SOL

YNWA_1213

I’m really liking this strategy, happy I pulled out before the correction, but in the future im putting my money into this strategy. ETH and SOL are battling to be the ‘useful’ coin in Europe, so having a stake in both means you should come out ahead whichever one is adopted. BTC really just levels out the highs and lows (as much as it can).

paulwal

A Solana LST, looped with SOL. I'd go for INF, multiply 10x on Jupiter. You'll get like 15-25% APY. Liquidation is theoretically impossible. It would require some major failure of Solana, the LST contract, or Jupiter's oracle. Their oracle isn't affected by LST price depegs. SOL is relatively low right now. Who knows... It could be at $500 in 2-3 years, plus your ~20% APY.

classytrashheap

I'm doing 50% BTC, 30% ETH, and 20% SOL for the time being. 

romik2821

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

intelw1zard

I've had SOL, ETH, BTC, and ADA on auto purchase monthly for all of 2024 and 2025.

Aggressive_Notice313

Haha, this image kills me every time. The Grim Reaper knocking on the 420th door labeled “90k” like *“you again??”* while BTC’s like *“sorry bro, not today”*… classic. Honestly, this endless range finished me. I packed up my moon dreams and switched to full zombie mode: one tiny BTC/USDT or SOL trade per day just to tick the boxes for the Trading Club Championship on Bitget and collect some leftover BGB crumbs. At least it rewards my legendary laziness 😅

friendsandmodels

Xmr is only on the XMR network. Any other XMR like on SOL is a fake like WBTC

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final_lionel

Solana is very good so a lot of shitcoin stays on it and we pay low fees for ETH. Eth needs SOL otherwise x10 tx fees 😅

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Post is by: Any-Farm-1033 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1q2x7kn/the_cex_vs_dex_tradeoff_nobody_talks_about/ Been in crypto since 2019 and watched my portfolio swing from $180k to $12k and back to $95k. Through all of that, the one thing that consistently cost me money wasn't bad trades. It was friction. Let me explain what I mean. Last March, I spotted a Solana memecoin early through a Nansen smart money alert. Some whale wallet started accumulating and I had maybe 45 minutes before CT caught on. By the time I bridged funds from my CEX, swapped to SOL, connected my Phantom wallet, and figured out the correct slippage settings, the token had already done a 4x. I bought the top like an idiot and watched it dump 70% over the next hour. This keeps happening. The decentralization vs convenience debate isn't theoretical anymore. It's costing retail participants real money every single day. The actual tradeoffs most people don't calculate: Time cost: Setting up a proper self custody solution takes hours. Managing multiple wallets across chains, backing up seed phrases securely, understanding which RPCs to use. Most people underestimate this. Gas inefficiency: I tracked my Ethereum gas spending across 47 transactions in 2024. Spent $2,847 just on failed transactions and suboptimal timing. That's not even counting successful swaps. One revoked approval during the March congestion cost me $89 in gas alone. Security surface area: Every wallet connection is a potential attack vector. I've had three friends get drained this year alone from malicious approvals they forgot to revoke. But here's the thing. CEXs have their own problems. Withdrawal freezes during volatility. Delistings without warning. The constant Currently rotating between those and BYDFi crypto exchange with their MoonX feature, you transfer SOL or BNB to MoonX first, then trade on chain tokens from there. Still way faster than bridging to external wallets. Actually saved me from aping into a honeypot last week when their scanner flagged it before I confirmed. That said, the token selection is still limited compared to going direct through Raydium, and spreads can be wider on low liquidity pairs. Is any of this as decentralized as using a DEX directly? No. But these are the tradeoffs I'm personally willing to make for speed. The uncomfortable truth: Pure decentralization maximalists will hate this take, but most retail participants aren't equipped to be their own bank. The learning curve is steep and the cost of mistakes is permanent. Meanwhile, the "banks building cages" concern is valid. Traditional finance is absolutely trying to capture crypto through ETFs and regulated custody. The practical solution probably isn't choosing one extreme. It's understanding which tool fits which use case. Cold storage for long term holds. CEX for high frequency trading where you need guaranteed execution. DEX aggregators for tokens that haven't hit centralized listings yet. Hybrid solutions for everything in between. Next month I'm planning to run a proper comparison. Same starting capital across three setups: pure DEX, pure CEX, and hybrid. Track total fees, slippage, missed opportunities, and final P&L. Might post the results here if there's interest. *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_South_9912

Stay with the larger coins that have enough adoption for ETFs. BTC, ETH, SOL are "the big 3" adopted by major financial institutions.

flying-fox200

It's difficult to know which ones will moon... You could get lucky and become a millionaire, or you could just be left with a bag of worthless coins. The safest is to invest in the biggest ones (BTC, ETH, SOL, etc...) and hold them for 10+ years.

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YogurtCloset3335

Memecoin mania is mostly over. SOL ETFs are in. The SOL network has 1000k tx/s capacity. Have patience lad.

MundaneSoftware6510

Substitute Solana for Ethereum where ever it appears in your post and you will be spot on. Better yet… BTC as the store of value, ETH as the major medium of exchange and SOL as the pipeline that carries it all. SOL is faster and cheaper than ETH by a long shot.

