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Hello guys,

I wanna invest 5k into either Shiba or NEAR, hold it one year and then sell. Which one would u prefer in terms of expected 12 months future gains?

Shiba Inu is basically the project I'm going with. We expects our gains to become huge figures. Expecting 12 months future gains with a project is quite risky because crypto comes with a whole scenario that's completely different from ours. I would gladly selects Shiba because it's been one of the top trends in the market and have anticipated in the long bullish runs in the market. We ought to know and understand the system because it comes with quite important phases which are quite different from our plannings.

I hope that isn’t all your money you are risking by investing both in memecoins.

I don’t know just how much money you have overall but personally I think 5k for a memecoin might be too much. If I am looking for some longterm investment, I’d consider bitcoin or other top altcoins but memecoins might not be your best bet. However if I were to choose between the two I would say Shiba.

I'm not entirely sure why you would drop it into either of those.  Not really familiar with NEAR but I wouldn't with shib. There are tons of meme coins so I don't think the front runners will explode again this bull run.  The money is spread way too thin in meme world.  I'd take it in an entirely different direction.

I’m not investing all my money into them , it’s just a part of it that’s I’m planning to invest on some riskier coins than btc and eth

Why not invest them 50/50 to both of them?
We do not know what will happen in the future Shiba inu is more volatile compare to near but most of the traders trade near than Shiba Inu based on data that I collected from glassnode and coinglass.

The only advantage of Shiba it is more volatile and has a big community even though it does not have use and it's just a meme token it still has lots of supporters unlike near.

It seems both of these assets are trending on Coinmarketcap because it is currently forming a bullish pattern.

This might sound cringe and farfetched but it's like asking if you should invest in agriculture vs tech. SHIB and NEAR are 2 very different plays — the former being a memecoin play, the latter being an Layer1/AI play. Whichever category you're more bullish on, will depend on you.

But yea, you don't need to go 100% on one of them. You can go 50/50, or maybe 70/30, etc.

Shiba is starting to do regular burn. This is good in supporting the price of token in the future. meanwhile, near has more utilities compared to the shiba inu. I think that investing in near is quite good consider it's still far from ATH. I prefer to take NEAR rather than shiba. Near offers utility usage.

It's also being often adopted as a crypto to bought into the launchpad. No doubt that if near is steadily growing up again soon. You can also divide your money since it's quite big.

Shiba inu is also starting to do regular burn as the fees generated from shibarium gonna be used to buy back the tokens too.

I'm probably more inclined towards Shiba than NEAR. I feel that the fluctuations on Shiba may be better than those on NEAR. Additionally, I am more familiar with SHIBA than NEAR. However, if you feel that both coins promise big profits, then it would be better to invest 50/50, or perhaps I would also take the 70/30 suggestion if I believe one of them has greater potential without giving up the other coin .

Compering the two, I think that Shiba Inu is more popular than Near, and despite that Near might have more utility than Shiba Inu, it'll still be many investors preference because it's a top memecoin. Apart from Bitcoin and a few top altcoins, other altcoins are quite risky to put money in, so like other commentors, I'll advise that he divides his money to buy the two, instead of one, so he'll minimize his risks, or invest more in the one that he feels more bullish on. Remember to invest the amount that you can afford to loose in altcoins.

As for me, it is difficult to predict these two memecoins because they are  not improving since March till now so even the 12 months time, I don't think anything good will come from them. Though you looking for a cheap coins to buy and make good profit but if you invest that amount in Bitcoin when it came down this days to $56,000 and by now that it has gone up. You would have made cold $10 to $20 profit now.  Investing in any of those two is your choice so you can invest in Shiba which more popular that the other.

Just divide your $5k into both of them so that you get to enjoy and won't worry if the other dumps and the other pumps. That's all you have to do for your balanced investing. You don't have to go all in with any of them but if that's the kind of play you wanna do, many are still fond with memecoin investing and that's why you only need to think of when is the right time for you to invest. But as I've said, if I have that amount, none of them will I choose to be honest.

