Apologies for the very noob question - Where can I safely buy $SPACE $ ALPH and $QUBIC
All, but Qubic are on MEXC - which is a reliable choice for alts -
https://www.mexc.com/
Qubic is only on junk exchanges that have been having lots of problems this week due to being overloaded.
https://www.sevenseas.exchange/market/QUBIC-USDT <- People are saying this is the most reliable exchange to buy Qubic at the moment. I've never used it. N.B. the price has gone up 120% this week. It could have a correction and miners sell their coins on Thursday.
Also curious to hear thoughts on $JUP
It's an aggregator on Solana that opened at a very high price after a well publicised airdrop period. Some people got 6 figures of airdrop and the price has dumped. It's cap is about 2% of Solana, which is about average for a prime DEX, but it's an aggregator with some other functions. There is a lot of risk it will go down, and it's upside potential is probably not that great.
The best play for a DEX is to buy the first DEX on a chain when it comes out (so long as it's a low price). The SUI DEX was still quite low cap when I looked at it. If there is anything on TAO, it would be worth looking at. There are two on SPACE.
Easiest play is to buy L1s, buy the DEX, buy the meme coin (so long as you can get them early at a low price).
There was a meme coin launched on Alephium yesterday. It started trading at $25k and is now up to $325k and it may as well have no site or Twitter. There is another one lauching on it today.
It starts at $5k and will easily beat the meme coin from yesterday. Whoever gets in first will soon be up massively.
I see the analogy like trying to predict the next Nvidia or Tesla when you could buy apple, microsoft, google, amazon, or the S&P. You "might" be right, but also you'll probably be wrong.
Sure, I saw Shiba Inu coming and should have gotten in. $100 would have netted a fantastic return. It just seems like an even more rowdy risk/return profile than stocks... and most people in reality suck at picking stocks, and are better served going with something stable.
Hope you do strike gold!!
Patterns are a bit more obvious in crypto. Trad markets don't have a halving, where the market has always very predictably moved.
Nov 2013 - top
Jan 2015 - bottom
Dec 2017 - top
Jan 2019 - bottom
Nov 2021 - top
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023 - bottom
The last one was augmented a bit due to billions of failures in crypto companies, so it hit a low earlier and was a good buy through all of Jul 2022 - Jan 2023.
We see similar now, where BTC should be having a bit of a correction / sideways-down, but the EFTs have pushed it up higher.
As mentioned above there is a pattern of getting in on L1s as early as possible, buying the DEX and meme coin cheap and early. The closer it is to core crypto (L1s), the easier it is. If you are taking picks further away from crypto and tech than it's more difficult. e.g. if you are buying something like a video or audio streaming project that is far away from core crypto users and too close to general consumer-facing normies, then it's potential is much lower. And the peaks on such projects are more fleeting. An L1 is more likely to cruise up from last year to the end of 2025. While a project that may be excellent, but not very crypto-centric, might not do much and then 30X over 2 weeks, and then dump most of the way back down.
Variables:
- crypto-centricity, tech-centricity
- pedigree of board, advisors (if team are anon, well vetted)
- quality of community outreach, marketing
- cult (concentration of interest in the project, evangelism)
- organisation (if they execute things very well)
Look for a combination of those in lower caps.
Narratives:
New faster L1s (a good number still cheap)
BTC sidechains (Stacks has flown, SPACE still early, Bitlayer not launched, unvetted)
ETH L2s (too late)
AI (TAO domination; Tau/Agrs, OLAS will likely go much higher; enqAI moonshot is pumping)
DEXs (just buy fresh prime DEXs on your chains, or other chains ASAP, if they trade from a low price)
Memes (buy the first meme on any chain at basement prices)
Computing processing (this is not been doing so well, probably because it's not very user-facing, RNDR doing well, lots of other not done well, many to choose from)
Real World Assets (tokenisation of physical or legacy financial assets like real estate or stocks, the latter had some decent projects in 2021, but they have fell away, I think this area is not that worthwhile as it's too far away from crypto to get any adoption...)
The more something is used, even if it's just for gambling, the more the price will go up. Difficult to keep up with what is going on but SUI, Alephium and Space seem to be the chains that are best at growing their ecosystem, which will make the price go up over chains you can do little to nothing with.
On getting in on DEXs early. You can buy the Qubic DEX token OTC from their Discord.
PM'ing.
It may be worth looking into $TAONU. It appears to be the (official?) memecoin associated with $TAO. This coin has gone up 10x in the last month coinciding with the rapid rise in the price of $TAO.
It seems to have a certain manic fever attached to it. If people expect the price of $TAO to go parabolic which it very well may (if it hasn't already), this coin may just do the same.
Only a $10m MC, plus everybody loves a cute dog.
Looks like it could be a good one.