Plenty_Dog_5684

Not true, he can trade with Hyperliquid, leverage up to 100x on BTC and relatively low fees. It can be accessed through phantom wallet with SOL

Status-Nose-7173

I like how SOL is pointing at XRP lmao

ubermensch1001

Bro, if what we've seen over the last couple months is not a clear bottom to these people than I don't know what to say to them lol. Another poster's logic on here was that it can drop substantially further from here given xyz, talking a 10%+ downside move and not something like where BTC goes to 85. They would probably see something like the COVID crash and sit completely on the sidelines because they believe it can and will go substantially lower. These are the same people who will FOMO back into the market when BTC sets a new all time high, just like what the Wall St. cheat sheet shows lol. Again, SOL was back down to prices we saw in the fall of 2024 and ADA was trading at cycle lows with regards to it's BTC pairing at 400 sats, if that isn't a fantastic potential return there to these morons they don't have a clue.

obolli

131 Million Binance, Bybit and Hyperliquid on BTC, ETH and SOL alone. 15.46 Million Long and 115.58 Million short, hour by hour with counts and symbols: [https://wangr.com/liquidations/summary](https://wangr.com/liquidations/summary)

Business-Average-977

https://preview.redd.it/ctfjoh3utyag1.png?width=317&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ff51cf18021d2782a5e1536db04c60b81fb97e1 Yeah, SOL just had a nice break of structure. Went long on it last night.

ModernDayExplorer

Im ready to get out of SOL. Just waiting for price to go back up...

baIIern

No business accepts it. Do you think my local café will send XMR to a CEX to exchange it for SOL or whatever? I think people are only using it to buy highly illegal stuff on the internet. Nobody needs Monero for legal purposes in real life. Weed can be bought with cash which is perfect for this use case.

Glyzzza_

If it fits your risk tolerance, a small SOL allocation as a diversifier makes sense. No need to chase—BTC and ETH can stay the core.

cyger

I kind of agree with you, but most alts are dead and may truly hit near zero levels for zombie chains. ETH and SOL are exceptions.

jawni

>Nah, I can name BNB and Link from top of my head, there are a couple of more. BNB only can compete in volume, because it gets juiced by Binance. So that's not a great comparison. Chainlink isn't an L1, so not a great comparison there either. >All of them are either crabbing forever or going to 0. Every coin is... >Check some of the hard hitters in older bullruns, especially before 2020 and tell me where are they now. yeah, and did any of them have the success that SOL did? No. And shouldn't it be a sign that the two (poor) examples you chose, are still very highly valued? It's almost as if alts can be good investments if they aren't vaporware.

jkl2035

Think this is one of the Most relevant topics within crypto for the Next years, I personally Hedge my BTC/ETH/SOL stake with some projects which are already quantum resistant Like QRL, MCM & ABEL

Vegetable-Pepper7772

https://preview.redd.it/fcvo4kyhwvag1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c76ab750e54b5924924841029bfbe026e9fb168 The chart for Solana (SOL) over the past 6 months shows a significant downtrend after peaking around $230-$240 in late September/early October 2025. The price has recently found some stability and shows signs of attempting to establish a bottom around the $110-$120 range, as per ChartScanner.AI analysis. This could be indicative of a potential reversal or at least a temporary bounce. The current price action suggests that selling pressure is easing, and buyers might be stepping in at these lower levels. A successful bottoming formation typically precedes an uptrend, but confirmation is needed with increased volume and sustained price appreciation.

ubermensch1001

So, you expect something like ADA to drop well below 30 cents or SOL to go well below $100? These levels are LOWER than where we were at prior to presidential election of 2024 after a major sell off going into the late summer of that year.

paulwal

60% SOL, 25% BTC, 15% ETH is better

Bubbacarl

I have a small, respectable SOL holding. They have a fast platform and may be key to financial services in the long run. Plus, you can stake it for a decent return unlike BTC. ETH also returns very little staking it.

jawni

I'm not sure why people are still so skeptical of SOL. It's the best risk/reward in crypto right now because it's the only meaningful competitor to Ethereum and it increasingly looks like any other chain is going to be left in the dust or will need to carve out a specialized niche. Network effects are just so powerful that a marginal increase in speed or cost isn't going to make people switch chains at this point. Solana has been competing against L2s for almost as long as it's been around and it seems to be doing fine. There are always going to be some use cases where having your own l2 is preferable, like Robinhood's chain for example, but outside of that most projects will deploy on Base or Solana. Solana is obviously the preferred chain for memecoins trading but it's also becoming the preferred spot for trading tokenized stocks and other assets. It's the only chain to outperform both Bybit and Binance on SOL/USD pair.volume and it can do so very efficiently when it comes to liquidity. Solana ETFs have done amazingly well and Solana had many DATs stacking SOL too. Also big technical upgrades coming like the new consensus mechanism Alpenglow, which will make Solana twice as fast but also the Firedancer client that will increase throughput.

