SOL

Outrageous-Study7881

With a 2k portfolio and a mid risk/reward goal, I’d probably keep it fairly simple. A core position in ETH for growth and ecosystem exposure, a couple of strong large-cap alts (like SOL or BNB..) for higher upside, and a small allocation to a narrative I believe in (AI, L2s, or DeFi). I’d also keep some dry powder in stablecoins in case of dips. No memes, no leverage just projects with real usage and liquidity.

buddies2705

Pure shit. Everything is shit other than a few major coins like BTC, SOL, ETH Of course, you can trade them to make money, but do not hold any of these shit coins. Make money and get out

gonats24

exactly this. the narrative doesn't match reality at all. SOL XRP SEI ADA all up huge from their cycle lows. people writing these articles either don't do basic research or they're just farming clicks with fear. either way it's lazy and misleading for anyone actually trying to learn

layersofme72

feel you on that. my SEI SUI and SOL are all near lows but honestly these are legit L1s with real usage and development. alts always bleed the most during uncertainty but if you believe in the tech this is when you should be buying not selling at the bottom

RefrigeratorLow1259

Monad may be architecturally cleaner than Solana or Sui, but decentralisation is proven by who can realistically run validators and who controls upgrades NOT by execution elegance. With its massive VC backing it'll take years to implement true decentralisation. Anyway, Monad competes primarily with ETH L2s not SOL or SUI.

gentryb_1

yeah exactly. BTC pumps then profits rotate into solid alts projects like SOL SEI and SUI. pretty straightforward pattern

Organic_Horse88

Yeah just buy the top coins like BTC, SOL and ETH etc... also invest only your exrta.

Ok-Appointment4871

Hey Reddit, I wanted to share my investment setup and get your thoughts on potential growth. Portfolio (~Dec 2025): • Vanguard All-World ETF: ~€16k • AI / Tech stocks: ~€5.5k • Crypto (ETH + SOL): ~€1.5k Ongoing contributions: • Vanguard ETF: ~€600/month • Crypto: ~€450/month, split daily via DCA (~€13 ETH / ~€2 SOL) using Coinbase One (no trading fees up to €500/month) Strategy: • Daily crypto investing to smooth price entry • Monthly ETF contributions for steady growth • AI / Tech stocks as high-upside satellites Questions: 1. If ETH and SOL perform well, how could my portfolio grow in 5–10 years? 2. For Coinbase One users, is daily investing better than monthly for long-term gains? 3. Advice on optimizing the split between crypto, ETFs, and AI/Tech? Would love your insights, projections, or experiences!

doyzer9

Country is useful as not all allow the same exchanges. Kraken is free to use, and a good learner exchange, with good security and reputation. For beginners using Kraken, the 4.99 a month to join Kraken plus will save on exchange fees. Start with the top cryptos as the value is more stable... BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, TAO, SOL, BNB, and many other top ranked cryptos, these generally go up and down in value in line with BTC. Always buy when the market dips, never in bull runs or from social media hyped coins. The market is in a dip, so personally I would buy now, as I have confidence that the market will recover and boom in 2026. DYOR. Each crypto type is held online on its own independent Blockchain managed by 100s or 1000s of different computers (mining) and verifying the specific crypto ledger (Blockchain) Exchanges and wallets interface into the Blockchain and use highly encrypted "keys" to record and move crypto on each Blockchain. Keys are generally coded by a seed phrase. Anyone with this seed phrase or your "keys" can move your crypto on the Blockchain. For best security, avoid ALL online wallets (metamask, trust wallet, phantom, coinbase wallet, and many other "hot wallets" as your keys/seed phrase is stored online. Buy a cold wallet / hardware wallet is always the best storage solution. Ledger,

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watch-nerd

It's a ghost chain. There are almost no developers compared to ETH and SOL.

miamisportsking

This is my personal strategy, not any advice and not trying to sound superior to anyone… With that being said, for the last 3/4 weeks I’ve gone short on thursdays, closing out positions usually Sunday. Sunday during the dip I’ll go long and close out positions Monday afternoon/evening. It’s been going extremely well. I utilize 3/4/10x margin, always set sl-tp. These are the pairs I trade. BTC/USD, ETH/USD, SPX/USD, SOL/USD, XRP/USD, PAXG/BTC. Since Oct 10 the weekends have been very volatile, and generally speaking that’s how it is. Low liquidity over the weekend, prices dip, good time to buy and take long positions into Monday/Tuesday.

