Last year, in 2023, Solana was $20 and now at time of writing she's $220+. Shoutout to those that scooped a bag back then. Something about november lol...
So, thinking this year, aside from stacking $uwu on the unicorn.meme chain. Im tinking of buying sui and xrp. Sei and Aptos also come to mind. All offer the same speed and low cost per tx as sol.
Recently on x you may have seen the wave of usual suspects bullposting sui meme coins, which is super bullish for overall volume. Especially if we look at where most of Solana's volume comes from.
Back in August Sui dropped to around $0.45 and at time of writing its about $3.20. Crazy huh, it's still early in the run and sui does offer cool features, like storage.
I also like how some sui scanners integrate a swap, something that many chains lack. We're so early that a few swap's don't show a lot of the newer tokens on sui, suivision pulls em up without fuss in my experience. One of the best scanner thingys i've seen, even has a bridge integrated.
Perhaps a fair test for sui is when it gets to sol's daily volume and chaos will it scale, sol had lots of trouble this year from bad actors, miners and conjestion. Wondering if in time sol's gas tax increases as we go higher, which could really open the door for the next alt coin run.
Xrp is another one i've always been bullish on, despite the fud. The amount of fud surrounding xrp reminds me of the boomer fud btc experienced early on. Like everyone is so negative, you would never know that the xrp ledger has a health care token on chain, online shops integrated into wallets [xaman] and even wallets that allow you to have a negative balance.... like huh. Xaman is the one i use and a few weeks ago i was down -1 xrp after moving stuff around. I've never seen a wallet allow that, you may vary though. Xrp's sister [or daughter?], xlm, offers many of the same ultility but with a more client/user focus instead of globe banking ledger stuff.
During the doge run we had a few shidders on the xlm chain that performed really well. You may remember if you're a stellar/ripple maxi. Like bro we had meme coins back when elon was spamming crypto twitter all day. Now he's mr quality posts only lol. Nothing to be proud of though, memecoins ruin the trust of a chain. Unless it's uwu via unicorn, thats literally unicode emoji meme chain, something unique [its in the name]. But for chains like solana, memes have largely made everything a pump and dump, even the best projects get dumped on often.
Anyways, ripple and stellar have picked up since the election result. Everything is pumping actually, but hearing things that this may actually be the run that us old xrp/xlm maxis have been waiting for. Dyor and nfa but if xrp does a sui i wanna have a bag ready. Remember, it's the main proposed banking token ledger with one of the oldest running dex... and a health care ecosystem/token, thingy.
Oh and xlm has done wonders in places like Africa and China for years already; Akon was qouted on converting his btc to xlm years ago. Even though that could be more related to the us dollar than btc. Take that interview with a grain of salt given the host [according to comments] and reflecting on btc's current price today.
China uses the xim xlm based token for import/export stuff. i guess somtimes we have to stop thinking in terms of Us fed dollar sometimes for certain chains, like our media doesn't always manipulate those markets as much, so, maybe the token prices are actually stable? me no expert and many variables at play.
Sei is unique, like sui but not really. And im seeing art on the rise in aptos marketplaces. And currently aptos leads the wave but sei may still offer the best return of investment. At time of writing, sei just kissed $0.50 and aptos is $12+. Considering their features and parallels to solana it's a good chance that they'll go higher.
And btw, im not pissing on solana, just saying. Most of us made a bag on sol, bought pizza and sport bikes. Plus, met some cool ppl along the way. Sol's volatility make it easy to print money too, even without trading or selling anything.
But... the tldr is imma scoop some alt coins that look promising, while entry is gucci. This bullrun may just make us all rich, so diversify and do research accordingly.
Don't get stuck on one chain and be like oh fk i missed xyz in a few months...
oh and disclaimer, dyor, nfa, im autistic, perhaps slow, this post is not advice of any kinda.