Aggressive_Trick_654

Over 5 years. SOL up 13250.09% XRP up 1192.41% Key Metrics Comparison Metric XRP Solana Current Price $1.87 $124.50 Market Cap $113.03 billion $70.08 billion 24h Trading Volume $862 million $1.56 billion Daily Active Accounts 25,000 2.5 million Transaction Speed 1,500 TPS 65,000 TPS Avg. Transaction Fee $0.0002 $0.00025 Max Supply 100 billion XRP Unlimited

MakCapital

Absolutely wrong. Last cycle speculation leaned into junk because quality wasn't allowed. We decided to trade mostly memes (XRP being one). Quality was generally targeted by regulators, but the best tech and the best earners still championed the cycle for risk/reward and gains. SOL did 30x with a much higher new ATH for everyone that staked at the 4 year bear market low. Its top ecosystem earners also returned amazing gains. Air drops were phenomenal. The network itself returned billions to SOL holders. Hence why the asset dominated most alt pairs. Most on Reddit focused on Ethereum and junk L2s or vaporware like Cardano and its ecosystem. Both experiencing no true bull market. They stuck to dead L1s or permissioned networks bc they saw these assets continue to get mentioned on social marketing. Good fundamentals like Hyperliquid & SUI did incredibly well. Hyperliquid still dominating rev. If Hyperliquid rev continues, it'll once again lead the next bull. If Solana remains top experience for issuers/spot traders, the same will likely occur there too. Tech with user activity, fundamentals, completely matters. Crypto Reddit just doesn't see this because they were convinced the good tech was related to what they held and not networks like Solana, Hyperliquid, SUI, ETC. Good fundamentals don't always guarantee a win, but it's exactly how you should allocate. Shouldn't invest based on praying for XRP meme styled pumps or make any decision on popular crypto Reddit belief. Minimum effort of research on fundamentals would have shown how to allocate last bear. Everyone that did this, won huge. Everyone following Reddit popular opinion got completely destroyed or saw minimal gains. The next bear is here. You can choose to follow popular social opinion or start determining what is capturing activity, rev, users with good tech. What offers the best experience? Have L2s improved? Best way to start learning is by simply using everything while comparing the data on plenty of analytics platforms like Defilama.

No_Giraffe_4647

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

Django_McFly

I'm stacking stables. I think it's a bear. I think BTC does another 50% drop from here. So the $40ks. I'll do my first lump sum buy @ $60k BTC and rather than stacking stables I'll DCA into volatile assets. If I end up being wrong and it's looking like this was a triple peak, infinite bid, supercycle etc... I'll begrudgingly buy back in @ $110k. BTC didn't double it's previous ATH this time. SOL+ETH saw 10% gains or less. Most other alts from 2021 actually peaked at a loss vs ATH. The next run could totally continue the trend (starting from like 2011/12) and BTC is lucky to be 50% higher than previous ATH and ETH+SOL don't make it back to previous ATH. I think people have to be smarter with crypto now and really target entries and exits. Crypto isn't *blindly buy, wait a few years, feast* anymore.

Pitagrec

No, 2025 was no bear market by any means. Crypto market cap hit 4.2 trillion USD. BTC, BNB, ETH, XRP all hit their ATHs in Q3 2025. SOL came pretty close. You can't be hitting those ATHs and state that we are in a bear market. Oct 2025 is when the bear market started. It looks like all of 2025 was a bear market, but it wasn't. Sure, a lot of other alt coins didn't hit ATH, but why should every coin hit it given that most don't really provide any value? Also, retail investors had AI stocks, prediction markets, gold/silver to gamble on.

Ikki_The_Phoenix

It's better than stacking alts. They're basically underwater from its 2021 top aside from BNB and SOL.

vb90

BTC + ETH + SOL + XRP (so the stuff that big money cares about) doesn't need the government to be saved, jp morgan or blackrock can resuscitate it by themselves. Scrap BTC from that list, it has enough blind-believers already, won't need it.

Decentralization-God

Also what changed since 2021 is the massive memecoin mania which basically extracted “pump and down schemas” from relatively serious projects and coins. People dont like truth if it is not favourable for them, but all these changes actually mean evolution and progress. My above comment is true, and got downvoted without any counter-arguments. It is just reaction of average folks. In 2026 the world now expects a real value from real projects, so they can be valued based on those fundaments. Because that typical unjustified pump and downs are already memecoin sector. Many projects can simply end in 1-2 years. So XRP, ETH, SOL? or ADA? BTC is already hardly movable due to size and strong inst. position. Age of speculation only is comming to the end. That is actually good news.

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Chief_Kief

SOL will probably suffer the same fate as the rest of them tbh

Ikki_The_Phoenix

Imagine someone who bought $ETH top back in 2021. 4 years went by and they're still underwater as bitcoin, SOL and BNB hit new ATHs.

Skipwho

Trying to buy with SOL through phantom, and definitely have enough to cover fees

Rodrixh

MetaMask and Trust Wallet are better for presales. Are you buying with ETH, SOL, or BNB?

ilouiei

I'm not sure what I was looking at before but I double checked and my sell fee was only $40, I don't know why I thought it was much higher. I sold my BTC to cancel out 17k in short-term gains from SOL/ETH which would've resulted in me paying 4k in taxes. Appreciate the reminder.

redblddrp

If you do trade around these moves using something like Rubic to swap or bridge SOL without extra fees makes it easier to move in and out without stacking pointless costs

redblddrp

If you’re comparing sentiment it was more hype 2 months ago now it’s more about real activity and actual adoption For swapping or moving SOL around Rubic is still one of the easiest tools without crazy fees or extra steps

redblddrp

a lot of people split small amounts to play with both ETH for a safer base SOL for higher risk growth for moving or swapping SOL easily Rubic is handy lets you swap across chains without piling on fees

crypto_ad_97

The honest take on ADA's problem isn't the technology, but adoption. Caradano focused on research and slow development, while other projects were quicker to attract developers and users. The $3 peak in 2021 was driven more by hype and excitement than by actual usage, and afterward, there wasn't enough demand to support higher prices. ADA isn't dead, but it's no longer a leader. With institutional investors entering the market, the advantage now lies with liquid and active chains like BTC and ETH (and even SOL). Any future rise for ADA will likely be driven by the overall market, not by any unique achievement.

blaggerbly

Very true, quick, buy SOL 🤦‍♂️

Old_Singer_217

I trade SOL futures on BYDFi exchange to keep growing my portfolio while I wait. It is a good way to stay engaged with the market without touching the meme coins.

