My 2026 Altcoin Portfolio What I’m Buying Before Everyone Else

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]All right. In this video, I'm going to show you my 2026 altcoin portfolio. In other words, I'm going to show you which altcoins I am trying to buy before anybody else. And these coins are mostly a narrative play. In other words, we're going to get into sectors so that we can get into some narratives, or should I say potential narratives that can skyrocket, but also get into some other sectors that I believe are going to do extremely well. So, this video is split into narrative portfolios. I'm going to leave the links in the description down below so you know exactly what is where so you can look back to this video for reference if you need to. And towards the end of the video, I'm going to show you how to actually set up each portfolio for massive success. And so you can also offset any potential dangers or losses within the same portfolio with a system that I use well since 2017 that's actually working very well. So with that said, make sure you grab your favorite beverage, a notepad, a pen so you can take notes. Obviously you can also use your computer and let's get started right now.

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[00:01:37]>> All right, so let's talk about which altcoins I am accumulating for 2026 and which ones I believe are going to do very well. Starting with Perpetual Dexes. All right, so we called hype pretty early over here and as you can see, Hyperlid actually did very well. We topped out at about $59 over here, formed a higher low, and as you can see, we are already off to the races, and it's kept its price pretty well through the bare market. Now, we effectively called the current bottom of Bitcoin at $60,000.

[00:02:13]We actually bought at $62,000.

[00:02:16]And it does seem that so far the Bitcoin bottom may be in. Now, this can go down.

[00:02:23]Bitcoin can break 60K and go to the 40 50K level, but it could also stay in a range till the end of this year. So, if it does break down, watch Bitcoin to see when to accumulate altcoins or to add to your positions. And if it keeps on going up, then you should be off to the races with these altcoin picks. So, let's go back to Hyperlquid over here. And as you can see, it is showing massive strength.

[00:02:53]And if Hyperliquid can actually break the highs of $58 over here, which it should as long as it breaks 50 psychological, we can actually see Hyperlid move all the way to $9,900, maybe even a little bit more than that.

[00:03:12]Of course, this is no guarantee. This is just something that we are looking at.

[00:03:16]And we believe perpetual dexes will be one of the main crypto narratives in 2027. And hype is the blue chip play over here. So even if it gets to the $800 range, remember it's your blue chip play. And keep that in mind because I'm going to show you why that's important towards the end of this video and how to set up your portfolio. With that said, let's move to the next coin. So next we have Aster over here which is the perpetual DEX on Binance and yes we can see the big dump over here but we actually called Aster at 44.

[00:03:58]So you are still up. We told you to buy at 44 to sell around $2. We actually went higher than that. It was a fake out towards $2.40 $40 and then we came down in the bare market and we seem to have a bottom formation over here. Astercoin can absolutely run to $4,5 possibly even 10 and rival hype if altcoins go parabolic or we have a selective alt season and this narrative just happens to be part of that. If that happens, you can actually see massive gains with Aster and as it's the Ethereum to Bitcoin, if you will, in the perpetual DEX world. Aster is to hype what Ethereum is to Bitcoin. Now, I will leave an Aster link in the description down below. This is not sponsored in any way. I just really, really believe Aster can do extremely well. Next up in the perpetual deck portfolio, I am holding Blue Fin. And this is the risk play over here. Bluefin is a perpetual dex on. And if does well, if does a Salana type move, which I believe it will. I thought it was going to do it last cycle, maybe it's going to do it in the coming cycle.

[00:05:22]Of course, there's no guarantees, but if does a Salana type move, Salana, sorry, Sweet coins are going to do extremely well. And if that couples with perpetual dexes, you might actually see this [snorts] fly. Now, of course, this is the risk part of the crypto portfolio.

[00:05:41]So, there's no guarantees here, so do with that information as you will. But as you can see, just to give a hint towards the end of the video, when you set up a crypto portfolio in each narrative, you want your blue chips, your midcaps, and your high-risk coins.

[00:06:00]So you can offset the balance. So if you are wrong down here, the narrative coin will still do well if that narrative hits. Well, if these coins down here fail, you still have exposure. Okay?

[00:06:14]Now, we're going to talk about that later on or in another video. So, let's move on to my next crypto portfolio for 2026.

[00:06:23]And that is the privacy coin narrative.

[00:06:26]And we have Zcash as our blue chip here.

[00:06:30]Now, we called Zcash at $144 before the bare market started, and we never went down to that price again. We actually called the breakout. We also said that Zcash marks the end of bull markets and that's how we got close and we called the top of this bull market using Zcash and Bitcoin. As you can see, we went all the way up to $746.

