George Tung, founder of the CryptosRUs channel, has named the five altcoins he would hold for years. Asked on the Milk Road podcast how he would split $1,000 across five altcoins, Tung picked Ethereum, Solana, XRP, BNB and Hyperliquid.
Tung said the choice was easy. These are the coins most people in crypto already know, and they lead on users, usage, total value locked and institutional interest.
Ethereum and Solana both have exchange-traded funds and companies buying them for their treasuries. Tung pointed to Tom Lee’s firm as one large Ethereum buyer. He said this kind of buying takes coins off the market over time.
XRP made the list partly because Ripple recently won a US bank charter and works with many financial institutions.
BNB has less interest from big institutions, but Binance’s network is huge and BNB burns tokens every quarter. Tung said he first bought BNB when it was under $5.
Hyperliquid is the biggest platform for perpetual futures trading, and Tung said its main strength is liquidity. On most decentralized exchanges, a $1 million trade can move the price sharply, sometimes by as much as 30%, according to Tung. Hyperliquid has enough money in its pools that big traders can avoid that.
Other platforms, including Binance’s Aster, are trying to compete, but Tung said Hyperliquid was first and still has the deepest liquidity. Other companies also build on top of it. Tung said crypto wallet Phantom launched futures trading through Hyperliquid and made more than $20 million in fees in its first year.
He also pointed to comments from the Trump administration and the CFTC about working with Hyperliquid to bring it back to US users.
Solana is still about 60% below its record high, but Tung thinks it is undervalued. According to Tung, Solana beats Ethereum on daily transactions, daily trading volume and revenue. Ethereum still leads on total value locked, mainly because most USDT and USDC stablecoins sit on its network.
He added that Solana’s new Alpenglow upgrade makes it faster for financial transactions. He said that the token dropped to about $8 after the FTX collapse and still recovered.
AI-linked coins such as Venice and NEAR have done well this year, but he is holding back. He said most of them simply offer access to open-source AI models, and their tokens mainly give users discounts or credits.
The analyst said he is waiting for an app that is truly powered by AI, runs on a blockchain and gives its token real use. “Once someone figures that out, that will be the next billion-dollar project,” Tung said.
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