Novel-Bad2984

I think this is too hard on him. I do believe long term it may have better prospects but it won’t be mooning. It would be like BTC, ETH, SOL and AVAX for infrastructure chain. Over the long term it might surpass SOL for institutions needing high configurability and those who are paying higher gas on ETH might consider it.

Ikki_The_Phoenix

''I'm a bagholder coping with catastrophic losses by pretending losing 91% is part of some 4D chess strategy that doesn't exist.'' Let's dismantle this garbage shall we? Your Uber Analogy Is Fucking Stupid Uber burns cash to subsidise RIDES. You pay $5 for a $15 ride. Uber loses $10. You get addicted. They raise prices later. That's a real subsidy with a real mechanism. AVAX token at $12 vs $50 subsidises NOTHING. Gas fees don't get cheaper. Developers don't pay less. Users don't benefit. The token price has zero impact on chain usability. You're comparing Uber losing money per transaction to create user addiction versus AVAX holders losing money while the foundation dumps tokens on them. These aren't remotely the same thing. If low token price was ''the strategy,'' why did AVAX hit $145? Did they fuck up their own master plan? Or are you just inventing narratives to cope with bags? Your ''Adjusted Price'' Math Is Weapons Grade Copium You: ''If we adjust for supply, AVAX at $20-30 equals $70 in 2022!'' Current price: $12.36 Your entire thesis depends on a price that doesn't fucking exist. You're not even in your own cope scenario. But let's play your game: 2022: $17.1B market cap 2025: $5.3B market cap That's down 69% You diluted holders with 75% more supply AND lost 69% of market cap. That's not ''adjusting for inflation'' that's getting doubly fucked. ''Buhhbut if you adjust...'' No. Fuck your adjustments. Inflation IS the problem. You can't ''adjust away'' the fact that the foundation is dumping tokens on holders while market cap collapses. BTC has inflation too. Mining rewards add supply. Yet BTC made new ATHs. Why? Because demand outpaced supply. AVAX couldn't do that. Because nobody wants it. Your ''Social Media'' Excuse Is Backwards ''AVAX has bad social media attention which suppresses price'' Price creates sentiment, you fucking moron. Not the other way around. When SOL crashed 94% with FTX, everyone called it dead. Social sentiment was nuclear. Then it recovered. Suddenly everyone loves SOL again. The recovery created positive sentiment. Not the other way around. If AVAX pumped to $100 tomorrow, X would explode with ''AVAX IS BACK'' posts. Influencers would shill it. Social sentiment would flip bullish in 24 hours. AVAX has bad social sentiment because it's down 91% and bleeding holders for 4 fucking years. The sentiment reflects reality. You have cause and effect completely backwards because you need to blame something other than the obvious your coin is dogshit. The ''Worse Market Conditions'' Lie ''AVAX is achieving similar adjusted price under much worse market conditions!'' WHAT WORSE CONDITIONS? BTC: Near all time highs ($87K) Total crypto market cap: $3 trillion ETFs approved and flowing Institutional adoption growing We're in a fucking bull market 2022 was Luna collapse, FTX implosion, mass deleveraging, and nuclear bear market. 2025 is good conditions and AVAX is STILL bleeding (-67% annually). You're getting destroyed in favourable conditions. That's WORSE, not better. Stop lying about market conditions to explain why your shitcoin can't keep up with BTC going up 26% from the same timeframe. Your ''1 to 2% Trading'' Is Admitting Defeat ''Trade 1-2% fluctuations without concern about losing out on upside growth'' READ WHAT YOU JUST WROTE. ''Without concern about losing out on upside growth'' YOU JUST ADMITTED THERE'S NO UPSIDE. This is what you tell people stuck in a dead asset with no future. ''Hey, scalp pennies because it's not going anywhere!'' BTC holders don't need to scalp 1-2%. They just hold and they're up 26% from 2021. You're telling people to actively trade tiny ranges because the underlying asset is DEAD MONEY going nowhere. That's called a zombie coin. Congratulations. Your ''Tech Improvements'' Narrative Is Unfalsifiable Bullshit ''They're making changes like Etna and Octane that appeal to users over investors'' WHERE ARE THE USERS? Show me the user growth. Show me the TVL growth. Show me ANYTHING that proves these ''improvements" matter. Current AVAX metrics: Down 91.3% from ATH Down 67% annually Technical signals: SELL on all timeframes Sentiment: Extreme Fear (20/100) Rank: #31 (was top 10) Your ''tech improvements'' are doing fuck all. Nobody cares. Nobody's using it. The market doesn't believe you. But you have constructed an unfalsifiable narrative: Price goes up = ''See! Tech works!'' Price goes down = ''They're focused on tech, not price!'' With this logic you can never be wrong. Let's Talk About What's Really Happening The Avalanche Foundation is farming you: They printed tokens (245M → 430M = 75% dilution) Market cap collapsed ($17.1B → $5.3B = -69%) You got diluted AND price dumped They keep promising 'institutional adoption' while dumping on retail You write essays explaining why this is fine You're exit liquidity for foundation dumping. ''Buhhbut institutions are testing AVAX!'' Testing ≠ using. I can test drive a Ferrari and buy a Honda. That doesn't make me a Ferrari customer. The Uncomfortable Truth You Won't Accept SOL won the L1 wars. AVAX lost. That's it. Solana: Recovered, top 5, actual users AVAX: Dead money, rank 31, cope essays Your ''363 L1s'' are ghost chains. Your ''institutional partnerships'' are tests that lead nowhere. Your ''tech improvements'' aren't creating adoption. The market is screaming this at you: -91.3% from ATH -67% annually Extreme Fear sentiment SELL on all timeframes But you won't listen because you're financially and emotionally invested in being right

