Ten altcoins, one template. In the ten posts I wrote on June 17, 2026, I gave each altcoin the same realistic price prediction: $0. This page gathers all ten in one place so you can read each full case. Each one is my honest opinion of risk and value, not a promise about where any price will go, and I want to be clear about that from the start.
What I think now is the same for every coin on this list. Each one, in my view, is a token whose fully diluted market cap is far larger than the real use behind it, with token unlocks still to come, with little I can actually use, and with a team I cannot verify. I do not think a token by itself gives you legal or code-based ownership of the project behind it, and I think most of these projects fail that test. The ten are Exposing XDC Network, Jupiter (JUP), Toshi, Onyxcoin (XCN), Story (IP), Supra, Cronos (CRO) with Crypto.com, Mantra (OM), Ondo Finance, and Zeebu (ZBU).
The market cap comes first in almost every post, because it is the number people skip. In my XDC post I point to a fully diluted market cap of $3.2 billion with about half the supply not yet circulating, and I set its 8.7 transactions per second against the much higher throughput of ICP. In my Jupiter post I call a fully diluted market cap of about $7.56 billion dramatically overvalued for a token whose value I cannot tie to anything it owns, and I warn about large token unlocks. The Mantra post makes the same argument with its 54 percent of tokens still locked, and the Zeebu post sets a $14 billion fully diluted figure against roughly $1 billion of market cap.
The second test is whether the project is something you actually use. I return to the Warren Buffett idea in several posts: buy a product you use, then consider the stock. In my Mantra post I ask whether anyone uses the chain every day, and in my Zeebu post I point out that a telecom settlement network is not something a retail investor can use. Several posts also check team transparency. In my Ondo post I found no names on the About page, and the Mantra post makes the same point about its team photo.
Some posts go deeper into specific claims. My Story (IP) post, the longest in the set at about 3,100 words, argues that the project's claims about on-chain intellectual property are not backed by anything I could find on its explorer, and says its gas tracker looked borrowed from Ethereum. My Cronos post is personal: I bought CRO at around 30-something cents, sold near 6 cents, and a year later it was still around 8 cents. That post makes the case that a token like CRO gives you no ownership of Crypto.com itself.
On how my view changed: these ten posts all carry the same date, June 17, 2026, so this page does not show a change of mind over time. What it shows is one method applied ten times, and that is the useful part for a reader. Use the contents list below to jump to any coin, or read the whole set in order to see how the same checks keep coming back.
The checks in order are the part I would keep. Start with the fully diluted market cap and the unlock schedule. Then ask what the chain does that you use. Then look for names and faces, and check whether the engagement looks like real people talking. For a fuller walk through those steps, read how to research a crypto before you buy. My comparison point throughout is Internet Computer (ICP), which I hold and use every day. I say so openly, and you should weigh that as bias.
I also do not get paid for these reviews, as I say in my Story post, and I give up income to publish them. You should still check every number yourself, because prices, unlock schedules and holder counts change over time.
If you hold one of these and want my candid read on your own position, you can get a personal video review at https://jerrybanfield.com/review/.
On this page
Every post I have written on this subject is below in full, newest first, each under its own heading.
- Exposing XDC Network: Why I Believe It's Headed to Zero (June 17, 2026)
- Jupiter (JUP): Why My Realistic Price Prediction Is $0 (June 17, 2026)
- My Realistic Toshi Price Prediction Is $0 (June 17, 2026)
- Onyxcoin XCN: Why My Realistic Price Prediction Is $0 (June 17, 2026)
- Story (IP) Honest Review: Why My Realistic Price Prediction Is $0 (June 17, 2026)
- Supra Realistic Crypto Price Prediction: Why I Think It's $0 (June 17, 2026)
- Why I Believe Cronos CRO and Crypto.com Are Going to Zero (June 17, 2026)
- Why I Think Mantra (OM) Is Headed to Zero (June 17, 2026)
- Why I Think Ondo Finance Is a Realistic $0 Price Prediction (June 17, 2026)
- Zeebu (ZBU) Realistic Price Prediction: Why I Think It's $0 (June 17, 2026)
Exposing XDC Network: Why I Believe It's Headed to Zero
From my video published June 17, 2026.
My friends, you're about to experience an expose where I'm going to show you the things that XDC Network does not want you to know. I see this as an investment that, in my experience, very likely is going to zero: extremely high risk, low potential reward, with much better investments available on the market today. I look at you as a neighbor. I've been in crypto 11 years, and I've researched thousands and thousands of altcoins. This one doesn't look good to me. That's why I'm not holding it, and I'm going to show you the research that supports that view. I bought this years ago, but then I did more research on it, at which point I sold it for things I believe are better, especially Internet Computer Protocol.
A market cap built on locked supply
If you look at XDC Network right now, according to CoinMarketCap, it sits in the top 100 cryptocurrencies and has a fully diluted market cap of $3.2 billion. To me, that means right now about half of the supply is set to get dumped on you. Half the supply is not even circulating, and I think that's terrible. I want to be in something like Bitcoin, where almost all the tokens are unlocked and the only new ones come from mining, or Ethereum, where the only new tokens come from staking. I don't want to hold something that has all these locked tokens dumping on me over time. In my experience, that is a recipe to get wrecked.
If you look at the price chart, it made its all-time high last bull market. Most coins, I've come to believe, don't have more than one bull market pump in them. It has had another pump recently, but that looks manipulated to me, and it looks useless. I'm going to go through the criticisms, because there are so many big, obvious problems.
First off, one of the biggest problems people point to right away is that this is not supported by major exchanges like Coinbase and Binance. You'll notice they're not on there. As big as this market cap is, it seems like they're not paying the money or playing the crypto matrix game the way most of these others are. My honest belief is that most cryptos only get to the top through lying, cheating, stealing, and paying people off. XDC doesn't even seem to be doing a good job at that, which would be fine if they had the best technology in crypto like Internet Computer Protocol does. But, in my view, they don't.
The technology versus what real-world assets actually require
Let's dive into the tech and what it can do. It's a blockchain developed to support trade finance and the tokenization of real-world assets. It's an EVM-compatible blockchain, and the claim that it uses a "state of the art" delegated proof of stake is, in my opinion, inaccurate. It is not state of the art. Internet Computer Protocol is state of the art, and everything else is just useless by comparison in my view. Here's the difference: when I say Internet Computer is state of the art, it does all this advanced work. All XDC can do is transactions, which is the same as everything else except ICP. ICP is the only crypto that, as I understand it, allows you to eliminate dependence on external hosting services. That's critically important when you're trying to be something built around real-world assets.
With real-world assets, it's critically important that you not have to rely on external hosting servers. Let's say you're doing a gold NFT. There's a gold project called GoldDAO that I'm holding a few hundred dollars of, not a huge amount, but I've got a few hundred dollars in it. It's a project on ICP. What they do is have gold bar NFTs and a gold stablecoin, and you can look at the project on golddao.org. This is a real-world asset project that relies on the Origin protocol on ICP to help it put everything fully on chain. By putting everything fully on chain with real-world assets, you can develop traceability, authentication, and certification. Origin chose to build their protocol on Internet Computer because of the infrastructure and what they describe as its advanced, unmatched technology.
With real-world assets, which is exactly what XDC says it's about, you need to have everything fully on chain, not on Amazon Web Services for the website and the database. If you have gold bars, like GoldDAO does, and you're trying to have gold NFTs, then you have to have all of that on chain for it to be secure and for it to actually be owned by the holders themselves. Otherwise, what you have is a situation where something like a Bybit hack remains possible, where you can't truly verify the authenticity of the real-world assets. If you host real-world asset details, things like gold bar serial numbers, on third-party Amazon hosting, you can't verify those are real, because that hosting could easily get modified, manipulated, or hacked. You could trick people, and you can't verify that it's secure.
So when I look at something like XDC Network, I see what it says it can do versus what I know it needs to do, based on the people at the cutting edge of real-world asset technology and crypto on Internet Computer. In my assessment, this cannot technologically do what really needs to be done, which is to put everything fully on chain. My conclusion is that this is going to go to zero. When people realize the best option for real-world assets is on Internet Computer Protocol, using a protocol like Origin that's already built to set it up, and then see a real example functioning fully today like GoldDAO, it becomes obvious. And that's very bad for XDC Network.
Transactions per second tell the story
Let's go through more obvious criticisms they don't want you to see. First, the transactions. Right now it's doing 8.7 transactions a second. How does that compare? We can find that out quickly. On chainspec.app/dashboard, you can see the fastest blockchains by transactions per second. ICP is number one, right up there with Solana. Then you have Stellar Lumens, which is in the very same kind of narratives that XDC is in, and it has ten times as many transactions a second. XDC would fall somewhere down low; it's not even tracked there. So XDC has a tiny amount of transactions a second right now, and it's getting dwarfed. It has a similar fully diluted market cap to ICP, but ICP right now has hundreds of times as many transactions a second as XDC Network. When you compare that with what I just said about the technology, that's a big problem.
The criticisms keep stacking up
It continues to get worse. Grok laid out some really nice criticisms that you can read through. I've gone over some of these already, like limited exchange support. As for partnerships, they have some, but partnerships are often easy to just pay for. You pay some company to say they have a partnership with you, and then you hardly deliver on it. So there are some partnerships, but I'm not impressed with them.
