If you had thrown down a million last year to buy SanDisk and held on, you'd be sitting on 37 million now. Since the start of the year, I've had friends involved in Hong Kong and US stocks urging me to jump in and buy, saying that following Chuanmu would be profitable. Back then, Bitcoin was over 60k. I get that my buddy had my back, wanting to bring me along, but I've been hesitant to dive in.
Sometimes, you can't make money outside your understanding; to profit, it’s all about riding the market wave and having the right vision! The internet boom was like this, the current AI wave too, and I believe the blockchain revolution will follow suit. Right now, the top ten banks and major asset management firms in the U.S. are diving into crypto and financial on-chain solutions, educating clients on BTC and ETH will take time, but once they enter the game, the landscape will shift.
Instead of chasing after what others have already capitalized on, why not scout for quality projects in familiar territory? A few years back, I was all about those airdrops; the first good one I grabbed was ENS, registering an ETH domain for a few hundred bucks and getting airdrops worth thousands. I set up two addresses and realized I could scale it, so I ramped up with Galaxy (now renamed to G). When the airdrop first dropped, I could have traded it for a Porsche (too bad I didn’t sell at the cheap launch price). Later, I bought a truckload of ETH, costing me over a thousand USD, to do liquidity mining on StarkChain. Back then, it wasn't like now where you need a small range to snag high LPR; I worked with a large range for over half a year, averaging around 30% annualized returns, and snagged a good amount of STRK airdrops along the way.
In crypto, there are opportunities at every moment, and tuition fees are something we all have to pay. What we can do is sift through the garbage and find that shining project. Waiting for the wind to blow in your favor is more solid than running around aimlessly. This is also why I've been holding onto my TRX for rental and buying into some projects like RAY that have real income and buyback mechanisms. I'm not saying you should buy these, just suggesting that you focus on what you know best. If you can’t make money in your own turf, do you really think switching places will help? Isn’t it enough that BNB has skyrocketed dozens or even hundreds of times over the years? $TRX $RAYSOL $BNB
Recently, the US stock market has been buzzing, especially with the crypto space taking a nosedive these past six months, while gold remains range-bound. A lot of folks are diving into US stocks but find them pricey and don’t know where to start. If you're feeling lost, maybe check out what the big players are saying.
$NVDA Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, has been dropping some wealth codes. You might want to take a look at this guy's performance from last year. In 2025, when Old Huang made his picks: $TSM TSMC, when he called it, the price was $180 per share, now it's $411, a gain of 135% $MU Micron Technology, when he called it, the price was $86, now it's at $746, a gain of 770% $NBIS was $21, now it's $177, a gain of 740% $APLD was $3 per share, now over $41 a share, a whopping 1260% increase in a year.
Here’s the kicker, the big guy has dropped another list for us. Are you brave enough to trust him this time? $NOW stock price is $91, market cap $94 billion $CRWV stock price is $114, market cap $62 billion $IREN stock price is $60, market cap $20.3 billion
Recently, a blogger visited Guo Hongcai's big estate in the U.S. and shot a video. Many newcomers might not know who Guo Hongcai (aka Bao Er Ye) is, but those who were in the altcoin scene from 2017 to 2020 should definitely recognize him. He was a classic pump-and-dump artist, what we call a 'scammer influencer' nowadays.
Guo Hongcai, a guy with a mediocre high school diploma, sold beef before entering the crypto space, but he struck it rich early on with Bitcoin mining and became a social media figure. Around 2017, when ICOs were all the rage, he rode that wave and endorsed a bunch of zero-value altcoin projects to rake in endorsement fees, churning out tokens like a factory. Can you imagine there were projects named 'Model Chain,' 'Traditional Medicine Chain,' 'Medical Chain,' and 'Career Chain'? You could just slap a name on them, buy a whitepaper on Taobao, and make a quick profit. This is how he made a killing and then jet-setted to the U.S. to create this 'retail investor garden.' I remember he even launched a token, I think it was called Chandler. I asked him for one, and initially, it could sell for a few thousand bucks, but it tanked to zero. He claimed the only use for that token was to stay a night at his place in the U.S. Not sure if anyone else remembers that nonsense.
There are rumors that Guo Hongcai has 11 kids plus two illegitimate ones, some with his wife and others via surrogacy. This behavior is quite similar to that game company boss from Guangzhou, really keen on contributing to the human legacy.
