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Hitchie_Rawtin

Option 2 is the sane option, I agree, but people will never choose Option 2 because they want their unicorn 1000x moment and there are a trillion coins offering the possibility of becoming it. You can't expect people to consistently bet against the other narratives they've already bought into, it's why the shitcoinsphere is so grifter-y. 99.999% of all people only see it as a casino, 99% of crypto people only see it as a casino, the 1% of crypto people who don't see it as a casino are betting on one of a hundred or a thousand examples of novel tech in a space where realistically only marketing matters. Hence SOL/memecoin casino meta taking over.

speriya_kailan

As a beginner with 130 bucks, I’d keep expectations low on quick profits. Short-term trades are basically gambling, especially if you’re new. BTC and ETH are slower but way more predictable long term. SOL can move fast, but it also drops hard, so be ready for that. If you do pick SOL, maybe just park it and learn instead of trading. Also once you’re not using an exchange anymore, a simple wallet helps, I use Solflare for SOL stuff since it’s pretty straightforward. Main advice is don’t rush, treat this first buy as tuition, not a money printer.

Hitchie_Rawtin

People get into ICO for low money, want high money later. People that buy those coins once they hit exchanges now want somebody else to buy them for higher, while those prospective buyers go back to ICOs to do what the first people did, or even worse, they gamble on SOL memecoins. Then you have the incentive for VCs and foundations to keep a flywheel going for themselves, thousands of coins raising $10-100m ICOs which they get first pick to invest in is far better for them than any single project realising "the vision" earlier.

Cratos007

since you asked "how": Spot crypto ETFs (like Morgan Stanley's BTC, ETH, and SOL) directly hold the actual cryptocurrency. The trust buys and custodies real Bitcoin/Ether/Solana on behalf of shareholders. so when trillions in institutional money flows into these ETFs (hello morgan stanley's client base + advisors recommending allocations), they have to go out and buy massive amounts of the underlying asset to back the shares. that's direct buying pressure on the spot market which means institutions "wanting in" by accumulating YOUR favorite coins at scale. which also now adds real selling pressure during bearish periods, and of course with the billions of value these banks and ETFs now hold (BTC ETFs alone at \~$120B), their effect on the market is way more amplified than retail ever was.

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Internal_Resort5451

If you’re just starting with $130, focus more on learning than chasing quick gains. Want “safer” large caps → BTC is the simplest long-term hold, ETH adds smart-contract exposure, SOL has higher upside but also higher volatility, so expect bigger swings. Don’t invest money you might need soon and don’t expect fast profit. Pick one or two, hold, and keep adding slowly. Whatever you buy, use a reputable exchange to purchase and then consider moving to a self-custody wallet for storage (something like Solflare is beginner-friendly). Biggest rule: avoid meme coins, avoid leverage, and only invest what you can afford to forget about for a while

Green_Ad9723

It's really great, I'm so happy!!! So many people are still thinking about diversifying into fiat products!!! That tells me I'm very early with BTC... early with Bitcoin!!! People, everything can be multiplied indefinitely, the stocks, the SX, everything rises just because inflation is rising!!! Fiat is worthless and infinitely expandable, everything, really everything. Gold and silver are still 90% in the ground... Bitcoin is limited to 21 million... If you're really scared, buy a house and a few toys, the rest in 99% BTC, 1% ETH, SOL, and BNB. You'll all get as much money as you need!!!

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# Key Insights from the Cryptocurrency Market Report * **Bitcoin (BTC)** maintains its dominance with a market cap of **$1.79 trillion**, despite a **2.37%** price drop in the last 24 hours. * **Ethereum (ETH)** faces a **3.63%** decline, with net ETF outflows of **-$98.3 million**, indicating cautious investor sentiment. * **Solana (SOL)** shows rising interest in derivatives with a **1.92%** increase in open interest, even amidst a **3.06%** price decrease. **Explore insights on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more!** [Report](https://askfocal.com/focal/workflows/reports/13933?is_legacy_report=false&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=marketintelligence&utm_content=mi-0108)

Melodic_Figure_2692

This Morgan Stanley ETF filing feels like a turning point, especially for assets like BTC and SOL that already have strong communities. Institutional interest usually pushes exchanges to compete harder on features and incentives for regular users. BYDFi is one example I’ve noticed where they leaned heavily into that in 2025, both with campaigns and product milestones. Their MoonX product apparently hit a new milestone last year, which they framed as one of their bigger achievements. Between ETF news and exchanges leveling up, 2025 really felt like a setup year for broader adoption.

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AnaHedgerow

First: invest in a cold wallet to store your crypto safely. My fav is Tangem. Second: stick to majors like BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP. Third: don’t reply to DMs, that’s how people get scammed.

FunProposal1989

I plan to move 1,000,000 sats monthly until bitcoin reaches its next ATH then I will sell as a whole. In the mean time does small DCA transactions of account based crypto like ETH and SOL have any impacts if I move them daily/weekly to my hardware wallet?