The complexity of the use case, to me, is a big problem for retail. What does retail know about an enterprise-grade solution tokenizing trade finance assets? That's so complicated for retail. But here's one of the biggest obvious things that everyone should be able to understand: competition from established players. XDC faces stiff competition from other blockchain networks targeting similar use cases, such as Ripple and Stellar. I'm not sure Ethereum is really quite appropriate for this comparison, but those two absolutely are. Almost all the hype around XDC is around what I've always seen as a BS narrative: this ISO 20022 compliance. DFINITY has the largest research and development team in blockchain behind Internet Computer Protocol. They have some of the best knowledge of what's needed technologically, and they don't see this as hardly worth doing anything for. Even if you think that narrative is relevant, XRP and XLM already have it covered. Those projects, if you're in that narrative, have much larger communities, more developer activity, and greater brand recognition. So what's the point of having XDC?
Then there are the centralization concerns Grok mentions, where you have to have master nodes, which I'm not a big fan of, and KYC requirements for validators. All the while, you can't even do all of this stuff on chain. As I said, the real-world impact here is almost zero that I can see. People have accused it of being a pump and dump. If you look at the price chart, it had a huge pump from way less than a cent all the way up to 18 cents, and then it just drained everything down to two cents. What looks to me like manipulated hype is going right back down quickly.
What their own channels reveal
I see more problems. Look at what they're talking about on their X account: bridging Web2 and Web3. What I know is that the best tech in the world for doing that is Internet Computer Protocol. They're talking about things ICP has already done, like account abstraction. When the cutting edge of what you're doing is something ICP solved a while ago, that tells me something. ICP has already solved the challenges real Web2 users face when adopting Web3: you go straight to the blockchain, you're not going through a third party. When you use something like OpenChat, you go straight into the blockchain right now. You don't have to pay any gas to use it. That has removed the main friction people experience all across the move from Web2 to Web3.
So you can tell from their X account that they're not on the cutting edge of the tech in crypto. They're also not on the cutting edge of paying people off, market cap, and exchange manipulation. They're not on the cutting edge of lying and cheating, and they're not on the cutting edge in technology, which to me is a really bad space to be in. Either pick one or the other. XDC is in this no man's land of not doing anything well.
Look at the YouTube channel. It has nine videos on it. I make nine videos in a day and a half because I have six YouTube channels and I'm a full-time YouTuber. Their whole channel has nine videos, and the last one was a year ago, a sign that the project isn't as active. Now let's go to the developer forums. If you look at the XDC Network forums, there are shocking levels of inactivity. The last post was 10 days ago. Then on XDC.dev, there's almost hardly any activity. I sorted by latest: one comment here, this one's a draft, this one has a decent amount of comments, the next post has one comment posted more than a week ago, the next had a recent comment, this one has a single comment. Look how inactive it is.
Now let me show you a project with a similar market cap. Look at how active the Internet Computer forums are. Here's one posted two hours ago. Look at all these posts within the last 24 hours, this whole row, tons of active conversations, lots of people interacting. This is one of the most active developer forums in all of crypto, and the fully diluted market cap is about the same as XDC. So either XDC is drastically overvalued, ICP is drastically undervalued, or both.
I talk about ICP a lot because the truth is I'm holding 5,000 ICP, and it's also, to me, the best thing in crypto. The best way to review a crypto and expose it is to compare it to the best. And I'm talking about the best technology, not the biggest wallet, or who paid the most people off, or who manipulated the metrics the most. I'm talking about the best tech, because ultimately, someday the tech is really going to matter in crypto. All the money stuff is just going to fall away and go to zero. That's what happens every bear market. So XDC, to me, is not well positioned for another bear market, and I don't see any reason to hold it today. My hope is that explaining this gives you some of the best research anyone has shown you about XDC Network. If you want to go deeper into how I think about valuing and holding crypto for the long term, you can explore my Crypto Reviews playlist.
Jupiter (JUP): Why My Realistic Price Prediction Is $0
From my video published June 17, 2026.
You're about to get an honest review and a realistic price prediction for Jupiter. In my opinion this is an extremely risky investment that's dramatically overvalued, and I don't want to see you lose any more money. I want you to be wealthy and to grow in your financial success. I'm tired of watching people get ripped off and destroyed on projects like this, so let me walk you through exactly why I'm sharing this with you.
A market cap that makes no sense
When I look at Jupiter, the first huge problem I see is the fully diluted market cap of around 7.56 billion dollars. That's the whole market cap together, and it's twice as large as the Internet Computer Protocol, which in my view has the absolute best technology in crypto. To me that is dramatically overvalued. All Jupiter really is, the way I see it, is a token on Solana. The token itself cannot have real legal ownership over anything to do with Jupiter and the exchange, and it cannot have ownership by code either, because all the important things are controlled by them off-chain. If you go to the Jupiter website at jup.ag, all of that infrastructure is controlled by the team off-chain.
That means, in my experience looking at projects like this, your token is completely speculative. It's basically a meme coin where you're hoping people will use the website and the coin, even though the coin itself is, the way I see it, fundamentally worthless.
The token unlocks worry me the most
There's a huge amount of token unlocks coming, and I believe those will drain the liquidity and take the price toward zero as soon as people start asking what the real value here actually is. There's no real technology that the token itself owns or controls. The price has gone nowhere overall in the last year. It's hype and speculation.
You can see the token unlocks right on CoinMarketCap, and they're crazy. There are billions and billions of dollars of tokens that are going to get dumped on the heads of everybody holding this, including team holders and all kinds of other holders. The unlock schedule shows big cliff unlocks. They just jump right off that cliff and, in my view, destroy the price completely. It looks like a big one came unlocked recently, and you can already see it trending down.
Everything rides on Solana
If we look at more details, Jupiter describes itself as one of the most advanced swap aggregation engines. Do you even know what that means? Jupiter says it excels in delivering liquidity for Solana, so all of this is based on the Solana ecosystem. If the Solana ecosystem fails, which I believe it absolutely will because I see Solana's tech as fundamentally weak, then Jupiter goes with it.
What's strong, in my opinion, is the Internet Computer Protocol, which I believe will make a real difference to the world by helping prevent cybercrime. I've made tons of videos on my main Jerry Banfield crypto channel describing why I think Internet Computer is the best technology in crypto. If Solana goes where I think it's going, which is to zero, then everything on Solana goes down with it, and that includes Jupiter. It has no real value proposition that I can see beyond speculative meme coin trading and hype around worthless tokens.
Even if I'm wrong about Solana, there are all kinds of other things that can be built, and there is practically infinite competition for something like Jupiter. And again, it's a token, so there are many different ways the token itself can go down even if Solana did well. To me there's just risk on top of overvaluation.
Decentralized in name only
I don't believe it's accurate to call this a real decentralized exchange platform, because the Jupiter team controls the website, and every transaction you send has to go through that middleman website in order to interact. In my view that is not decentralized. Unless they built the infrastructure on ICP, which I don't see anywhere, it doesn't qualify. Theoretically, if it were on the Internet Computer Protocol, you could try to claim it's decentralized, but then why would you invest in this token at all? If it were built in a truly decentralized way, you'd be looking at it being built on Internet Computer anyway. So it doesn't make sense to me.
Scroll down and look at the founders. The founders are listed as Fabiano Solana, Rolex Gold, and someone named Meow or Mei. On one of the YouTube videos they introduce the co-founders, Meow and Xiong. I hope those are real names, though with names like Fabiano Solana and Rolex Gold I suspect these could be nicknames. I do like that you can actually see the co-founders of Jupiter on the YouTube channel. That is at least a good sign. However, it's one good sign in the middle of a whole bunch of bad ones.
The holder data and the volatility
Looking at the Jupiter token scan, there were about 990,000 token holders roughly a week ago, and almost 10,000 holders have dumped this in the last week alone. That is some serious volatility. Can you handle that level of volatility? This is exactly why I would never hold a token like this.
In my experience, it only makes sense to invest in tokens you actually use every day. It might make sense for someone who uses the Jupiter exchange every single day, but if you're just holding this and hoping the price goes up while never using it, I think that's insane. As people have said about stocks, it makes a lot of sense to buy a product from a company, use it, and like it first, and then maybe invest. Why would you invest in this unless you're using it every day?
My gut feeling is that a lot of bots artificially push the volume and transactions. That said, on the holders there's no deception that I can see. Look at the top 20 holders. Everyone outside the top 20 holds only about 11 percent, while the top 20 holders control somewhere around 88 percent of the supply. Whatever the exact figure, they hold a lot. So why would I want to feed the top 20 holders at this point?
A DAO with no real power
If you go over to the DAO, this is problematic too, because again you have to go through their website. They could do whatever they want regardless of how the DAO votes. To me this is a DAO in name only. From everything I can see, it does not have true power, because ultimately you need developers to go in and actually do whatever the DAO votes for.
We've seen this before with things like Arbitrum. When that came out, I said people were going to get ripped off and that it was a useless token. The first thing that happened was the DAO voted one way and the team did the opposite, then said, well, we were just asking for an opinion. That's a DAO token valued in the billions at release acting as basically a polling mechanism. You can run free polls on X. You don't need to release a billion dollar token to do polls. I see the same basic issue with Jupiter: a DAO in name only that in truth has no real power. They even call it the first voting platform for cats in history. I'm someone who likes to be playful, but on a DAO page I'm not sure voting for cats is the place for it.
