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Not all of crypto is max-extraction. Categories with stronger fundamentals 👇
✅ Stablecoins ( $USDC, $USDT, $USDe) → Real adoption in payments & trading pairs, backed by cash/T-bills.
✅ RWA ( $ONDO, $MPL, $CFG) → Tokenized treasuries/real estate, institutional traction + regulatory alignment.
✅ DeFi ( $AAVE, $MKR, $UNI, $CRV) → Core financial primitives (lending, AMMs, stablecoin issuance) w/ real usage & fees.
✅ DePIN ( $RNDR, $Dsync, $AKT, $HNT) → Real hardware/compute/storage demand, not just ponzinomics.
✅ Oracles ( $LINK, $PYTH, $UMA) → Core infra bridging off-chain data into smart contracts.
✅ Base Layers ( $ETH, $SOL, $SEI, $SUI) → Still risky, but strong ecosystems + developer activity.
✅ L2s ( $BASE, $ARB, $OP, $ZKS, $STRK) → Scale Ethereum by lowering costs & boosting throughput, real traction + sequencer fee revenue.
✅ AI/Agent Compute ( $TAO, $Dsync, $AVM) → Early, but tie directly into real GPU & inference demand.