KateR_H0l1day

SOL’s 4 year low was nothing to do with the market in reality, it’s one of those outliers you can look at, but need to understand the circumstances, it sure was a buying opportunity though!

rs7272

Best IMHO is simply treat it like stock. Wether you mine it or buy it. Invest what you can do without for the forseeable future and let it sit for a long time with the expectation of it increasing in value. You could watch constantly and swap coins when the time is right (buy low and sell high in one transaction). I've gotten a bit by swapping BCH for SOL lately.

Mad_Zion

You can, I usually stake some USDT and SOL together, daily APY adds up nice.

Django_McFly

SOL went from $10 in the bear to $300 and people are talking about alts have done nothing. Plenty of tokens didn't make new ATH in 2021. You thought you were buying the next BTC. Turns out it was the next XNO or EOS.

3tc4tc

SOL, ETH, USDT, BNB, or Card. And don't forget to join the Solfart Nation subreddit, thats where the founder are posting most of the time

primeshanks

This is a refreshing take compared to most SOL memes lately. Utility with confirmations matter more than promises.

MundaneSoftware6510

Even with BTC, this is a volatile market. Who can really time the swings here? No one. No one has that crystal ball. I keep my eye on relatively few coins. BTC because it was a once in the human species event… we collectively picked a medium of exchange like we picked gold as a medium. In and of itself what is gold? A pretty yellow metal. Scarce but intrinsically its value is in what we do with it. BTC is the digital equivalent. Any other coin has to stand on its fundamentals and merits. SOL because of its speed and low CPT has value in its technology. It is faster and cheaper than ETH. If it survives another year with no outages and continues to gain commercial acceptance then it will be positioned to become the pipeline for transactions. Visa has set up with Solana. Western Union will use it to host their medium for international settlements and remittances. BTC will be the “standard”. SOL the pipeline. Institutional investors are putting there money here. ETF’s are a great way to manage some of the risk. Hell, Blackrock has thrown money into this. That is the only long term play I will make. There is significant risk but decent upsides… just check if the fundamentals are sound. If they are then I hold. If they are not then I apply my “Ladies, excuse me please” rule and sell regardless of the price or hype. I monitor this on a weekly basis. Any significant news about SOL is piped into my inbox daily. I may lose money on this but it won’t be for desperately holding on. Set your floor and ceiling and your horizon. The stick to them.

watch-nerd

This chain has practically no developers compared to SOL and ETH.

randallmauel

Im holding and very worried. I hold four coins and in the red on all four. It sounds crazy but Im slowly adding to my biggest loser(percentage wise) which is AVAX. It is cheap as hell. Maybe Ill get lucky. Im going to add a little SOL as well. Im way under on ETH. Etherium is my biggest position of any stock or coin. It is just not looking good. I may head to the forest and throw away my phone.

OprahsScaleBroke

This is going to rocket like SOL did when it was down and out. Polkadot ⭕️ for the win! 🏆 🚀🌙

rs7272

Diversify: Crypto - Buy some BTC, SOL, ETH for holding. Buy and stake various coins for a good APR - SOL is stable, ATOM is 16% (not guaraneed) but is a crap shoot. A bunch of other with pros and cons. Stock Market - ETFs / Stocks spread over different markets (communications, tech, consumer staples, etc) \- IRA / Roth, HSA - Same as regular investments, but there are tax breaks and other benefits. Precious Metals - How cool would it be to own a gold bar! High Yield Savings (boring, little return, but it's available anytime) That's 4 things - A decent spread of high yield through complete liquidity. There are many other options for relatively safe investments. Put \~20% in each and keep the last 20% for vegas or a family cruise and have some fun! You can do all of this yourself without paying a banker 1%, but you might want to talk to a pro for specific guidance - Pro as in a financial-related degree on the wall and some experience. In any event, I am sorry for your loss, but happy for the possibility of setting up your next few, several generations for the long term.