Limited use cases and lofty goals
If you look through the guides, they do have a good number of links across the different guides. But the use cases are extremely limited. This is all about swapping tokens on Solana. You can't use the technology to do much of anything else, which to me makes it fundamentally useless to planet Earth. Planet Earth wants to solve big problems like cybercrime. Planet Earth wants to be able to share ownership. Jupiter doesn't do anything valuable for planet Earth that I can see.
I'm genuinely impressed they have 584 videos on their YouTube channel. As someone who has created more than 10,000 videos, I respect the grind. That said, for a token with a market cap this big, I'm not seeing that many views, and I'm not seeing anything on their channel that's blowing me away. That's why I would not invest in this project. I believe this goes to zero. Looking at what they're talking about on X to understand what they're doing with the token, JUP is not an asset to me. It's an extremely speculative, high-risk coin that I believe has no fundamental value and is likely to go to zero.
I don't see how these lofty goals have any realistic chance of being accomplished, especially when you have something as powerful as Internet Computer available today. If you want to go deeper on how I think about putting your money to work, you're welcome to dig into my Crypto Reviews playlist, and you can come chat with me in OpenChat anytime.
My Realistic Toshi Price Prediction Is $0
From my video published June 17, 2026.
My realistic price prediction for Toshi is zero
Here is my realistic price prediction for Toshi: it is going to zero. Seriously. Brian Armstrong's cat is now a 300-and-some-million-dollar market cap, and in my view this has no hope of having any future utility. I think the odds are that it has already peaked right up here, sitting somewhere around 30-some percent higher, almost double actually, where it was before, and it just got listed on Coinbase. If I had any of it, I would absolutely sell it, because this is just a game of musical chairs. Whoever is the last one holding this before it goes to zero loses everything.
If you go to the official website, the whole goal of it is trying to be the face of Base. So you are betting on a meme. And that is very much what this is: gambling. You are betting that Toshi can hold the place of top meme coin on Coinbase's Ethereum layer 2, named after Brian Armstrong's cat. There are just so many huge issues with this.
Meme coins do not last
First, there are always people creating new meme coins on Base all the time. Meme coins generally do not last the test of time, on Base or anywhere else, and in my experience you are going to lose money on them. You also distract yourself and make yourself nervous, and for what? Look at Brett. Brett got to be the top meme coin on Base, and then it just dumped from 20 cents a couple of months ago down to 5 cents. Everybody got ripped off on that. As soon as Toshi went up, people started saying, well, I guess Brett is not the top coin anymore. I said Brett sucked and was a terrible investment, because you cannot treat these as real investments. They are not. These are meme coins, and a layer 2 meme coin on Base is, in my opinion, absolutely unsustainable for the long term.
You are betting on an exchange like Coinbase to pump your coin. You are betting on people to just FOMO into this without doing any research, without thinking at all about what the real-world utility of this is. Toshi says it wants to be the face of Base and a leading figure in the ecosystem, with a robust meme culture and an expanding community, striving to be the premier meme coin. So it is trying to be the best of the garbage coins on Base.
Why meme coins are the worst thing I have seen in crypto
As I wrote on X earlier, meme coins are the worst thing I have ever seen in crypto, because you are taking money that could be put into real innovation and used to improve the quality of life on earth, but instead you are dumping it into stuff like Toshi. You are basically taking the resources you have worked hard for, and I work hard for mine, and just throwing them away, hoping other people are foolish enough to do the same thing.
To me this is already topped out by being newly listed on Coinbase. It is on a bunch of these other exchanges already. So to me it does not have a lot more upside left in it, and most coins only get this one peak and that is it. The big peak for this was finally getting listed on Coinbase, and I can see why people got hyped up about it. But somebody asked me specifically about this who was holding a lot of it and had been waiting a long time for it to pump. My honest take is that now is exit time, because from here on out it is just another one of the many, many meme coins on Base. If you are going to make money on meme coins, you have to get them way back here or down at the bottom, and even then it is junky.
Meme coins waste your time. They are extremely dangerous. I have seen so many meme coins just on ICP go to zero recently. Over the long term, meme coins almost never last. And if you were not the first one in, and most of the time you are not the first one in, you are on some crappy project that is going to zero. There are so many cat and dog meme coins already. A decade ago there were not, but now the landscape in crypto is littered with cat meme coins and dog meme coins. It is hard to even stand out these days.
The numbers behind the hype
The website certainly looks decent, and the account has 100,000 followers. But at this point the engagement is poor. Look at an account with 100,000 followers and only a few thousand interactions. Some of these posts do better, and this one is decent, so they may not be using bots as hard as some of the other ones. But at the same time, how sustainable is putting out pictures of a cat? Does that last into the future? At what point does this disappear? At what point do people forget about it and it becomes irrelevant?
To me it is on the way down right now, because if you are actually doing your research in crypto, the only reasonable thing to do is invest in stuff that you use every single day. What in God's name are you going to do with Toshi's cat meme coin? What happens if Toshi the cat dies? It might actually pump when he dies, but then it is going to zero right after that. Brian Armstrong is going to get another cat someday, and that cat's next meme coin will probably knock this one off. What if he gets a dog? What if he just gets five more cats and people make meme coins off of all of them?
We can do better than this
Come on. We have to do more to make a better world, unless you want to just sit in this junk we have today. Let's do better than investing in Brian Armstrong's cat meme coin. I think we can do better than that. This is extremely risky, and in my experience this kind of thing goes to zero 99% of the time, or it stays flat against something like Bitcoin and trends down. You are almost never going to win. If you feel like you missed it, you should not have been in it anyway. You should not have been buying Brian Armstrong's cat meme coin to start with, hoping that other people would buy it after you and pump the price.
To me, everybody in meme coins like this is a sucker, and insiders who see how it works can easily rip off tons of people all the time across all kinds of coins. The insiders are laughing at the masses who keep getting tricked into stuff like this over and over again. So my belief is that Toshi has topped out. I would dump everything I had today and be thankful for that dirty, nasty meme coin money.
Honestly, the anxiety you feel investing in a meme coin is well deserved. You know you are in something nasty, dirty, and not going to last very long, and you know you are doing something bad. So my advice, from my own experience, is to stop, learn the fundamentals so you are not easily tricked into buying crap like this, and put your resources into real projects instead. If you want to keep learning how I think about all of this, you can dig into my Crypto Reviews playlist and build a foundation in real crypto investing.
Onyxcoin XCN: Why My Realistic Price Prediction Is $0
From my video published June 17, 2026.
Guess who's back? Jerry's back with another "going to zero" video. This time it's some name I can't even pronounce. Onyxcoin? First off, disgusting branding. And there's a bunch of ambassadors out there shilling this stuff on YouTube, which makes me want to throw up. I'm tired of watching people get ripped off on this garbage. It is garbage, and here's why.
First off, look at the price chart. This is just a token that launched at the end of the last bull run, dumped on everybody, and then did nothing at all for about a year until some obviously manipulated pump came in and bought it up to try and fix the price chart. To me this is clear price manipulation. There was nothing real happening with it at all.
What exactly is this?
So what exactly is Onyxcoin? It's billed as Web3 blockchain infrastructure. If you go to their website, it says it's a layer 3. The pitch is that Onyx is a layer three blockchain designed for financial-grade applications, offering near-instant confirmation and low fees. Guess what already does this? Internet Computer Protocol. And guess what you don't have to bolt on when you use Internet Computer Protocol? A third-party wallet like MetaMask.
What I find absurd here is that this thing stacks layer twos. You've got Arbitrum and Base both in the mix. You know what's worse than gunking up your coin with one layer two? Doing it with two of them. In my opinion, I don't like Ethereum layer 2s to begin with, unless you can build the entire application on it the way you can with Internet Computer Protocol. To me they're just extracting value out of the Ethereum ecosystem, and I believe the whole Ethereum ecosystem suffers for it now, because all these layer 2s have pulled value off of it that generally does not come back to the chain. And here you can get two of them involved at once. That's a clear problem in my book.
No team, no faces, no accountability
Click the "about" page. Do they list any team members? Can you see who is actually behind this? Absolutely not. If you read the page, it says this is a decentralized project launched by a group of developers, fully open source, and developed by the community. I'm sure it is. I'm sure the X account is run by the community too, fully decentralized. No. There is some centralized person who controls this, who controls the website, and they have no accountability and no transparency.
These are huge red flags to me. In my experience, people who are confident and proud of what they're building are happy to show their faces and put their names on it. People who are lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, and committing fraud don't want their faces or names associated with the project, so they can keep lying and stealing from you and get away with it. And I've come to believe that's almost all of crypto.
This thing has a $1.5 billion fully diluted market cap with not a shred of value that I can see.
The social media is botted
If you look at the X account, in my view it's just more cheating and botting. There are 55,000 followers, and the account was created well after the coin was created. You'll see a "good morning" post with 25,000 impressions just for saying good morning. Who is really contributing to that? Scroll down deeper and you find posts with 12,000 impressions that don't have a single comment.
This is what I call the crypto mafia playbook. Make a website, put some pretty pictures and artwork on it, then use the same keywords I swear every other one of these projects uses to hook people who seem almost trauma-conditioned to respond to them. "Oh, real world assets. Real world assets, invest." Then you put bots on the social media to push it. Look at the comments and there's no real discussion. You see a couple of posts, you see people who haven't gotten their gas refunds complaining, and then you see a bunch of accounts with strings of numbers in their names, which to me is a typical sign of bots, all over the place.
It's gotten to the point where I feel like I could review these coins without even looking at them, because I know exactly what I'm going to see. My realistic price prediction is that this is going to zero. To me it's a worthless, fraudulent project created to take money from you while giving no real value to the world. Do we really need a layer three that you add MetaMask to? What good does that do?
