Top 25 Altcoin Tier List: Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:01] picked for the next bull market. XRP holders are talking about $14, Sui holders are looking at $16, and Solana, some believe it could seriously change Ethereum. But, how many of these coins actually deserve those expectations?

[00:15] Well, I took 25 of the biggest altcoins and ranked them from S tier all the way down to D tier, based on what could really drive them higher going into 2027. And I'm not just looking at prices or big partnership announcements here. I

[00:28] want to know which coins have the strongest case behind them. Because, when you put all 25 next to each other, some of the biggest names don't look nearly as obvious as you think. So, if you're feeling bullish, like this video,

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[00:52] have been talking about our crypto yield generation protocol to everyone who follows us on this channel and watches the link in the description below. Let's run it. All right, bull runners, welcome back to the channel. So, quick context

[01:04] on what each tier means. S tier has room to grow, and the proof is already there. A tier is a strong case with one big question. B tier needs something that isn't happening yet. C is solid, but it's limited. And D means the best part

[01:20] has probably already happened. And none of this is a price target here. Some of research depending on the time frame that you're watching this video and what first, let's start with Ethereum. So, Ethereum, it's winning as a network.

[01:34] More stablecoins live on Ethereum than any other chain by a long shot. But, the coin has a size problem. Ethereum is already worth around $300 billion. For ETH to get to $25,000, Ethereum would have to be worth about $3

[01:48] trillion. That's nearly twice what Bitcoin is worth today. So, Ethereum can still have a great bull run, a great 2027. I'd call it one of the safest altcoins on the board, but there just isn't as much of a as people think to

[02:01] the upside. So, from a proof of concept, Ethereum would be an A or an S tier, but are in the crypto market in the first place to make money, Ethereum goes in talk about is BitTensor. It's actually the opposite here. It's small, it's

[02:15] young, and it was one of the very few big coins that held its value this year while the market fell about a third. It's a network that pays people to build AI models. And if decentralized AI becomes a big story in 2027, which I

[02:28] believe it will, this is the coin people will reach for. There's one problem that bothers me, though. You see, BitTensor pays its builders around $360 million a year in new TAO. What those builders earn from real customers on one estimate

[02:42] is a few million dollars, maybe 15 at most. So, right now, most of the money in the system is the token paying people. Now, if real customer money the best setups on the board. So, right now, BitTensor goes in the A tier. Now,

[02:56] let's talk about Render. Render is the same AI trade from another angle. It rents out spare graphics cards, and every job burns Render. But the business is still tiny, around $3 million a year. It needs the AI trade to come back with

[03:10] real jobs. So, Render goes in the B tier. Now, Cardano has one of the most loyal communities in crypto. Its holders vote on how the chain is run, and several Cardano ETFs are waiting for approval. But the whole chain makes

[03:23] approval. But the whole chain makes about $2,400 a day in fees. So, ADA's price depends much more on new buyers than on what the chain earns today. So, buyers can come back fast, and for the move to last, the activity has to

[03:35] follow. So, Cardano is going to go in the B tier. Now, if we look at Tron next, Tron is the opposite of BitTensor. Around $95 billion of stablecoins sit on Tron, and a huge part of the world uses it to move dollars every day. But it's

[03:48] already a $30 billion coin. It held up far better than most of the market this year, and its supply is still growing. Now, a network this big has much less room to surprise you. So, it has all the proof, but for Tron, we're putting it in

[04:00] the D tier. Now, Athena might be the most bull market coin on this board right now. It's dollar token USDE pays its yield from what leverage traders pay to hold their bets. And when the market gets greedy, USDE grows. And last month,

[04:16] ENA holders voted to start buying back ENA. Only once USDE gets back to 7.5 under 5 billion. So, a strong bull market switches the buyback on and a

[04:29] cold one doesn't. So, Athena goes in the B tier. Now, let's look at Ondo. Ondo puts things like treasuries and stocks on chain and its tokenized stocks just hit a record. But, Ondo holders don't get anything from that business. And in

[04:42] January, a big unlock adds about 40% more Ondo to the market. So, currently the C tier. That'll likely change with time. So, just understand where these coins are getting put on this board can change in a matter of a month or two.

[04:57] market's at, what these projects are doing. Now, if we look at Kaspa, Kaspa added smart contracts in June and almost all of its supply is already out. So, there's a very little dilution left. But, the apps that upgrade was built for

[05:10] couldn't find any real stablecoins or app money on it yet. It has the tech now, it needs people using it. So, Kaspa right now goes in the C tier. Now, if we look at Solana, it's the first coin that goes in the S tier and here's why. It

[05:24] makes more in fees than any other chain on the list and its spot ETFs, which held the real Solana, it pulled in about 1.6 billion dollars in less than a year. So, people are really using it and the big buyers are already here. And there's

[05:37] room to grow as well. Solana is about fifth the size of Ethereum. If it keeps taking users the way that it has for most of the last 3 years, that gap can close a lot. But, it has a lot of room to run. And the catch is that it lost

[05:51] some ground this year. But, because it can catch up a lot, Solana is going in the S tier. Now, Sui is the chain people compare with Solana right now. And some of you ask if it could get to $16. Here's the first thing you need to know.

