3 Reasons 2022 Will Be The Year Of The Fantom Blockchain and Why Crypto Investors Should Buy The Dip

Maaiz Khan
2 min readJan 30, 2022

Fantom (FTM) is on of the fastest growing chains so far in 2022.

In a matter of months FTM has flipped Solana and Avalanche, now with over $10B in value locked in the protocol. Despite its meteoric rise, the market capitalization of FTM has not yet caught up.

I believe given FTM’s momentum, Dev friendly attitude, large LTV base. FTM will outperform most other L1s in 2022.

/ FTM has more wallets registered than AVAX

Despite it’s limited connectivity and difficult on-ramps FTM has now outpaced AVAX in wallets (1.9M vs 1.8M for AVAX)

/ FTM has more Value Locked than AVAX, 4th overall

One of the best ways to gauge a chain’s success is to look at how much money has entered the ecosystem. Fantom has surpassed most chains, now 4th among all L1 ecosystems with $9.8B.

FTM was recently #2 on this list thanks to the major amounts of money ported to it to get a chance at the getting the VeDAO NFT.

/ Upcoming Catalysts

SushiSwap will be moving to FTM in the near future and connecting 20+ chains. Given SushiSwap’s brand and unique utility, I expect a large portion of $$$ volume will follow to the Fantom chain.

/ A Comparable Valuation

Top L1s are valued at 3 to 7 times that of Fantom when comparing the ratio of Total Value Locked:Fully Diluted Value (TVL/FDV). This valuation gap is too large to go unresolved for long. As FTM continues to deliver on its roadmap in 2022, I expect price to converge with AVAX.

At current prices of comparable chains, fair value should be between $6.20 and $14.

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Maaiz Khan

Entrepreneur and Investor. Focusing on Microcap Value Investing DeFi, and Web 3 deployment.