there are literally millions of cryptocurrencies out there but only a handful of them will achieve the Epic returns that crypto is famous for so this begs the question of which cryptos are worth holding the answer depends on who you ask because everyone has a different approach to investing and as The Operators of the largest crypto YouTube channel many have been asking us which coins and tokens we hold that's why today we're going to reveal the top cryptos in our portfolios explain why we hold them and show you a few that we're considering adding to our
portfolios in the coming months this is a vid you can't miss to begin with I should say that nothing in this video is financial advice it's just educational content that's intended to inform you about cryptocurrencies specifically our crypto portfolios also keep in mind that the cryptos we hold could and likely will change as time goes on especially if you're watching this later in the cycle if you want to see our full crypto portfolios and keep track of any changes we make then become a member of the coin Bureau Club besides our crypto portfolios and watch
lists members get access to weekly reviews of small cap altcoins that they vote for daily crypto Market updates and realtime crypto Alpha in our research feed you can become a member of the coin Bureau Club using the link in the description now as you can see the top five cryptos in my portfolio are currently Bitcoin ethereum salana sui and pith Network which collectively make up around 85% of my portfolio you'll also notice that I hold an additional 14 cryptos that are blurred out I'll remind you that coin buau club members get to see the full
list again Link in the description anyways Bitcoin is my largest holding accounting for over 44% of my crypto portfolio now coin Bureau super fans will know that this is basically because I've known about Bitcoin since 2013 that's when I noticed that one of the pubs in my neighborhood back in the UK had begun accepting BTC as payment now unfortunately I didn't load up on BTC as much as I would have liked back then but well I'm not the only one who underestimated its potential but the reason why Bitcoin is my largest holding is because the
BTC I did buy back in the day has increased a lot in value and because BTC is the largest and most established crypto over the years I've also started to buy into the idea that CC could someday become one of the world's Reserve currencies something that now seems more possible than ever before more importantly though it's become clear to me that Bitcoin is in a category of its own You could argue that btc's purpose is to be digital money analogous to digital Gold by contrast every other cryptocurrency is trying to become something more analogous to
a decentralized tech company or a decentralized bank this is important to note because it means that Bitcoin effectively has no competition while altcoins are facing constant competition this increases the chances that BTC will continue to be valuable in the long term but almost guarantees that most altcoins will eventually lose to new competitors during that time that's why I don't plan on selling my BTC for the foreseeable future unless absolutely necessary but do intend on taking profits on altcoins between Cycles again that's just because the next cycle is likely to feature a new set of promising
altcoins that are likely to overtake the incumbents from previous cycles and by the way if you're enjoying the video so far then be sure to smash that like button and subscribe to the channel so you don't miss our next enjoyable video okay with that in mind we can take a closer look at my altcoin Holdings starting of course with ethereum which accounts for around 23% of my crypto portfolio in addition to the fact that I've been holding eth for a long time the reason why I continue to hold so much eth is because ethereum continues
to be dominant it's easy to forget that most of the crypto ecosystem is built on ethereum many of the most valuable tokens are erc20 is on ethereum most of the largest daps and defi Protocols are on ethereum and the majority of stable coins exist on ethereum because it offers the highest security guarantees outside of Bitcoin this is particularly easy to forget when you're seeing constant fud around ethereum and eth visibly lagging the rest of the crypto market and particularly BTC I believe it's possible this will change soon and that eth will mount a recovery rally
that could take it into the tens of thousands of dollars at its cycle top okay next up we've got salana which accounts for a little over 6% of my crypto portfolio now the main reason why I hold salana is because it's arguably the top competitor to ethereum by this I mean that salana has the potential to capture market share from ethereum when it comes to hosting the top tokens and daps this has less to do with sana's speed though and more to do with its user experience whereas everyone forgets about ethereum's role in the crypto
industry everyone also forgets about how much money salana has been spending on ux with its Phantom wallet raising 109 million dollar in 2022 to increase adoption and so far we've seen salana temporarily flip ethereum on various metrics like active wallets and even fees from my perspective though the place where salana will flip ethereum and all the other smart contract cryptocurrencies will be payments once reasonable stablecoin regulations are passed in the United States and you can refer to our most recent salana update for more info there now after salana we have sui which makes up just