Now, many of the early OGs from that time have dabbled in various endorsements and token launches. Folks like Ma Ji, Lao Huang, the ever-resilient Xue Manzi, and Li Xiaolai, who was known for bashing retail investors, all piled up a ton of projects during those years. Just look at how Ma Ji blew up with over a hundred million dollars in losses, yet he's still opening new positions. His endless ammo comes from all those projects that milked the market back in the day.
Ray seems to have kicked off, but I was really waiting for it to dip to around 0.75. Every time it started to slide, funds would come in to pump it back up, and the longer I waited, the higher the price went, forcing me to FOMO in. I still have over half my position open, and if it doesn’t drop, I might miss the chance to average down. I’m zen about it, whether it goes up or I get to add to my stack.
Raydium's style isn’t aligned with pump schemes; pumps are just fake revenue and fake buybacks. They claim to have burned 36% of circulating coins, yet the price has dropped by more than half. You know they’re probably dumping behind the scenes. Ray's operations are actually way more stable and reliable compared to pump. The downside is that their team hasn’t raised much capital, unlike pump, which raked in billions during the bull run! I have to hand it to the UK little bro for their ruthless tactics, plus the SOL meme season brought in a hefty couple hundred million in fees. On the surface, they’ve pocketed around 2 billion, not counting the memes they’ve launched themselves—pretty ruthless.
Ray still relies heavily on the SOL ecosystem for growth. The treasury has about 50 million in USDT and SOL, while a good chunk is from buybacks of RAY. This portion has a market cap of around 60 to 70 million, and the funds used for buybacks were around 200 million dollars. The team isn’t short on cash and isn’t engaging in any shady practices; the buybacks are hardcoded and publicly verifiable. It all comes down to how well they execute their business. Trust in the power of time $RAYSOL
Garrett Jin, who’s on the same wavelength as Yi Li Hua, just dumped 166,000 ETH into Binance a couple of days ago when the market looked good. With Tom Lee slowing down his buys and Trump dropping news, Ethereum, which had just managed to hold above 2400, has now plummeted below 2300. Just now, Garrett Jin transferred another 78,000 ETH into Binance. Looks like we’re in for another sell-off. What’s more critical is this guy still holds over 300,000 ETH, and it seems he’s planning to offload them. He and Yi Li Hua previously transferred coins to the same Binance account, and the big boss behind them is said to be the same guy in Hong Kong, holding assets in the tens of billions. Last time, Yi Li Hua leveraged up on ETH and almost got liquidated, and later, the big boss instructed to dump hundreds of thousands, which crashed the price hard. Now it’s another underling’s turn to take action. I reckon the second coin (ETH) won’t be able to recover anytime soon. If you ask me, it’s better to sell early; those low-cost chips in their hands are bound to blow up sooner or later. In this market, whether it’s BTC, ETH, or SOL, these OGs who have already made their profits can’t pump it up anymore. Only real money from the old guard accepting and buying in is the future. Wall Street is gearing up to embrace crypto, but with so much good news, the prices are still trash. Ultimately, it’s just that the incoming funds aren’t enough, and too many like them are looking to run. $ETH #摩根士丹利拟推加密现货交易
TST is itching to move; a few days ago it pumped 200% and then retraced. This wave looks a lot like when Binance's life restart kicked off. It's all about that 90%+ drop from the highs to fully wash out the weak hands, and when the hype hits, it goes for a violent pump. I still have faith in TST; such a story-rich BSC meme, and with an FDV of just 20 million, it’s really too cheap right now $TST
In my eyes, this energy leasing on Tron is pretty much like renting out a house, but with better liquidity and no depreciation. Those who have spent their lives in the physical world will never understand the difference. Tether has issued over 88 billion USDT on Tron, commanding a significant portion of the USDT market cap. When it comes to transaction fees, TRX doesn't have much of an edge; it's actually more expensive than EVM. Yet, that hasn’t stopped those in the gray market from using the TRX chain to send and receive USDT. The real profit in the stablecoin market is likely not CRCL, but rather TRX. For those who know how to self-custody using wallets, if you hold TRX, taking it off to stake for energy and then renting it out is a solid move. Energy leasing + voting rewards can yield a decent annual return. There are drawbacks, though; one is that if you don't understand the process, you might mess things up. The other is that unlocking your stake requires a 14-day wait, so liquidity isn't great. But it’s perfect for long-term holders looking to cash in on the rewards. The price action of TRX speaks for itself; it truly doesn’t fear bull or bear markets! #TRX✅ $TRX
