The crypto market has been pretty boring over the past two months, but you shouldn’t let the boredom or the threat of further downside fool you as there are plenty of under-the-radar cryptos that can deliver solid profits. In the past, the crypto market has experienced hundreds of downturns but has managed to recover each time. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future performance, but it makes a compelling argument for investing a small portion of your portfolio in some under-the-radar cryptos.
Now the majority of this crypto portfolio should be parked in large and secure projects like Bitcoin (BTC USD) And ether (ETH-USD). In my view, BTC and ETH are poised for significant gains once the halving supply tightening occurs in the coming months, with Ethereum potentially benefiting from Bitcoin’s tailwinds. However, for those seeking life-changing profits, it is also a wise decision to invest some “fun money” in small-cap cryptocurrencies that offer a lot of upside potential and promising technology.
Here are the seven cryptos that are little known:
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Solidus AI (AITECH-USD)
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Solidus AI (AITECH USD) is a self-explanatory name – it is an AI crypto project. However, unlike most AI crypto projects, it stands out for its physical presence. The project claims to have high-performance computing Data center with an area of over 8,000 square meters at a “highly secure European location”. The AITECH token is intended to “serve as a payment gateway for licensing Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Blockchain as a Service (BaaS), and access to HPC resources via its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform.”
This project was one of the biggest winners this year, rising from just under $5 million at the start of 2024 to $234 million by mid-March. However, the rally has cooled down significantly and the market capitalization currently stands at $118 million. In my view, the price has recovered recently, but I see a lot more upside as AI moves more into the blockchain space. I believe that Solidus AI with a real data center could generate a lot of hype in the future.
Three Protocol Token (THREE-USD)
This crypto project uses Zero Knowledge Proof pseudonymous on-chain profiles with ZKP ratings and history. It enables digital ZKP pseudo-anonymity IDs without KYC, neural network AI and tri-sig DAOs for crypto marketplaces. Now let’s break down all of these blockchain buzzwords and see what’s unique here.
First, Three minutes (THREE-USD) aims to provide privacy protections and avoid potential government overreach, such as central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) or laws that could violate people’s rights. The plan is to enable pseudonymous (nameless) user profiles and reviews on crypto marketplaces using “zero knowledge proof” cryptography. This also means that no “Know Your Customer” (KYC) banking regulations need to be adhered to in order to use the marketplaces. It wants to achieve all of this through a type of neural network AI system and enable “Tri-Sig DAOs”. This refers to the fact that three signatures are required to approve decisions in the project’s DAOs.
Now that that’s out of the way, I want to make it clear that the technology here isn’t exactly groundbreaking. Many cryptos offer many of the features of Three Protocol, but I like the fact that this project offers all of this under one roof. The market capitalization here is just 34 million dollars, and the price development here was very stable for a project of this size. In my opinion, we are witnessing a long-term shift towards decentralized exchanges and crypto marketplaces, and as CBDCs take hold in many countries, I believe this crypto can generate huge returns. Given the low dilution here, I wouldn’t rule out big gains.
Node AI (GPU-USD)
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Node AI (NODE USD) is one of the under-the-radar cryptos in the AI space. This project is quite similar to calculating cryptos Make (RNDR USD), Golem (GLM-USD), And iExec RLC (RLC USD). The difference is that other blockchain computing projects focus on broad sectors, but this one is more focused on AI computing. With Node AI, users can rent AI servers with high GPU performance on a monthly basis. These “servers” are actually resources pooled by people around the world who provide their unused GPU computing power to the network for Node AI tokens. It also provides APIs for other AI applications such as image and video processing.
Obviously there are quite a few projects like this now, but Node AI is trying to capitalize on the tailwinds of AI, so that’s where I see the appeal. It has a relatively higher Market cap at $137 million At this point, and if the AI rally picks up again, I wouldn’t be surprised if it crosses the $500 million mark. One of the biggest growth drivers, in my opinion, is that there aren’t many listings. Most of the volume comes through Uniswap (UNI USD), And MEXC is the only major exchange on which it is represented. If you manage to get listed on larger stock exchanges, e.g Binance, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), OKXor octopusWe could see much greater interest in under-the-radar AI cryptos – particularly Node AI.
XDC Network (XDC-USD)
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The XDC Network (XDC USD) is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on Real-World Assets (RWAs). These RWA cryptos have been around for a long time. However, we are currently seeing interest in RWA cryptos related to commodities and real estate. The XDC network is targeting these projects and wants to host such RWA projects and be the largest ecosystem here. It uses a delegated proof-of-stake (dPoS) mechanism that has almost no gas fees and a high TPS count. However, this does not matter at the moment as there are not many RWA crypto projects with enough volume to clog even a slow blockchain.
Still, we could see XDC Network rallying significantly from here in the next climb. There are tons of RWA projects and it is clear that many more will be added in the coming months. In my opinion, there is good reason to believe that the ecosystem could be worth a lot more if this blockchain can attract some large RWA projects current market cap of $502 million.
Blue Kirby (KIRBY-USD)
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This choice is a little more outlandish as I usually stay away from memecoins, but I’m choosing this one purely because of tokenomics. I would recommend skipping this if you’re more focused on utility, but if you’re into very high risk, high reward games, Blue Kirby (KIRBY USD) could correspond to this calculation. This is a micro-cap project that saw a major sell-off in March. However, since then the price has traded near an established floor with significant upside potential. This time there appears to be a reorganized development team and a much more decentralized token distribution.
In my view, Blue Kirby could potentially reach a market cap of over $100 million or more if the bull market returns, considering it is one of the more well-known memecoins on the market Fantom (FTM USD) Blockchain, a chain that currently has a Market cap of $2.1 billion.
AIOZ Network (AIOZ-USD)
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AIOZ network (AIOZ-USD) is a DePIN for Web 3.0, AI, streaming and storage. If you’ve never heard of DePINs, it basically means that the network runs on a global network of decentralized nodes (DePINs) provided by users. Users are rewarded in AIOZ for sharing their device’s processing power, storage and bandwidth. Then, this shared resource pool is used to store data, convert media files between formats (transcoding), stream media, and run decentralized AI workloads.
If that sounds pretty similar to Node AI, you’re right. What’s special is that this project doesn’t just focus on computing power or storage, but does both. As a result, it is also a much larger crypto project with one Market cap of $848 million. The price development has been excellent so far. AIOZ is up around 3,500% in just over five months. Furthermore, this cryptocurrency has not fallen that much compared to other AI cryptocurrencies and has seen an upward trend in prices recently. I believe it could test the $1 level soon and a breakout could lead to significant gains.
SPECTER AI (SPECTRE-USD)
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Specter AI (SPECTER USD) is one of the lesser-known cryptos on this list, but its price has held up quite well so far. However, this is no ordinary AI project. It is a telegram Bot for short term price predictions within 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours and 48 hours. It includes analytics like X-Bubblemaps, sentiment analysis charts, and TA analysis chatbots.
As I said earlier, trading-related cryptos could surge once peak season begins and volumes skyrocket. Therefore, I think that even if this cryptocurrency has gained significantly since the beginning of the year, it could make huge gains Market cap of $18 million. Currently it is only available on Uniswap, so there is a lot of room for the cryptocurrency to grow.
At the time of publication, Omor Ibne Ehsan did not hold, directly or indirectly, any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and are subject to InvestorPlace.com’s publication policies.