FunProposal1989

Thanks for the link I will take a look, does ETH and SOL have a similar system or am I free to move smaller amounts to my hardware wallet without having to worry about future fees?

Alarming-Nose2400

Obviously not I spread most of my money across equities and crypto (BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL). Me personally I could never be the ALL IN BTC guy but holding some of each of those coins listed give me more confidence because each has their own purpose in the crypto world.

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With SOL you can stake to get around 5% APY. I don't know if SOL ETF is giving you staking rewards

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Vegetable-Pepper7772

I’m still pretty new, so I struggle a bit with labels like “true alt” vs not. What I’ve been trying to do instead is look at how each one actually trades, liquidity, how clean the ranges are, and whether price respects obvious levels. From what I’ve seen, stuff like SOL tends to have clearer structure and participation, while others can feel more erratic even if they’re well known. I’ve been practicing marking higher-timeframe support and resistance and then seeing how price behaves around those zones, sometimes double-checking with something like ChartScanner.ai just to make sure I’m not forcing levels. Curious how you personally define “less risk” here. Is it fundamentals, market cap, or how price behaves during pullbacks?

Manggo333

I'm more into SOL

ObligationSea2667

holding above key support levels. 49 on the fear-greed scale. stop looking at the charts multiple times per day. give it time and let key support zones make your decision. - SOL was $116 recently and is near $140 now - eth was hovering around $2600 - $2800 for weeks, is now holding above its $3200 support zone - ICP was $2.66, now holding above $3.20 - **KEY FACTOR** Pullbacks are good. You don’t want it to do nothing but moon. Holding above support zones is what you want, and if BTC breaks $95k - $96k - we could be looking at a true bull run

blaggerbly

SOL? 😂 like why Jokers Keep centralising your corn….you ain’t gonna be free. Cold storage only

Advanced-Summer1572

ETH and SOL are not in competition. Each performs as expected for their customers. ETH is slower, much more expensive than SOL but it concentrates on Institutions, Government and Security. SOL is speed, massive numbers of verification per second, a fraction of the cost per transaction and many more customers. Gaming, retail, gambling, credit card sales....a much larger base and so inexpensive. Currently being used in a pilot program for VISA in its Western use strategy. The company VISA is using is CIRCLE. Look it up. Own both.

Advanced-Summer1572

Solana is the next "dark horse" investment. People will be saying they had no idea that this Blockchain was so vigorous as they chose the price. To the moon. Been with SOL since it premiered in March 2020. TO THE MOON!

potatoMan8111

Found the 🤡 who chose SOL over ETH lmao

jkl2035

Quel était votre raisonnement derrière cet investissement ? J’en ai acheté pour me familiariser avec le concept de l’informatique quantique avant de mieux comprendre… Maintenant, je n’investis plus que dans le BTC, l’ETH, le SOL et quelques micro-projets purement quantiques sécurisés comme QRL, MCM et ABEL.

layersofme72

SOL makes sense for speed but XRP feels like regulatory narrative more than tech. honestly think SEI and some other L1s have better fundamentals just flying under the radar rn

pbybel

so phantom is a solana wallet which is great! honestly SOL is solid to start with or maybe check out SEI, it's been really low lately. both feel safer than random coins tbh

Yowai_M0

Bro i feel this. Missed that SOL pump yesterday bc my exchange logged me out mid-trade 💀 Is this "Manic" thing an app or a dex? Is it on Solana?

Escapement_Watch

Sell all xrp yes is a good call. but hbar while technically a good chain has too many coins like xrp. 50billion is half of xrp but still to much to ever see real price growth. And every high end partner that is on the hedera council doesn't even use the chain. It's all bs. Stick to BTC/ETH/SOL and if you wanna gamble try SUI. they have explosive up sides and downsides...and they are adding privacy option to the base chain so should do very well. You are welcome. (not financial advice)

Adventurous-Ad-6231

I keep telling people only BTC , ETH, SOL matter everything else is just shit 💩 coins 🪙

Ok-Notice-7632

Wait, until Web3, and the associated apps get kickin for SOL, and XRP corners financial settlements. Bitcoin can be considered a store of value, where XRP and SOL are dynamic application based use of crypto that will transform assets (RWA) into the new economy.

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ImMaury

I bought $5 of SOL, guess tomorrow Maduro will dump his secret BTC stash

jekpopulous2

The article also says ETH inflows were 8x higher than XRP or SOL inflows… so logically the title implies that institutions favor XRP and SOL. This post is just clickbait.

WIRED_REFLEX

I had to look, you didn't disappoint. This is theft🤣 Crypto Withdrawals (to External Wallets) Revolut Service Fee: £1 (or equivalent) for XRP, XLM, DOT, SOL, AVAX, XTZ, ALGO, ADA £3 (or equivalent) for most other cryptos.