The dead forum gives it away
Here's the tell. Look at the forums, where you don't usually see them cheating with bots. Almost every one of these cryptos sitting up in the market cap rankings blatantly cheats, and I guess it's just not obvious to most people. But look at how dead this forum is. There's almost no discussion about the actual project. They messed up by linking to their forums from the website, because now I've got them. This is the truth: 200 views on a post since April 2023.
For comparison, if you go check the forums on ICP, those forums are active and hot. People get into it, and there's all kinds of activity, and that's only about a three-times bigger market cap than this. Nobody cares about this project. Is there even a post about the actual product? You go to the topics and that's the whole forum. It's sloppy. It defaults into the crypto news category, and then it's just dead. This is the kind of sloppy stuff you've got to watch for.
And yet this project carries a $1.5 billion market cap while, in my opinion, they're out there defrauding people on X with bots, tricking people into buying it, building confirmation bias by circling the same hype over and over, saying good morning, and paying ambassadors on YouTube to talk about how great it is. It's not great. To me this is an easy way to dumpster-fire your money. You go to work, grind as a wage slave, then burn your money up handing it to somebody you don't even know. It's gross. It's clearly manipulated. People have already been rugged on this once, and there's no real technology behind it.
The holder counts don't impress me either
Then you look at the token holders. You've got 37,000 on Etherscan, but I'd bet it's not really 37,000 people. I think a lot of that is bots artificially inflating the holder count. Then you've got a few thousand holders on BaseScan and a few thousand on BscScan. For as big as this project claims to be, I'm not impressed with the number of holders, and I'd bet 99% of them are bots.
I've been in crypto 11 years. I'm tired of watching people get defrauded by these projects. People bring me coins to look at, and they'll say "well, this one looks great, why don't you check it out?" No. It sucks. I've looked at thousands of altcoins, and this one is terrible, just like almost every other altcoin people send my way.
What I actually hold and why
If you want to find a blockchain that isn't a pile of junk and is actually delivering real value to humanity, my website is hosted on the Internet Computer. It's literally on the blockchain. You can't do that with anything else. You can also join my OpenChat, which is an application like Discord or Telegram hosted entirely on the blockchain. You can't build that anywhere besides ICP. I try to stay transparent: these are my two biggest holdings, they're things you can use totally for free, every single day. That, to me, is what being ready for mass adoption actually looks like.
If you want to really get good at this, I'm not out here trying to sell you some $500 course. I'm putting the lessons up for free, and you can dig into more of my thinking on all of this in my Crypto Reviews playlist to get what you really need to know.
Story (IP) Honest Review: Why My Realistic Price Prediction Is $0
From my video published June 17, 2026.
My friends, you're about to experience an honest review and a realistic price prediction for Story. I have some serious concerns with this one, and I don't want to see you lose a bunch of money in Story just because it's a new coin that happens to be trending at the time I'm writing this. To me there are some huge, obvious problems that I'm going to point out right here, and I hope they'll be useful for you.
First off, I don't like new coins. I want projects that have lasted the test of time and that have real technology behind them. I don't see either of those fundamental things here. This is a new coin, and in my experience the absolute worst time to buy is when something is sitting at all-time highs. The fully diluted market cap is over $6 billion. To put that in perspective, Internet Computer Protocol has, in my opinion, the best technology in crypto by far. I use that blockchain every single day to host my website and to host my community on OpenChat, and its fully diluted valuation is half of what Story has as a brand new project. I see that as extremely problematic. From where I sit, there's a 99.9% chance it's drastically overvalued. And that's just where the problems begin.
What Story Claims to Be
If you look at what Story actually is, it's a layer one blockchain designed to serve as the foundation for intellectual property on the internet. Well, ICP has already set up the technology to actually do all of this and much more. The technology for Story to deliver on this promise, though? I don't see anything impressive about it at all. And this is the thing: I believe people have got to stop investing in stuff like this.
Who are the founders of Story? Because ultimately, when you're investing in something, you're investing in people. Yes, there's underlying technology, but you're investing in the work produced by people. Maybe in the future you'll invest in AI-built things, but for now it's people. For example, look at DFINITY.org, the team behind Internet Computer for comparison. They're the largest research and development team in blockchain. Look at where I'm holding my entire portfolio, on Internet Computer Protocol, and look at the people working on the protocol I'm investing in. Now compare that to Story. Story says it was founded by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and engineers with backgrounds in blockchain, AI, and digital media. I could create a coin and put that exact line on the page too. Show me the proof.
So I went looking for proof. The website definitely stands out a bit, but a slick website doesn't impress me. They talk about the IP market value, the value of all the intellectual property in the world, and they point out that IP is the world's largest asset class. But nowhere can I find evidence that Story actually lets you take control over your IP and earn when it's used. To me this appears to be seriously misleading, because the only way you can do that is if the technology itself supports you doing it. I see no proof that this tech does. I do see proof that Internet Computer Protocol actually does this, because on ICP you can run AI models fully on-chain. Yes, I'm holding ICP, and I'll say it plainly: I'm biased toward it. But you've got to compare the best tech in crypto with everything else. When you can serve a website from smart contracts and run AI directly on-chain, that's genuinely enough to do what Story is claiming to do.
The Gas Tracker Gives It Away
Then I found a little thing on their explorer, and it's called the gas tracker. Guys, busted. This is not new technology. When a blockchain uses a gas tracker like that, it means, in the simplest terms, it's basically an Ethereum copy. That's the actual truth about the technology from what I can see. They're literally using the same gas concept as Ethereum. From what I see, they appear to have just taken the Ethereum blockchain, or the basic open source Ethereum code, and copied it, or used a very similar version, modified a couple of things, and they couldn't even be bothered to change the gas name. Same as Ethereum.
Under no circumstances that I'm aware of, and I've researched thousands of altcoins, can Story actually let you take control over your IP and earn whenever it's used. That doesn't mean I know everything; I know but a little. But all the blockchain could do here is hold tokens. If your IP is hosted off the chain, you can't really do anything meaningful with it on-chain. It can be hacked, it can be stolen, and you're not earning whenever it's used. It can be scraped by Google, and you're not earning whenever it's used. I see no proof otherwise.
My empathic read on this project is that this is a fraud. And honestly, you could give me the entire CoinMarketCap listing and I'll scroll through everything and tell you that almost all of them are frauds. Sorry to break it to those of you who didn't know, but this project looks like an absolute fraud to me in terms of what they're saying and what they're making you think they can do, versus what the tech itself can actually do.
Reading the Foundation's Vision Post
Let's look at more problems. I read the Story Foundation vision post introducing the project, and there are two people named Jason on it, which is interesting. It was posted August 10th, 2023, introducing Story Protocol. Almost all of the posts talk about generic stuff. I have trained ears and eyes in crypto. I've seen a lot. Now that I understand Internet Computer and I've seen tech that actually does what it says it does, I can fairly quickly go through and find the holes and figure out where others are being dishonest, which in my experience almost all of them are.
They say things like, imagine the next Game of Thrones level mega franchise emerges on Story Protocol. That's an irrelevant example, because you could not host the videos on Story Protocol. Those would have to be hosted off-chain, which then could not be guaranteed to monetize on-chain. You could write this exact vision for Internet Computer Protocol. They talk about AI, and they talk about how the internet needs a standard to track the origin and evolution of IP. Yes, agreed, and you could put all of that fully on-chain on Internet Computer Protocol. But you cannot put all of that, or hardly any of it, fully on-chain with Story. And if it's not fully on-chain to track all this, then to me it's fraud. Because if you're just putting tokens on the blockchain plus hashes for stuff that lives off-chain, the blockchain itself has no real control over the off-chain stuff.
What's amazing is that ICP actually can do all of this. Nobody has built something that fully delivers on it yet, but from what I see, Story hasn't either. I see no evidence that they're actually doing anything genuinely useful today, and I'll point out more of that in a minute.
The Most Blatant Claim
Here's the thing that appears to be massively dishonest. Right here is what looks to me like the most blatant lie in the post: the claim that the entire infrastructure, the data structures and the modules, is built on blockchain. Really? Show me some evidence of that. I don't see any, especially when you're using a tool to track gas fees.
To make a claim like that. Now, on Internet Computer Protocol, I can verify all of this. My website is on the blockchain, because I can go interact with the blockchain without a third-party wallet. I can go directly to the website the blockchain serves, interact directly with the blockchain, and modify my website. All I have to do is log in with my internet identity, which is fully on the blockchain, and then I'm able to interact with everything on the blockchain itself. With Story, this is not the truth. The claim that the entire infrastructure is built on blockchain? No, it's not. Is the Story website itself on the blockchain? No. Where is there any evidence? Look at their explorer. Where is there any intellectual property that's actually on the blockchain? I don't see any.
On ICP, you can put phone photos and videos on-chain. In fact, you can do this for free. You can go into my OpenChat and see photos people have taken, and those are actually on the blockchain. Where are the phone photos on-chain with Story? I don't see any. So this appears to be a blatant misrepresentation. What's funny is that if you swap "Story" for "ICP" in everything they're saying, it could be a great pitch for Internet Computer. But I'm going to keep pointing out more problems.
