Which cryptocurrencies to buy in 2024? Where to find new $DOGE, $PEPE and $BONK that give +1000% to deposit? Not sure how to choose the best cryptocurrencies to buy in 2024? Read this article! 

Recently, there has been a surge in the market, with $BTC reaching $48,000 and $ETH reaching $2620. Obviously, it doesn't make sense to invest in bitcoin now with a small capital: to earn 20%, the price has to rise to $60,000. And there is nothing to say about 2-3 times.

As a result, many crypto investors are wondering: which cryptocurrencies to buy now? The 2024 market offers a number of promising tokens with unique features and growth potential.

Instead of holding $BTC, investors and I personally are putting capital into small-cap altcoins (around $10 million). These tokens haven't shown much growth yet and are in the accumulation phase, and the chance that they will shoot up is enormous. 

Now is also a good time to buy tokens of fundamental projects "on sale". The prices of many top projects are at their lows.

I have analyzed the most promising projects and compiled the TOP crypto projects to buy in 2024. In this article I will tell you about five cryptocurrencies that should be in your portfolio.

This article is not investment advice. Always research projects before investing. We only suggest to pay attention to those that, according to data analysis, can give a good profit in 2024-2025.

How to make money with cryptocurrency when the deposit is less than $1000? Which altcoins should you have in your portfolio? What should I do?

New cryptocurrencies tend to be the most volatile of all, as they can either skyrocket in value after launch or lose value completely. Investors in new altcoins, including coins from ICOs and launchpads, often speculate in search of huge profits.

For example, the meme coin $PEPE rose more than 21,000% after its launch in April 2023. But many other meme coins launched after $PEPE's success proved to have little appeal, and investors lost money on them. They could have invested in fundamental projects and made money.

If I had a limited bank account or only 5% of assets, I would buy the following coins with the highest risk/reward ratio, which I think will give the biggest profits in the 2025 bull market:

1. DeFinder Capital ($DFC)

What is DeFinder Capital DAO (DFC)?

DeFinder Capital DAO is one of the fastest growing projects in recent months, with a community of over 260k people, and that's just on the official Telegram channel. The largest ecosystem on the $TON blockchain, which is apparently being rocked by Durov's team and could become the next Notcoin. I give the first place to this project and now I will explain why. 

First of all, I started following the project in December 2023, after the listing on MEXC was announced. At the end of December, I bought a small percentage of the deposit as a test. Since then, the price of the token has increased more than 10 times.

Secondly, the strongest market makers who pump the TON ecosystem and its main projects are helping to build the project. And foreign insiders who found a connection between NOTCOIN and DFC are already getting involved. +1 point for the piggy bank. 

According to the website, DeFinder's main goal is to develop the ecosystem and scale it thanks to a rapidly growing community. The listing of the $DFC token on the MEXC exchange, one of the largest CEX venues, proves that the project has become a competitive player in a market that is gaining as much interest as PEPE or DOGE once had. It is rumored that there are plans to list on 2 top exchanges in February, which will bring new liquidity to the project and could affect the price. 

Having studied the project, it is clear that one of the development strategies is to run an airdrop campaign on Zealy offering various rewards to DeFinder Capital $DFC holders. I'll be taking part myself and will be recommending at least a few activities for the future.

The project has literally made a breakthrough in just a few months:

  • Partnership with DeLab

DeFinder has teamed up with DeLab, a TON software developer. As a result of this partnership, new products have been introduced to the DeFinder ecosystem:

  • DeWallet - a decentralised wallet

  • DeVPN - decentralised VPN

  • DeCoupons - decentralised coupon service

  • DeDonate - decentralised donation service

I will not describe the functionality of each product here, but you can read more about it in one of the DeFinder review articles, check the article 'Why I bought the $DFC token. The best project of the TON ecosystem. The new trend of PEPE/DOGE? DF Capital - the creator of NOTCOIN?' on Publish0x.

The main advantage is the new utility functions of the DFC token, which is now the basis of all these products, which further strengthens their price.

  • Development of its own DFC Fund which supports projects on TON.  A recent major investment is Sea Turtle Heading For The Sunrise for 4,725 TON (a bid that outbid Pavel Durov, for the record).

  • Creating the Arraken Planet game

DeFinder has also created a game called Arraken Planet within Telegram. The game is very popular among Web2 and Web3 users. The essence of the game is to earn a DFC token in a competitive format between players. The profitability of farming in the game is 2% per week. 

Is DFC token worth buying?

The project has great prospects for further growth and could well reach the $10-100 mark. That's why it's definitely worth taking a closer look at, just out of interest, regardless of whether it will rise in value or not. 

2. Polkadot ($DOT)

What is Polkadot ($DOT)?

Polkadot – is a decentralized platform, a parachain ecosystem that allows completely different blockchains to be combined and other networks to be built on top of it. Some sphere experts even suggest that it could surpass Ethereum.

Polkadot is the most important network for developers after Ethereum. According to Electic Capital analytics, Polkadot ranks 2nd in the number of active developers (as of October 2023, the number was 1811 people). At the same time, the total number of Polkadot developers is more than 11000. 

Active developers are important for any ecosystem - they are the ones who create projects and introduce new chips. More quality developers - faster ecosystem development. Polkadot is one of the leaders in this respect.

Is the $DOT token worth buying? 

In the long term, under the 2025 bull run, the $DOT token has a lot of potential. After a meteoric rise in 2021, the price of the asset reached its lows in 2023. And already, judging by the chart and on-chain activity, a reversal to a bullish trend is beginning. 

The project has a huge number of investors, whose average purchase price is much higher than $10-15, and the team and founder have a lot of authority and influence in the market to simply "sink" the asset. 