partymsl

Fucking hell man, I bet so much on ATOM during the last bear market and it all went up to nothing. Should have gone for SOL...

Fladian7

Well let’s see, other points would be your “Core Risk” and “2018 inflation bug”. Sapling fixed the 2018 vulnerability in Sprout. You can actively track how much ZEC there are in the shielded supply in all 3 pools. Sprout, Sapling, & Orchard and contrast it to the available ZEC in the transparent pool. That sounds pretty auditable to me. Well of course, those are the miners that went and listed their ZEC once it was also available on exchanges to do so. Not to mention exchanges require liquidity of said coin to sell it. Do I need to explain how supply and demand works to you? 1.3 million on the first day is a drop in the bucket compared to all of these pump & dump memes spun off ETH, & SOL. You know as well as I do there are people with such money that scalp and snipe any new listing they see for a quick flip apart from these token creators. Those people will exist no matter what coin you’re talking about. Does it make the technology any less valuable because of malicious actors? No. If that was the case Bitcoin wouldn’t be widely accepted as it is. Bitcoin has been good to me as an early investor, so theres no ill-will against something that made me a lot of money. After being in the crypto-space for years, public transparent ledgers are not attractive for my financial safety. If at any point I transact with someone thats a malicious actor they now have full transaction history of my balance. At least a bank hides my bank statements and transaction history from the public eye and only shares with the government. Now you could argue that I can just constantly create new addresses to send from. But even that’s not going to be feasible for the average user to onboard for OPSEC. And when the time comes that 1 Sat itself is extremely valuable that makes it even less attractive to lose dust shifting addresses just to remain pseudonymous.

jawni

Not all of them. I also would say ALGO is my biggest disappointment but luckily I sold it for another VC coin, SOL. Both were promising projects, both VC backed, but SOL had the better GTM strategy and got the traction it needed.

ComplexWrangler1346

SOL is trash to begin with …it’s a meme coin casino …

jawni

Solana has the best shot IMO. Solana is the only chain doing more volume than Binance and Bybit spot volumes combined on its own token/usd pairing and the efficiency of propAMMs on Solana mean that even with relatively low TVL they have better execution on SOL/USD pairs. https://x.com/kaviish/status/2002601613316513917 More and more assets are becoming available to trade, whether it's other L1 tokens like ZEC, NEAR, XRP, or tokenized stuff like stocks, collectibles, etc. And of course it's already won with memes. I think it's just a matter of time and a matter of getting more assets on chain.

Billybobmcob

The gap between the current market cap and even 10% of BONK is a 50x multiplier. I’m allocating 10 SOL just for the asymmetry of the trade.

obolli

Closed everything, was up > 1.5 Million during the dip, some of their TP were hit but not enough, too greedy (2870 for eth), SOL and BTC hit, ETH did not, profit on SOL and BTC, but ETH Loss keeps him 80k in the red overall for this play

roadydick

Came for this - and, if you had BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, AVAX, BAT, or ADA in your already your private wallet you already should have some

platypus_worldwide

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

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hyrola_au

Irrelevant of the maths, whether you used a AI to write this for you, I am purely writing as if this post is legitimate. I did the exact same but with only 20k AUD in alt coins, a chunk of money I was happy to lose (but ideally didn't want to). My brother in law has been through multiple alt coin seasons, he's had BTC, ETH and then a range of alt coins. His initial investment was 100K some time back now, and before the crash in October? this year he had 600K (500k profit - not counting taxes and money to withdrawal). He does charting every day, he's done courses and has a group of people who invest and collaborate who do the same. He was loving seeing the profit, till now. Hes gone from 600k portfolio to less than 300k as he moved all his BTC and ETH to alt coins such as SOL, SUI, SONIC etc. I too have about 20k in the above and down over 50% currently, for me its a live and learn. I wish I had that 20k now that we just had Christmas etc. but also I am just going to leave it there now and wait. Brother in law still has a slight hope of an alt coin season but I can see it in his eyes and hear it in his voice, his hope is not like it used to. Now to the real question which option. I would rule out option B. You are taking more loss transferring, and right now its just too volatile to pick any alt coin to rally. So you have the get out option A, use the tax losses to your advantage but still come out down. Otherwise if you can live and survive, not have to sell a car, or assets might have to sit on what you have, just remember you havent lost anything yet till you actually withdrawel. You still have the amount of coins you had when you put in 88k or whatever it was. Either way, yes you got caught up in the hype train, 4 year cycle was coming to an end, top analysts were all banking on massive rallies... but at the end of the day, this is all funny money, dictated purely by the whales out there. We are living in their world, they want to pump in a few hundred million, watch the little people like us trip over themselves, then pull out. This is not a game you play to bank on winning, only hope.

