-- None of this is financial advice, more rambling and observations than anything --
One thing I haven't seen much lately in /Created are posts about the Altcoin market. I have not recently posted about it either, but now it is time I took a brief look at the ciphercoins in cyber space.
Bitcoin market cap dominance has risen to 56.17% which I think is a strong signal that people are more confident in BTC than altcoins right now. ETH is down to 12.41%, USDT just 4.94%, Doge 0.91%
Cross off Bitcoin and you can see what is left of the altcoin pie, ETH being over 1/4 of it, with USDT, BNB and Solana adding up to more than 50% of the altcoin pie between them. So if you don't have any ETH, BNB, SOL or USDT, what do you want to hold? Bitcoin of course. BTC is the Gold Satoshi.
What are Altcoins?
Altcoins are different versions of token software and not the same as the 'Bitcoin', but what is the 'best' altcoin to choose? Well I think that HIVE is the best of course, but that's obvious to us all. Why? Well it has Utility, it has a use. This is the best place to compose your blog, have a website, and build a community. You can build up your Hive portfolio and choose the front end interface you like the most based on your preferred style.
The second layer of Bitcoin, is the Altcoin layer. Web3.0 as a term is debatable, but what I love about Hive is that we can actually rebuild the web index using Hive Userss, Hive Communities, and Hive Users. In fact we are part of writing a more trusted index of human centered compositions and assisted by some automated features. Hive is the altcoin we all know.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/hive
HIVE is #488 by Market Cap
There are so many altcoins it makes the mind blur.
Hive is ranked right there in the middle between BTSE Token and COQ Inu?
BTSE Token #485 - $0.5196 (+7.8%)
Ethereum ecosystem https://www.btse.com/en/
"The BTSE Platform (hereinafter referred to as the “Platform”, “we” or “us”) allow its users (hereinafter referred to as “the Users” or “you”) to trade in Digital Assets and also provides other services related to Digital Assets (the “Services”). For convenience, you and us are hereby collectively referred to as “both Parties” and individually as “each Party”.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/btse-token
Coq Inu #488 - $0.051205 (-1.5%)
Avalanche Chain https://www.coqinu.com/ "Life is better when you have some..." (Seriously? This is a joke coin.) "$COQ is a community coin with no intrinsic value or expectation of financial return. There is no formal team or roadmap." [69.420T $COQ]
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/coq-inu
Ok so one is a Platform you become a user on, with a ERC-20 token that belongs to ["domain": "assets.btse.com"] and the other is an AVAX chicken joke with (No Allocations No Presale).
Next I will sort the top 300
by 24 hour volume, and pick a few out.
FDUSD (FD121 Ltd.) $0.9961
[White paper. Uses Proof of Stake Authority consensus and issued on both ETH and BNB,]
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/first-digital-usd
APTOS foundation $8.91
[White paper. "a set of validators that jointly receive and process transactions from users using a byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT), proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Token holders lock up, or stake, tokens in their selected validators"]
Smart Contracts → Learn how to write smart contracts on Aptos with the Move programming language.
Query Data → Use the Aptos Indexer to query for on-chain data efficiently.
Blockchain Infrastructure → Learn the different components of the Aptos blockchain’s infrastructure.
SDKs → Use our TypeScript, Python, Rust, and other SDKs to submit transactions and read on-chain data.
Indexer → Query for on-chain data like account balances, historical transactions, NFTs by account, and more.
CLI → Compile and profile Move smart contracts, run a local network, and more with the Aptos CLI.
"the Aptos blockchain is experimenting with future initiatives to scale beyond individual validator performance: its modular design and parallel execution engine support internal sharding of a validator and homogeneous state sharding provides the potential for horizontal throughput scalability without adding additional complexity for node operators."
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/aptos
RUNE ThorChain $5.61
[Whitepaper. A decentralized liquidity network to enable cross-chain exchange of assets in a permissionless way. Native asset RUNE, using Continuous Liquidity Pools (CLPs) that bind together the assets .. "as the collective value of all external assets secured by the network increases, the value of the networks native asset increases in proportion, ensuring constant security."]
