There seem to be many new defis that have potential airdrops in the future just for participating. I have tried one called kinza finanace in BSC chain, it gave points on amount of coin you staked or provided liquidity and also through referral activity. The cumulative point would decide the amount of airdrop for each users in the future. The point contest is still running and kinza I believe is also featured in binance. Another similar defi but in Solana blockchain is kamino, they also have points that would determine the coin airdropped. And there are launchpools like tonup where you get new coins for just staking the up coin. Not sure if it's a feature or early promotion.

Don't know about that specific project but there are three projects that are getting a lot of attention as they are now available on epic game store. Star Atlas, Illuvium and Shrapnel all three are listed as early access games. These three are the first block chain powered web3 games to be listed on the store and their success would determine the future of blockchain powered gaming. Sharpnel has investors like Polychain Capital. Griffin Gaming Partners, Franklin Templeton and Brevan Howard Digital and all three of their tokens are already listed on exchanges.

Black Rock and Vanguard has been discussed a lot. It's said they control more than 50% of the world money but in reality, they are just fund manager that manages the users fund according to their choice for a small commission. They just make it easier for it's users to buy and sell. Black Rock had been the leading force in listing Bitcoin and ETH ETF as it were demanded by the users. The group may have a number of bitcoins but most of those in stat are users money and the Black Rock group itself have no full authority over it.

The crypto journey for me has been profitable as I have a larger portfolio than how much I have invested on. Yet I'm not satisfied considering how early I had started and how much I've made profit.


I for the most part do reinvest in. Sometimes losing while sometimes winning more. I also have a bad habit of gambling away my crypto profit on casino gambling. So, I haven't withdrawn anything till date.


Certainly. You are not going to live forever and you are not going to be young forever. You should take your profit and enjoy your. For me, I'm just hoping I won't get old till the next bull run.

$7-10 is a very optimistic expectations from XRP. The current price of XRP could be called a good buying range but I'd suggest you to have some moderate exit points so that you don't miss on the profit on a bull run. Have at least one exit point at $2, that would be x4 of your buying price. If you even place 25% on that point, you'll get back your investment and could have those left 75% to be placed on any other optimistic values so that you could have complete profit. Maybe 25% on $4, another 25% on 8 and another 25% on 10 or 12. So, that you get the profit intended on an ultimate bull run but also not missing out on small bulls unless the large bull never comes to XRP.

This would be a good news and it would clear up many hurdles for other crypto to be listed as ETF. Though the approach are mostly from large traditional investors, yet the listed crypto and cryptocurrencies as a whole would benefit from this ETF.
It would be much more beneficial for traditional investors that don't want to learn about using crypto directly or doing the taxes. Investing as ETF would make the taxes easier.
It would increase the legitimacy of ETH making the people once suspicious of crypto realizing it's a good and safe investment, increasing the investment in the coin.

All of the popular platforms are audited by different security firms and security wont be a big issue.
After that the key thing I look for is the availability of places to invest my money. And than comes transaction fees.
A new L2 network might have much cheaper fees than BSC but if they don't have enough dapps for me to interact, I might just abandon them in favor of something better.
I look to invest in projects that give me passive income, that's why most of my coin at the moment lies on TON which have options where I could get more than 100% APY for my staked coins. The second largest and the most in stablecoin lies in fantom where a dapp is providing no risk 50% APY for USDT and the third is solana which has a huge new opportunities to explore.

Matic is better than Cardano in every sense. The only pros of Cardano is it's a L1 system while matic is a L2 over ethereum.
Matic is leading on every metric The price of Matic is at the range of $0.8 while cardano is $0.5.
There are about 2000 working dapps on Matic while it's still below 100 for cardano. Dapp volume on Polygon is on the range of $1.4 billion while for cardano it's just $50 million.
The daily transaction on matic network are in millions while it at thousands in Cardano. Cardano is no way in comparison to Matic.
But both of their growth has slowed down due to severe competition on the sector and saturation for current volume.

BRC-20 has limited functions. They suffer the same problem of what bitcoin transactions are facing. There's no future for BRC20 and its better to shelf early that to push  it forward as a failure which could tarnish the BTC image. Luckily they have not attracted as much attention as people had hoped for.
The argument about using the decentralization and security of bitcoin network may impress some but most people jumping for NFTs don't care about them.

Another thing the traders should have is a plan. Many of the traders do trade on emotions and gut feeling rather than having a proper plan to take profits or stop loss.
An example of myself when I first started leveraged trading, I put my bet on a coin and on my first time it hit it's higher point at 4 hours since I bought. I was so happy with that 20% profit that I invested both my principal and profit on the same coin at a larger leverage. I should have thought there ought to be a correction after a price jump but I did everything cause I didn't had a plan.

