This 'Top' Altcoin Crashed From $35 to $6
59sA brutal 83% collapse in a once-beloved altcoin makes a compelling warning that not every crypto will recover this cycle.
▶ Play Clip"Delivers a real strategy, but the '3 picks' title is outdated — the video actually names four tokens and spends a segment pitching a paid community."
In this video, the creator argues that the 2026 crypto market punishes over-diversified altcoin portfolios and lays out a concentrated four-token stack: Hyperliquid, Venice, BitTensor TAO, and Near Protocol. He pairs these picks with a 10–20% stablecoin buffer to survive downturns and stay nimble for narrative trades.
The opening argues that 2026 cannot be played like 2021 or 2023: alt season and portfolio structuring have fundamentally changed, and many altcoins are getting crushed while stocks surge.
ICP is down 12% on the week, BitTensor TAO is down 10%, and many tokens are down double digits; Hyperliquid is a rare outlier, up 16%.
AVAX slid from $35 to roughly $6 over a year, illustrating that past top altcoins can bleed for long periods.
The video stresses a concentrated thesis; Anom's 'life on the line' scenario limits the portfolio to three tokens you can't sell until end of 2026.
Easy said he is allocating his entire Bitcoin stack into SOL, Near, and Hyperliquid, which overlaps with the video's core thesis.
Accumulated from the $20s and now at $69, Hyperliquid is called the best native crypto product in years, with revenue funneled into buybacks and a TVL chart that mirrors price action.
The privacy-AI token was accumulated around $8 and is up roughly 100%; it processes 85 billion API calls per day, showing real adoption.
Despite ecosystem turmoil, TAO subnets are attracting net inflows (IOTA +2,000 TAO, Red Team +1,000 TAO weekly), and the token is re-testing the $200–$230 range.
Near is trading around $2 versus a $20 last-cycle peak; the creator recommends buying $100 a day (or $10–$20) under $3, citing Near Intents revenue and partnerships like Zcash and Venice.
The creator argues this four-token portfolio plus a stablecoin buffer will outperform over-diversified or overtraded portfolios in 2026.
Keeping liquid capital on the sidelines lets investors jump into and out of narrative trades rather than going all-in on tokens.
The main takeaway is that 2026 rewards focus: hold a small set of proven, revenue-generating crypto businesses instead of rotating through dozens of altcoins, and keep meaningful dry powder in stablecoins.
According to the video, what is Hyperliquid's token price at the time of recording and what price does the creator predict?
It's at $69 and he believes it will eventually trade above $100.
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What daily API call volume does Venice reportedly process?
85 billion API calls every day.
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What was Avalanche's price drop cited in the video?
From $35 down to $6 over about a year.
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What does the creator recommend as the stablecoin allocation in a crypto portfolio?
Keep at least 10–20% of the portfolio in stablecoins for flexibility.
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Which token's TVL chart does the creator say mirrors its price action?
Hyperliquid's TVL chart mirrors its price action almost verbatim.
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What are the four altcoins the creator says are the only ones needed in a 2026 portfolio?
Hyperliquid, Venice, BitTensor TAO, and Near Protocol.
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What net TAO inflow figures are cited for two subnets in the past week?
IOTA subnet gained 2,000 TAO and Red Team gained 1,000 TAO.
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What was Near Protocol's price at recording versus its last bull run high?
It was around $2, down from a high of $20 in the last bull run.
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What is the creator's buy recommendation for Near Protocol?
Buy $100 of Near every day, or smaller amounts like $10–$20, believing under $3 will be an unreal trade.
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Who is Easy, mentioned in the video?
A crypto figure who said he's allocating his entire Bitcoin stack into SOL, Near, and Hyperliquid.
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Concentration is the new defense
Over-diversification is framed as a risk in 2026; holding fewer, proven tokens is the way to protect downside.
02:37Hyperliquid's buyback flywheel
The product returns revenue via buybacks and its TVL mirrors price, making it the cycle's king.
03:54Venice's real adoption metrics
85B API calls daily shows the shift from narratives to real usage in crypto.