The Roadmap and the Self-Inflicted Contradiction
Look at their blog. There aren't very many posts for a project created back in August, with the first one on August 10th, 2023. There's not that much actually here. Let's look at a technical roadmap update. It talks about the launch of the Story mainnet, and you're looking at their planned releases. Right now, all they have is mainnet. This is so early that there's nothing you can actually use besides sending transactions, which makes it extremely speculative. And what they're putting up here doesn't look anywhere near as advanced as what ICP has already had for years.
They talk about releasing a public portal, a homepage that allows simple, no-code registration of IP onto Story. I don't see why anyone would actually do this. There's also an attestation service. If you set aside the crypto element and just look at it as fundamental tech for the world, this looks useless to me. I have tens of thousands of videos that are my intellectual property. Why would I go log into this IP portal and register them there? That makes no sense.
And here's the kicker. Remember that earlier blog post where they claimed the entire infrastructure is built on blockchain? Here's proof, in their own words, that the claim was false. Right here they write that they're exploring native, cost-efficient ways to store large files directly on the blockchain, providing an alternative to external services like IPFS. So the fact is that right now nothing is on the blockchain, and Arweave isn't on the blockchain either. Internet Computer Protocol is the thing you can actually use to store large files directly on the blockchain, but not on the Story blockchain. And if the files are hosted on Internet Computer Protocol anyway, why would you even use the Story blockchain at all? That seems unnecessary. You'd just build the whole thing on ICP.
What's funny is they've now told you the truth. The 2023 post claiming everything was on the blockchain was, by their own later admission, not accurate. ICP is, in my view, the most cost-efficient way to store large files directly on the blockchain. So the fact that the team didn't even seem to know this, that they launched their protocol without understanding this crucial element to begin with, looks to me like clear incompetence. I am not a developer. I coded a Monopoly game and stuff like that back in high school, and I ran a node, a witness, for Steem. I'm not a developer, and yet I already know how to do this.
An Incompetent Team Making Big Claims
How incompetent is a team that launches a blockchain, makes these big claims, and doesn't know the most important part of it? Come on, it's right there in front of them. The governance and all of this stuff could easily be built on the Internet Computer Protocol, because the governance is the easy part. They want you to believe this is just the beginning. From my view, this is the end. This is a rug pull that has no real value. That's how I see it, and now I want to walk through more of what convinced me.
Look at the accounts. I would expect these are bots or airdrops. They had 100,000 new accounts in a single day, which you could easily generate by spinning up a pile of bots. Then 128,000 on another day. But look at it now, and there is almost nothing happening. This is brand new. This is supposed to be one of the most important times in a project's life, and you're seeing a few thousand new accounts on something with a market cap bigger than ICP. For something like this, a reverse gas model would be ideal, but they clearly don't have that. So it looks like they're supplementing their transactions with bots, which is unfortunately normal, or they've got some kind of short-term airdrop thing going on that simply isn't going to last.
Checking the Social Media: Bots and Empty Engagement
To do your research properly, you want to check all of this. So let's look at the YouTube and the Twitter. When I looked at Story Protocol's account, in my view they have absolutely botted the crap out of it. Seven hundred thousand followers. You can be sure they botted their X account heavily to get a number that high. All of these cryptos do the same things, and the accounts joined at the end of the last bull market. It's an exact template, used to rip people off over and over again. They buy up their followers to make people think they're popular.
And when I say they've botted their followers up, look at how poor the engagement is. Then there's the circle jerk, if I can put it a little more politely, where these junk coins cooperate with other blockchains and other junk coins to push everybody's coins up together. Generic, useless posts. You can tell what real looks like by comparison. Look at my own X account. I don't put much effort into my X. I have about 10,000 followers. All I do is upload my videos, which don't even perform that well there. Yet almost every one of my posts goes over 1,000, and some of them, like one of mine, went out to 15,000. So Story Protocol has roughly 70 times as many followers as I do, and the engagement rate is horrible. Hardly anybody is engaging. Think about it: this just launched. If it were organic and the launch were real, this would be extremely hyped.
They're talking about real-world assets, and the truth is you have to actually put real-world assets on the blockchain or it's not going to work out. What's amazing is that across several cryptos I've reviewed, it's like they all use the exact same social media management company, because they do the exact same things. They post a picture and say, "This is the last tweet in the thread." The only place I consistently see that is on these blockchains that, in my opinion, are fraud coins launched by what I call the crypto matrix to rip you off. It looks like they share the exact same social media managers. Almost all of these coins do the exact same things to trick you into investing in them, and I hope you're not tricked.
Why I Would Never Put Money Into This
This protocol looks horrible to me. Under no circumstances would I put any money into it. If I somehow found that some money of mine had ended up in this, I would immediately sell all of it. From my perspective, this looks like a perfect time to sell, with a very high probability of loss. I don't see any real value here. They're talking about AI agents and similar buzzwords, but as far as I can tell, this blockchain can't actually do anything.
Their YouTube has 14 videos on it. The last one was two months ago with 238 views. "Introducing Story Smart Contracts," two months ago, 308 views. There's one about protecting AI-generated content with the Story SDK. Why would you even need to? You can't really protect your content. Once you generate something with AI and put it out there, anybody can rip it off anywhere. The thing is, these projects often don't fake their YouTube channels as aggressively, so you can see how little genuine interest there really is. Compare that to my main crypto YouTube channel, where I have around 40,000 subscribers and thousands and thousands of views on my videos.
I think I've made it very clear. In my honest opinion, this is a project that I have high confidence is going to zero. It fundamentally has no value, it is making claims that I believe are dishonest, and it is part of the crypto matrix that launches infinite numbers of coins with infinite numbers of narratives to try to trick you into investing in things with no value. I couldn't easily find anyone involved with the project, aside from a couple of people in a video or two. There's no team website anywhere that I can see. To me, this is an extremely dangerous project.
Why I Do These Honest Reviews
I want to be straight with you about why I do this. I don't get paid for these reviews. In fact, I give up a lot of money to tell you what I actually think is useful. I could easily get paid to hype up garbage like this. Instead, I take almost nothing to give you something I hope makes a real, positive difference in your life. I'm happy to roast your whole portfolio if you want to have a call with me, and I keep chat directly on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain.
I'm very real, and I'm very transparent, which is the opposite of these fraud coins. You know exactly what you're getting with me. I share my life openly, one day at a time, and I talk every day about the projects I actually like rather than the ones I'm warning you away from. If you want to go deeper into how I think about all of this, you can explore my Crypto Reviews playlist, where I walk through what I've learned about money, crypto, and protecting yourself from these kinds of schemes.
Supra Realistic Crypto Price Prediction: Why I Think It's $0
From my video published June 17, 2026.
You're about to read a realistic price prediction for Supra, which in my view is heading toward zero for the reasons I'm going to walk through here. I am extremely skeptical of almost every altcoin and crypto, and I say that because I love you and because I've been ripped off and watched so many projects over the last 11 years fail to deliver and waste people's time. Supra is a pretty new project, and I personally hate investing in anything new. Yes, the bull market pump or the freshness of a launch often produces that first pump, but you can't really tell whether something is good until it has been out for a while and has been through a bear market.
The market cap and token unlock problem
At this point, Supra has roughly a $100 million market cap, but its fully diluted market cap sits at around $1.5 billion. To me, that gap is very problematic because of the sheer number of token unlocks still to come. When I look at the rest of the data I'll share here, I'm reminded that token unlocks have destroyed the price of what I believe is the best project in crypto, Internet Computer Protocol. Token unlocks have just kept that price going down and down. With Supra, there's a ton of token unlocks left, which is really bad for the price.
If you scroll down on the page and read what this actually is, it describes itself as a super powerful layer one blockchain ecosystem. But in my view it's not as powerful as Internet Computer Protocol, which has been out for years, has real projects building on it, and has a ton of use cases. So realistically, how powerful is this? To me it's not relevant and not that powerful. If you go to the stats right now, according to them they have a few hundred thousand active accounts and a hundred and some million in TVL. Those are numbers that can be easily faked. What's supposedly harder to fake is the actual on-chain activity, but honestly that can be faked too. Transactions can be faked, and in my experience these cryptos are generally faking in every way they can.
But here's what stands out with Supra: most of the transactions aren't even real. In most blocks there isn't a real transaction at all. Whoever gets the block produces the one transaction, so most of the blocks are empty right now. That's pretty bad. It makes sense for something new, but I absolutely would not want to invest in something where most of the blocks are empty.
Why I compare everything to Internet Computer
This is exactly why you need to be able to compare. To me, you compare everything to the Internet Computer and the picture gets a lot clearer. Internet Computer is doing thousands of transactions a second, 68 blocks a second, and it's serving websites. Nothing else can do that. That's a powerful layer one. Internet Computer can serve websites and it can run my entire community, like my VIP chat and OpenChat. ICP is a genuinely powerful layer one. When you compare that to Supra, Supra looks dead and useless by comparison, and its fully diluted market cap is only a little bigger.
I'm sharing this because, yes, some of these coins I say will go to zero may hype up in the short term. Almost nobody wants to go out there dumping on a whole bunch of coins, because you get paid by hyping things up and saying they'll do a 100x. You don't generally get paid for saying something is going to dump and go to zero. There are plenty of super hype videos out there, so there needs to be a going-to-zero take too, because I'm not impressed with this. I'm difficult to impress, and I'm not impressed.