Adventurous-Ad-6231

What he’s articulating is if you lost value and didn’t sell than you haven’t necessarily lost net value. Meaning I invested 10k into SOL but the value of SOL lowered so now my investment sits at 7K . If I hold till price goes back up I didn’t lose profit but if I sell than I lost 3K and won’t get it back . It’s called conviction

Adventurous-Ad-6231

ETH , BTC, or SOL maybe XrP don’t waste your time on anything else

Adventurous-Ad-6231

ETH and SOL maybe XRP or LTC . Safe zone would be ETH or SOL . BTC obviously is king

MundaneSoftware6510

Personal analysis. China, Russia, and India along with aligned nation states are buying or mining BTC like crazy. They are building reserves the decouple the from the dollar or more accurately, the petro-dollar. Russia already settles oil deals in bitcoin. The USD is not going away. It the world needs an additional store of value that is not dependent on IS Treasury notes. It gives the US too much power. The choice for the Dollar as the de facto store of value was made immediately post WW2. The British wanted a true stateless currency while the US favored the dollar. The US won that round. It gave them unprecedented economic leverage along with their military might to dominate the 20th century. These other near peer countries find this intolerable. Russia is using gas flared off from wells to power mining centers. They are all quietly buying up tons of BTC. However the largest store of government owned BYC is the US through asset forfeiture. They used to auction this off on a regular basis. Now they have quietly stopped those auctions. BTC will grow in value and it will become too unwieldy to settle international trade. It would be like demanding metric tons of gold to settle an oil and gas deal. Hard to move and handle. BTC is and always has been a one off. It is a once in the human species event. There was the time we agreed that gold would be the store of value. People trying to make the kind of killing returns that BTC has shown are pissing into the wind. That ship has sailed. There can be only one “first” and BTC is it. So it will be BTC. It is trusted, mature, and proven. Once the volatility calms down and liquidity deepens, it will become stable enough to be acceptable to the general public. Notice how it is starting to move sideways. Notice that volatility is smoothing out. These are signs. It will be the parallel store of value next to gold but it needs help to work. Ethereum by virtue of its age and stability will either become THE medium of exchange or one of several stable coins to do so. Truthfully, I think that there will be multiple, regional or nation specific mediums which will bring us back to the days of currency trading as a big thing again. It’s no matter. Why? Because it all has to have a pipeline to run through. Solana has the technology, the maturity, the speed and the cost structure to serve this perfectly. If they can get firedancer more spread out, and if they can grow their validators to 50% more than they have now, and with a solid year of no network outages then they are positioned perfectly for this role. It’s not a lock but no one is closer than they are. Look at the institutional money being thrown at SOL. Follow Blackrock and you will follow stability and growth. All this based on current trends from BRICS, from reputable news sources, patterns of purchase and action from institutional investors, comments from analysts at Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, etc… Comments made by the Federal Reserve, Treasury and the current administration. I’ve taken an exhaustive look at this and used AI to compile, collate and analyze data BUT with hours of human overview and correction. I believe this to be the pathway. I have no crystal ball and I don’t play in the magical thinking sandbox. This has been a well thought out process to bring me to this conclusion. I do not have 16 years in crypto. Indeed, you would run conversational circles around me irl. However, consider what I have presented here. If you would like a white paper on it then I am sure I could drum one up. For now, I’d like you to stress test this and rip it up. Tell me where it is wrong, why and what are the alternatives. Let’s see if this can survive that. If it does then I think we have our answer.

MarzNstarZ

been focusing on SEI lately. cheap as hell right now, parallel execution is solid tech, and the ecosystem's actually building. SOL too but everyone already knows that one

layersofme72

don't chase stuff after a break. build a base with BTC and ETH first then look at layer 1s like SEI or SOL. SEI especially feels oversold but idk do your own research

Amber_Sam

Not really. Let's say, I'm the scammer. I create a multi shitcoin wallet at Phantom (Solana?). Load the wallet with let's say 1 WBTC. But there's zero SOL. You find the words, load them into Phantom and see 1 WBTC. To move it to your wallet, you need SOL. You load 10 SOL, I guess that's enough to move the WBTC. But I'm running a script that keeps checking the SOL balance. Once it sees the SOL hitting the wallet, the script sends the 10 SOL to my other wallet. You might try again or throw the seed words out. I'll be waiting for someone else.

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Green_Ad9723

BTC ETH BNB SOL – that's all you need!

djejjeff

The only crypto I consider worth investing in are BTC, ETH and SOL. You need utility and network effect. BTC is considered an inflation secured store of value (like gold). It has close to $2 trillion in market cap and most of validators, and this the strongest network effect. ETH is the crypto of choice for large transactions. There are also some promising layer 2 solutions resulting in lower transaction fees and higher speed. SOL has the lowest transaction fees and fastest transactions of the major cryptos. It has a chance to be the network of choice for small transactions. There are other networks like Cardano and SUI that have promising developments, but they lack in network effect. All other cryptos are mainly for speculation and it's more of gambling at the casino than investing...

hitmeup303

12K bitcoin 2K SOL and stake it on a app like Coinbase 2K SUI new ecosystem good potential upside. 2K HBAR a good fintech expose 1K ETH 1K hold and buy more dips of any above coins

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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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.