MarduckRulez

Validators can't keep the lights on. Project will go dark, unless it does a SOL shitcoin/NFT grift and then it will fizzle out out the sphere.

HSuke

I've figured out how to get the $17M figure. https://www.hivelocity.net/blog/solana-validator-economics/ covers the basic economics. You can then plug in real validators in the dropdown box at https://cogentcrypto.io/ValidatorProfitCalculator to get an idea for when profit is positive. It's about 115K SOL in delegated staking, which is currently $15M.

HSuke

I think the AI post is takking about JPM and State Street shorting SOL when it falls below 750 validators. It's an AI post. I'd take it with a grain of salt. That $17M stake is certainly false since there are $150k validators on mainnet right now.

Internal_Resort5451

You’re not wrong, pure holding only works if price does the heavy lifting. Staking turns SOL into something closer to a productive asset. If the friction is the blocker, wallets like Solflare make validator selection and staking pretty painless now, without needing to become a validator nerd.

iamjide91

Alts are always dramatic. If you are holding alts, make sure it's not solely for speculation. I'm accumulating more AIOZ rn because I think I'll need those tokens for streaming or something related. Could go up in value too, don't mind. But SOL, BNB, ETH are known for speculations, alongside BTC.

Nearby_Iron_4222

Based on outcomes alone, he’s made several impressive calls on Hyperliquid and Polymarket, but whether those came from inside information is ultimately less relevant. What really matters is his background, position structure, and overall risk exposure. With experience as an exchange director, CEO, and later a founder and VC, he likely has a strong understanding of market structure, liquidity, and sentiment inflection points. That said, the current risk profile is far from conservative. Running 5x on ETH and Bitcoin using roughly 60% of available margin, combined with a 20x long on SOL fully in cross margin, effectively concentrates correlation risk across the entire book. In a systemic move, losses would scale non-linearly. I’d view him as someone worth monitoring rather than a strategy to mirror. His edge lies in access, timing, and risk tolerance, which are not easily transferable to most participants.

gamefidelio

Wintermute market maker is short top crypto markets like ETH, BTC, SOL and lately market makers are printing like there's no tomorrow. https://preview.redd.it/kox4scra7t6g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e874af1e6e7428b090b9f18a071e485e37ffd1b Track Wintermute's current trading positions inside [**Nansen analytical tool**](https://app.nansen.ai/profiler?promoCode=ChainROI&address=0xecb63caa47c7c4e77f60f1ce858cf28dc2b82b00&chain=hyperliquid).

rorowhat

It's not that obvious, but you need to read between the lines. 1. Made to be controlled, they can shut it down and bring it back up, reverse transactions etc. This is what a bank does. 2. Super fast and cheap, can support millions of transactions just like VISA etc, at a fraction of the cost. 3. SOL has the largest TVL after ether, means it's being used and creating profit. It's a profitable chain, unlike all these other ghost chains. 4. ETF are coming and doing well 5. High staking rewards. That means that if you have the option of an eth vs a sol etf for income. Sol wins. It has a higher "dividend" while being 4x smaller, so more "room for growth" if you think of it as an investment. 6. JP Morgan is using Solana to issue debt. 7. SOL is the #1 chain for RWA. HSBC and BoA are using it to tokenise bonds. 8. The US president used sol for its tokens, he could have used any other chain. 9. It's US based, with Trump's America first agenda this is huge. I fought buying Solana for so long, because when I started in 20 17 it was all about decentralization and going against the machine. However, now in 2025 it became part of big finance, so like it or not it's going to so very well. I finally gave in and got some, in the meantime I keep staking and growing my stack.

rorowhat

It goes against what the crypto was meant to be. It's totally centralized and controlled by a few validators. However. This gives it a lot of speed and they can make changes faster vs a decentralized approach where it needs consensus and all that stuff. It's made for wall street. SOL can 2x its price and still be 1/2 of the market cap of ETH.

WellPayed

Feels like BTC ETH SOL & XRP about to pump

rorowhat

SOL is the next Wall Street darling. ETFs are starting to come. If we have an alt season I don't think you can go wrong with SOL. And I hate it but it is what it is.

