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Nikshep argues NEAR is positioned as the coordination layer for the emerging agent economy, citing Anthropic's advances with Claude Opus 4.6 enabling autonomous agents to sustain long-horizon tasks and execute 100+ tool calls across teams of subagents—capabilities that require a blockchain to securely coordinate AI agents at scale.
A1 Research increased its exposure to Aerodrome, a DEX offering 100% revenue share to token holders. The firm highlights Aerodrome as a core holding in its Machines Money portfolio, positioning it as a key yield opportunity for investors seeking direct revenue participation from the protocol.
Bull pitch on NEAR at $1.28 / $1.67B mcap, ~94% off ATH. The setup nobody is pricing in — vesting fully completed Oct 12 2025 (no more cliff unlocks; the 4-year supply overhang is gone), inflation halved 5%→2.5% Oct 30 2025 via protocol upgrade v81, 70% of fees burn permanently (with sufficient activity NEAR is structurally net deflationary), House of Stake/veNEAR governance went live.
Founder asymmetry: Illia Polosukhin is one of the eight co-authors of Attention Is All You Need — the Transformer paper that powers GPT-4/Claude/Gemini/Llama. Co-founder Alex Skidanov was Engineer #1 at MemSQL, a two-time ICPC World Finals medalist, designed the only sharded distributed DB that worked at scale. The market is currently valuing their company at less than the seed-round valuation of half the AI agent startups in San Francisco.
Real thesis: agents can't use Visa. When autonomous agents replace humans as users, the entire payment stack breaks — weekend bank hours, KYC for every counterparty, days-to-settle, not programmable. NEAR has shipped more agent-native infrastructure than any L1 competitor:
Catalysts: Bitwise + Grayscale spot ETF filings (Grayscale to convert GTAO Trust on NYSE Arca with Coinbase Custody), NVIDIA Inception membership, Brave private-inference partnership, fee switch revenue.
Honest bear case: $117M TVL is small (RHEA Finance is concentration risk). Governance controversy — Chorus One opposed the inflation halving as forced through despite a failed initial governance vote. Memecoin overhang on AI/crypto narrative. Execution risk vs Solana's deeper liquidity and consumer DeFi. ETF filings ≠ approvals.
Asymmetry: at $1.67B with vesting done, halved inflation, fee burn, ETF filings in flight, $13B+ routed cross-chain volume, transformer co-author at the helm — downside bounded by L1 floor, upside multi-X if the agent thesis lands.
Victor opens a $CARDS allocation on the thesis that Collector Crypt — a Solana protocol tokenizing PSA/PWC-graded trading cards as NFTs — is structurally mispriced at a $23M circulating cap on $584M annualized revenue. Q1'26 gross revenue: $146M. Top-10 Solana app by revenue, sitting in the same band as Phantom and Jupiter, but the only one capturing demand from outside crypto (eBay/conventions/local card shops, a $25B global TCG+sports market growing to $43B by 2031). Existing rails take 10–30% per transaction; CC charges <2% with instant settlement.
Demand signals: weekly volume scaled 7–8x in 15 months during a crypto drawdown. Gacha machines were stocked only 29% of hours one recent week — the platform is supply-constrained, not demand-constrained (operationally easier to fix than user acquisition). Whale concentration is meaningful (top 3.3% of users → 81.5% of revenue, 58 wallets >$1M lifetime spend) but less concentrated than Hyperliquid at the same stage. Pyramid critique fails: 10K+ small users prove funnel reach, 1.8K mid-tier wallets are tomorrow's whales.
Catalysts: $1,000 Pokémon packs are now the largest weekly contributor (zero in late '25), $250 One Piece launched in early '26 already top-3, $100 Sports just live, fiat on-ramp (cards/Apple Pay/bank, USDC settled via Coinflow) just shipped — opening the much larger pool of card collectors who'll never own crypto. Marketplace V2 ships May. Disclosure: Victor is starting an allocation.
Bull thesis on Bittensor / TAO at ~$3B mcap. Frame: "TAO 2026 = ETH 2016 = BTC 2013."
