Bitcoin has been in a bull market for most of 2023. And many alts too. Especially the last 6 months. That means that finding great projects whose coins are under $1 is a little tougher now as prices are on the increase.
But we did it. Check out 4 altcoins under $1 that we think are in a great position to keep growing well into 2024 and beyond.
1) The Graph (GRT)
Our first coin today is The Graph. The Dow Jones has its Dow 30 and India has its Nifty 50. Maybe we should have our Excellent Eleven or maybe Lofty 11? Those 11 I’m talking about are the 11 holdings in our AB Master Portfolio. We report on that portfolio’s progress often. The Graph is one of our 11. That tells you how much we like it.
A new roadmap. A New Era of The Graph 🗺️
The Graph’s new roadmap introduces a bold and transformative vision for the future of The Graph! The new R&D roadmap details an expansion of The Graph’s ability to serve web3’s growing demands for data access, while better serving… pic.twitter.com/PtdBLZeBkx
— The Graph (@graphprotocol) November 7, 2023
And in this market, we only like it more than we did before. It is, by far, the leader in its category of indexing and querying blockchain data so either users or developers can get the on-chain information they need.
As with all 4 of our coins today, GRT has good or very good tokenomics. There’s no supply overhang here with almost 90% of the total supply currently in circulation. We love that. And even at Bitcoin’s great 160% return in the last 12 months, The Graph has been just a little better at 185%.
And bull markets are GREAT for The Graph. As new projects come online, all of them will need indexing and querying tools. Not some, not many, ALL. This is why we love Web3 infrastructure as a sector so much. Every project needs it. Although The Graph does have a couple of quality smaller competitors, they are the undisputed leader. And many will choose The Graph for this reason alone.
2023 Recap: @graphprotocol
Bookmark or retweet to come back & compare in a year! pic.twitter.com/AcsRvRAEOX
— Designatum (@0xDesignatum) January 1, 2024
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2) Mantle (TGE)
Mantle is an ETH Layer 2 and liquid staking protocol. They are currently taking 150,000 ETH with 4700 validators. Their mETH liquid staking token is getting more popular. The fact that it provides both L2 services and liquid staking implies it’s undervalued at this stage.
$mETH Double-Dose Drive is now live!
Get 2X market yield from Dec. 22, 2023 onwards when you stake your ETH on #MantleLSP.
➡️ https://t.co/pSXOzFVhSx
➡️ https://t.co/UaYWwKQLlK pic.twitter.com/pboBMOHtQr— Mantle (@0xMantle) December 22, 2023
From its TGE in July, investors have made a little over 10%. That puts them well behind the market leaders in ROI over the same period.
We think people are just starting to discover this one from those who want to diversify their LSD holdings away from Lido or Frax or other L2 than Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, or any of the other zk rollup solutions floating around out there.
🔥 We've surpassed the 200,000 ETH mark on #MantleLSP!
At close to 8%, $mETH has the highest APR yield and more than doubles the yield of similar staking products, while $mETH’s fees are at a low 10%.
⚡️ Stake Now: https://t.co/pSXOzFVhSx
🤝🏻 Bridge: https://t.co/c5ENEGgH1L pic.twitter.com/njaZO33eO7— Mantle (@0xMantle) January 9, 2024
This one is a diamond in the rough. Its all-time high is 65 cents. We are not far away from that now but see great potential in this platform.
3) Loopring (LRC)
Loopring is an ETH Layer 2 we like but haven’t mentioned much recently. It is the first Layer 2 to use the zk rollup method that’s now the accepted standard for quality Layer 2 solutions. And like how ImmutableX focuses its platform on games, Loopring focuses on DEXes and their needs.
Loopring's next evolution is coming…
2024 will be the year Loopring goes multi-network, breaking out from it's current isolated state.
With this comes big UI/UX changes – what will the new multi-network smart wallet + dApp look and feel like?
Are you ready?💙 pic.twitter.com/B6RzfhcmM9
— Loopring💙 (@loopringorg) January 1, 2024
So let’s check it out by the numbers, Bitcoin and ETH are up 160% and 84% in the last 12 months. LRC is lagging behind that but it’s up a healthy 29% in the last 12 months. It’s a simple argument to us. Loopring has good tokenomics:
- Circulating supply of 1.2 billion
- Total supply of 1.3 billion
- No supply overhang and down 92% from its all-time high
Loopring x WalletConnect💙
Verify API is now in the Loopring Smart Wallet
Verify API is a security-focused feature that allows the LSW to notify end-users when they may be connecting to a suspicious or malicious domain
Read more on Verify API here:
🔗https://t.co/vXdRypA9LK pic.twitter.com/SDNmg8QK8J— Loopring💙 (@loopringorg) January 8, 2024
At its current market value of $331 million, we just don’t see how Arbitrum is 4x more valuable at $1.4 billion or Optimism is 6x more valuable at $2 billion. And that’s not to badmouth those projects. We like them. Loopring has a lot going for it and a surprisingly low market value for its long and positive history.
4) Fetch.ai (FET)
2023 was a big year for Fetch.ai. And we covered them a lot. Especially in the first 6 months of the year when they made lots of advances and upgrades to their project. The convergence of AI and crypto will only continue into 2024. Crypto will become the inevitable payment method for AI apps, especially automated agents like you can create with Fetch.
2024 just started, and @Fetch_ai is already smashing it with huge updates!🚀
🛠️The main highlight is the Mainnet Upgrade.
A network upgrade gov prop is live. Main features of the update:
📊 Municipal Inflation for MOBX & NOMX tokens;
🔐 Ledger Nano S-Plus support;
🍎macOS… pic.twitter.com/rdGJ1mcOKX— Stakewolle (@stakewolle) January 9, 2024
As great as Bitcoin has done in the last 12 months, FET has crushed with a 765% return. Again, we have good tokenomics here with 90% of the total supply in circulation. At $785 million, it’s the 3rd biggest crypto AI project even though it’s a fraction of the value of Render where you can’t even create your agent.
We expect the market value of both to climb and the gap between the two to close. In other words, both will grow but Fetch should grow faster.
New #Integration Alert! 🔥
You can make custom, task-specific #AIAgents for anything, just like our latest Ski Trip Essentials agent! ⛷
Join the early access waitlist for our #DeltaV platform and start using this and many other great tools 👇https://t.co/hiL8WQbdIh pic.twitter.com/OVYlvLrmQA
— Fetch.ai (@Fetch_ai) January 9, 2024
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