obolli

He's closing now, took a small loss in SOL already. For a short time he was 1 Million in profit, but greedy didn't close. One of us. :-)

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Solana's price fell 12% in December, closing the year under pressure at the mid-$120 range. Historically, Solana has shown strong January performance, with average returns of 59% and median gains of 22%, particularly after a red December. However, mixed signals persist, with steady ETF inflows of $755 million and treasury firms holding 5% of SOL supply, but no net treasury additions in December. While historical trends suggest a potential January rebound, market conditions remain uncertain, requiring fresh demand for confirmation. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Reasonable-Opening77

The issue with your portfolio is that many (or all) of these tokens likely won’t reach new ATHs in the next bull run, since market sentiment seems to be consolidating around a small handful of names. It absolutely sucks (and is antithetical to the original intention of crypto), but look at what Wall Street is saying, not a bunch of random YouTubers whose main source of revenue is ads. I'm speaking from experience...I lost a TON after the bubble burst last time, but then I consolidated into a couple names, and did quite well this time. MATIC / Polygon / POL (lol), for example, was a total dud, and I don’t think it ever reached its ATH this cycle. If your portfolio was BTC, ETH, SOL, and maybe BNB, I’d recommend holding. Answer is A.

Superb_Conclusion603

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

itskeysofficial

I’m barely even in crypto like that anymore. I don’t trade memes, I don’t chase pumps, and honestly the only reason I’m even posting this is because it’s the first trade I’ve made in years that I actually believe in. I know how this is going to sound. I get it. Everyone thinks their dev is “different,” and 99% of the time they’re wrong. But I’m not saying this because I’m trying to dump on anyone or farm exit liquidity. I’ve spent real time in this guy’s live, listening to him talk through his plans, his mistakes, and what he’s trying to fix about the current meme ecosystem. That’s the only reason I’m even comfortable saying anything. The whole reason I stayed away from meme trading is because the space feels ruthless — nonstop rugs, insiders, and devs thinking for themselves. This project is the first time I’ve seen someone actively try to design around that. The platform literally prevents early selling for a set period, which is the opposite of how most of these launches work. There’s a lot of technical stuff I don’t fully understand, so I’m not pretending to be some expert. I’m just saying I’ve watched this dev repeatedly put the community first in ways that didn’t benefit him short-term. We’ve seen him take creator fees and put them straight back into the project, and at one point he even split up 90 SOL and gave it back to the community. That’s not normal behavior in this space. The coin is only a day old, but the project itself has been in the works for months, and his previous version hit a $3M market cap before whales wrecked it. I’m not here to convince anyone — just sharing why I’m involved. If you’ve avoided memes for the same reasons I have, you might find this worth looking into Introducing RugProof V2 - The Safe Launchpad Solution on Solana My name is Chris. In July, I launched RugProof and dedicated 30 days to building and improving it day by day, sharing every step with our community. RugProof reached a market cap of $3 million, but unfortunately, our progress was halted by large holders with excessive supply. We have now upgraded RugProof and are preparing the rollout of RugProof V2. I will keep the same promises, I will be active day and night and will do everything what's possible as the dev, marketing wise and community wise! Our Mission: We are committed to transforming Solana by making every project RugProof-compliant, ensuring that investors can hold their funds safely without fear of losing them. How RugProof Works: RugProof is a unique launchpad that protects investments during the bonding phase. Early investors cannot sell their shares directly; the supply is vested ano unlocks gradually over 24 hours. In return, early investors earn a substantial portion of the trading fees, allowing them to profit without ever needing to sell their tokens. Nobody can hold more than 3%! Through our smart contract, anyone who sells during the initial vesting period earns less than those who hold ("diamond hand") their tokens. This ensures that long-term holders are rewarded and that everyone on Solana can earn profits without taking unnecessary risks. RugProof provides genuine security for the Solana community: investors can buy and hold tokens with confidence, knowing that neither developers nor other participants can execute a rug pull. With RugProof, your investment safety is guaranteed.

ilouiei

Bunch of liquidations happened on October 10th because of some Trump-China drama, market hasn't recovered since. I'm not expecting anything to happen until after the New Year when people are done tax loss harvesting. To clarify I'm only speaking for the largest cap coins like BTC/ETH/SOL/XRP.

dreadedangelsdesigns

For recovery, XRP and SOL are decent picks, but don't ignore the fundamentals. Look into projects with solid use cases and real-world adoption to minimize risk. Diversifying a bit could also help your portfolio.

redblddrp

Staking 6.9% is decent for passive income especially if you plan to hold anyway just keep in mind your SOL is locked depending on platform and staking unstake times can vary Compared to BTC or ETH SOL is riskier but also can have bigger upside if the ecosystem grows I’d personally split my exposure don’t go all in on one coin. for buying or swapping SOL Rubic is handy because you can move it across chains easily and small fees for beginner-friendly swaps

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speriya_kailan

I treat SOL as a higher risk side bet next to BTC and ETH. If you do hold it, just make sure you self custody. Using a Solana wallet like Solflare for holding or staking feels safer than leaving it on an exchange.