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/thorchain
JUP Jupiter Exchange $1.03
[Docs. "One of the Fastest Swap APIs on Solana", Jupiter Terminal, "is an open-sourced, lite version of Jupiter. This terminal provides end-to-end swap flow functionality by linking it in your HTML with just a few lines of code. Terminal runs on the v3 swap protocol supporting Instant Routing, Smart Token Filtering, Ecosystem Token List support.", ]
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/jupiter
LTC Litecoin $69.73
[Docs. The original Altcoin, Litecoin still commands and has been as high as $410. It trades down against BTC as you can see, as it was one of the first coins you could trade against. If BTC is Gold, LTC is Silver. "Litecoin shares a majority of its code with Bitcoin, with a large shared feature set. Notably features setting Litecoin apart from Bitcoin include: 2.5 min transaction confirmation time, 84M max coins, Scrypt proof-of-work, MWEB privacy & fungibility".
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/litecoin
AVAX Avalanche $25.56
[Whitepapers. PDFs: Platform, Consensus, Token, Stablecoins. Ava Labs Learn.]
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/avalanche
NEAR Protocol $4.16
[Whitepaper. Decentralized application platform, "a community-operated cloud infrastructure for deploying and running decentralized applications. It combines the features of a decentralized database with others of a serverless compute platform." NEAR Explorer.]
"NEAR SDKs: NEAR supports Rust and AssemblyScript (JavaScript with types) languages to write
smart contracts. To provide a great experience for developers, NEAR has a full SDK which includes
standard data structures, examples and testing tools for these two languages."
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/near
AAVE $148.96
[Whitepaper. "Aave is a decentralised non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can participate as suppliers or borrowers. Suppliers provide liquidity to the market while earning interest, and borrowers can access liquidity by providing collateral that exceeds the borrowed amount." Docs.]
"At the heart of a lending pool is the concept of reserve : every pool holds reserves in multiple currencies, with the total amount in Ethereum defined as total liquidity. A reserve accepts deposits from lenders. Users can borrow these funds, granted that they lock a greater value as collateral, which backs the borrow position.", "Every reserve has a specific Loan-To-Value (LTV), calculated as the weighted average of the different LTVs of the currencies composing the collateral, where the weight for each LTV is the equivalent amount of the collateral in ETH."
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/aave
FET Fetch $1.21
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance
"Autonomous Economic Agent Framework" https://fetch.ai/
[Whitepaper, "Abstract.: The Internet and the services delivered via it are increasingly centralised on a few monopolistic platforms. Today’s web frameworks are conceived to cater for increasing returns to scale and winner-takes-all business models with a built-in asymmetry between users and services. Existing multi-agent and agent architectures have seen no significant adoption outside niche applications. We propose a novel agent framework which is designed to allow for a decentralised digital economy to manifest where each individual and organisation is represented by an autonomous economic entity with its own agency. The framework bridges the old and new web and employs distributed ledger technologies as core parts of its construction. We introduce the framework, discuss the performance characteristics of its current implementation and demonstrate several application areas.,
Keywords:
Autonomous Economic Agents · Agent Framework · Multi-agent
System Framework · Distributed Ledger Technology"
"Token on Etherscan; Max Total Supply:
2,719,493,896.671999999999656122 FET
Holders: 120,173"
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/artificial-superintelligence-alliance
BTT Bittensor $506.95
[Whitepaper, " We propose a market where intelligence is priced by other intelligence systems peer-to-peer across the internet. Peers rank each other by training neural networks which learn the value of their neighbors. Scores accumulate on a digital ledger where high ranking peers are monetarily rewarded with additional weight in the network." Docs
"A subnet consists of off-chain subnet validators who initiate the competition for a specific digital commodity, and off-chain subnet miners who compete and respond by producing the best quality digital commodity.", "Scores are assigned to the top subnet miners and subnet validators. The on-chain Yuma Consensus determines the TAO rewards for these top performers."
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bittensor
DOT Pokladot
[Whitepaper. "We put forward a means of providing backwards compatibility with one or more pre-existing networks such as Ethereum. We believe that such a system provides a useful base-level component in the overall search for a practically implementable system capable of achieving global-commerce levels of scalability and privacy.", Polkadot Docs]
"Seen from a high-level, the Parity Polkadot Platform stack has a number of functional components and any development of it will require a substantial amount of research and development prior to it being completed.", "The goal of Polkadot is to provide a framework under which new blockchains may be created and to which existing blockchains can, if their communities
desire, be transitioned." [Whitepaper.]
https://polkadot.com/platform | https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/polkadot
ORDI $33.35
[Ordinal Theory Handbook. "Ordinal theory imbues satoshis with numismatic value, allowing them to be collected and traded as curios. Individual satoshis can be inscribed with arbitrary content, creating unique Bitcoin-native digital artifacts that can be held in Bitcoin wallets and transferred using Bitcoin transactions. Inscriptions are as durable, immutable, secure, and decentralized as Bitcoin itself.", Abstract: "This document defines a scheme for assigning serial numbers to sats."]