Core mechanic: Bitcoin paid miners to produce hashes that secure the network but are otherwise worthless. Bittensor pays miners — data scientists, ML engineers, AI researchers — to produce useful AI work. Validators score outputs via Yuma Consensus; TAO flows to whoever produces the most valuable work. Network is organized into 128+ subnets, each focused on a specific task (trading signals, LLM training, computer vision, code generation, financial forecasting). Some subnets generating millions in revenue, with Intel and PwC partnerships.
Tokenomics mirror Bitcoin: 21M fixed supply, no pre-mine, no VC allocation. First halving Dec 14 2025. BTC price went 83x in the year after its first halving in 2012.
Smart-money signals: Barry Silbert / DCG launched Yuma Group dedicated to accelerating Bittensor. Grayscale filed Form S-1 to convert GTAO Trust into a spot ETF. Stillcore Capital (Mark Jeffrey, Jason Calacanis, Rob Greer) targeting $1T mcap by 2030, aiming to own 1% of all TAO. Unsupervised Capital projects $4,800 by Dec 2027 (19x), bull case $10,800 — and that's before Covenant-72B, Jensen mentioning Bittensor, and PwC's formal alliance.
Subnet-level conviction picks:
Frame: Bitcoin = money. Ethereum = apps. TAO = intelligence. The gap between what TAO has built and how it's currently priced is one of the most asymmetric opportunities in crypto.
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Omar argues Western Union's stablecoin strategy—launching USDPT on Solana this quarter alongside an offramp network and consumer card—offers its best path to survival by converting ~$500M in daily pre-funding float into real-time settlement and unlocking hundreds of millions more trapped across correspondent banking. If the business gains traction, WU reprices materially or becomes an acquisition target for Circle, which could roll it into Arc and consolidate merchant and consumer payment flows across a unified chain.
Collector Crypt did $9M Q1 2026 gross profit on $146M revenue (~$37M / $584M annualized) against a $13M circulating mcap. Among Solana's top-10 revenue-generating tokens, $CARDS trades at 3.4x P/S vs pump.fun 7.1x, JUP 11.0x — ranks 23rd by protocol earnings across all chains but at a fraction of every peer's multiple. Platform tokenizes PSA-graded physical cards (Pokémon, One Piece, sports) on Solana; vault holds $25M in real assets. Every pack is positive expected value — fundamentally different from casino gacha.
Jupiter generated $184M of 2025 revenue, but JUP was suppressed by 159% supply growth (1.35B → 3.5B) from airdrops + 641M/yr team vesting. February's 'Net-Zero Emission' DAO vote postponed Jupuary indefinitely, removing 33.8% 2026 dilution. Donovan's SOTP (aggregator + perps + JupLend) values JUP at 28% base / 59% bull upside — before crediting JupNet optionality or zero-CAC neobank distribution into 43M onchain wallets. Risks: superapp execution complexity, crypto cyclicality, and the DAO's ability to vote emissions back.
Morpheus Research's 4-month investigation concludes Figure Technology is a $7.7 billion home equity lender masquerading as a blockchain innovator, with exaggerated or fabricated claims about blockchain-enabled advantages. The company's loan origination system doesn't use blockchain technology—it relies on third-party tools like Plaid and CoreLogic, contradicting repeated executive claims that loans are "native" to blockchain. Figure's blockchain projects including Figure Connect, Democratized Prime, and YLDS have either stalled or are internally propped up, while aggressive underwriting practices reminiscent of pre-2008 lending—full-draw requirements, lax title checks, automated valuations without appraisals—are driving delinquencies to 5.46% in 2025 versus 1.79% for Bank of America, alongside insider stock dumps totaling $120 million despite lock-up agreements.