HoneyDruz

I like SOL long-term, but I treat it as a smaller satellite, not the core tons of upside if usage keeps growing, tons of risk if it doesn’t. Learn the basics (fees, inflation, staking risks, outages in the past), DCA if you buy, and keep it somewhere you actually control something simple like Solflare works fine. Don’t chase hype, only invest what you’re cool holding through ugly swings.

Internal_Resort5451

If you hold SOL long-term, using a self-custody wallet that handles Solana staking well helps a lot. Many people use wallets like Solflare to keep staking simple without giving up control.

Hungry_Hippo_9930

First thing: there’s no coin that guarantees recovery. Anyone promising that is lying. If your portfolio got cut in half, the priority shouldn’t be chasing the next pump, but reducing risk. In that sense, BTC and ETH usually make more sense than rotating into another alt hoping to get lucky. Between XRP and SOL SOL has real usage and momentum but also comes with volatility and past reliability issues. XRP is more of a regulatory / narrative play and can stay flat for long periods. Neither is a safe bet. If your goal is to recover some value by 2026, a boring approach BTC/ETH patience no leverage statistically beats trying to make it back fast. Most people blow up again chasing recovery. Not financial advice just lessons most of us learned the hard way.

Fickle-Big5722

ETH + BTC should be core. Then look at maybe SOL, AAVE, SKY, HYPE

redblddrp

If you’re holding both BTC and SOL that’s actually a pretty reasonable mix for starting out. BTC for safety SOL for growth. Just size it so you can sleep at night. This gets discussed a lot on rubic and the general vibe there is SOL is a good long term hold if you understand the risks and don’t overexpose. I mostly use Rubic to watch where activity is actually happening and Solana still pulls real users which matters more than hype

flying-fox200

BTC+ETH should always be the backbone of a crypto porftolio, but I can also recommend the currencies below. Monero (XMR) --------------- Monero is anonymous, peer-to-peer digital cash. It has the highest level of privacy of any cryptocurrency, rendering all of its transactions totally untraceable. It also has an adjustable block size, allowing it to scale in high network activity. It has a tail emission of 0.6 XMR per block. Yes, this means it is slightly inflationary, but with the rate of inflation tending to zero over time. I would not view it as a "store of value" - it is meant to be used as anonymous P2P cash. However, investing in it could still be a good idea as it has a strong use case, and people will always value privacy. Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) ---------------------------------- Quantum computing is a real threat to the cryptography used by almost all cryptocurrencies (elliptic curve cryptography). How soon this threat will materialise - no one knows. What can be agreed on, however, is that the treat is real and one should prepare for it. That being said, almost none of the cryptocurrencies are currently quantum-resistant. QRL is fully quantum-resistant, and has been from its inception. It uses XMSS and will soon migrate to SPHINCS+ (if I'm not mistaken) when upgrading to project Zond (which will allow smart contracts). Over the past few months it has had a good bull run, likely reflecting the sentiment that the quantum computing threat is starting to become a greater worry. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) -------------------- BCH was created as a fork of BTC in an attempt to uphold the original vision of BTC as an electronic, decentralised, P2P digital payments system. It did this by increasing the block size, allowing for much higher throughput. It also improved its difficulty adjustment algorithm to a per-block difficulty calculated as a moving average, rather than the 2016 block average used by BTC. Whether you agree or not with it "upholding Satoshi's vision" does not matter - it might be good as an investment because it is identical to Bitcoin in all the ways that matter and could continue to gather interest as time goes on. Solana (SOL) -------------- Solana is an extremely high-throughput blockchain with cheap payments that supports smart contracts. It has become a hub for decentralised finance (DeFi) and also memecoin culture. Its use case is strong and we might see it have bull runs in the future. BitcoinII (BC2) --------------- This is a very new coin and I cannot in good faith recommend it as a "solid investment", but I mention it all the same as there is a chance it moons. It is, essentially, "Bitcoin, re-launched". It is pretty much identical to Bitcoin, but was relaunched in June 2025. It exists to give people a "taste" of what Bitcoin was like back in 2009-2010, **not** as a competitor to Bitcoin. It is not to be confused with BTC2.

TorySafex

LTC, SOL, XMR, there's so many. If you want stablecoins you have usdc/usdt on ARB, TON, SOL.

MakCapital

Activity and TVL are two separate metrics. Solana is dominating in activity. You also compare each state independently. It's not Ethereum+Arbitrum+Base vs Solana. These are all three separate states with 99% revenue from user activity transferred to 4 separate assets: ETH, COIN, ARB, SOL.

Comfortable-Half5165

For SOL, focus on network reliability, developer activity, and real-world adoption. Near-term can be volatile, long-term depends on ecosystem growth. Staking rates are attractive but weigh against potential price swings. Compare SOL to BTC/ETH for use case, security, and community strength.