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MariachiArchery

Stocks are a little different because we are almost always converting to cash when exiting a position. You would never be trading Amazon shares for Google shares. You'd always convert to cash. Crypto differs in that we can swap BTC for ETH, or USDT for SOL, for example. Neither of these transaction involve cash, but they are both taxable events. It's a little different.

Buddy_Palguy

Go SOL! I don’t have any but LFGGG!

LargeSnorlax

What would the value proposition of buying alts near the top and at the end of the cycle be? They're only ever going to go one direction. You'd be hoping that Bitcoin hits all time high again and I don't see why you would. Not really into fortune telling but I think if this cycle at all follows previous ones you'd see a bottom somewhere around 50-60k, or [prices like this from last February](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20240218/) ETH was actually holding up well then - Same with SOL, all the rest of the alts dropped off a cliff though, so if you wanted to buy them you'd probably buy them after Bitcoin bottomed a bit more. That being said, there's huge money flowing into the Bitcoin price now - Will we actually see a big dip like the past or will it just kind of flutter around 80k for a while as the "bear market"?

jabbarpk94

Honest advice: Stay away from these shitcoins! If you absolutely must buy some, then wait a few months to a year and buy them around $1000/$30 (ETH/SOL).

JustKing0

All in SOL?

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gentryb_1

they just took forever to build anything. by the time smart contracts actually worked SOL and other chains like SEI & SUI already had thriving ecosystems. developer activity moved on basically

FabulousPlum4917

Investing in ETH or SOL can make sense, but it depends on your risk tolerance. **ETH** is the more stable, long-term option with a huge ecosystem behind it. **SOL** is faster and cheaper but also more volatile, so it comes with higher risk. A lot of people split between both to balance things out. Just remember, crypto is unpredictable, so only invest what you’re comfortable losing.

Lonely_Holiday_6376

SOL is a great coin to trade or hodl for a longer while, but also btc, ETH and so many others. Always remember that the value of your investment can go up but also go down, it sounds corny and shit, but most people seems to think charts of ‘their’ coin will only go up….. I am deep into BRIT now, very high risk play, did a 10x already but I expect it to grow another 10x or even 100x in the coming time…. Maybe diversify your money a bit, invest for instance 5 times $100 in the next months. Just take time to DYOR.

ThatChrisGuy7

Wow my SOL shorts printed Sorry do all the holders

hplovecraft1977

Quick update: already added SOL, ETH, BSC, Base, and Arbitrum pairs. Working on Polygon and Avalanche this week if people actually use it :)

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EarningsPal

How is it all BS when someone can actually profit and live from Defi? You obviously can’t if you don’t have assets already. But you can take BTC, pair it with ETH, then use that token as collateral and then borrow usd from it for spending. Same as JLP. You can keep using work earnings to buy more JLP and then borrow USD using the token as collateral. JLP gets trading fees and the upside of SOL, BTC, ETH. You just have to stick to the plan for a few years and so far the gains have out run the loans. The volatility is the problem and the solution. The dips suck bad. But you just have to accept them and hope you are right in the long run. That the market will rebound and you will see another round of all time highs.

hupcapstudios

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jekpopulous2

The problem is that validators shouldn’t have to be subsidized in the first place… they should be profitable just from processing transactions. This has been an issue for Solana since it launched. The vote transaction fees are insane on top of the high hardware cost and the cost of energy to power that hardware. A validators revenue is proportional to its total active stake, so for a Solana validator to break even they need about 70,000 SOL staked… that’s almost $10M USD. To be profitable they need more than that. If you look at the data about 85% of validators have less than 70,000 SOL staked right now so the vast majority of the network is operating at a loss. Don’t be surprised when another 70% of validators disappear over the next year or two. Also, if you’re wondering where those crippling voting fees go - half are burned and half are awarded to the leader validator. So how is the leader validator selected? It’s stake-weighted. So the largest validators get money from the small validators, buy more SOL, stake it and increase their chances to receive even more voting fees. The system is literally designed to make the largest validators richer and while small validators struggle to break even on operational costs.