DeFi yields are in survival mode — Aave stables 2%, Ethena/Sky under 4%, Pendle PTs can't clear 6%. STRC (Strategy's perpetual preferred, 11.5% monthly dividend, backed by 767K+ BTC) breaks the ceiling. Three protocols bring it onchain: Apyx Finance ($121M supply; apxUSD/apyUSD), Saturn Credit ($44.6M TVL in under a month; USDat/sUSDat), Buck ($2.2M). Flywheel: deposits → protocols buy STRC → Strategy issues shares → buys BTC → attention flows back to DeFi. This is the catalyst that brings liquidity back onchain.
Long $CARDS: token drifted sideways while fundamentals improved. Q1 $9M gross profit ($37M annualized) on $146M revenue ($584M annualized), $14–17M treasury, $13M mcap — profits now exceed mcap. Systematic buybacks coming: chunk of profits + % of each pack sale ($84M/mo avg volume) routes into token buybacks. Team already quietly bought $1.5M (floor ~3¢), actively buying back VC allocations to cut sell pressure. Building vertically-integrated vaulting; zero ad spend — fully growth mode. Goal: infrastructure layer for the collectibles market.
Market is overlooking $GLXY's Helios datacenter business because it doesn't trust $CRWV will fulfill its 15-year, $1B/yr contract for the first 800MW. Gab argues Helios is priced at zero in the stock today — so if CRWV delivers, there's a meaningful mispricing inside a crypto-native equity. Asymmetric setup on the equity side of the AI-compute trade.
DCo is bullish on Drift Protocol, betting that Solana's perpetuals ecosystem will capture significant trading volume as the network matures. The firm sees Drift as positioned to dominate SOL-based derivatives trading, with network effects and first-mover advantage creating a durable moat against competitors.
MONK and Ryan Watkins argue that perpetual futures exchanges represent a step-function innovation in blockchain, similar to breakthroughs that escaped crypto's echo chamber over the past 17 years. The authors position perpetual contracts as a fundamental improvement in how traders access leveraged exposure without the inefficiencies of traditional derivatives markets. This shift toward on-chain perpetuals marks a potential inflection point for mainstream adoption of decentralized trading infrastructure.
Kunal observes that secondary marketplace volumes for trading cards and collectibles are up 87.8% YoY while the broader crypto market weakens, with Collector Crypt positioned as the Web3 TCG leader. Pokemon cards appreciate 65.8% since September 2025 amid mainstream coverage and the One Piece index surges 95% over six months as the most-watched Netflix anime in 2025. Collector Crypt's gacha volumes hit $50.1M in January, with market share consolidating from 30% to 50% since September, though February tracking softer at $35.3M.
Daryl argues Zero represents the next computing paradigm shift, following the historical pattern where each decade introduces a new foundation—from mainframes to PCs to the internet to cloud. He positions ZRO as the infrastructure enabling a decentralized world computer that solves previous scalability constraints.
Guy and Liz argue Bitcoin remains underutilized as digital collateral—thousands of BTC sit dormant rather than active in DeFi due to limited programmability. Babylon's trustless vaults architecture using witness encryption and garbled circuits enables native Bitcoin lending without wrapping or custodians, unlocking the largest source of untapped onchain capital. They're backing Babylon with a $15M $BABY purchase, betting on expansion into lending and eventually perpetual futures and stablecoins.
James believes Metaplex has evolved significantly since its October 2023 thesis, with material changes across its core business model, addressable market, token economics, and value capture mechanics warranting a fresh analysis of the $MPLX investment case.
MONK sees Wall Street entering crypto as traditional finance exhausts growth narratives, with everyone overexposed to AI and software companies no longer captivating investors. This shift positions $ETH to capture institutional capital fleeing saturated markets.
Teng Yan positions World as a proof-of-personhood protocol addressing the internet's inability to distinguish humans from bots, with 12.5M verified users and a 1B user target by 2027. WLD token mechanics include 10B total supply over 15 years with ~1B hitting market in the next 12 months, offset by future demand from identity verification fees (projected 150M WLD/year at scale), sequencer staking, and governance—plus a $135M conviction buy from a16z and Bain Capital. Bull case hinges on 300M+ verified users by end-2026 and killer-app emergence; bear case involves regulatory shutdown or ecosystem failure to convert sign-ups to engagement.