07:44Net TAO inflows as a signal
Watching whether TAO is being staked into subnets (net inflows) is a key on-chain metric.
11:10Stablecoin dry powder
Keeping 10–20% in stablecoins provides flexibility for narrative trades and protects against downturns.
14:19[00:01] Crypto has changed tremendously over the last two years. I mean, we can't treat alt season the same way. We can't treat structuring a portfolio the same way as we did in 2021 or 2023,
[00:13] etc. So, in this video, I'm going to go over really the only sectors and altcoins I think are worth buying in this current market and the only things that can also withstand these downturns that we continue to see. The stock market is prevailing, but right now the altcoin sector is
[00:28] getting absolutely crushed if you're not in the right coins. So, I'm going to go over the only core tokens that I think you should be holding in 2026. Let's go ahead and jump right into the video, guys. If you're new to the channel here on In the Money, we go over everything between
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[00:58] And if we just look at the charts on crypto, you can see there are some outliers, you know, on the 24-hour charts. Some coins don't look too bad. But when we scroll through here, stuff like ICP is down 12% this week. We have BitTensor TAO down 10% this week. We see a lot
[01:15] of tokens down double digits. Some tokens are still thriving, but very few and far between. You know, stuff like Hyperliquid is up 16%, which is really not a surprise. It's probably the king of this cycle, but it's really treacherous out there. And a lot of these tokens just continue
[01:31] to take downtrends. I'm not going to, you know, pick on a certain token, but let's just go to like Avalanche. This thing has literally, no pun intended, been an avalanche of bad price action for literally over a year at this point in time. If we go to this yearly chart, it's brutal. And,
[01:49] you know, this is really widely acclaimed as what used to be one of the best altcoins in crypto. It went from $35 now down to $6. And, you know, tokens like this are the reason that you have to take a look at the market objectively and say, "Okay, this is not the stock market anymore."
[02:05] Like a crypto bull run does not mean that all ships are going to rise, every single token is going to go up, and you're going to make profits in every single bull run. Like this is today's stock market. You're literally seeing altcoin level gains. It's absolutely crazy. 50%,
[02:20] 14% on daily moves here for pretty good-sized companies. Like these are obviously publicly traded stock market companies, and you're seeing these types of gains on a daily basis. This is not happening in the crypto space. So, we definitely have to adjust our thesis and make sure that
[02:37] we're protecting our downside, and that means not holding as many tokens as previous cycles. And I saw this video from Anom and Banks stream this last week, and I thought it was really intriguing, like, "Okay, you know, life on the line, what are the three tokens you can't sell
[02:54] until the end of this year?" You have to choose, like, you can't say one token and then USDC. Like, you know, so entire net worth across three cryptos you can't sell until the end of 2026. He said one
[03:08] is obviously Hyperliquid. We then see Easy kind of, I think, piggyback on this tweet. He's begun allocating his entire Bitcoin stack into SOL, Near, and Hyperliquid. So, you know, I'm going to say a couple of these do overlap with my thesis. So, I thought it would be a pretty good
[03:24] video to come in here and actually go over what would be the three coins that I'm going to be buying during these time periods. Let's go ahead and jump right into that. What would be the three coins? I'm going to expand it to four that I would currently be accumulating in this market with the
[03:41] most confidence that as we make it through this bear market, you will come out on top. And for me, altcoin number one is overlapping with both Anom and Easy on this token thesis,
[03:54] bullish on Hyperliquid. We have many tutorials and breakdowns as to why this altcoin has done what it's done. We started accumulating in the 20s. It's at $69 today. I really do think this will
[04:10] eventually be trading above $100. It really is the best product natively in crypto to maybe hit the scene in quite some time. And they're dumping basically all of their revenue back into buybacks,
[04:22] which helps the token just keep a level float. It gives back to the holders that they're just putting right back into the token. It is a really good equity buyback flywheel that they
[04:37] have going on with Hyperliquid. And this chart here just shows you how bullish this is. Okay, this is the TVL coming through every single week, or this is the daily chart even. This trend literally lines up with the Hyperliquid chart almost verbatim. Let's just pull up the last,
[04:54] what is this timeline here? This is all the way back to 2024. So, let's just go to the all chart here, and we can see this chart literally mirrors the TVL chart on Hyperliquid. Okay, let's just
[05:07] take a look at it step by step here. It pumps up into here, and then here on the TVL chart, we had this big pump. The one big retrace that it had over its whole time period was from this
[05:19] $55-$58 mark all the way down to $20. And that lines up with the exact timeline. January 20th, 2026. January 20th, 2026. That's where this TVL is. And then this just has just pumped ever since
[05:34] then. This chart mimics exactly the price action on Hyperliquid. And the products being built on Hyperliquid are just absolutely impressive. We have stuff like Project X and Proper. Proper is a prop firm that has a future airdrop coming up. Very bullish on what they're doing. Project X,
[05:50] you can farm DeFi and even earn potentially 100% on your Hyperliquid holdings every single year, which is absolutely crazy. So yes, to me, Hyperliquid is like Anom and Easy say here. I agree that is number one for me. I think it's a no doubt non-negotiable.