[06:04] Only about 41% of all Sui is out today. The rest is still coming. So, when you value Sui, you have to count all of it. Count all of it, and $16 would make Sui worth about what Solana was worth at its very peak. And for a chain doing a

[06:18] fraction of Solana's activity, the likelihood of it getting there is slim to none. Around $11 is different. That's still a big stretch, but Sui has done this kind of move before. It went up about 14 times from its 2023 low to its

[06:32] 2025 high. But, just because it did it in the past doesn't mean it's going to do it again. A lot of coins that made an all-time high in 2021 didn't make a new all-time high in 2025. The problem is what's happening on the chain right now.

[06:46] Stablecoins on Sui have roughly halved since last year. The money in its apps is down by more than half from its record. And the chain makes a few thousand dollars a day in fees. That's it. So, for Sui to get to $11, all of

[06:59] that has to turn around and grow faster than all of the new Sui that comes out into circulation. If it does, very few coins on this board have more room. So, for this video, I'm putting it in the A tier. Now, let's look at Zcash because

[07:13] Zcash was the runner of the year, up about 10x. About 30% of all Zcash now sits in private addresses, and it got its own ETF in August. But, it's trading happened, and I think there's better plays on the board right now. I've

[07:28] not covering it in this one. Right now, it goes in the D tier just for the opportunity to make money here. Now, let's look at Monero. It's the same privacy trade with a smaller run. Its big privacy upgrade is still in testing,

[07:40] and exchanges are still the risk though. So, Monero currently in the D tier. So, that a lot of you hold right now, and the bank world is definitely real. It even has a reserve that takes what Chainlink earns and turns it into LINK.

[07:54] But, that's around $4 million of LINK a month, and no bank has confirmed it's So, it has partners, yes, definitely a lot of them. Payments, not so much yet. So, I think Chainlink has room to move up, but it's not as aggressive as a lot

[08:08] the B tier currently. I still think it'll do well, but I think there's better opportunities to make money on the board. Now, if we look at Quant, clearinghouse, a group owned by America's biggest banks for a network

[08:21] they plan to launch next year. The coin roughly tripled in about a week, but a bank using Quant's software doesn't mean anybody has to buy QNT. The price just show up on the chart, Quant is actually going in the C tier. And now, let's talk

[08:35] about XRP. I know a lot of you have been waiting for this one. So, can XRP get to $14 this bull run cycle? Is it going to get to $100, $500, $1,000? These crazy get to $100, $500, $1,000? These crazy price predictions. Well, at $14, XRP

[08:49] would be worth around $930 billion. That's more than Ethereum has ever been worth. The last time XRP had that big of a share of the market was the top of the 2018 mania. Now, I can't make that case right now other than speculating on deep

[09:04] dives and riddles, but I can make a case for something smaller. And to get there, I split the XRP story into two parts. The stuff that buys XRP and the stuff that doesn't have to. So, the first part is real. The US spot XRP ETFs hold

[09:19] actual XRP, more than a billion dollars of it. And they've put in a bit more money than the Solana ETFs. New money going into these funds buys real XRP. And Evernode, a company built to hold XRP, already has hundreds of millions of

[09:33] it. The second part is Ripple's business. It's stable coin is growing, and it has conditional approval for a US trust bank. So, that's good news for Ripple the company, but a bank can use Ripple's software and its stable coin

[09:45] without ever holding XRP. And then, there's the supply. Every month, a billion XRP is unlocked from escrow, but most of it goes straight back in. Ripple sells some of it, uses what they sell to fund their business, and then puts the

[09:57] rest back. What actually comes out is a few hundred million a month. And Ripple stopped publishing its sales report last year. So, we can't see how much gets sold now. So, for XRP, it comes down to this. Are the ETFs, the treasury

[10:10] companies and people like you buying faster than the new XRP that comes out of escrow? If that buying keeps growing, I can see XRP becoming one of the top three coins in crypto again. Somewhere around $7. Now, whether that buying

[10:22] lasts is the big question. If I were to put XRP in a tier based on the riddles and the speculation, it would be an S tier project, but for this case, we need more proof on chain of real volume using XRP. So for this case, XRP goes in the A

[10:37] tier until we get that proof. Now, Stellar's XLM usually moves with XRP and there's about $3 of tokenized assets on it, but it has no spot ETF and around 30% of its supply is still to come. So I think Stellar is a beta play on XRP and

[10:52] even harder. So for this video, I'll put it right behind XRP in the B tier. Now, Near Protocol has the best quarter of any big coin, up almost 200% and the reason is real. Near intends lets you swap between chains in just one step and