What I think of the team
The best thing I do like about Supra is that they have an actual team page listed. That's better than Solana. Last I checked, Solana's foundation website had four names listed, so nobody's really transparent on that project, and why would they be? On Supra, if you go to supra.com and click through About to the Team, you do at least have the team there. You've got the number one, the chief research officer, who does have experience with cryptography, which you'd be amazed how many of these cryptos have almost nobody with cryptography experience. Then there's the VP of DeFi research, then another engineer, which is good, and a security officer, which is good. After that you start getting into a lot more business people, although there are more cryptographers and engineers here than I usually see, so that is a good sign.
Still, the depth of the team compared to the market cap and compared to ICP is very small. You quickly run out of people on the page, and you start wondering how many people are actually working on the protocol and what value they can really deliver. The team runs out of depth pretty quickly. You've got 15 or 20 people, which is better than a lot of projects. But when you look at the DFINITY website and see what that tech has been doing and how long it's been around, this team doesn't look that good by comparison. When you compare this team to most coins, though, it certainly looks better. They also have some researchers listed.
The ecosystem is mostly "coming soon"
Here's one of the key problems I see, and this differs greatly from ICP. If you look at the layer one ecosystem, you'll notice how little is actually happening. They've got a big list of stuff, which on the surface looks fine, and this is exactly why you always need to go into depth. You need to really research things, and ideally you should be using something every day, the blockchain itself, not trading a token. You should be using something every day before you invest in it. I don't see much you can actually use on Supra, and that's bad.
When you start at the top of the ecosystem directory, the first app is in development. The second has a testnet live. The next is coming soon. The one after that is coming soon. You do have one, a bulk sender, and I can imagine why they got that online immediately, because it would let you spam active addresses. A bulk sender makes it very easy to artificially inflate the active addresses and the transactions. So yes, I'm skeptical, because in my experience almost all of you get ripped off investing in crypto and waste your time. When you look at the top of their ecosystem directory you see testnet, in development, coming soon, testnet, coming soon. I realize this is new, but there's almost nothing really built with it. It's a whole bunch of coming soon. And when they say something is integrated, what they mean is they've integrated the token with some existing project. With all these coming soon entries, there's no way I'd invest in this right now, because it's questionable whether any of this will materialize or provide any real value or utility for the token. This is really bad.
Again, compare that to Internet Computer. You go to internetcomputer.org and look at the dapps and the ICP ecosystem. Decide AI has verified tens of thousands of users. There's BitFed, and the EVM that even Coin Bureau praised in one of the only positive things they've said, EVM with Bitcoin on ICP. There's ICP Swap. You've got all kinds of coins, projects funded on chain, Gold DAO live with a gold coin, NFID, a wallet that just went live, another exchange. You can actually go use and look at so many apps that are live right now. I realize it's been out for years. On Tracks I put my music up consistently. But this is what you could also invest in for only a little bit more market cap, and that's another big problem I see with Supra.
Sloppy documentation gives it away
Go into the documentation, because often the way you find shallowness in a project is through sloppiness in the details. If you go to the developer documentation and start scrolling down, trying to see how things work, you'll find a lot of these links are broken. I click on one, 404. I look for a deeper dive, 404. I go around the page, 404. This is sloppy. You go to look up how NFTs work and it's sloppy, with a broken 404 page on basic documentation. That's not good. You can often tell that a project doesn't have hardly anything on chain when you go to look at how NFTs work, and here I went to look at the NFT documentation and got 404s. I couldn't read about hardly anything in there.
So this is absolutely not a project I would invest in. I think it's going to zero as a realistic price prediction, and I see it as fundamentally worthless. To me, this is a project someone started by taking a bunch of their own money, trying to 10x or 100x it by making their own coin, getting a relatively small team together, building their own layer one, and trying to get people to buy it. The supply metrics here are absolutely horrible, with the circulating supply compared to the total supply and the fully diluted market cap. There's absolutely no way I would invest in this. If you want more of my take on coins like this, you can find it in my Crypto Reviews playlist, where I dig into the projects I'd buy and the ones I'd avoid.
Why I Believe Cronos CRO and Crypto.com Are Going to Zero
From my video published June 17, 2026.
I'm about to expose Kronos, the CRO token, the chain, and Crypto.com all at once. In my opinion, all of it is going to zero. I've come to believe the tech here is fundamentally worthless. They've blown their money marketing all over the place in a flywheel system that has failed. Personally, this is one of the worst investments I ever made in crypto. I lost thousands of dollars getting into the debit card and exchange hype. I bought in at around 30-something cents, then sold down at around 6 cents, and a year later the price is still sitting at about 8 cents. This is an absolute dumpster fire.
I'm telling you this because I don't want you to lose any more money in crypto. You don't have to make bad investments like I've done over and over again. Once you find something like Internet Computer Protocol, which I believe has the best tech in crypto, and you compare that to Kronos, I honestly feel very ignorant for ever having bought into this. So let me give you the facts as I understand them.
Built on the Cosmos SDK, which means centralized tech
The fact is that Kronos is a blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK. That means, just like every other thing built this way, when you're building anything that involves Kronos, including Crypto.com, all of the stuff is on centralized tech except the token ledger. And in my view, that's pretty much useless.
When you see the website talking about how the Kronos future is the center of AI innovation where agents seamlessly interact and create enduring value, I consider this blatantly fraudulent. The blockchain itself cannot do anything meaningful with AI agents on it at all, which means everything they're talking about is happening on centralized tech. That tech is very vulnerable to being hacked, the AI cannot pay for its own computation, and you have to use centralized finance to pay for the hosting. Compare that to something like Internet Computer Protocol, which can run AI models as real smart contracts, fully on-chain. And it's about the same market cap as Kronos.
Holding an exchange token gives you no ownership
The whole idea with crypto, as I see it, is that we invest in technology that lets us cut out the middleman. All the hype around Kronos involves Crypto.com, but nothing on the Kronos blockchain gives you any ownership of Crypto.com. Crypto.com could easily be running a very profitable business and making a lot of money while Kronos goes to zero.
Holding an exchange token is one of the most ignorant things I see in crypto. If you have an exchange, the thing to do would be to hold a stock that has legal ownership over the exchange. When you're holding a token, you have no legal ownership and no ownership by code. So holding the CRO token has no real value tied to Crypto.com. That is intentionally confusing for investors, because when you get tricked into buying the CRO token, as I did, you're thinking all about Crypto.com marketing CRO. But Crypto.com could easily just let CRO go to zero, move their exchange onto the ICP, and they could do just fine while all the CRO holders get screwed.
I just looked at an article they reposted of a guy talking to all the CRO capitulators, basically saying "Bye, Felicia." There are supposedly a ton of great points in there. Everything he hypes up about Kronos and CRO, in my opinion, is junk. It's absolute junk. He points to things like, oh, they're in the White House, oh, they allocate money to make America the world capital of crypto. Crypto.com is based in Singapore. And Kronos is a blockchain easily created with the Cosmos SDK that Crypto.com is trying to give speculative value to. There's absolutely no reason, as a retail investor, to hold this, even if you were using Crypto.com to buy the CRO token.
The debit card that scraped thousands off of me
Unless you've been tricked into something like the debit card, which I believe they absolutely defrauded us with, there's no reason to touch CRO. They tricked us into buying the debit card by paying ambassadors to push CRO. They pay all these ambassadors to push it, the ambassadors are getting paid to push it, and that fools people like me a couple of years ago into buying enough CRO for the debit card on Crypto.com. Then the price tanks, and then they change the terms to make holding the debit card nearly worthless. They scraped thousands of dollars off of me, with no consequences to them for doing that. I was the fool who bought this, and I'm going to make sure to help as many other people as I can not be the fool I was.
The technology here, in my honest assessment, is fundamentally worthless. I've been in crypto 11 years. I found the best technology in crypto, drastically undervalued, that I believe absolutely changes the game. That means I have an easier time seeing what's really important when I scroll through this stuff. And I don't see one thing here. This is all talk, no action. What I define as action is getting technology that's actually fundamentally useful for people.
ETFs, DAO proposals, and throwing money around
Then you're talking about a DAO proposal about a bold plan to restore Kronos' golden age and to get an ETF. If an ETF is your plan to get rich with a crypto, you're counting on more ignorant money than you pouring in and buying something you already bought. To me that doesn't seem like a good value proposition. Think about the people putting money into mutual funds, just throwing money at retirement, handing it to a financial advisor. In my opinion, those are some of the most ignorant investors in the world, and some of the most self-centered, not considering at all what their money is being used for. It's just "here, take all my money and give me more of it back."
Seriously, why aren't you choosing consciously where to invest your money? Are you really too busy to do one of the most important things you can do with your money, which is to think about where you're going to invest and what kinds of things are going to get done with it? When you're just throwing money around hoping for a return, you can't tell the difference between giving money to somebody who's doing something evil, like raising animals in farming and killing them, keeping them in horrible conditions, or exploiting people, paying them almost nothing, using slave labor to produce cheap products that then get sold and fail. You can't tell the difference between funding that and funding meaningful innovation that really helps the planet. When you're just throwing your money around without researching, I believe you're contributing to the evil in the world that you don't want. And to me, Kronos and everything with it is exactly that.
When I look at "a bold plan to restore Kronos' golden age," I don't see why Kronos would have a golden age unless more people get tricked into buying a worthless token that has no ownership over Crypto.com and that has been used to fundraise a bunch of money to market Crypto.com. Centralized crypto exchanges are, in my opinion, the biggest problem we have in crypto. This is where most people's money gets stolen, most token prices get manipulated, and most investors are wasting money and not even actually holding the crypto themselves.