under 6% of my crypto portfolio as you might have guessed sui is my fourth largest holding because I believe that sui is the top competitor to salana again this has less to do with sui's speed and more to do with its technology and approach to growth on the tech front sui uses a novel programming language called move which was originally developed by Facebook AKA meta but technically invented by Sam blacksher one of sui's co-founders now the key takeaway with move is that it makes it possible for sui to do things that other cryptocurrency networks can't
on the growth front sui has been hyperfocused on gaming and is even launching its own handheld gaming device this is significant because it looks like gamei is going to be a big narrative during this crypto bull market and crypto Hardware seems to be becoming a new narrative too thanks to deepin and on that note the fifth crypto in my top five is pith Network which accounts for around 4% of my crypto portfolio now in my opinion pith network is one of the most underrated cryptos there is that's because it's an oracle that provides highfrequency data
feeds that blockchains like salana depend on in other words pith network is like chain link and some would argue that it's better than chain link that's because pith Network technically has its own blockchain called pith net which could theoretically leverage the pith token for fees someday this could make pith bigger than link which is already pretty darn big for the time being though pith continues to fly under the radar which is good news for those looking to get in early but bad news for those who have already been accumulating for a while Like Yours Truly
for context I've been accumulating pith since we covered pith Network on on the coin Bureau club and I'll reiterate that you can become a member of that using the link in the description now as for the cryptos on my watch list I'll tell you about one and that is AR as most of you will know arve is the largest defi lending and borrowing protocol in crypto what you may not know is that arv is planning on deploying to move-based blockchains like Aptos something we noted in our recent update as a matter of fact RVE founder
Stanny ketov believes that move could become the new new standard for development in crypto aside from the fact that this paints a very bullish picture for the likes of Aptos and sui it also paints a bullish picture for arve which has been on The Cutting Edge of crypto ever since it launched not only that but arve is working on a decentralized stable coin called go and has also been expanding into other narratives like social fi with lens protocol a has even been working on improving user experience in crypto which is yet another thing that many
people have overlooked and in case it wasn't clear enough the cryptos on my watch list are the ones that I'm thinking of accumulating in the coming weeks and months a is likely to be one of the first and coin Bureau club members will be the first to know when I've added it to my crypto portfolio you fine folks already know how to join that Elite band so I'll see you there all right my turn as you can see the top five cryptos in my portfolio are Bitcoin salana sui injective protocol and near protocol which collectively
make up over 96% of my portfolio now you'd be forgiven for thinking I'm a Bitcoin Maxi given that nearly 64% is in BTC but my large BTC Holdings are a result of being in crypto for close to a decade of course the difference between guy and myself is that I recognized just how much potential Bitcoin could have thanks to where I began my career uh for those who don't know I used to work in trafi at Goldman saxs it's funny that some have tried to wield this fact as something that's discrediting when in actual fact
it gave me a bit of an edge it helped me realize that the traditional Financial system wasn't fit for purpose very early on anyways like guy I've come to recognize that Bitcoin is in a category of its own the difference here is that I think BTC has the potential to be much more than something you simply hoddle the introduction of Technologies like ordinals and BRC 20s has in my view taken bitcoin's value proposition to a whole other level take a second to consider that Bitcoin is technically the most secure payment Network on the planet and
that BTC is by some measures the most liquid asset in the world this makes Bitcoin the perfect foundation for use cases of all kinds and makes BTC the ideal asset to use for these use cases and this is why I'm particularly excited about things like BTC reaking and using BTC within defi protocols on bitcoin layer 2s and elsewhere this will greatly increase btc's utility while simultaneously unlocking tens of billions if not hundreds of billions of dollars of capital that wants to use BTC as collateral a lot of this money will flow right back into bitcoin's
ecosystem and BTC by extension all while maintaining bitcoin's monetary qualities at the base layer these and other facts are ultimately why BTC continues to account for more than 2/3 of my crypto portfolio and why it's likely to stay this way for quite some time at this stage the only thing I would do with some of my BTC is use it in the exact kinds of protocols I just described to earn a yield by reaking or using BTC as collateral to lever up given the rapid debasement of Fiat currencies using BTC as collateral will literally make
