Berachain: The Next Big Bet? Polkadot: Time to Dump?

Markets move fast—here’s where to put your chips (and where to cash out).

Buy: Berachain’s hype train leaves the station

Fresh off its mainnet launch, this Ethereum competitor’s got devs buzzing—modular design, slick tokenomics, and airdrop hunters piling in. Whether it’s substance or smoke won’t matter if the bulls keep charging.

Sell: Polkadot’s ‘interoperability’ narrative gathers dust

Once the darling of cross-chain dreams, DOT now struggles to justify its bloated valuation. Competitors eat its lunch while treasury reserves dwindle. Sometimes ‘building’ just means burning cash.

Final thought: In crypto, even the ‘sure bets’ crash harder than a Lehman Bros. intern on bonus day.

Crypto to buy: Polkadot

Polkadot is one of the most contrarian crypto assets to buy in this bull run. It offers a staking yield of 11.5%, significantly higher than most layer-2 cryptocurrencies, including ethereum (ETH), TRON (TRX), and Solana (SOL).

In addition to strong fundamentals, the main reason DOT is a good buy is that it has remained in a three-year consolidation between $3.76 and $11.33.

This consolidation resembles the pattern Monero (XMR) followed over the past two years before its eventual surgeDOT appears to be in the accumulation phase of the Wyckoff Theory, which is typically followed by a markup phase. Markup is characterized by higher demand than supply.

DOT has also formed a triple bottom at $3.76, a level it has not dropped below since 2023. Therefore, the most likely outlook is a rebound to at least $11.32, a gain of 132% from the current level. A move above that price WOULD signal further upside, potentially to the 50% retracement level at $30, an increase of 500% from its present value.

Crypto to sell: Berachain

Berachain is one of the top crypto to sell because of its fundamentals and technicals. Fundamentally, there are signs that its network is not doing well, as the total value locked has slumped by 43% in the last 30 days to $3 billion. 

The market cap of all stablecoins in the ecosystem has fallen from over $1.6 billion earlier this year to $300 million today, signaling a slowdown in growth.

Berachain is also set to begin monthly token unlocks in February next year, continuing through March 2028. Token unlocks increase supply and can pressure a coin’s price, especially when demand is not keeping pace.

BERA has dropped below the 50-period moving average on the eight-hour chart. It has also formed a small rising wedge pattern, suggesting a potential drop to the all-time low of $2.70.