"$Ordi is a Bitcoin derivative product based on the BRC20 token standard. The BRC20 is a novel concept built on the Bitcoin Ordinals Protocol, similar to Ethereum's ERC20 token standard. It allows for the creation and trading of custom tokens on the Bitcoin network, differing from ERC20. The Ordinals Protocol enables "sats" (the smallest unit of Bitcoin) to carry diverse data types like images, text, music, and videos." [Coinmarketcap]
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ordi
IO $1.71
"IO Coin is the native Coin of the IOG Network. IO coin is referred to as $IO." [Docs]
[Whitepaper. "IO Cloud enables the deployment and management of on-demand, decentralized GPU clusters, giving users access to powerful GPU resources", IO Worker "is like having a virtual rental manager for your device. It's a simple web app that lets you lend your computing power to those tackling AI tasks," IO Explorer " is to provide users with a comprehensive view of our network, offering detailed statistics and insights into every aspect of our GPU Cloud."]
"IO ID "is the central place where you can easily see what's added to your balance and how to withdraw it in cryptocurrency. It's like the control center for all your receipts.",
IOG - The Internet of GPUs already allows for the distribution of AI and Python applications on a vast GPU grid. And we're enhancing our capabilities with IOG.
"Put your GPU to work and Accelerate your earnings"
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/io-net
BIGTIME $0.1587
[Whitepaper. "free-to-play multiplayer action RPG game" BigTime.GG , cosmetic economy.]
"$BIGTIME is a fair launch token with no allocation to the team or investors. The primary way to get $BIGTIME will be through in-game drops.
Hourglasses are limited supply artifacts that, once equipped, would allow the player to start generating $BIGTIME Tokens while playing the game."
Etherscan token, "Max Total Supply: 5,000,000,000 BIGTIME | Holders: 19,886"
See the Leaderboards <-- Or read Playbigtime on Medium.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/big-time
ZEC Zcash $38.34
[Whitepaper. "A simple, secure digital currency that protects your privacy."]
"It bridges the existing transparent payment scheme used by Bitcoin with a shielded payment scheme secured by zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk-SNARKs)."
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash
ZKSync $0.1256
[Whitepaper. "At the core of the ZK Stack is the zkEVM, which is designed to execute transactions while maintaining full compatibility with Ethereum." Docs ]
"Compile and deploy the contract", "build and deploy an ERC20 token to ZKsync Sepolia Testnet".
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zksync
PYTH Network $0.3524
[Whitepaper. "to bring this valuable financial market data to DeFi", "The network aggregates this first-party price data and publishes it on-chain for use by either on- or off-chain applications." ]
"The Pyth protocol is designed to incentivize participants to continually publish price
updates for various products (such as BTC/USD)."
"The Pyth protocol uses an appchain called Pythnet to store and update the state of each price feed. Pythnet is a proof-of-authority blockchain where each publisher runs a validator. Pyth prices are broadcast from this appchain to other target chains by way of a cross-chain architecture that uses decentralized cross-chain messaging protocols, such as the Wormhole network."
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pyth-network
This took a while, I spent probably four hours composing this, looking and reading through all the coins as seen above. As you can see there is a lot going on in the Altcoin space, but some of it is just for fun and not all projects are the same. Not all coins are limited, not all code is secure.
Whatever you do going into 2025 make sure you read everything you can and understand how to balance your budget before you invest any hard earned money into random meme coins.
There are however some very interesting and complex projects and problems that brilliant minds are hard at work to solve. They need your Bitcoin! And so do I. But I am grateful for your upvotes.
Out of these coins that I mentioned, which are most interesting to you, and what about them had you reading more? Do you hold any of these coins, and what does a balanced portfolio look like to you?
Do your own research, these are just observations.
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