Top Picks: Messari Analysts' Portfolio Insights — Solana Emerges as Investment Consensus, AI Tokens Gain Favor
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Top Picks: Messari Analysts' Portfolio Insights — Solana Emerges as Investment Consensus, AI Tokens Gain Favor
Overall, Messari's analysts have implemented the predictions and ideas shared in their annual report.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsBy TechFlow
As expected, Messari, the well-known crypto data and research firm, has released its "Messari Theses 2024," which includes insights into the personal portfolios of its analysts—highlighting their most profitable positions, biggest losses, current token holdings, and preferred sectors or narratives.
Overall, Messari’s analysts have aligned with the predictions and principles shared in their annual report: bullish on Bitcoin and Solana, optimistic about AI-related tokens. Most hold SOL or related ecosystem tokens, followed by AI-focused tokens such as OLAS, AKT, TAO, and RNDR. While Messari's 2024 trend report expresses a bearish view on Ethereum, most analysts still hold ETH as a beta exposure, although one analyst, KEl, noted that his biggest mistake in 2023 was not selling ETH sooner.
Messari Analysts’ Holdings
TBI
Biggest gain: GBTC, SOL
Biggest loss: Popular VC-backed tokens, and why can't I let go of ZEC?
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SOL
Likes: You reading this report
Maartje
Biggest gain: RNDR
Biggest loss: Parting ways with CRV
Holdings: BTC, ETH, RNDR
Likes: DePIN
Dustin
Biggest gain: SOL, OLAS, NOS
Biggest loss: USDC
Holdings: SOL, OLAS, NOS, LIKE, HBB
Likes: AI-related cryptocurrencies
Kunal
Biggest gain: RUNE, AKT, TAO
Biggest loss: PEPE
Holdings: ETH, TIA, RPL, AKT
Likes: EigenLayer and restaking protocols. Demand for security drives value in L1 assets, and EigenLayer significantly expands Ethereum’s security market.
Sami
Biggest gain: RNDR, AKT, TAO
Biggest loss: Not buying more TAO
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SOL, HONEY, TAO, RNDR, AKT, LPT
Likes: DePIN and decentralized AI will become crypto’s killer applications. ZK coprocessors will bring crypto apps to feature and performance parity with Web2 applications.
Ally
Biggest gain: SOL, TIA, RNDR, MKR
Biggest loss: MATIC
Holdings: Solana ecosystem tokens, Ethereum-based memes
Likes: Networks and applications with relatively little zombie/fake activity, innovation and development trajectory of consumer applications
Steph
Biggest gain: PEPE
Biggest loss: MARBLES
Holdings: BITCOIN (HPOS10), TIA, ETH, BTC, SOL
Likes: Infrastructure and MEMEs
Kel
Biggest gain: SOL
Biggest loss: Not selling ETH quickly enough
Holdings: SOL, Solana ecosystem tokens, NFTs, LIKE
Likes: Solana ecosystem projects. Token valuations may be overheated in the short term, but realistically, most people have only recently started liking Solana, and I expect further inflows from this group over the medium to long term.
Seth
Biggest gain: RNDR, SOL
Biggest loss: ALCX
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SOL, RNDR, LPT
Likes: Bringing off-chain computation and state on-chain, key management infrastructure.
Toe
Biggest gain: AKT
Biggest loss: HAMS
Holdings: AKT, TAO, SOL + Solana ecosystem, DYDX
Likes: DePIN finding product-market fit, Solana protocols with new charts, derivative DEXs (VRTX, AEVO, Hyperliquid), ZK coprocessors, some DeFi (Ethena Labs, OSMO, SOMM).
Mihai
Biggest gain: RNDR, SOL
Biggest loss: ATOM
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SOL, RNDR
Likes: Zero-knowledge machine learning, key management solutions, scaling solutions.
JTVL
Biggest gain: GBTC
Biggest loss: ATOM, not riding the RWA train
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SNX, PENDLE, LBR, GNS, LINK, LQTY
Likes: RWA and LST bringing more on-chain yield; LSTFi and perpetual DEXs will remain growth areas, especially the latter if priced reasonably. Denominate your wealth in Satoshis and embrace store-of-value.
Nick
Biggest gain: AKT
Biggest loss: SYN
Holdings: AKT, DYDX, ILV, SYN
Likes: Mobile apps, EIP-4844, ETH chain abstraction, rehypothecation and LSTs, and election-related meme coins.
Peter
Biggest gain: SOL, Mad Lads
Biggest loss: Boss’s friend.tech key
Holdings: SOL, BONK, ETH, COIN
Likes: Solana ecosystem
Red
Biggest gain: COIN
Biggest loss: XMR
Holdings: BTC, ETH, XMR
Likes: Alt-VM Ethereum rollups to capture Ethereum users and liquidity without being constrained by EVM. Bitcoin programmability for developer experimentation and trust-minimized access to Bitcoin liquidity. AI driving the DePIN narrative.
Micah
Biggest gain: COIN, PEPE
Biggest loss: LYX
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SOL, AKT, RNDR, LYX, $COIN
Likes: ZK coprocessors, perpetual contracts, Bitcoin programmability, account abstraction.
AJC
Biggest gain: BTC
Biggest loss: Chasing meme coins
Holdings: BTC, ETH, LINK, ARB, Milady, WINR, GMX, GRAIL
Likes: SocialFi/reputation layer (friend.tech), perpetuals and on-chain options taking market share from CEXs, capital flowing from Ethereum to Arbitrum ecosystem and other L2s post-Dencun upgrade, ETF approvals for BTC and ETH, and GambleFi.
Mike
Biggest gain: BTC.D and Remilia NFTs
Biggest loss: friend.tech keys
Holdings: BTC, ETH, SOL, Remilia NFTs
Likes: New cycle tokens: TAO, TIA, and SOL.
Crypto culture keeps winning: Remilia NFTs and SocialFi / Gambling / Prediction Markets 2.0 (they’re all the same thing).
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