[00:07:01]I told you to take profits at around $700.

[00:07:04]We came back down. We actually held above $200, which is the top of the prior range over here, bounced, and now we are currently going up with conviction. This is a powerful coin. I know a lot of you don't believe this, but Zcash has shown amazing resilience and it does seem like this is going to fly in the next cycle.

[00:07:30]Now, of course, this is no guarantees, but I'm holding Zcash because if this thing breaks, let me show you something.

[00:07:37]If this thing breaks the top of $746, which in hindsight, if we go back, that was the top of this candle over here. If you exclude the next wick, this thing can fly all the way up to $1,000 or even more. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a $1,500 Zcash in the coming cycle if the privacy narrative hits. Extremely important if that hits regardless. It's a very strong coin and I do believe everybody should have exposure to Zcash along with our next coin, Monero. And we did get into Monero. When we got into Zcash, we did extremely well quite recently all the way almost to $800 here. Came back down, but as you can see, it's holding higher lows. It's building ranges. And as long as it can hold above $500, I believe it will. I wouldn't be surprised if Monero can go to $1,500.

[00:08:48]Now, you might be saying, Paul, that's not a lot. That's a 23x. Yes, I get it.

[00:08:54]But you never know. A, and B, we're still early in the year 2026. We're in May right now. So, we can't make massive picks for all these crazy coins.

[00:09:07]Although, I do have some for you here that can actually absolutely pump. But we are trying to make our portfolio and then convert add to it as time passes after summertime where we will have a cleaner picture. That's why you need to subscribe down below and hit the bell notification button so you don't miss those videos. But because YouTube is bugging out lately and it's not even notifying you when I actually release a video, I actually created a mailing list. cryptofactor.net/mail.

[00:09:45]I'll leave the link in the description down below and I'll leave a QR code right here where you can sign up and just get notifications via email when I release a video with a quick summary so you can see if it's worth watching yourself and not rely on my word or YouTube to show you what they believe you should watch. So sign up if you want and let's move on to our next privacy token and that is Canton and we actually called this very early. We came up topped out over here at 0.19 but as you can see we are already establishing a range over here. And look this is the monthly chart. This is a monthly chart right now that we are looking at and all these coins because we are still early and Canton is showing amazing promise. This can actually fly.

[00:10:42]This may actually be one of those 10 20 30x coins maybe even more again as long as we have a selective alt season and as long as we are right about this narrative. So be responsible and again we'll talk about that towards the end of this video. So that's our privacy portfolio. Three coins. We have our blue chip if you will, your high cap, midcap.

[00:11:10]In this case, it's pretty much the same, but Monero is our midcap. And we have our highrisk play over here. Now our next narrative is actually extremely important because it's a combination.

[00:11:24]It's X42 coins, but it also includes AI.

[00:11:29]And this is a trend stack. I do believe AI is going to do extremely well. And I'm going to show you some X42 coins.

[00:11:37]Some of them also being in the AI sector over here. Okay, so let's have a look at those. Starting with Near Protocol. Now, Near Protocol currently sitting at $157.

[00:11:49]Had this massive downfall from the top of $20, but as you can see, it came up quite powerfully over here and then came back down and it's almost at the absolute bottom. I'd be very surprised if this goes lower. Of course, it always can, but you might be actually buying this extremely early. And your play in near is actually twofold here. One, you could buy right now because if it cracks $3, I'm seeing the next profit taking range at $7.65.

[00:12:28]So, this is absolutely a good swing trade here for you. But if it actually breaks this top over here and we're right about our call, this can definitely 10 20x in this cycle. So, NER Protocol, a nice medium risk coin. I'm not calling it a blue chip in the portfolio, but I have accumulated and I am holding some near and I will add to it as time progresses if that makes sense as I see fit as I see the charts.