[06:06] If you are participating in crypto in 2026, this has to be in your portfolio. Moving on, for me, number two on this altcoin list of these are the only things you need
[06:18] to be holding in 2026. I still think Zcash is up there. After their little compromise thing, it got a little bit of FUD. I'm going to leave Zcash out of it, but it is definitely on the cusp of making
[06:31] this list. Still, even despite the compromise, I still think Zcash is pretty strong relatively according to the market. But let's go down the ladder a little bit and let's hit privacy and AI. And that is Venice. You guys know we've been buying Venice since about $8. A little bit late,
[06:47] but it is up basically 100% ever since we got in. Right around this time period, end of April was when we started really accumulating Venice at a high rate. And once again, simple thesis.
[07:01] The reason I'm liking these tokens, and I'm going to show you another chart here, 2026 is actually moving towards real product, real adoption, real attention, real metrics, real revenue. We want to
[07:13] see core things that are actually performing well. Crypto has, unlike the stock market, you know, like the stock market's going up hand over fist every single week. But with crypto, we are tired of the fraudulent companies that come in, milk fundraises, and then exit scam basically.
[07:30] Stocks don't do that, right? You can buy Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, whatever the case is, hand over fist, and over time you're going to probably come out in profit. Crypto's just not been the same way. So, when we see a company like Hyperliquid with these metrics, when you see a
[07:44] company like Venice with these metrics, these are their API here. It's loading real quick, but the API tokens. So, they're doing 85 billion API calls every single day. And this chart is only
[07:57] up into the right. So, there's more adoption and more usage coming into these platforms, which I think is just absolutely essential if we plan to make profits on quality altcoins over the long haul. We can't just sit here and hold eroding tokens like Cardano or Avalanche in 2026. We need
[08:16] to be on the tokens that are on the cutting edge and are growing in the bear market. These are the tokens that are going to absolutely springboard to the upside in the full-blown bull market. And this covers AI and privacy as it is fully private AI utilizing all the best LLMs in the
[08:34] industry. So, by far for me, number two, and I think this is a must, and I believe Anom agreed as one of his tokens. I would say Venice is a must-hold in your portfolio this year.
[08:47] Before we move on to the final two tokens for me, I do want to go ahead and give some exposure. We are launching this this week on June 25th. So, three days from now, we have the In The Money group going live. Now, my team and I are going to be going hard in here,
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[09:55] we have a huge revenue driver in Hyperliquid, probably the best business in crypto. And then we're also pairing it with probably the best AI overall business in crypto, which is Venice. And I mean, I'm not going to be, I'm not holding bias that one is better than the other,
[10:08] but this chart here on literal just metric growth pretty much proves it that it's one of the fastest, if not the fastest growing AI project in crypto. But moving on, I think you have to then look at AI. So, we've covered, you know, a huge revenue driver with Hyperliquid. We
[10:24] have AI and privacy with Venice. Moving on to these next two tokens that are both AI, we have BitTensor TAO. And then I also am going to be accumulating another AI token. But still, despite the turmoil that some of this ecosystem has been through over the last few months,
[10:41] the TAO ecosystem continues to grow. Let me just reload that subnet page. And TAOstats is a great place to track all these metrics. But you can see here, a lot of these are pumping on the charts. If we just looked at like the monthly charts, we have certain subnets up like 400, 100,
[10:57] 200%. But more importantly to look at is the net TAO change? So, are people going into the subnets or are they pulling out of the subnets? Is there a net gain on the amount of TAO being staked?
