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THESE Altcoins are DYING! (Bitcoin Market SURVIVAL Guide)

Friday, 24 July 2026 · 3 min read · Listen to the episode ↗

The hosts make the case that most altcoins will not survive this cycle, anchoring the argument in the gap between inflated market cap figures and actual liquidity, which they say can be as low as ten dollars behind some tokens. Avalanche is singled out as heading to zero, while VVV is predicted to surpass Avalanche in market cap within a month and reach one hundred dollars.

The hosts argue that a large number of altcoins will not survive the current bear market cycle, and they emphasize that market cap figures are deeply misleading because actual liquidity behind some tokens can be as low as ten dollars. The market cap to liquidity ratio is treated as the critical metric for evaluating whether an altcoin has real substance behind it.

Avalanche receives the harshest treatment, with the speaker claiming that people who built the project told him not to buy it. He characterizes the token's history as orchestrated insider extraction, describing insiders fattening a pig before escaping the building. He predicts Avalanche below six dollars is ultimately heading to zero, and while he acknowledges a possible temporary pump from around four dollars to roughly twenty-three dollars, he considers the risk-to-reward ratio too unfavorable to act on.

Arena is presented as a contrasting case, showing buying pressure independent of Avalanche even as Avalanche declines. Arena can be purchased with ETH, though it remains paired with Avalanche and would go to zero if Avalanche collapsed entirely. The project has shipped several features in approximately the last two months, including a partnership with Robinhood to allow launching of Robinhood coins from the platform, a product called Super Trenches for buying and selling coins across chains including Solana and Base, and a full futures platform connected primarily to Hyperliquid.

VVV is predicted to overtake Avalanche in market cap within the next month. The speaker says he has been calling it since around three dollars and projects it reaches one hundred dollars. He describes the token mechanism as the opposite of Avalanche, which he characterizes as having no utility and nothing behind it. Luna is described as dead despite occasional fifty percent spikes followed by roughly forty-five percent drops, with runs to eight cents giving back to four cents. Algorithm pumped four hundred twenty-eight percent on the Trump ISO tweet before surrendering more than that move, and the speaker notes leadership laughed when asked about total supply, implying supply is controlled arbitrarily.

The speaker's current allocation is ninety-five percent Bitcoin, four percent Tether, and one percent altcoins. He warns that giving any single altcoin more than twenty percent of total crypto allocation is dangerous. The only tokens he would hold right now are Old TV and possibly TAO, which he began buying at around two hundred dollars, added slightly at one hundred sixty, saw a low near one hundred forty-two in February, and which sits at one hundred eighty-nine dollars at time of recording. Chainlink is noted as having held up better than Avalanche recently but is criticized for shilling DC meetings and implementing token value capture mechanisms at what the speaker considers the worst possible time.

Bitcoin is just back above ninety-four thousand dollars at time of discussion. Key liquidity levels on the twelve-hour chart are identified at sixty-four thousand four hundred and sixty-five thousand flat, with sixty-four thousand four hundred cited as a potential downside target. The speaker has been avoiding Bitcoin trading during Wall Street hours specifically because Jane Street and JP Morgan are the two authorized market-making participants for BlackRock's IBIT ETF, which he treats as a structural reason to be cautious during those sessions.

U.S. weekly jobless claims came in at one hundred eighty-seven thousand, the lowest level since 1969, dropping twenty-two thousand from the prior week's revised two hundred nine thousand. The speaker argues this removes Federal Reserve incentive to cut rates and raises the possibility of rate hikes, directly calling the narrative that Fed cuts will save crypto portfolios fake and unlikely to materialize. On the geopolitical side, markets are described as skittish due to developments involving Iran, with Trump reported as close to a decision on a major strike and IRGC Central Command Infrastructure having suffered strikes with senior leaders reported killed. The speaker argues the best Iranian counter-strategy is to stretch the conflict long enough to make it financially unsustainable for the United States, and notes that U.S. interest in keeping goods flowing to Asia complicates the war effort and adds another layer of macro uncertainty bearing on risk assets.

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