[00:13:00]This can always change. Technical analysis, we do long-term technical analysis on this channel, but things can always change. We are trying to call narratives early here. Okay? So keep that in mind. Take a sip of your coffee or whatever beverage you bought with you and make a note of that. Very very important. Okay. Then we have virtuals protocol. Now this is an AI agent play but also virtuals actually came out and said they are going allin on X42 tokens along with near protocol. By the way I forgot to mention if you don't know what X42 protocol coins are, I actually made a video about it. I'll link it in the description down below so you can check it out after you watch this video. But for now, pay attention because this is important. So, virtual protocol is one of our strong plays here. It got all the way to $5. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes to five, maybe even $10 in this cycle. If this plays out, regardless, it's sitting at a dollar. It's a good risk play or riskreward play in my opinion. and it does seem to have bottomed out temporarily here. As long as Bitcoin doesn't sneeze and we don't go into a massive recession or bare market, then of course virtual protocol can absolutely do well. Next up, we have Ethereum. All X42 payments will be dependent on Ethereum, and I do believe Ethereum will break its highs this cycle, and we might even see a 10K Ethereum. Yes, I know we didn't see it this cycle. We were actually calling for a $6 to $8,000 Ethereum in the previous cycle. We didn't get that. We did get to all-time highs. We did pretty well. We didn't break out though. We didn't break out. We fortunately took some profits, but I do believe this cycle Ethereum can do very well. People will get into safer coins. Institutions will get into safer coins. So, I believe these can do extremely well. And if it doesn't, it doesn't. It's still in our portfolio. I still think it's a great play. And of course, if you're holding Ethereum over here, you are also holding Salana, which also can do a massive move. We actually called for a $500 to $700 Solana. We didn't quite get that. We did get to $297.

[00:15:40]We said if we break that, that's where we would get $5 to $700, possibly a,000.

[00:15:45]We didn't. I do believe this run we could absolutely do that. We're starting at a higher level over here. As long as we break 230, let's call it $250 psychological, we should be able to have a great run. And absolutely, Salana could really surprise us and do a lot better. But let's just wait for these levels, re-evaluate, and see how it goes. Don't worry, we'll get into the spicy massive run soon. But I believe our portfolio should be a mix. That's how we've been so successful on this channel. We hold our high caps, midcaps, low caps. So even if our midcaps, and low caps go to we actually make profits in every single cycle. Okay? So keep that in mind. Next up, we have Chainlink over here. This is probably the coin that has the most utility out of the whole altcoin market, but has the worst pumps. Okay. And I do believe that somehow at some point, Chainlink should pump. And that somehow may be with the X42 narrative. We are seeing a bottom here above this previous range over here. Of course, we have to see what happens to this cycle, what Bitcoin will do. But this can absolutely do well and even if it reaches its previous highs of $52, that's a 5x. So you can expect a 3 to 5x on link if the narrative hits and of course it can go a lot higher. Then you have the higher risk moonshot X42 coins.

[00:17:25]And it's a bit too early to call these.

[00:17:27]I will be making a video calling what I am going to be holding, what I am investing in. But if you want to check out some possibilities, you can just go to this website over here to x42.org, read about it, so you can actually learn about these coins, what they do, why I'm bullish. Again, I have a video in the description down below. But if you come here to the ecosystem, you can actually see what's going on and which coins might be the next 100 even crazier crazier [snorts] pumps than that in this cycle. If this narrative hits, of course, it's risky. A lot of these will fail. A lot of these won't do well. We may actually see a run like we did with AI agents where they all started going up and then most of them fell and then a lot of them didn't go up again or just vanished. But you had a few that are still around like virtuals. That's what we might see here.

[00:18:28]But X42 coins, check them out. Worth your attention. Now let's talk about meme coins. What meme coins I am actually holding and may be accumulating? Well, one of them is Pangu. This actually has a real product tied to it. It also has an NFT tied to it. If any of those do well, this can do well. They're making revenue. They're actually great. I actually interviewed them. I think it was Blockchain Week, a stumble blockchain week. I'll be speaking there this year as well. And I'll leave the link to that interview in the description down below. But yes, pudgy penguins can absolutely do very well in meme seasons or or when memes actually hit and may actually do well as a salana narrative coin as well as long as Salana does well. Of course, you have Dogecoin over here. We actually called this at cents. We got out and we said it might actually reach a dollar. It reached all the way to 72 cents.

[00:19:32]Fortunately, we started taking profits and then of course we said it might run up there again, but it topped out at about 50 cents. But still, we did very well with Doge. And look at this. It's forming a nice bottom range higher than the previous one. This looks healthy. If it can break 50 cents, I do believe we're going to get a double top at the very least at 70. Great entry at 11 cents right now. Regardless, this is a culture coin. It's a memecoin that's not going anywhere. It's not pretending to be something it's not. It's just Doge.

[00:20:07]Favorite of many celebrities. Favorite of Elon Musk. Favorite of my dog Theos.

[00:20:13]We actually love Dogecoin. So, we are holding Dogecoin. We always hold Dogecoin. We take profits responsibly.

[00:20:21]And yes, Dogecoin is in our memecoin portfolio. High-risk memecoin. I actually called this the other day and we were right. is SPX6900.