A few years back, Koreans were going wild trading crypto, and there’s this term called "kimchi premium"—basically meaning they were getting wrecked. Capital flow in and out of Korea is heavily regulated, and every president needs to back the crypto scene to get elected, which led to them buying up all sorts of altcoins at sky-high prices. Who would’ve thought their stock market would be just as wild? AI has literally pumped up half of the Korean stock market—it's like the universe is rewarding them! If you had bought 1 million won in SanDisk a year ago, you could sell it for 28 million won now! And there’s a good chance this price will keep climbing; the entire semiconductor sector is facing severe supply shortages! But holding on is tough; during major pullbacks, it was close to a 50% drop. Only crypto traders can shrug it off, and some of those who got wrecked in crypto might just hit it big now. $SNDK
Keep buying RAY, starting to build my position today. The plan for now is to grab 1 million, but I've only snagged about a third so far. I’ll keep buying in as the price moves. The sentiment today is a bit FOMO-ish. As a seasoned trader with over a decade of experience, I think you all should be a bit cautious at times like this. Think carefully about what you want. If you're in for the long haul, I'd suggest focusing on blue-chip tokens like BTC, BNB, and TRX. These are solid choices. BTC speaks for itself—it's the one institutions trust. BNB and TRX have real profits behind them. I’ve been cut by Sun Yuchen before, but TRX is the only one I consider worth buying. The whole Tron network design allows you to stake and rent out energy, giving you a steady annualized return of over ten percent. This annual yield is different from what you get with TON, DOT, or SOL; other chains rely on inflation to provide staking rewards, while TRX has actual utility in transactions. Their transaction fees turn into your rental income, which is way better than physical real estate! Plus, TRX’s price is pretty stable, and that’s crucial—upward price movement is what we need for sustainability. If you like a little more thrill, meme coins are better than most new coins and the usual unlock-and-dump garbage coins. TST and Giggle, for instance, are fully circulated, and early insider trades have already changed hands multiple times. As soon as new whales enter, volatility spikes—it's quite exciting. In summary, try to avoid those coins that keep unlocking without any buyback or burn mechanisms. Those trash altcoins aren't even worth it compared to memes; you might as well trade some mainstream coin futures. If you bet right, you can still make a profit, but with trash altcoins, you pretty much just buy and watch it go to zero, losing both your cash and missing out on the market movement $TRX $RAY $TST
Starting to build a position in a bit of RAY. Raydium, as the oldest DEX on the SOL chain, holds a similar status to UNI on Ethereum and CAKE on BSC. The reason for choosing RAY as a long-term investment is primarily that the tokenomics of UNI and CAKE are quite poor. RAY shows a large circulating supply, and back in '24, the total supply was capped at 269 million. Since then, they've bought back tens of millions of tokens, and the actual circulating supply is now only 188 million, with a market cap of 15 million USD. This market cap is more cost-effective compared to UNI and CAKE, of course, that's a secondary reason. The main point is that most staking tokens lack a buyback and burn mechanism, or their income is so bad that the buybacks are essentially a joke! Meanwhile, RAY's buyback is set in stone; a portion of every income is automatically allocated for buybacks. Even in a poor market quarter, they managed to buy back and burn over 3 million USD. As market conditions improve and tokenization of securities on SOL gains support from Wall Street, all of this will boost RAY's trading volume and transaction fees. After dealing with too many shady, non-transparent projects that are overhyped and costly, I've had to settle for RAY, which has an overall mechanism that closely resembles hype. This aspect makes it superior to UNI and all other platform tokens, as no other platform token has disclosed any buyback records; most of the time, it's just inventory tokens being burned, which is really off-putting. $RAY $UNI $CAKE
I bought some TST recently, and when it launched yesterday, I shared my bullish reasons. TST is the first officially recognized meme on BSC and the starting point of the BSC meme season. Its peak market cap is several times what it is now. Even without the story, just looking at the Binance spot and futures market caps, a BSC meme with an FDV of only 10 million is really too cheap, especially considering it was once a leader. Today the price has doubled, but I still think it's undervalued. I'm bullish on its comeback.
TST is the first true meme on BSC, accidentally going viral from testing. Now, it's the most storied and historical meme in the BSC spot market. The FDV has dropped from 500 million to 10 million. Isn't the risk-to-reward ratio just too good? #tst