Hello, crypto fans! Today I want to share with you some of the altcoins that in my opinion will moon in 2021 and I have already got a bag of each of them. But before we go to the coin names let me explain how I selected them. You will not see here coins from the top 10 of CoinMarketCap because their capitalization is huge and the potential for growth is not as big. Except for the in-depth studying of fundamental factors of each coin I also used the following formula: we have all seen that during Bitcoin's bull run most of the altcoins bleed and then recover when BTC cools down. During the 2016-2017 bull run, BTC price made x20 (technically it's x18 but let's round it up to 20) from its previous ATH, this tells us that there is a good chance that some altcoins can also make at least x20 from their previous ATH. Considering this I tried to find coins that are really low priced now meaning that these coins have the biggest potential for x20 growth from their previous ATH as BTC did in 2017.  This was the key factor for picking. 

7. Basic Attention Token (BAT)

We all know the browser Brave and their native token BAT. I think it's is the most used product in the crypto space. The popularity of this browser is growing so rapidly that at some point the developers had to halt the affiliate program. If you believe that the product and use of it considerably determine the price, is there anything better than BAT? In order to make x20 from its previous ATH ($0.97), it needs to make an average of 75 times the current price ($0.23) meaning that the potential for growth is up to 18-19 buck per token.

6. The Sandbox (SAND)

Here I have to admit that this selection is mostly based on fundamental factors and the project's road map rather than on price analysis. It is a relatively new project and guessing its new ATH high is not so effective. It needs to make just x2 from the current price to beat its previous ATH. In this aspect, this coin is far behind the rest of my list. Nevertheless, I believe that Sandbox will be one of the biggest crypto gaming projects in the future. Worth noting some of the partnerships with leading companies in the gaming industry like Atari, Animoca Brands, Square Enix, Wax, Opera, Maker, Matic, and others. If you don't know what Sandbox is here is an article by insidetrader that provides a good introduction to this project.

5. Elrond (eGLD) 

Recently this project rebranded their token from ERD to eGLD and is running on its own mainnet. Elrond team has built a blockchain having in mind the scalability limitations and imperfections of earlier blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Shortly the key features of their product: Full Decentralization, Robust Security, High Scalability, Efficiency, Bootstrapping and Storage Enhancement, Cross-chain Interoperability. All these achieved thanks to 1) their genuine State Sharding approach (effectively partitioning the blockchain and account state into multiple shards, handled in parallel by different participating validators) and 2) Secure Proof of Stake consensus mechanism (an improved variation of Proof of Stake (PoS) that ensures long term security and distributed fairness while eliminating the need for energy-intensive PoW algorithms). The mainnet token rebranding caused the reduction of the total supply and now it's quite hard to calculate the ATH proportionally to the existing supply. However, if we make a direct comparison and take the already known ATH price of $21.14, the x20 from this price around $400+, which is roughly x50 from the current price.

4. Band protocol (BAND)

Shortly: oracle on a blockchain is like a bridge that allows the exchange of data between the blockchain or smart-contract and the off-chain world, which in many cases is vital for the proper functioning of smart-contracts. The historical high of this coin is $17.51 and currently is trading around $6.22. I think the potential here is apparent. If the price makes x20 from its ATH it will be around $350 per token and this is approximately x55 from the current price. In my opinion, BAND can easily overcome this mark by far in the future. BAND is the second largest project after ChainLink, specializing in decentralized oracles. Here Link overcame all expectations when during the last two years it rallied from $0.02 to almost $20(19.85). If BAND manages to gain a piece of the market from ChainLink, I do not dare to imagine the next new ATH. 

3. Cosmos (ATOM)

This project is focused on connecting different blockchains and making them compatible. I will not focus on the project since it is quite old and well known. I will just do the maths here, its ATH is at $31.59 and today's price is $5.50. x20 from ATH will do roughly $600 for one ATOM and this is more than x100 from the current price! Sounds unreal? In the crypto world, it is possible...

2.DASH

In 2017 DASH showed us what it is capable of, setting the ATH at $1642. However, I think that in 2021 DASH will show its true potential. Currently, it is one of the fastest among the top projects. Try it yourself, install a DASH wallet and perform a transaction, it is almost instant. I guess this is one of the reasons the people of Venezuela turned towards this crypto asset during the pandemic. If DASH can make x20 of its ATH then it will hit more than $30000 and that is over x250 from the current price for a second! Even if it will make just part of this prediction I will be the winner again. 

1. VeChain (VET)

Potential rocket for the year 2021. The fundamental reason for putting this coin on top of my list is that the most used niche on a blockchain in the nearest future will be the monitoring of the transportation chains, especially in a pandemic situation. This is what VeChain is built for and since this niche is just huge, massive, enormous, gigantic, and there will be no other project in the future so dominant and well-equipped as VeChain because these guys are making huge leaps ahead! But let's get to the numbers, as it is the most interesting part. I believe that x20 from its ATH at $0.229 is quite a conservative estimation and $0.55 per coin is far not the top where it can go. This makes about x35 from the current price but I will repeat that I believe in the fundamentality and usability of the project and I am quite confident it will rise to $1 or more. 

This is my outlook for the upcoming alt season. What do you think? What coins do you hodl? Let me know in the comments below! Thanks for reading!