# The "Investible" Crypto Tokens

Source: https://www.ignasdefi.com/p/the-investible-crypto-tokens?hide_intro_popup=true
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Investible-Crypto-Tokens?index=0x69a934a1e0e4f2233da2cef307da5e83eefab45ddd4d1794cb4f13841eaf812012803a0d
Submitted by rvolz.eth on 2026-03-05 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

The author's list of crypto tokens considered investible in the current environment contains 132 tokens across 12 categories, based on criteria of revenue to holders, revenue retained but not yet distributed, and narratives or mindshare likely to survive a bear market. The article says 45 of these tokens pay holders, excluding those with very low revenue, and that $1.8B in annualized revenue flows to token holders. Data came from DefiLlama, CoinMarketCap and mindshare tools including Dexu, Moni and LunarCrush, with Claude Code used for calculations, which the author notes made many mistakes and should be treated with caution.

## Article

CoinGecko tracks 17 148 tokens.

But how many are actually investible in a current crypto environment that focuses on:

1) revenue to holders

2) revenue even if it doesn’t get distributed. Yet.

3) protocols/tokens will strong narrative & mindshare that might survive a bear market.

I tried to figure this out.

I got most data from the DefiLlama, Coinmarketcap and mindshare protocols (Dexu, Moni, Lunarcrush etc.).

I used Claude Code to do the numbers and reduce my own biases as I would’ve excluded some tokens from this list (like XRP, ADA, BCH… but they survived multiple cycles and have staying power stemming from entrenched liquidity).

Claude still make many mistakes that I debugging took 10x time than writing this article so take the spreadsheet with a grain of salt (link at the end of the post).

The result: 132 investible tokens across 12 categories. 45 of them pay you to hold (excluded those with very low revenue).

$1.8B annualized flowing to token holders.

The categories are my sole discretio…