to crypto bros. With my first kid on the way i couldn’t wait this out any longer. Ultra bullish on BTC onwards. Will probably hold 5% max. Good luck to ya’ll. Slow, boring indexes for the next 5 years here now. Hope you all make it some day - as i won’t. Peace

finnthefucker

I’m down 47% on SOL and ~29% on BTC 😅 i’m just going to hold and if i lose it all i lose it all 🤷🏻‍♂️

goldMy

Its okay at the end of the day. I think its hard to understand what i mean in general and where i am comeing from. as you said, the current price behavior kind of indicates a shift / pivot. Uncertain times where the once like known system is not the same anymore, this already can be observed in the altcoins. Some of the folks only know assets where it is up only, DCA only works when the price is increasing but a price increase can stop completly for decades or forever. Thats something that is completely ignored but is happening for ETH, LTC, SOL as we speak. The chance that it is going to happen for Bitcoin as well is now on the table.

harpocryptes

But that's because SOL at $8 was -97% down from previous top. Makes a decent recovery look huge if you measure from that catastrophic bottom.

Small_Appearance2014

If you’re starting with 100 CAD, a safe approach is to diversify a bit rather than going all-in on one coin. You could consider RYO for its practical use and strong infrastructure, plus established coins like ETH or SOL for stability and adoption. That way you get a mix of long-term potential and real-world utility.

topbossultra

There absolutely was a bull market. The 4 year cycle is far from done. We just didn't get the alt season we're used to (although we still definitely had more concentrated alt runs for SOL, XRP, HYPE, and some others). The difference that you experienced in alt coins was related to tighter monetary policy from the fed this cycle. Less liquidity was focused on fewer assets, so it was much harder to pump the broader market.

UhUhWaitForTheCream

SOL barely broke its previous ATH

hoppeeness

And SOL and a few others.

YankeeDoodlePeguin

What are you talking about? BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL and BNB all reached a new ATH last year. That was a bull market.

GreenStretch

Top 10 doesn't mean very much in crypto. It changes a lot. Peak this cycle [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20251005/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20251005/) Peak 2021 cycle [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20211114/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20211114/) Peak 2017-8 cycle [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20180114/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20180114/) So which coins, excluding stablecoins, are in all three BTC, ETH, XRP, ADA BTC is the only one with a big increase in fiat price. ETH was slightly above its 2021 peak in this cycles ATH. XRP was also up, but was way down in 2021 with the SEC case. ADA didn't match its 2021 peak. SOL and BNB were in the last two cycles, but SOL didn't get anywhere close to the optimistic predictions expecting it to match ETH's growth between 2017 and 2021. BNB did well. DOGE and TRON were sort of odd shots with DOGE roaring in 2021 and TRON reaching its ATH this cycle. The other thing is its possible to buy former top 10 coins when they're massively depressed in the bear market and hope to take profits, even if they don't reach previous ATHs.

StorageOk2813

Hell yeah!!! Imma throw some in SOL. I appreciate you!!! Any others you like?