In my opinion, the $10 price is the first growth target for the altcoin, with a breakout opening the door to the $20 level. The topic of Polkadot's competition with Ethereum is still relevant, as any price below $10 is an opportunity for objective profits, given the general investor sentiment for long-term buying in 2024.

If you are looking for a long-term investment, Polkadot could be a good choice. According to reports from Messari level funds and experts, the price of a DOT could break its ATH of $50 by 2025. Polkadot (DOT) is one of the best altcoins to invest in.

3. Optimism ($OP)

What is Optimism ($OP)?

Optimism is a scalable layer-2 blockchain for Ethereum that reduces transaction fees and increases network throughput. The project uses Optimistic Rollups, a proprietary technology that allows Ethereum transactions to be rolled up into smaller blocks for processing.

Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, has already stated that the next big story in crypto is Layer-2 solutions with different approaches.  

But why is the Optimism growing? Firstly, the token's growth is not trivial. Although analogues such as Polygon have made hundreds of profits in the bull market for both funds and ordinary investors who bought into the market. 

If we compare the chart of Polygon and Optimism, we see a lot of similarities. Optimism's growth potential, in my opinion, is at least x3-4 of Polygon's ATH ($3).

The project is an ecosystem project, and many people transact on Optimism because it is cheap and fast (a transfer costs a few cents). Moreover, even Binance uses OP rollup technology - they have created their own "optimistic" opBNB on Optimism technology to offload and speed up the main network. 

We already see big projects (RWA, DEX exchanges (Velo), Mirror (one of the main web3 analogs of Medium) and web3 streaming services like Sound.xyz) are starting to build on Optimism - it's fast, cheap and stable.

Optimism is one of the best altcoins to buy in 2024. The project has a strong foundation and a lot of growth potential. Considering that the next ETF is likely to be on Ethereum, and there are already rumors that ETH will soon become the number one cryptocurrency on the market, the prospects for ecosystem L2 tokens are huge. 

4. Fan tokens of football clubs

A less obvious trend that will see growth in 2024 is fan tokens for football clubs and national teams. In the run-up to every World Cup and European Championship, they become increasingly popular, and Euro 2024 will be no exception.

I found an interesting infographic for you on the results of the 2022 World Cup. As the favorites won their groups and progressed confidently through the tournament, the price of the token went up. This is understandable - fans start buying tokens in anticipation of group exits. Those who are knocked out of the World Cup (fail to make it out of their group, lose a match) will not be able to recover the price of the Token. But before every championship, the cycle of fan tokens repeats itself.

The best example of this is the Argentinian team ($ARG). One of the favorites, they were up against Saudi Arabia and should have sailed past them. But suddenly they lost and the token fell from $7.4 to $4.9. The price started to fall, but when Argentina reached the semi-finals and the final, and then won, the price shot up. 

There was a quick correction after that, but the fact remains that the long accumulation period before the World Cup, the first "bets" on the favorites, the first wins and defeats shook the price of the token.

Modern football fan tokens offer unique opportunities. They are cheap for fans: you only need to buy a token once to enjoy the benefits, unlike the constant payments of traditional fan clubs. Token holders receive management privileges, access to prize draws, special events, etc.

There are currently several issuers, the largest of which is Chiliz - Layer-1, which was created specifically to issue and distribute fan tokens, as well as to maintain the infrastructure. And the side-chain is powered by the Socios.com platform, where interested teams have the opportunity to issue their tokens.

Here are some of the most popular clubs that have their own fan tokens Barcelona (BAR); Milan (ACM); Manchester City (CITY); Lazio (LAZIO); Juventus (JUV), as well as the national teams of Argentina (ARG), Spain (SNFT), Portugal (POR) and many others.

With major events such as the European Football Championship on the horizon, it's no surprise that fans are already starting to buy their favorite country's fan tokens in anticipation of a rise in value if they win.

5. ApeCoin ($APE)

What is ApeCoin ($APE)?

ApeCoin is an ERC-20 token that caused quite a stir in the market immediately after its launch. It is a useful and controlling token designed to power the APE ecosystem and provide voting rights in the ApeCoin DAO.

The APE ecosystem is a community of ApeCoin token holders and products or services that use ApeCoin on their platforms. One of the most popular members of the APE ecosystem is Yuga Labs, which may be the reason for ApeCoin's popularity.

In addition to BAYC, Yuga Labs has other products including MAYC, BAKC and Otherside. ApeCoin is used as the internal token of the BAYC ecosystem and Yuga Labs is also looking to make it the main token of Otherside, meaning that it is possible to use ApeCoin for transactions on that platform. 

In addition to being a coin for buying, selling or trading, ApeCoin has many functional use cases in the decentralized finance industry: for example, it allows owners to make decisions for the ApeCoin DAO regarding the allocation of funds, rule making, project selection, etc.

The utilitarian nature of the ApeCoin token increases its demand and thus its price on the market. The supply of ApeCoin is limited to 1 billion tokens: the token is not subject to inflation or deflation. Tokens cannot be minted and there will be no burning to reduce their value. ApeCoin is listed on several leading cryptocurrency exchanges, including eToro.

Conclusion

$DFC and fan tokens are the most promising assets to invest in right now if you want to earn not 10%-20%, but at least 200-300%. Above I have described in detail my opinion why exactly these assets will show growth and it is necessary to buy them. 

I would like to remind you that it is new projects that attract new users to the crypto industry. It sounds crazy, but fundamental coins have never caused such excitement for crypto users and the market in general. 

In this article, I shared my opinion on the top cryptocurrencies to buy in 2024 for your portfolio if you want to benefit from the next bull cycle. I believe that the above projects will outperform the market in the short to medium term.

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