I hope think some Investors are just being confused in this Crypto sphere.
Hello Op, you've personally made up your mind with a desired Coin you needed to o invest on so why coming to the public seeking for a better projects amongst that you're already set to Invest on? It's believed that you've been knowledged to the particular Coin before the craving for invest in it so why not just go on with your intensions or better still ask the public generally about a potential AltCoin that'd be good for a 1-5 years investment goal with the sum of $5,000?

I'm even confused because it's like you don't know what you wanted to invest on but yet you've two alternative that's still not well defined to you.
I myself, I don't know about those above mentioned coins. Probably it'd be a good courage if you can keep your head straight with your question so that others can direct or redirect you with their best of knowledges on the Coins the can defend via experiences of the coins potentials.

For gains in a year, Of course, Shiba Inu. It's a memecoin and for it, staying relevant is enough for it to be a good investment anytime. Shiba Inu is the leader of memecoins.
I might have recommended Near protocol a couple of years ago but not now. Any utility coin that has no utility for over three years of its existence is a failed coin.
The times are fast and the competition fierce. Any utility token that are not in spotlight are dying. Be it Near protocol or Cardano. If you need to give your portfolio of a few more utility coins, look for newer coins from last year.

I would say invest in bitcoin but you said about risk so it's only fair that you do that because it's only a portion of your money with a high risk preparedness.

Well... I don't have a choice about these two coins you know Shiba is famous for its high spikes before but when it is bullish it can be even higher spikes, I'm not sure that it will happen but when it is bullish all coins will follow it.

I suggest to research Calestia (TIA) this coin is quite prospective, but the consideration is in your hands to do it.

Totally agree, I feel like DOGE will be the only one that's going to make sense to invest into since that's the only one that's got a loyal investor base, it's really weird in my opinion to drop that huge amount of money in a meme coin, I don't think that it's a worthwhile or even a safe endeavor because the money that's involved isn't something that you just pick up on the side walk or a chump change. Maybe splitting it between the two or just investing in blue chip altcoins like ETH.

The upward trend of these two meme coins is noteworthy. You may have noticed that an uncertainty in the market can chase the trend - currently investing so much money because of their increasing stability but you should do more testing. A process of gambling with risk in short-term investments. However, it is recommended that you can partially invest in full and buy the rest in BTC.

Regardless of the question you've asked, you've preferred two good coins for the investment which makes it thoughtful of you and also makes me know that your questions were birthed due to the confusion on the best one to choose despite that you know they are both good coins. This is further why I will advise you not to trust any advice here but to follow your instincts, and what I am certain about is that the two coins will not disappoint you in the end. Though one may perform better than the other, nevertheless, once you do not lose your money in the end, then it is a good bargain.

Still, if I were in your shoes, I would distribute the money between the two. I love to diversify my portfolio as a reasonable investor and this has been helping me so well. Furthermore, if we judge what the two coins did in the past, their performances are almost the same overall, but who knows? What if the one you now picked underperformed compared to the one you never picked? This is why you should distribute the money between the two. You can do it in such a way that your main preference gets $3000 and the other one gets $2000, or you divide the money equally between them ($2,500 each).

It is true that many investors/traders might have made their firtune in Shiba Inu by taking advantage of its hype from time to time, but honestly speaking I personally lack faith in meme coins as they are widely used by big whales to make money by pump and dump. On the other hand NEAR is a well known blcok chain with professional team supporting it and struggling to enhance its use case. Therefore my preference leans towards NEAR coin.

OP, It is very difficult to predict the future performance of the two meme coins you mentioned because these coins are not looking to go up for a long time. The 5k amount of money you have if you only invest in meme coin you will be in risk. Investing in Shiba Inu and NEAR Coins is your personal choice. But I think Bitcoin should be the best choice if you have the amount of money to invest in a place with very little risk. Also you can invest in top altcoins and hold because there is less risk than the two meme coins you mentioned, now the choice is yours.