I recently came to know about SUI https://sui.io
But it's already one of the top coin by marketcap (45) and popularity (11) and many people are comparing it with Solana and TON and claims it to be the better alternative.
It has also been widely covered in media and I feel like I already missed this SUI train. But Yesterday I got a news that SUI  had hit a low resistance of 1.31 and are bouncing bac.
I have not yet made any move on the coin yet and it's already at 1.4, I just want to know what the community this about it? Are there any red flags? Is it really the next Solana?
https://coinedition.com/sui-poised-to-breach-resistance-as-indicators-signal-rally/

X(twitter) is no longer a public company but is private. It's true that X is in some trouble not making enough money to sustain itself as many of its traditional advertisers has boycotted Elon. But Elon has a record of turning a dying company to a leader and twitter still has a huge userbase and Elon Musk has deep pockets to run X for years without a profit and try different things.
There are news of X going to implement an in app payment system that would also accept crypto as a depositing option. With different, innovative and radical experiments X could really be the all in one app for the whole world.

Presidential candidate and the most popular leader of the United States, Donald Trump is unsurprisingly not a huge fan of crypto but it's found that he has been profiting from the crypto riches.
The Ethereum came from a NFT on Trump theme. Though trump was not associated with the project, he got royalties from it in the form of Ethereum. The project is licensed from the Trump's company to use Trumps name and features. The royalties were over 1075 which the trump team recently sold for $2.4 million.
The use of crypto by presidential candidate is a sign of easing up with crypto and we could further see candidates accepting donations via crypto.

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/24/01/36743035/donald-trump-sold-2-4-million-ethereum-smart-move-or-big-mistake

There are several ways I measure my success in crypto. The first of it and for almost all would be the financial success. All of our real life prices are on fiat currency so it's not a surprise for people to measure the success in % of profit made on fiat investment. That's what brings most people to crypto.
But there are other learning associated with crypto that makes me realize understanding things such as economics and technology are success.
Setting up solo or pool mining to a new currency was a measure of success for me in the past but now it's more like finding and using a L1 or L2 network to take early bird profit for staking alts and stables is giving me sense of success.

There have been news of Ripple looking for experts to go for XRP ETFs. Considering the centralized nature of Ripple ecosystem and organization, they can be more specific on meeting the demands for being listed as ETF. They also don't have the issues of POS or unlimited supply like Ethereum. They have in past been considered the 2nd most popular altcoin after Ethereum. Would they win over Ethereum this time to be the 2nd crypto based spot ETF available for trading in US market? Is it going to have a positive impact on the price of XRP? How likely are the chances, what do you think about it?

https://finbold.com/ripple-hiring-etf-expert-whats-next-for-xrp/

BTC and eth are surely safer investment but they won't bring us the profit that some other altcoins can bring. Not every new tokens are good but it's also not difficult to see which could achieve a success. It doesn't necessarily need to outrun it's competitor but need to operate as it's meant to and bring in profit for the investors. In my experience a good L1 or L2 ecosystem token with a solid technology would never disappoint you if you were able to get in early. Solana is an good example of a recent rise. Similarly it's not difficult to consider a comparatively faster and cheaper network would be the next big thing.

Dogecoin is not decisive factor for the future of cryptocurrencies. They were on a down phase as their tokenomics and tech was becoming old and absolute but the strange support from one of the most influential businessman Elon Musk, it saw unprecedented rejuvenation. He twitted multiple times about Dogecoin and for a brief period, changed the logo of the than twitter bird to the dogecoin mascot.
Rise of a single altcoin can't be the cause of movement of all the market as they individually have a lower market cap and some of them are rising and falling due to the coin specific news and events everyday. Bitcoin having a more than half of the total crypto valuation is still the force that moves the market.

It has been two years since the question was asked and the answer to it is still the same. It's the right time to accumulate crypto before they becomes too expensive and you miss out on the train or the rocket. Prices of some coins were much lower in 2021 that what they are today as we already had a small bull and we are on process of consolidating that rise. Coins like bitcoin has doubled while solana increased by 5 times. The prices are trying to stabilize around this range. When a lot of people have bought crypto and current average price, they won't be willing to sell it at current price that would make way for another price jump.

Futures and leverage trading are risky business and people should not venture towards it unless they have plans for every market movement. A good trader should have loss stopping strategy and know where to book profit. For lesser risks, it's better to trade with your own money as even though the price crash, you'd not be liable for more than your own money.
Investment on the other hand is a much laid back approach towards crypto. You don't have a loss until you sell for a lower price than you bought. Historically crypto always had been on upward trend and having patience in investment would pay sooner or later.

Meme coins are hit and miss. But for people who have an eye for coins that last a few more pumps and dumps it could make them a millionaire quiet fast.
Provided the meme coin increases by 1000 times than what a investor bought in with $1000, you are already a millionaire and it can happen in a matter of week.
But no one can be sure about the ultimate meme coin and might just have loss on multiple of coins. Investing on meme coins are more like a gamble than an investment.
The people that can still profit from the volatility of the meme coins are traders who follow technical signals and put profit taking points and stop loss effectively.