[11:07] it did about $4.4 billion of volume last month. Some of those fees now buy back Near, but that's a few million dollars a quarter and new Near is still being created much faster. And after a run like that, the price got ahead of the

[11:20] is a great project, but I'm going to put it in the B tier. Now, look at Hedera. Hedera has a spot ETF and big name companies on its council and in late 2024, it went up about eight times in three months, but the network makes

[11:33] around $500 a day in fees. That's it. The usage just isn't there yet. So we'll Avalanche has a better story than people think right now. Big institutions are using it for tokenized assets. BlackRock's tokenized fund is on it and

[11:48] FIFA built its own chain on it. It also has two spot ETFs, both staking AVAX, activity yet. The chain makes about $19,000 a day in fees and for 2027, the

[12:00] tokenization story has to show up as real usage. So Avalanche is going to go in the B tier. Now, Polkadot taught me that a crash isn't the same thing as room. It's down Now 90% from its high, so it looks cheap, but in order for it

[12:14] to have room to run, it needs to make some major changes. It lost more ground than almost anything this year, and its big upgrade JAM still has no launch date. The good news is that supply is now capped and new issuance was cut in

[12:26] half in March, but Polkadot is going to go in the C tier. Now BNB has some of the best token economics on this board. Binance burns a big chunk every quarter, about $930 million worth in July alone. And part of every gas fee gets burned,

[12:40] too. BNB Chain is one of the busiest chains in crypto, and there's a spot ETF now. The catch is how much comes back to Binance. The burns the chain and a big share of the supply. So if something goes wrong at Binance, BNB feels it

[12:54] first. BNB goes in the C tier. Now Aave is the biggest lending app in crypto, and bull markets are great for lenders because everybody wants to borrow. Aave was buying back its own token until April. Then an exploit on another

[13:08] protocol left bad debt on Aave. Some of it was covered with loans that still have to be paid back, and the buyers haven't come back. Now it's a strong business, but right now the token isn't getting any of it. So Aave is going to

[13:21] go in the C tier. Now if we look at Injective, it's the smallest coin here. It cuts its new supply in half this year and burns tokens every single month, but it makes under $20,000 a week in fees. So the burns are tiny. So Injective is

[13:34] going to go in the B tier. Now the comparison I care about most in this whole video, Uniswap is the biggest decentralized exchange in crypto. Last month it made about $150 million in fees. Most of that goes to the people

[13:47] who provide the trading pairs. And for 5 years, Uniswap holders got nothing from any of it. The token is still more than 80% below its 2021 high. That changed at the end of last year. Holders voted to send part of the fees into a pot that

[14:03] can only be emptied by burning the token. Uniswap also burned 100 million of its coin from its treasury on day one. And right now about 8% of fees go into that pot. Now 8% may not seem like a lot, but for the first time the

[14:16] biggest exchange in DeFi is connected to its token and that share can grow. And most of the market. So this might surprise some people, but we're going to run. Now the next coin we want to look at is Hyperliquid. It's the other side

[14:31] of this. It's an exchange for trading futures fully on chain. Last month it made about 90 million in fees, less than Uniswap, but around 80% of that went to a fund that buys hype on the open market. And since they vote in December,

[14:45] the hype in that fund counts as burned. So Uniswap is a bigger business and about 8% goes towards its token. Hyperliquid is a smaller business and about 80% goes towards its token. Neither one pays holders directly. With

[14:59] Uniswap the upside is that 8% growing. With Hyperliquid the token side is already working, so the risk is the business itself. And that business has some competition out there. In spring of 2025 Hyperliquid did around 70% of all

[15:14] on chain futures trading. Today it's about a third of that and rivals like catching up. Now if you count every hype that will ever exist, it's already worth around 80 billion dollars. So the fees have to keep growing just to hold that.

[15:28] very high. So we're going to put Hyperliquid in the S tier. So guys, that's all 25 and what decided this board actually surprised me. Most of these projects are winning at something. Ethereum and Tron carry most of the

[15:41] world's stablecoins. America's biggest banks picked Quant, but none of that put them in the S tier because a project growing and a coin growing are two different things. What splits the board was one question. When the network or

[15:54] the business grows, does that keep creating demand for the coin? Those are two different things. That's why one vote did more for Uniswap than years of being the biggest exchange in DeFi. So when you look at what you hold, is this

[16:07] project winning is only half the question. The other half is, does that win affect the coin? And is there still room for it to matter? And whatever you hold, how much you put in, and when you take profit will matter more than any

[16:21] tier list you watch. Because if a coin you hold landed in B or C tier today, that's not bad news. It tells you exactly what to watch for. The moment its success starts reaching the coin through ETF flows, buybacks, or burns,

[16:35] or real usage from banks, for example, every number in this video, and every rank in this video can change. But keeping it current for 25 coins as flows, buybacks, burns, and unlocks change every single month is hours of

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