As a Wall Street-trained crypto analyst with a quant background, I’ve dissected the real institutional bets beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. Forget memes—focus on Starknet, Chainlink, Aave, and Zcash. These aren’t speculative plays; they’re infrastructure stack investments with proven tokenomics, real-world asset tokenization, and zk-proof privacy. In a market where liquidity is king, only these assets combine scalability, compliance, and cryptographic depth—exactly what the smart money is accumulating now.