Tough-Many-3223

Real estate: what’s get rid of realtors is for everyone to have access to listing and people to be comfortable going through the entire buy/sell processes. It’s not about inspection documents. Plus what does a smart contract do for real estate? Some one still need to sign, pay money, get loan…so is it just a repository? Even so, people still have to agree to execute the smart contract. And what’s wrong with having this repository be centralized? It works just fine…and don’t bring up 3rd world countries that don’t have good repositories because they aren’t going to abide by some NFT. Plus, to be decentralized, do you expect everyone to run a node to keep all this information on their personal node? Do you even run an eth node? Or better yet a SOL node?

Alarming-Jello-5846

I think there’s technically no minimum but the 100 SOL was a recommended starting point. Oh I forgot the fun fact it costs like 1 SOL/day just in transactions lol. https://docs.solanalabs.com/operations/requirements

VincentVan-Gogh

in fact I wanted to diversify my portfolio between BTC, ETH and SOL. Every now and then a bit of gambling like SKAI was yesterday :)

Glyzzza_

Both make sense long-term — ETH is the safer, established play, while SOL is faster and higher-growth. Many investors just hold both to balance stability and upside.

Alarming-Jello-5846

I’m noticing the SOL you need to stake to the node in this costing. IIRC it’s 100 SOL minimum. When I was originally looking to do this that aspect was trivial (another $1-2k) … obviously it’s a bit more expensive these days but it’s not a full on sunk cost like hardware.!

Jealous-Media-664

SOL barely nudges to $133 and the meme sector goes vertical—classic liquidity behavior. That BONK swap alone probably spooked a lot of sidelined traders back in. If you’re actively moving capital around right now, BYDFi’s year-end fiat exclusive with rebates is a decent perk, and they’ve also got that lucky wheel event with BTC and XAUT prizes running. Small edges matter more during volatile phases like this.

Fabulous-Wasabi-9358

Thanks. Totally agree. I have become aware of the risks losing about $10k in total. I think it's a reasonable cost of learning. I have learnt that there are shitcoins and then there are very shitty coins. Zcash is in the 2nd category. Only ETH and SOL are the real shitcoins. It's BTC and to a lesser extent ETH for long term investment for me. I suspected that investing in Strategy stocks is probably not much better than playing crypto..that's why I was looking for opinions.

thelawenforcer

I believe most of the cost comes from needing a large stake to get enough blocks, and in voting fees which cost a couple SOL per day afaik.

DepartedQuantity

Since you asked: Total stake: 401,381,721.28 SOL Percentages Germany: 27.07% Netherlands: 18.78% United States: 17.92% United Kingdom: 8.73% Lithuania: 8.72% Other: 18.79% With just the European Countries listed, that is 63% which is just shy of the 4% super majority. Solana's goal is to have 150ms finality. It is physically not possible for the network to gossip across the world quick enough given that ping times around are higher than that. Even if you were to remove the round trip from the ping time to gossip, you still don't have enough time + overhead + loss to finalize consensus. Which means the network is going to rely on DCs being physically co-located to reach finality. Anatoly Yakovenko has even stated that they want to rely on Starlink to reach consensus because of ping times, which is even more hilarious from a centralization standpoint. Your point about Base going down is supporting my issue about performance chains being centralized. Base is not Ethereum. Base is an L2 operating on Ethereum L1. If Base goes down or stops finalizing, I can always escape-hatch back to Ethereum to recover my funds. You cannot do that with Solana. Also, AWS does not mean data centers (DCs). AWS operates inside DCs, just like Solana nodes operate inside DCs. Fun fact, Solana has been mostly banned from AWS which is why it didn't go down during the AWS outage, however that doesn't mean it's immune from a DC censoring it or cutting them off from the outside world. That is the counterparty risk.

_Jimmy_Rustler

Inverse r/cryptocurrency. The hivemind here is a real thing. Three things this sub will always be are pro-ETH, anti-SOL, and broke.

Distinct-Thanks-6477

Who has been bold enough to buy dips during this unpredictable price action? Waiting patiently for my reward for adding more ETH, AIOZ, and SOL. I think BTC breaking past $100k is the key.

