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4chan’s Chainlink, Tendies picks made it the top “crypto fund” of 2020

by The Future Coin
August 20, 2020
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A bunch of internet anons and their crypto picks have purportedly outperformed hedge funds in the crypto space, according to data by on-chain analytics firm Messari.

4chan’s /biz channel, the tongue-in-cheek go-to for trollers (and even the sane) for business and financial advice, has picked some top-performing altcoins this year. These include altcoins like Chainlink (LINK) and Tendies (TEND), which returned over 600% for investors this year each, data shows.

The picks seem even more impressive as three high-profile crypto funds—Adaptive Capital, Adamant Capital, Tetras Capital—went bust earlier this year after citing poor performance.

But the online forum seemed to have it better. “4chan Capital the best performing fund YTD,” commented Messari analyst Ryan Watkins on Twitter, referring to the returns on the altcoins “shilled”—or publicized usually for reasons of self-interest—by the forum’s users.

4chan Capital the best performing fund YTD.https://t.co/GnrFLW53uN

— Ryan Watkins (@RyanWatkins_) August 18, 2020

In comparison, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, the top-three cryptocurrencies by market cap as per price tracking site CoinGecko, have returned 60%, 70%, and 34%—which are still stellar financial gains but not as much as 4chan picks.

An example of a 4chan post on Chainlink. Image: 4chan

Informed guesses or social influencing?

However, while the gains are envious, the returns do not imply a paradigm shift in the future of crypto fund management.

For one, the crypto market has, as a whole, trended massively upwards in the past few months based on the hype and sentiment around DeFi projects. The market was valued at over $187 on January 1 this year; it is now $350 billion as per figures on online broker TradingView. This has pushed altcoin valuations massively.

A rise, followed by a fall. Image: TradingView

Second is that social influencing, like sports blog Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy did last week for LINK, usually ends up in a short-term price rise and a drastic drop as early holders sell at a profit.

Portnoy was even transparent in his approach to crypto trading:

“The thing I like about pump-and-dumps in crypto is it’s encouraged. In crypto, you can pump and dump all day long.”

Meanwhile, a few other 4chan picks have gone on to rally massively this year, as CryptoSlate earlier reported. These include Opyn y.curve Insurance token, which rallied over 10,000% after 4chan forum users started shilling the project online.

It even led one investor to take notice. Andrew Kang, the founder of Mechanism Capital, tweeted in July the importance of 4chan in the crypto industry is not one to ignore.

One of the most interesting market dynamics at play right now is that 4chan has become the largest market driver

More powerful than even China or institutional crypto fund capital right now

A bunch of NEETs got rich off of $LINK and now are punting shitcoins and I’m here for it pic.twitter.com/yYLoEh2E5o

— Andrew Kang (@Rewkang) July 20, 2020

All in all, even as anon forum users might look cool in a cyberpunk era, the old adage applies: if something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

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