it as good as gold eventually now this leaves salana sui injective protocol and Nia protocol salana currently makes up just over 14% of my crypto portfolio and is one of my largest altcoin Holdings and this is just because I like guy see salana as one of the most serious competitors to ethereum however my reasons for this are slightly different as some of you may know I've been doing lots of interviews with Builders and thinkers within the crypto ecosystem on our second Channel more coin Bureau I've also been attending quite a few Live Events and speaking
to the who's who of whichever ecosystem it's been eye openening to say the least and in the case of salana it's made me incredibly bullish on soul and this is due to a combination of factors particularly how much development there is and how many high-profile Partnerships are being penned one that comes to mind is Visa testing payments on salana and you'll recall salana payments could be big and this ties into s whose ecosystem has also seen substantial development and this includes an explosion in growth across various metrics including tvl onchain volume and developers building on
swe in fact it was one of the fastest growing non-m chains in recent months and the second largest non-m chain in Aggregate and it's not just the current growth but also the future plans that SU has for onboarding more developers building with move and this was all recently discussed in an interview I did with Adan aboten the co-founder and CPO of miston labs the link to that interview is right over here for you to enjoy by the way this interview made me uh so bullish onui that I decided to increase my portfolio Holdings and it
now accounts for a little over 14% it's about the same allocation as Soul at the time of shooting this video at least now Beyond ad there are also some really strong team members at s uh if you're familiar with the project or watched our most recent update on it you'll know it's one of the two cryptos that arose From the Ashes of Libra Facebook's failed digital currency project the other is Aptos which we'll come back to in a bit what makes the sweet team particularly special though is it consists of those who were instrumental in
creating Libra such as Sam the inventor of move mentioned earlier as far as I can tell this makes the best hedge against salana but obviously there's room for more again more on that in a bit anyhow my third largest altcoin holding is injective protocol which makes up just under 3% of my portfolio FYI injective protocol is a D5 focused layer one built using cosmos's battle tested technology uh some of you might recall that it's inj coin was rallying relentlessly earlier this year and that's for good reason in short cosmos's defi ecosystem is still being built
out and when you realize that the total market cap of Cosmos cryptos is over 100 billion you understand that Cosmos projects looking to tap into this liquidity could do extremely well injective protocol happens to be the biggest here at least by market cap at the same time defi itself is still in its infancy and that means there's lots of room for defi projects and protocols to grow and it's also worth pointing out that defi hasn't really been a big narrative yet and this means that the massive inj pump we saw earlier this year was perhaps
the appetizer not the main course Food For Thought pun intended dad jokes aside the last crypto in my portfolio I'll tell you about today is Nea protocol which is arguably one of the most underrated cryptos on the market so much so that we actually included near in a video about that very topic if you watch that video you'll know this has mostly to do with neara protocols ties to AI not sure if you've noticed but AI has been a very big narrative and it's one that's likely to continue getting bigger both inside and outside of
crypto of all the AI cryptos out there near protocol is one that's the most legit in my eyes and the best part is that AI isn't the only thing it has to offer another key selling point of near protocol is chain abstraction without getting too technical near protocol makes it possible to interact with all blockchains in crypto from its blockchain and this could turn near protocol into the de facto front end for all of crypto which would be insanely bullish for year and this brings me to my watch list which only contains one crypto aptose
now if sui is the ideal Hedge for salana then aptose is the ideal hedge foru and that's again because both crypto projects have their roots in Facebook's Libra and both of their teams worked on Libra before moving to their respective projects uh feel free to check out my interview with Aptos CEO moake over on more coin buau also by the way now while the differences between sui and apos are Technical and at the micro level there's one big difference at the macro level and that's the areas that the crypto projects are focused on appears to
be focused and more geared towards consumer crypto and Retail conversely epto seems to be more geared towards institutions and large Enterprises with Partnerships including MasterCard and Franklin Templeton which also recently launched a tokenized money market fund on Aptos by the way and this would make a a logical addition to my crypto portfolio but I'll be waiting until the time is right to accumulate in case you couldn't tell I'm very selective with the cryptos I do pick and this is in stark contrast to guy and everyone else on team coin buau who are total Deens by
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