[00:20:33]This is the coin you hold, you take profits, comes down, if it makes a higher low and starts going up, you get in again. And if it breaks this, it could absolutely surprise everyone. As long as a lot of coins fail, like a lot of agents, meme coins, and all that crap we saw in the last cycle fail, and we have a selective alt season and select meme coins running, I believe S&P can be one of those coins. Of course, this is the riskier play in our memecoin portfolio and meme coins are risky enough as they are. So, be very careful with this. Make sure you are very careful when investing in crypto as a whole. There is a lot of risk everywhere. And of course, we are holding Brett also doing a nice bottom formation over here. And this is on the base network. So, a bet on base. Now, keep in mind all this time I'm saying that bottom formations over here. Can these go lower? Yes, they can go lower.

[00:21:36]If Bitcoin dumps to 40, 50K, of course, these can go lower. But when Bitcoin dumped to 60K, which we called perfectly by the way, when it dumped to 60 60K and bounced, these made some great formations. And that's why I am making this video. That's what I'm seeing. And that's why I am calling these coins, if that makes sense. This is what I'm seeing now. And even if they go down, maybe it could be expected that they would make another bottom and still do quite well. Also, these give you a very good exit or stoploss under that support range. I forgot to mention that in the beginning of the video. So, if you're watching this far, I'm trying to throw in nuggets of knowledge. But this is something you have to keep in mind when you invest in crypto. When you invest in coins, you have to keep your stop-loss or exit or invalidation zones. And when you form a bottom like this, it's very simple to see, very simple to implement.

[00:22:39]And I'm also holding snake. We got into this very, very early before the coin even came out over here. Had a great run. Now we are down. And yes, I am holding the coins. I did not sell. I took profits up here about 75% of my snack. And now I'm not going to be adding to this, but I am holding. and I should disclose that. So that's why I'm putting it in this portfolio. Now let's talk about some other altcoins that I am bullish on that I am already probably invested in some of these also holding some of these from before and I believe are going to do extremely well. I'm not going to put these in every category. Of course they are in categories but let me just go through these real quick as these are these are significantly important. One of them is ono over here an American cryptocurrency we called before we called this breakout over here already doing very well. So even if this goes down, I do believe on will do well.

[00:23:45]But Ono is an extremely good play over here and it can actually actually do quite well at 43 cents over here close to the bottom. Ono can absolutely skyrocket if the RWA narrative hits or the American narrative hits. This can do very well and is part of our portfolio and we recently called to get in. Suie is another coin I believe is going to do well. I thought it was going to do a Salana type move. We will cut short in this cycle, but as you can see, higher low range again, clear exit over here.

[00:24:20]This can absolutely reach all-time highs and even go higher. I know the SUI team, I do believe they're going to do very well. They are based in Greece right now, the SUI hub, and they are doing so much that I believe that SUI will still make a Salana type move. Of course, I said that last time it didn't, but I also said if it doesn't do it in the last cycle, it will do it in the next cycle. And we are going into the next cycle over here. So, let's see if this actually plays out. Then we have linear.

[00:24:49]We actually called this early, but we had this massive dump after and now it looks like we have found a bottom and if this narrative hits, this can do very, very well. So, if you're buying now, you only need to reclaim some of these levels over here to actually make profits. and it's giving you a clear stop-loss under. So, we are also holding linear. By the way, I'm also holding Foxy in my um in my memecoin portfolio or I used to hold Foxy. I think I have some left over that actually might also be a good play because I do believe it's going to do very well. The the Meta Mask or the the the company overall with Linear Chain and Fox, it can do extremely well. Let's see what happens.

[00:25:34]Aerodrome also a play of mine for the base network over here. This is something I should have mentioned before, but I'm mentioning it now. We actually got in. It's breaking out on the monthly. This can do extremely well as well. Just make sure you take profits at $1.50 and then re-evaluate if you're going to hold to $2 and see if that breaks, if it's going to go higher. But obviously if Bass does well and Coinbase does well, this can do well. We are also holding Beam nodes. We actually called this early. Unfortunately, short-lived.

[00:26:11]Came under. We actually lost money on this one, but we are holding nodes. So, we're getting free beam and free aether.

[00:26:20]And this does look like it's low. Now, would I buy this? I would rather hold the node and accumulate beam, but I could be wrong. This didn't play out as expected. It's gone down 56% from the highs, which is not that bad. I mean, we've seen a lot worse. And I do believe Beam is going to do well this cycle because it's an AI/ gaming play. So, let's see how this does. If you want to buy a node and you actually want to delegate it to our node, because you can do that. I'll have a link down below for that as well. And yeah, it could be very good entry for a node since it's lost a lot of its value.