NorskKiwi

IIRC I'm paying around 2% to loan bnUSD via Balanced Network. Can use ETH, SUI, SOL, AVAX, XLM and a bunch of other assets as collateral. You could then swap it on their DEX to native USDC on any of those chains.

pbybel

honestly kraken is one of the better exchanges but youre right about counterparty risk. for ETH you could do Lido or Rocket Pool. SOL maybe Marinade or just native staking

trillionSdollarstech

Your claim was "VC have left". No, they are still dumping on the gullible (SOL, XRP, MON)

trillionSdollarstech

Unlocked to VCs. Good that you talk about unlock, that adds to the insane 5% from staking rewards. The SOL supply increases by 2x since 2021. This blockchain is a dump tool for VCs

trillionSdollarstech

60% or so of SOL belongs to VCs and the foundation. Same with Monad and XRP

j0ker31m

Grok is useful for up to the minute information. You can even have it search posts to see what the community is talking about. I asked it to summarize the recent sentiment of SOL in the x community and it was pretty insightful.

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dhoni23

Well, no one could precisely predict how the world would be like in 2026. But I do believe in a big dip in 2026. Sold all my crypto close to the peak. ETH at 4400, SOL at 240, etc. Waiting for that next dip. Always asking myself if I should buy it already as the dip is here or wait for that crazy bearish world in 2026. haha!

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HoneyDruz

If you’re restarting, SOL is honestly the most beginner-friendly option I’ve tried. It just works without stressing about gas.

Internal_Resort5451

ETH is the more conservative long-term choice due to its established infrastructure. SOL, however, is benefiting from high throughput, low fees, and increased user inflow this cycle.

nopy4

So, BTC is gonna draw with him only DOT and SOL? OK, got it!

iamjide91

Yes the end of the day, we dump all our alts to buy BTC. But I think alts like AIOZ, SOL, FIL, HYPE can make you accumulate BTC even faster.

No-Entrepreneur-1010

ETH sure stack a lot of it but im not sure about SOL

Not99Percent

SOL memes are lagging behind.

MountainSound1076

I bought SOL at 200 I wish I could have gotten in at these prices! I’m holding.

Truth_Teller3

If alts have a comeback SOL seems to be a good bet

NeoDynomite

It absolutely makes sense to buy eth. If you don’t want to worry too much, I think a portfolio of 70% btc, 25% eth, 4% sol and 1% other alts is reasonable. However, since you specifically asked about sol, you could do the full 5% in SOL and skip the alts. I think SOL will likely do well but eth is just so much safer. If I was buying right now, I’d probably aim for close to a 60/40 split with btc and eth and up to 5% sol.

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Post is by: VincentVan-Gogh and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1pgio1n/does_it_make_sense_to_invest_in_eth_during_this/ Hi everyone! I write here in Italian, hoping that Reddit's automatic translation works well 🙄 I am relatively new to the world of investing. A few years ago I had done a few small trades and even made a small profit, but then I stopped dealing with them and no longer applied myself seriously. Now I'm wondering if it's time to start investing again and I would like some advice from those who are more experienced than me. My main question is about cryptocurrencies. It's the beginning of December and I was wondering: do you think it makes sense to invest in ETH (Ethereum) in this period, or is it better to focus on something like SOL (Solana)? I ask because I have become somewhat disconnected from the sector and am no longer updated on the trends of these assets, nor do I remember well the fundamental differences between the two projects. I only have some general notions in my head, so I have several doubts. My goal would be to make a long-term investment, without entering into the logic of frenetic trading or meme coins, which I have tried in the past but have now decided to leave behind. I would like to understand what the strengths and weaknesses of ETH and SOL are at this stage, and if there is any market or technological factor to consider before making a decision. Any suggestions, explanations or personal experiences are more than welcome! Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me shed some light on this topic. *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.*

USAF76-98

Totally agree with 5-10%. I’ve got 4.7% of my portfolio in crypto: BTC, SOL, MSTR & BMNR. Year to date, my crypto is -7.6% Anyone invested more than 10% is sweating bullets …