Everything that's wrong with crypto in one coin
To me, this is an example of every single thing that's wrong with crypto. A blockchain that is technologically worthless. A company that is pushing a chain to make themselves money, while all these holders have no ownership over the actual resources like Crypto.com and all the marketing. The Crypto.com marketing doesn't even directly benefit the Kronos chain. All these sponsorships and stuff come from people who've heard of Crypto.com and use Crypto.com, and many of them don't even know about Kronos. And Kronos has proven to be a terrible investment for the vast majority of people, including me, who have bought it.
Here's the thing, though. Yes, ICP, if you look at that chart, has been a terrible investment too for most of the people who bought it. But they have what I consider the best technology in crypto. They have technology I use every day that can eliminate the need for centralized exchanges to even exist. When you have a centralized exchange like this, set up as a coin, you are setting up the next Bybit hack. By supporting this, you're contributing to the next Bybit hack.
And then the Explorer. They don't even make it easy. You have SoulScan, which it looks like they just paid to be listed there. You can't even easily access the Explorer from the site. The AI agent talk is, in my view, absolute narrative misdirection junk. "Crypto to cash seamlessly" really means getting scraped on fees on this debit card. It's worse than any of the other debit cards I have in my wallet. I threw the stupid thing out.
I've been there and done this so you don't have to. I'm here to help you learn from my experience, and you can find much more of how I think about this in my Crypto Reviews playlist. You can chat with me directly on the blockchain on OpenChat.
Why I Think Mantra (OM) Is Headed to Zero
From my video published June 17, 2026.
My realistic price prediction for Mantra (OM): zero
Here is my realistic price prediction for Mantra, the coin trading under OM: it is going to zero. In my view, this is an obvious dumpster fire, and I'm going to give you the truth even if it stings. I'm tired of watching people get ripped off on these garbage coins over and over again when there's better stuff out there. So look at the picture. Mantra is a top 25 crypto right now, and it has been around since 2020. Then you have an obviously manipulated pump on the chart. To me it looks like one person just bought all of it. That is what we've seen before. This looks like textbook price manipulation, and that's all I think it is.
What is the real value behind this project? Look at the token unlocks. Right now, in my reading of it, 54% of the tokens are still locked. Look at the fully diluted market cap, somewhere around $10 billion. The best technology in crypto, in my opinion, is Internet Computer Protocol, and it has half or less of that fully diluted valuation. To me Mantra is wildly overvalued and is going to go right back into the dumpster where it sat for years.
The website tells you nothing
Let's look at their website, mantrachain.io. "Bridging, bringing the world's financial ecosystem on chain." Wow, how exactly are they doing that? It's a "purpose-built" chain. I just saw another scam coin that had the exact same "purpose-built" phrasing in the text, which I don't usually see. It seems like the same person makes all of these websites for these useless coins, which would make sense to me. And then there's this line: "a permissionless chain for permissioned applications." What does that even mean?
I'm a believer in following Warren Buffett's advice. If you buy a product that a company creates, and you use it and you like it, then you consider buying the stock. So ask yourself: are you using Mantra? Have you been using Mantra? Is Mantra something you use every day? If not, then why would you buy it? Why would you hold it and speculate on it? In my opinion that's insane. I only buy cryptos that I'm using every day myself, which is why something like 98% of my portfolio is Internet Computer Protocol and OpenChat, because I use those every day. I don't see any reason a regular person in retail would ever use Mantra.
When I look at their site, I just see pretty pictures and meaningless words on a page. An "identity system with decentralized ID." Well, who already has that, fully functional and working amazingly? Internet Computer Protocol. Who has the best real-world assets platform in the world, in my view? Internet Computer Protocol, because it's the only tech where you can put everything on chain, which is really important for real-world assets. So by comparison, Mantra looks to me like a fraud. I don't see anything useful in there.
No transparency, no real team
Now go over to their About Us page. Is there one single person listed by name working on this project? This could be a stock photo of strangers for all I know. Who are these people? Did they pay people off the street to get together for a photo? I don't recognize anyone. There's not one person definitively listed as being part of this team. Maybe there are real people building it, but why is there no transparency? Compare that to Internet Computer's DFINITY, where there are hundreds of people's faces, names, and career histories. Why is that not here?
In my opinion, they don't want you to know who is working on the project because it's something sketchy and not trustworthy. They're comfortable throwing up a photo of some gathering at some point, but not telling you who anyone is. I could launch my own coin tomorrow, take a random picture without any context, and slap it on my website too. Are these people actually working on the project? There's no way to tell. To me, that lack of transparency is a critical issue. I demand it of anything I invest in. That's also why I'm not investing in Bitcoin: I don't know who created it. I don't know if it was the CIA, or Satoshi Nakamoto sitting on a huge pile of coins. I just don't know, and that bothers me.
Fake engagement and bot armies
Look at their X account for tokenizing real-world assets. A post with 18,000 views putting out generic crap: "It's just a matter of time before everything gets tokenized." Okay, but how are you adding anything meaningful to the world? It says this is a layer one blockchain for real-world assets, from institutions to individuals. Why would someone in retail participate in this when there's no clear opportunity to even use it?
Now look at the comments. If you look at my posts, or a lot of the Internet Computer posts, there are real people posting and having conversations. This Mantra post has 18,000 views, and the comments are things like "inevitable." Those look like obvious bots to me. Not every single one, but bots and circle jerks. "Oh, it's a real-world asset L2." That's a circle jerk. They're botting. They're cheating. Then somebody thankfully comes in and says "big scammer." Yes, big scammer. There is almost no real engagement on 18,000 impressions. And that's just one post. Another has 5,000 impressions and four comments. Another has 11,000 and no real comments. All these posts are the same.
For comparison, I have a post with 11,000 impressions, and the comments are real people posting real comments and genuinely interacting. You can see the huge difference between that and what looks to me like fraud. I'm calling it: this is fraud. Roughly 400-some thousand followers, and only five accounts I follow are even following it. To me this is textbook crypto mafia: cheat you out of your money, make a nice website, provide no transparency, give you no clear use case, use bots to push up the follower count, use bots to push the engagement, fool regular people, and build a huge market cap to rip you off blatantly in your face. There's a manipulated price pump right there on the chart. I see no reason anyone should use this or invest in it at all.
They've already given up
Let's look at their YouTube channel. Do they have the look? They haven't even put out one video in two months. And the videos they did post are so short they disgust me. 15,000 subscribers on the official channel, and only a few hundred views per video. To me, they've given up. They don't even put videos out anymore.
You've got to be able to do this research yourself, and it's easy stuff. It took me less than 10 minutes to tear this apart, honestly more like five. I do this research on my live stream and take requests if people want me to look at specific cryptos. Someone says, "Hey, look at this one," and it just sucks, and it's obvious, because in my experience almost everything in crypto is lying, cheating, stealing, manipulation, and ripping you off. That's why so much of it exists. It's the bigger picture of life: traps upon traps. You think you're breaking out of the system by getting into crypto, and then you get snagged by a thousand, a million worthless altcoins.
By comparison, here's an example of what I think is worth investing in. My website is actually on the blockchain. You can talk to me face to face on Zoom, if you count that as real, and you can join my OpenChat, which is fully on chain and totally free. You don't have to pay any ICP, and you can start chatting right away in the free chat. That's an example of a blockchain that I believe is worth investing in. I also have a totally free crypto course to help you do some real learning, so it's harder for people to lie, cheat, and steal from you. If you want to dig deeper into how I think about all of this, I share more in my Crypto Reviews playlist. You think you can handle the truth? Now you've got it.
Why I Think Ondo Finance Is a Realistic $0 Price Prediction
From my video published June 17, 2026.
If you're holding any Ondo or thinking about investing in it, I believe this is one of the most important things you can read before you put your money in, because to me this looks like an obvious, horrible investment. High risk, low potential reward, and huge, serious problems that become extremely obvious within five or ten minutes of looking. There are a lot of people getting paid to shill this on YouTube, and you have to sort through the noise to find the truth. So if you appreciate it, here's me helping you sort through it.
I'm doing this because I genuinely care about people. I make far less money breaking this down honestly than I would by hyping it. But I'm tired of my friends, my family, my neighbors, and people on this planet getting ripped off by bad investments. So let me walk through the obvious critical issues as I see them.
A $4 billion market cap with $8 billion ready to dump
First, it's already at a roughly $4 billion market cap. How do I put that in perspective? If I compare that market cap to something else, it's pretty close to Internet Computer Protocol right now. They're about the same. And in my opinion, Internet Computer Protocol is the absolute best technology in crypto. So Ondo Finance has a higher market cap right now than what I consider the best technology in the entire space. And that's not even fully diluted. Fully diluted, they have around $8 billion at the current price to dump on you. I think that's a problem.
Look at how this is set up on the price chart, because this is the pattern I see people allow to happen to them over and over again. The price just so happens to get a pump right before the token unlocks. Then all the tokens come unlocked, and now the insiders can dump on your heads. The Ondo Foundation, by my read, will be unlocking 20% every year on the 18th. That means you're set up to lose your gains every year. I'd prepare for them to dump a whole bunch over the next few months and take their profits.
Why I don't trust tokens like this
The reality is this is an ERC-20 token, and I hate investing in tokens. I don't invest in anything I can't use and that has no real utility for me personally. Look at the token distribution: one single address holds roughly 65% of the tokens. There's absolutely no thought of decentralization in this project. But honestly, to me that doesn't even matter, because it's a token, and in my view tokens are fundamentally worthless unless they give you legal ownership, which tokens don't do by default, and unless they give you ownership by code, which ERC-20 tokens certainly cannot do.
