$HYPERLIQUID - Hyperliquid has broken technical norms in crypto by successfully fusing a DEX with its own chain in a permissionless manner, achieving what centralized exchanges have failed to do. The team's execution and the ecosystem's growth trajectory position it as inevitable.
$KINETIC - Kinetic became the fastest growing liquid staking protocol ever with $1B in deposits in 3 weeks and $2B in 6 weeks, maintaining 75% market share. The protocol has multiple revenue streams and is positioned as both infrastructure and a profitable app.
$EQUITYPERPS - Massive convergence coming between crypto and traditional asset traders, with opportunity to do for perpetuals what Robinhood did for options - enabling 24/7 trading of traditional assets.
$CRYPTONATIVE - Using crypto products early still provides significant edge in 2026, both for builders identifying gaps and traders finding opportunities.
Bearish:
$CEFI - Centralized exchanges following a failed playbook of launching L2s to extract more value from users, which hasn't worked well historically.
$NFT - NFT market making was extremely challenging with difficult pricing mechanisms, suggesting the market structure was fundamentally broken.