Truth_Teller3

I got into SUI, SOL, AERO, MON. Going to be a good time if alts pick up

Fit_Age8019

Lmao this kind of post is exactly why SOL meme season is undefeated — half unhinged lore, half on-chain archaeology. Two years untouched on Pump.fun is actually hilarious though; most coins don’t survive **two hours** without a sniper or a deranged dev doing something dumb. That said, once a “dead” meme finally hits Raydium, the first 24–48h are usually pure chaos. Sometimes you get that nostalgic mini-run, sometimes it flatlines again once the novelty wears off. Couple things I watch with these revivals: * **Holder distribution** — if early wallets aren’t dumping instantly, there’s at least a pulse. * **Liquidity depth** — under 20k MC means even tiny buys will send it flying, but also means it can nuke fast. * **Narrative momentum** — if the *story* catches more than the chart, it can move harder than you expect. If people start rotating SOL bags into it, swaps will probably get spiky, so I usually just route through an aggregator like Rubic to avoid getting hammered by bad fills during meme volatility. Either way, this is peak degenerate anthropology — come back with an update if GOON actually lifts off or stays in the cave.

MinimalGravitas

Here are the figures from Friday: *Bitcoin ETFs: 1D NetFlow: -2,599 $BTC (-$236.54M) 7D NetFlow: -1,084 $BTC (-$98.63M) * Ethereum ETFs: 1D NetFlow: +18,286 $ETH (+$57.09M 7D NetFlow: +44,195 $ETH (+$137.98M) * Solana ETFs: 1D NetFlow: +31,742 $SOL (+$4.32M) 7D NetFlow: +422,239 $SOL (+$57.42M) Source: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1996973439438279062?t=P7m9f0rEv_MXF39kbpH26g&s=19

Truth_Teller3

SOL been slowly but surely stacking on the ETF’s

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Post is by: Fuzzy_Firefighter778 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1pfe70k/tokenlevel_risks_while_building_my_portfolio/ I'm not an expert, but I'm struggling with 3 major challenges when trying to invest in tokens: • **Ecosystem–Token Misalignment:** A protocol can show real traction—usage, integrations, capital flow, but the token may capture little of that value if it isn’t required for core activity, doesn’t receive fee accrual, or is diluted by emissions. • **Misread Institutional Signaling:** Large enterprises interacting with a protocol (pilots, data partnerships, custody tests, sandbox usage) are frequently misinterpreted as future token demand, even though these firms are typically conducting technical diligence, evaluating integration standards, or laying groundwork to issue their own assets, meaning their involvement is not a reliable indicator of sustained buy pressure on the native token. • **Internalization Risk:** Blockchain technology may prove useful and scalable, but enterprises can adopt, fork, or rebuild the underlying tech internally, capturing the benefits without relying on the native token, leaving the associated crypto asset with little or no long-term value. I'm trying to understand tokens with strong long-term value capture, real utility, and meaningful technological differentiation. I want to invest in tokens that minimize these risks and offer the highest potential upside. I'd appreciate any feedback on my overall approach or on my portfolio below: * ETH: 30% * BTC: 17% * LINK: 17% * AVAX: 9% * SOL: 8% * HED: 5% * Other: 14% *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.*

Steezy_Steve1990

I’ve been in crypto since 2017. My intro was buying the top in 2017 and ridding my bags down 90% until 2021 when those bags 10x my initial investment and I sold them. This cycle. Similar to you. Had a 6x on my SUI bag in January 2025 and round tripped it to today. Still in profit on my SUI but everything else is 60%-90% down. All I can say is crypto is a highly volatile asset and people seem to forget to have the possibility of 10x returns you have to accept that that same volatility can dump your bags 90%. Another point, people in this market have the memory of a goldfish and the emotional maturity of a toddler. Every time we get a dump it’s over and every time it pumps lock in for 100x gains. They aren’t right. The answer is normally somewhere in the middle. As for lessons I’ve learnt the hard way. Don’t chase pumps and FOMO in every pump and sell every dump. You will slowly loose all your money. Hold a few high conviction cryptos that you actually believe in and for god sakes do your own research. Also, being in this market now for 8 years, I can say that it is changing. Institutions are here now and we’re playing their game. Low market cap coins might be dead. Better off seeing where big money is going and invest in large caps. Best thing is buy BTC/ETH/SOL in the depths of the bear market. Guaranteed great profits within a few years.