That means, in my opinion, a token like this is basically a meme coin. You're just hoping the people involved will push the price up. So who are the people involved? If you go to the official Ondo Foundation website at ondo.foundation, you'll see a slogan about "a new era of financial inclusivity on-chain." In my experience, Internet Computer Protocol actually delivers that for real. My own community runs on a fully on-chain, Discord- or Telegram-style open chat where I do giveaways and answer messages. That, to me, is a new era of financial inclusivity. The Ondo claim feels fraudulent and misleading to me.
No names, no faces, no transparency
Here's the best proof I can point to for why I find it untrustworthy. If you were being deceptive, would you want to show your face? Would you put out your profile and tell people you're working on this? I wouldn't. And if you scroll through the Ondo Foundation website, there's almost no information. Click the About page and there isn't a single person's name listed.
Even Casper, a project I've gone after repeatedly, at least took the time to put 15 or 20 people's faces on their site. And just to be clear, I detest Casper. But even they managed, after seeing my video, to put some people's faces out there. Ondo Foundation has a bigger market cap than both ICP and Casper, and yet it doesn't have the transparency to show you one single person involved with the project. To me that's a complete lack of trust. There's nothing trustworthy about this project at all, so why would you invest in it?
Now, maybe you take it for granted that every crypto is decentralized, that there are real people working on them who simply choose not to show their faces. By comparison, look at a team that's proud to present their work because, in my opinion, they've built the best technology in crypto by far: Internet Computer. Their website has the faces and names of the people working on the project. That's what I believe you should demand out of anything you invest in. And you should be using the blockchain every day before you invest in it, not buying a token and hoping the price goes up. That, in my experience, is how you get ripped off.
Partnerships, a new layer one, and the rug-pull playbook
To me, this is a guaranteed ripoff. If you scroll through and see the partnerships, do you know how those partnerships actually happen? They just pay somebody. They hand over a few million, ten or twenty million dollars, and say "we're working together." It means nothing 99% of the time. But this part means something: they're going to dump all over your heads.
Recently, to try to keep the price up so insiders can dump tokens on you, they announced OndoChain, a new layer one. In my opinion, the last thing crypto needs is another generic layer one that isn't as good as Internet Computer Protocol. And then they pull in big names to trick naive people into thinking this is something special. Read it carefully, though: "design advisors." That means someone who works at Google Cloud gave some advice, which could have been an email, a comment on X, anything, and now they're a "design advisor." By contrast, if you look at DFINITY, there are real people who actually work there with their faces public, who've worked at IBM, Google, Amazon. You can read the bios right there. With Ondo, there's no transparency about any of that, and people are getting faked out.
They call it "the omnichain network for real-world assets." But there are already protocols handling real-world assets properly. To make real-world assets trustworthy, you need everything on chain: pictures, oracles, stock tickers that can be pulled on chain, so you don't have these centralized off-chain points of failure. In my view, ICP already has all of that set up.
To me, this is the crypto rug-pull playbook: make a token that's fundamentally worthless, pay people to talk about it, have no transparency, sit in the Cayman Islands, make yourselves rich, do nothing to make the world a better place, and run a crappy blog with three posts that hasn't been updated in a year. Come on. This only takes a few minutes to look up yourself. Where's their YouTube channel? Is there even a link to one? It looks to me like they got a bunch of bots to follow them on X, and then they have to keep announcing things to sustain the hype as long as possible before everyone figures out they've been misled.
I've been in crypto for 11 years, and this is how it's done: you launch a worthless token, pay people to talk about it, then keep putting things out there that you often don't even deliver on. And even if they do deliver, so what? In my opinion the tech on ICP is years ahead of whatever this would be by the time it ships, and it's already been live for three years. This is an absolute dumpster fire.
I could make millions more dollars if I just took money from them and said it was going to 100x like everyone else does. But I'm kind of handicapped by the idea that I actually care about you more than I care about making myself rich. If you want more honest breakdowns like this, I keep them all together in my Crypto Reviews playlist. I make music live, I answer all my messages in open chat, which is fully on chain, and I have a crypto course that's completely free. If you care about the truth, and you can handle the truth, let's stay together.
Zeebu (ZBU) Realistic Price Prediction: Why I Think It's $0
From my video published June 17, 2026.
Here is my realistic price prediction and analysis of Zeebu, or ZBU. This currency looks to me like it is going to zero in the long term, and in the short term I don't think it's very good either. I'm telling you this because I care about you, and I don't want you to make crappy crypto investments and buy things that in my view obviously suck.
If you look on CoinMarketCap, right now this has a $14 billion fully diluted market cap, which to me is an incredibly bad sign when the market cap is only $1 billion. So right now there's a huge amount of ZBU that aren't even out there, according to this at least. And according to the explorer, it's on Binance, Etherscan, and Base.
What is Zeebu, really?
But what exactly is Zeebu? Zeebu is a Web3 payment platform for the telecom carrier industry. This is so untrustworthy in my mind, because if you want to invest in the telecom industry, there are stocks you can buy that give you real legal ownership. Buying a cryptocurrency does not give you any legal ownership over anything, unless it's on something like Internet Computer Protocol where it's controlled by a DAO and everything's 100% on chain. Something like this is, to me, just another going-to-zero altcoin.
If you look at the explorer on Binance, you've got 6,000 holders, which is pretty small. Then if you go to Etherscan, there are 62 holders. If you go to BaseScan, it looks like there are a lot more holders on Base for this. But these are just tokens that people are getting tricked into buying, that I don't see have any real value.
If you go to the website, it says it's a Web3 neobank, tailor-made for telecom settlements. This doesn't, in my view, fulfill a real need in the world at all. I've come to believe you shouldn't invest in things you can't use every day. Warren Buffett says if you buy a company's product, you might then consider investing in the stock. This is something you can't, in almost any case, use the actual product of every day. There's no point, in my opinion, in investing in something for telecom settlements. There's no reason for a retail user to be investing in something like this that you can't use.
The site has generic text like "blockchain-powered platform purpose-built to empower telecom" and so on. To me this doesn't even read well. We have so many cryptocurrencies that do SWIFT-style global transactions, so many of them. That's not special. This is not special at all. And why would you, as a retail investor, invest in B2B settlements that you can't even use? There are companies with stocks that give you legal ownership.
The warning signs I see
When I look at this, I don't see anything of substance, but I do see some serious areas of concern. Right now this has 100,000 followers, but the engagement is an absolute dumpster fire. I have around 9,333 followers, a magic number, less than 10% of the followers they have, and look at the reach on my posts. This is what organic reach looks like. With Zeebu, this is what paying for bots to follow your account looks like. Unfortunately, in my experience this is standard practice in the cryptocurrency industry, to pay for bots to artificially inflate your follower count. But I'm not fooled.
Then they're hyping metrics like TVL. TVL is easily faked. You tell me what you want the TVL to be and I can just program that and fake it. Super easy. So their account is posting about TVL and airdrops. Airdrops are, in my opinion, one of the most scammy, nasty things in crypto. This is where people get ripped off and scammed so many times, and often these currencies have no real value outside speculation and hype. They're airdropping fundamentally worthless tokens just to inflate metrics on their account.
So when you look at these things, how can you prove they've settled anything? Where's the proof of this? You can look at their dashboard and it has institutions listed. But again, why is a retail person going to invest in some institutional thing when there are perfectly good stocks you could buy? And these things are not stuff you can verify. The invoices are up there, but can you verify any of it? Can you verify that they're not just sending money back and forth to themselves? In crypto, you've got to be extremely skeptical, because there's practically an infinite amount of coins. Insiders make almost all the money, and if you're not extremely skeptical, you're very vulnerable to getting ripped off.
Where is the team?
So my realistic price prediction for this is that it's going to zero, because in my view this is a fundamentally worthless token that was easily created and offers no real value. The only way this has any action is people just buying something they've never used before.
Where is the team on this? When you look at the Zeebu website, where is their team? Do you see any actual people working on this? Let's click the about page. "The first of its kind Web3 neobank." Ridiculous keywords, core values. And you've got five people behind a $14 billion fully diluted market cap, which is three times Internet Computer Protocol, which I believe has the best technology in crypto. You have five people here: founder and CEO, co-founder, marketing officer, business development, and financial.
Here's a sign that there's a problem. Are any of these people developers? You've got business people here, a finance, business, and marketing person. Where are the engineers? Well, there's no need to engineer anything, because there's no real technology that I can see that really does anything.
Look at this roadmap. They can't even be bothered to update the roadmap on their website for a billion-dollar project. I'm telling you that the price prediction in 99% of the scenarios is going straight to zero for this. Their website copyright says 2024 right here. Again, being sloppy in the details is often how you spot fakes, frauds, and a lack of depth. In crypto, demand depth, demand transparency. The team is shallow. The roadmap is shallow and not updated. Come on, guys. I looked at this for 10 minutes and it looks like an absolute dumpster fire. I hope you don't buy this.
I take requests to review different coins, and I have an open chat that is actually on Internet Computer Protocol, where all of this is on the blockchain. My website's on the blockchain. OpenChat is directly on the Internet Computer blockchain. I also have a 100% free crypto course to walk you through the things you really need to know in crypto beyond hype, clickbait, and speculation, so you can make better decisions, along with more on my Crypto Reviews playlist. I hope this has been very clear and helpful for you.