I held Shiba Inu for a long time and haven't thought about selling it until next year, not sure that this will be a good choice but their development continues even though the development of many coins never touches real use cases, only development can have an impact on the market, so In my opinion, Bitcoin is definitely still better, but because you choose altcoin, it is better to learn it yourself, not based on advice from anyone, so that you understand exactly the risks you will face if you invest between these two coins. Splitting it between the two coins can be an option but it can also reduce the profits obtained if it turns out that one of them does not meet expectations or vice versa.

As for me, I would prefer to invest in both or more coins than investing a huge amount($5k) in a particular coin.

Near and Shiba Inu are two potential coins that have already given their investors huge gains since last year. Choosing one and leaving the other don't really make sense since there are possibilities that the amount you want to invest in crypto, will be enough to have a diversify investment than having it in one or two coins.

OP, I would advice, invest in Shiba Inu and Near together, plus three additional coins because none of us knows what will be the fate of a single coins since the crypto market is unpredictable, we can't tell what will be of a coin in a year whether it will get rugpulled

It's difficult to predict gains as market move more by speculations and sentiments than actual use or potential. No one actually knows what the whales and mover are accumulating. But on choosing one among Shiba Inu and Near, it would be better to go with Shiba Inu.
There had been some shilling youtube videos about Near recently but I don't see the same level of enthusiasm in the community. Look at the roadmap they produced in 2022 and look at where they are now. There might be some speculative rises but it won't beat a memecoin like Shiba Inu in next 12 months.

You are absolutely right that it is very challenging to predict the future price of any digital currency specially meme coins because of their extreme volatility, however NEAR stands apart from meme coins as it is native token of NEAR block chain, whereas Shiba Inu is a well known meme coin and it has been discussed widely  among crypto community since it was launched and it is not associated with any real life use case, that's why it is not in my preferred choice.

Shiba inu is one of the top meme coin project there is no doubt about that but where is the utility other than that. If there is a crackdown towards all the meme project from the government then what shiba inu community will do? On the other hand NEAR is a layer 1 blockchain and they are working in AI tech. Near is also a DA layer which has his own demand in the market and it also support smart contract creation. That means anyone can build an application on top of NEAR. If all these utility failed to convince you to invest in NEAR rather than shiba inu then i must say you are not lacking money but knowledge.

Not too complicated, if you can hold both and return after 1 year. I hope you will also accept every drama you do as bad and have no regrets about your choices.

Even though these are not the crypto I'm interested in, frankly, they still belong to the crypto that have support from the community, they also know how to attract and create more FOMO with these crypto. I can speculate that after 1 year, they can completely bring you a profit of 5 times compared to the initial capital, but be ready if you can accept the asset being reduced by 5 times.

First of all it's not the right decision to Invest all your money into meme coins. If this is only a part of investments that you're doing and you're asking for opinion then I would suggest you to invest into Shib rather then Near.

The reason is that Shib has a strong background and a good fundamentals as well. Though it's a meme coin still it has given people profits many times. So looking at the history shib is a good option.

2 different chains and 2 coins that are quite popular, but I prefer near at the moment with good and neat fluctuations, also because there are several airdrop projects that I follow and find more than shibba, if you want to invest in both of them you can divide 3 parts of 100% of your capital, I usually put 20% for project 1 and 30% for coins that I believe will have superior pump potential. while the rest is for scalping dca in case of a dump. 12 months is a long time which means it is possible to go to Q2 next year, right? If it's time for Tp my advice is to sell at the best price. you give free time to read the situation that will occur. I usually prefer layer 1 such as near than its derivatives (all chains). although there is also layer 2 which is very suitable for investment. but the community can also be read which one likes more and more of the two coins that you analyse.

Which one of those coins to pick, comes down to which market do you think it will do better during the bull run? Meme coins have a stable number of supporters and you could see some of them pumping Shiba on the future, so it seems like the safer option out of the two.

But NEAR is targeting ETH, if you think it has the potential to at least become a bigger challenger than solana, then this could be a good moment to invest, especially since AI was all the rage not long ago, and the profits could be many times larger than what you could get with Shiba if you were right.

What about moonbeam?