Divay_vir

Hyperliquid’s fee numbers are definitely eye-catching, and I get why you’re thinking it could be the next big mover. Just be careful with jumping straight to a $300 target token price only follows revenue if the tokenomics actually funnel value back to holders. A few things I’d check: – Are those fees from real, sticky traders or just a temporary wave? – How does Hype’s utility compare to GMX/dYdX? – Is the market cycle helping or hurting entries right now? I grabbed early SOL too, but sizing reasonably saved me when other bets didn’t hit. If you end up moving assets across chains for HYPE, Rubic has been useful since it aggregates a ton of liquidity.

GroundbreakingPage41

Weird how every time there’s a hack in the ETH ecosystem you have to dig to find that it was running on the ETH blockchain but when it’s SOL that won’t let you miss it

MemeyOreos

exactly. thats why im just building positions in solid projects like SOL, SEI , SUI now and playing the long game

robbydukes

not my style honestly. i stick to buying solid projects like SOL, ETH, SUI, SEI & and the likes, with good fundamentals and holding. shorting seems too risky and time consuming for my taste

abking84

Maybe - there are certainly a lot of people that get way with tax fraud, but I was just poking holes at your logic about waiting out the statute of limitations. This is the worst case scenario consequences of doing this. The IRS could technically "go after" you for the rest of your life. I worked as a liaison between criminal and civil fraud, and you don't have to be "Wesley Snipes." They go after lots of "regular" people. If the dollar amount is high enough (100's of thousands) you could be investigated by Criminal Investigation. If it's less money, you could be assessed a 75% civil fraud penalty which has a much lower burden of proof. You can't just "wait out the SOL and make the collections go away. Good luck with having a lawyer make that go away. Your wages would be garnished forever, assets seized, and can never get a tax refund or stimulus payment again, unless you do everything "off the table" for the rest of your life.

Blerp09876998

honestly the amount of scams out there is crazy. feels like every week there's another rug or exploit. just gotta stick to the bigger alt-coin projects like SUI, SOL, & SEI i guess.

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FallenWiFi

This is why SOL is the answer

donjoe0

Kaspa for one, you could bother because it's simply better tech that does the same thing as Bitcoin, without sacrificing anything mentioned in the famous trilemma - it breaks out of the trilemma by being a blockDAG, not a block-chain, and is developed by some supernerd OGs with published papers on crypto technology. The only question is if it's going to get the required network effect or sustained popularity growth after it got an initial one in 2023-24 but then deflated, and meanwhile the top exchanges are still refusing to list it. (With continued development it could become a combination of the best things about BTC and ETH/SOL, so if it can't win on just being better than BTC, it could win later down the road by replacing both top dogs, or all 4-5-6 top dogs.)

LargeSnorlax

Altcoins are betting on trends and hype, they're not "legitimate investing" and anyone who's looking at them like that needs to give their head a shake Buying HYPE or HBAR (just for examples) is not like buying Johnson and Johnson / AMD (#20 and #32 in marketcap in crypto / real businesses) because they are not real businesses making real products You're betting on them to become popular enough on a certain timeframe and then sell them at a price that's beneficial for you For instance, u/Aerocryptic down there was buying [TAO](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bittensor) when it was $50 back in 2023 and (hopefully) made a good amount of profit when the AI boom took off because of it Back when I saw meme popularity was rising in 2023 I was balls deep in SOL liquidity pools and as a result picked up huge profits on stuff like WIF and POPCAT Anyone who was in the ordinals trend when it first started made money - Same with getting into the ATOM ecosystem hype back when it was big The thing is, those aren't businesses like in the real world - You don't hold altcoins forever. Hype and trends die down, and then too so do altcoin prices. WIF is down 90% from its high, ATOM has been breaching all time lows for a while. You're not meant to hold them in your 401k. Their prices don't continue to go up forever. You have to make decisions and trade accordingly.

Aerocryptic

You're not immune to make a good trade. It's been way harder the last 3 years but it's not impossible. Ask the people who were bold enough to buy SOL at $10 My biggest alt trade this cycle is still outperforming btc