Almost every day, fans ask: which alts can I buy? Today, I will explain the screening criteria for alts all at once. Next time you decide to buy an altcoin, first check if the altcoin you want to buy meets these screening criteria:

1. Choosing an old coin that has gone through at least one round of cycle cleansing is correct in 99% of cases (I put this first because it contradicts most people's common sense. If you want to speculate on new narratives this round, go to the primary market to find it; don't look for it in the secondary exchanges. The probability of finding alpha among new coins in the secondary market is even lower than casually picking an altcoin in the primary market and investing a lump sum into it.
2. Choose coins that have income, whether it's protocol income or service income; being able to support the team with its own cash flow means it doesn't need to dump occasionally to cash out. Ideally, its income should also be linked to the coin's price, whether through buybacks or dividends (that's why Aave is impressive).
3. Reject air coins, and choose coins that have business and where the "business" also has natural growth. The subjective strategy of the secondary institutions that can survive this round actually has a consensus; everyone is already disgusted with air coins that only tell stories.
4. Meme coins that do not originate from the top tier should not be touched, including all Meme tokens on the TON chain on Binance.
5. Any new altcoin with VC chips priced more than 5 times that of retail investors should be avoided; at least wait until it drops to that price before considering it. Especially in this round of VCs, everyone is actually in the mindset of "just breaking even would be good."
6. Listen less to others shouting recommendations. Before buying a coin, use the product yourself, ask if you will continue to use it, check the user base and how the actual business is doing, look at how much FDV there is and compare it with the valuation from the last cycle to decide if the current price is expensive or not, instead of judging based on the price chart that has dropped by 80%. Control your hands and only buy what you understand and believe in. If you can do these few points, you have already outperformed at least 90% of people.