Comfortable-Half5165

If you want some stability and real-world utility, consider diversifying with projects like **RYO**. It’s built for actual payments and practical use, not just hype, which could help balance your portfolio alongside established coins like XRP or SOL.

jekpopulous2

How is Solana “Dominating in RWA activity”? At the moment there are $12.3B in RWAs on ETH and only $835M in RWAs on Solana. There are more tokenized assets on Arbitrum than Solana, never mind L1 Ethereum. Also, over 2/3 of SOL validators have left the network over the past 2 years and only 15% of the remaining validators are profitable so more will be leaving. I don’t hate SOL… I actually hold a small position but the network is in pretty bad shape right now.

No_Giraffe_4647

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

Important_Steak_5955

The grass is always greener... Silver has had a fun December and Q4 overall for sure! For me, I diversify. BTC, ETH, BCH, SOL, ETC :) I do have a few oz of silver and some boring ETFs. There will always be ups and downs. I can't imagine how close you'd have to pay attention to any one market to even get close to timing it. Look at BTC over the last 5 years. A couple really bad ones in there, but overall up 70% per year average. Very recently, for about 3 seconds, it was 125k. Some say that was orchestrated? I buy, hold and don't look back.

RamoneBolivarSanchez

Node count has drastically dropped in the past year from 2500 to 700 because of it being inefficient and too expensive to even breakeven. Not everyone wants to KYC with the Solana Foundation to run a node either, and that’s assuming they have $20,000,000 on hand to even get the validator up and running for 1 year (AND that’s assuming the Solana Foundation helps subsidize fees, which they’ve had to do for years now). Broken tokenomics on top of a low validator count (getting lower by the day) doesn’t equate to good decentralization. I’ve been a SOL holder for 4+ years now but I’m not going to pretend like it has good tokenomics or ever cared about making at home staking feasible do everyday folk. It went with cheap and fast and now it has to deal with the fact it kicked the can down the road, ie validators are dropping like flies. They should’ve focused on building robust validator clients instead of only have agave rust - and they should’ve made the overhead less burdensome. They wanted MEV and quick extraction via slimey infra. People can see it and it is what it is. I’m not selling my bag but I’m not adding to it either 🤷

MakCapital

Last cycle SOL/BTC pair growth started before pump fun. Pump Fun becoming popular marked the top. Worst time to buy. Open the chart. Scalable L1s will always capture the activity of whatever asset class is the flavor of the week. Activity translates to monetization. Pump Fun frenzy a result of good scalable tech. Solana still capturing majority of Web3 activity on a single state and will likely capture majority of next Web3 speculation wave too. Already dominating RWA activity. Solana remains a top experience for issuers and traders. Not subjective. Only newer L1 network competing at this level for issuers or traders is Hyperliquid and they're dominating on the trader side. Insane revenue. Trying to argue "it's just memes" a terrible take. Majority of issuance across all networks is also memes. This sub's group think was wrong last cycle. Usually wrong. Will continue to be wrong until it learns to follow Web3 users over social marketing.

Top_Effort748

Hey bro, if you’re really interested in SOL, drop me a message. I’m super bullish on it and happy to share my thoughts with you.

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Known_Click

Doesn't SOL gets devaluated every time because of the tokens unlock thing? Meaning in 4-5 years at this same market cap it will be 60$ instead of 120$. SOL doesn’t seems an good idea for a long-term strategy at all.

amberhazell

Not financial advice, but this usually comes down to why you bought SOL in the first place and your time horizon. If you’re short-term trading: SOL’s pretty volatile. If you’re up a lot and it’s a meaningful amount for you, trimming some to lock gains often helps psychologically. I’ve regretted not taking partial profits more than I’ve regretted selling too early. If you’re long-term: the bull case is still about ecosystem growth, dev activity, and whether Solana keeps attracting users vs other L1s. If you believe in that and your position isn’t keeping you up at night, holding (or even rebalancing slowly) can make sense. A middle ground that helped me: sell a portion to de-risk, keep the rest as a “free ride.” That way you’re not all-in emotionally. Also worth checking if SOL is oversized in your portfolio compared to everything else. If you want a cleaner way to track allocations and avoid emotional decisions, tools like r/Rubic can help, but honestly a simple spreadsheet works too. What’s your timeframe — weeks, months, or years?

Autoboots

One could be SOL and the others in utility Altcoins, with solid projects based on RWA, AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity, GPU...

JobInternational5805

For better or worse, my long term holdings are XRP (Ripple), SOL (Solana), ADA (Cardano), DOT (Polkadot), TRX (Tron) and a little MON (Monad). Most of these chains are Proof of Work, meaning you're not only hoping for the value of the coin to go up, but they are actively earning you "interest" for staking them. XRP is the notable exception, but even that can be staked in a round about way. I'm holding XRP because I truly think it will start to replace SWYFT in the next decade or so and it has a lot of utility. Some of my holdings have done well, some, like DOT, have lost value, but over time, I feel the interest will pay off. I am not any sort of crypto guru. I'm just a retail day trader that dabbles a bit in crypto as part of my long term investment strategy. If you are looking for a well diversified portfolio, crypto should be a part of that portfolio, but not the entire portfolio. Crypto right now is very volatile and is still a very "young" market, so it is very hard to say where it will go in the future, but it looks promising at the moment.

SeaComedian4888

SOL is good idea 👌🏽

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noviwu97

SOL peaked at the end of 2024. If you still didn't sell at that time, that means you're just greedy