[11:10] Because this is important. You can't really sell your TAO if you're staked into an alpha token. So, you look here, the TAO inflows over the week look great. Like this weekly chart, IOTA has gained 2,000 TAO, Red Team has gained 1,000 TAO. So, you're seeing more TAO getting
[11:27] locked up into these subnets, which is one of the most bullish metrics that you can have whenever you are looking at the BitTensor ecosystem. So, BitTensor to me also, if we just look at this monthly chart, we just had a rip back up to $280. And if Bitcoin would have continued its
[11:42] momentum when it reclaimed $70, I think that this could have been a really nice run pushed back up to $300. Now you're getting a decent entry again back at this $200 and $230 level, pardon me. So, absolutely, BitTensor is still in my AI thesis and is a firm part of my portfolio.
[12:01] The fourth token that I am accumulating right now, and I agree with this incredibly, and I even pulled this tweet up from last month because I think it holds a ton of weight still. I think buying $100 of Near every day. Now, you can do this however you want. $10 of Near a day,
[12:17] $20 of Near a day, under $3 is going to pan out to be an unreal trade. And then in the comment section, he does mention that whenever you look at the ecosystem, Near Intents is printing so much money. They work with Zcash, they work with Venice,
[12:33] they work with a ton of these businesses that we also support and hold in our portfolio. Let's just go look at the Near token right now. It's at $2. This thing was trading as high last bull run as $20, and they are farming millions of dollars in profit from their latest
[12:51] innovations with their privacy stack with Near Intents. So, to me, this is a trio that can't be ignored between Venice, TAO, and then also with Near Protocol. You're on the cutting edge of decentralized AI. There's nothing else competing with those in all of crypto. You cover everything,
[13:08] and then from there you have Hyperliquid on top of it. That would be my cap in my portfolio. Really, Hyperliquid, Near, TAO, Venice. I think that you will crush most people's portfolios who are trying
[13:21] to be too smart. And I had a conversation with one of my good friends who's a great trader as well, but I told him this cycle is the cycle that when you try to overthink or be too smart in your portfolio, it's actually backfiring. And that's straight up from in the stock market too. You
[13:38] could have thrown darts over the last 24 months at any stock on the board basically, and you've made 50 to 100% almost on your money just without even blinking. But that time period is not here right
[13:50] now. And the less you honestly try to outsmart yourself and say this token's going to pump next, I know it. If you just hold the core stack of main character tokens this cycle, you will outperform
[14:02] the people who are overtrading, over-rotating. I can promise you that because 2026 the game has changed. Not everything is going to have a bull run. And I think it's clear we've seen these core tokens pump every single time tremendously whenever the market goes up. And I do believe
[14:19] this will continue. And I think keeping some stablecoins on the sideline, right? You don't want to allocate every dollar you have on chain into tokens. You want to have some liquid capital because right now people are thinking SOL is going to heat up, or there are narrative trades
[14:34] out there that you could hop in and then hop out of after they pump. So, keeping about 10 to 20% at least of your portfolio in stablecoins gives you that flexibility to be able to jump in these narrative plays. And I'm not saying you only have to hold these tokens or you're
[14:50] cooked. Like there are other great protocols and projects in crypto. But for me, playing it safe, going heavy into those core plays that have really proven themselves over time, I think you're going to outperform the vast majority of people holding too many altcoins or really overthinking their
[15:06] portfolios in 2026, guys. So, if you enjoyed the video, if you support these tokens or let me know your tokens, what would be the three or four tokens that you would be holding in 2026? Let me know down below. Like the video and subscribe to the channel. Hit the In The Money link. Get
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[15:36] the next video. As always, trade responsibly, my friends, and of course, stay bullish, my friends.
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