50x return is a pretty high point you're looking forward to. If you're willing to go for only a few coins (10-20), the chances of having a larger profit in time will be higher than having only 2-3 coins invested in, but the more coins you put your money into, the higher the chances are. It's a miss or hit basically, and I guarantee there will be coins in a few months/years that will have incredible price pumps and will also remain stable price-wise.
A good example I'd give is DASH. $0.21 was its lowest price that's ever been recorded, and today it's up 530x. Whoever invested just $100 in DASH at its lowest price history has today a total of $53k sitting in their crypto bag. I've been here since before DASH was a thing, I was a cryptonerd & addict and yet I had no idea what this coin was about. Years later, I found out it's worth this much money and remember, I calculated all that based on the price we have TODAY.
Take the lowest price record of DASH and compare it to the highest ($1642.22) and you have 782,000% profit. There you go - 3/4 of a million out of a $100 investment.
As I said, it's a hit or miss. A project you might consider to be shit today may do a huge and revolutionary update tomorrow. So just keep your eyes on today's coins as much as you can, study them and see which you think has a big potential. I'd rather invest $5 in 100 coins than $50 in 10 and hold them all for many years if high percentage return is what you're looking for. Using DASH again as an example, $5 at its lowest price history was worth ~$40k at its price peak. Of course, $50 invested in it would be worth ~$400k, but if you buy only 10 coins what are the chances you'll pick up a gem out of the list?
This is inline with my own reasoning. You want projects like that where the team were capable of novel changes with some real usecase that bitcoin was not pushing for or could not be adapted to fill with ease.
The problem with many projects under 5m or 20m is that their teams can copy other devs work or promise their own novel designs. The use cases are either very saturated or not hugely desirable or they are under deeper analysis not truly decentralized.
We need to isolate and compile a list of projects that do not fall in to those categories
What about dag designs they have lost their popularity a little ?
I notice nano mentioned that has an entirely novel design. Quite a large cap already though.
Yes 50x is a high expectation 20x could be a more sensible expectation in sats terms
Any other completed projects or near completed projects that people believe have 20x returns in sats terms let's get them listed. We can always remove them if there proves to be strong issues with them.