[00:27:01]So check it down below and see if it's for you. Of course, it gets technical. I have videos explaining how to do it.

[00:27:08]We'll see. You be the judge of it. You be maybe we're still early. Maybe we're still early. I'm I'm holding notes before. I have to disclose this. I'm bullish on Beam, but it doesn't mean it's going to play out and I'm aware of that. Okay. As I said, we also have Aether. We're actually getting this. And our high-risk plays is Monad, which we called perfectly in the bare market and we're going up with conviction. I think we got in around here and we're currently going up. And this can absolutely skyrocket. Make sure you check this coin out. This is one of those coins that are riskier but could absolutely bring you lifech changing profits if it does indeed play out. And also Morpho, we're holding both of these as a high-risk play to see how it plays out. Now, this is important. I'm going to explain something to you when you are setting up crypto portfolios. It's going to be very quick. I do recommend you don't skip this part of this video. If you want to skip, go ahead. It's on you.

[00:28:14]If you want to get wrecked, go ahead. If you want to skip, just like the video, hit the like button if you see it. Good luck. But let me show you. Let me show you what I would personally do, okay?

[00:28:25]And how I personally use these portfolios, how I set them up. This is extremely extremely important. Whether you are setting up individual crypto portfolios or this portfolio as a whole, let's say you're working with $10,000, you want to split this. And there's different ways to do this. I'm going to show you the simple one, but you want to split this $10,000.

[00:28:48]What you want to do is put $5,000 into Bitcoin. And please hear me out. This is very important. $5,000 into Bitcoin. And no, it's not for the reason that you expect. And then you want to put another $5,000 or the other $5,000 over here split into these portfolios I just gave you. So $1,000 let's say in perpetual dexes, $1,000 in privacy, $1,000 in whatever. Depending on how much money you have, you can change this around if you want. Now, the reason you do this is very simple. Bitcoin at the very least can do a 23x. We see this over and over again depending when you buy. As a matter of fact, it could do a 5x, it could do an 8x. When I was telling you to buy Bitcoin at 15.6K, yes, you would have made massive profits. But a lot of people think this is not enough. A lot of people think this is not life-changing. A lot of people say, "Oh, this is not good.

[00:29:49]That's why they go straight over here and don't invest into Bitcoin." But they are forgetting that this 23x over here is key. We don't care about this that much. We care about this. Why do we care about this? Paul, what are you talking about? You're not making sense. Well, it's it's very simple. It's very simple.

[00:30:08]Look, first of all, if this doesn't work out, if any of these portfolios don't work out, maybe this one doesn't work out, maybe this one doesn't work out, maybe this one does work out. This portfolio might give you a five, 10x, let's say, maybe even 20x if you're lucky. So, let's say this 1,000 becomes a 20x and you get 20K. Awesome. Great.

[00:30:30]And this one only gives you 10K because it's a 2x. Well, now you have 30K from your 10K reinvestment. But here's the important thing. Not only could this outperform altcoins over time and it's safer, if this all goes to even if it just does a 2x, at least you get your money back. See, Bitcoin can be used as a sort of guarantee. Even though there's no guarantees, it can be used as a sort of guarantee.

[00:31:01]That way, you can use Bitcoin and accumulate Bitcoin to actually offset your losses or to keep you in the market if you were wrong about all these narratives. And then what you want to do is when everything pumps, you can take profits into Bitcoin as well as USDT.

[00:31:20]But when things dump, check this out.

[00:31:22]You can take profits as I said into Bitcoin. But when Bitcoin falls 10% and altcoins fall 50% many times even more, well guess what? You can use this Bitcoin to buy altcoins or part of this Bitcoin to buy altcoins. That way you stay exposing crypto with with spec w with with with a lot less risk and at the same time you are betting or hedging with sound hard money principles. Does that make sense? Now this is another extremely important point I want to give. If you want to learn crypto and you want to actually make money in crypto, you have to understand Bitcoin.

[00:32:06]A lot of people don't understand Bitcoin. They just don't. They say they do. they just don't. So, other than the videos I'm going to leave linked in the description down below along with timestamps. Make sure you check them out. I'm going to leave this video right here about Bitcoin. It explains it to you using seashells. It's actually quite fun. Watch that video or check out this video down here. Why most people get wrecked in crypto, the biggest myths and so on. This will change your life.