Got $2,000? These 2 Cryptocurrencies Could Be Bargain Buys for 2025 and Beyond

Forget traditional stocks—crypto's next bull run is brewing. While Wall Street analysts debate P/E ratios, digital assets are quietly setting up for their next explosive move.

Two Hidden Gems Primed for Growth

BNB continues defying expectations, maintaining dominance despite regulatory headwinds. Its ecosystem expansion keeps pushing utility beyond mere exchange token status.

Meanwhile, emerging DeFi protocols are leveraging zero-knowledge proofs to bypass traditional financial bottlenecks. Their transaction speeds leave legacy systems in the dust—no seven-day settlement waits here.

Smart Money's Already Positioning

Institutional flows are returning, with crypto funds seeing their largest inflows since the last ATH. Traditional finance might still call it speculative, but their clients are demanding exposure.

Timing beats everything in crypto. Early movers on these two picks could see returns that make traditional stock investments look like savings accounts—and we all know how those perform against real inflation.

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Opendoor Technologies

Opendoor is the largest instant buyer (iBuyer) of homes in America. It makes instant cash offers for homes, fixes them up, and relists them on its own marketplace. This business model flourished during the post-pandemic housing boom when interest rates were still low, but fizzled out in 2022 and 2023 as soaring interest rates chilled the market.

The Fed's three rate cuts in 2024 drove Opendoor to buy more houses again, but the company doesn't expect the housing market to fully recover this year as mortgage rates remain high and its sellers broadly outnumber its buyers. But from 2025 to 2027, analysts expect its revenue to grow at a CAGR of 11% as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) turn positive by the final year.

That recovery should be driven by stabilizing rates, more listing partnerships (with home builders, real estate platforms, and agents), and new features like Opendoor Exclusives (which connect its sellers to buyers) to curb its dependence on its capital-intensive iBuying platform. It's also improving its pricing model with constant AI upgrades.

Its recent appointment of's chief operating officer Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO -- as well as the return of its co-founders, Keith Rabois and Eric Wu, to its board -- could spur even more changes. That might be why Opendoor's insiders bought more than twice as many shares in the past quarter as they bought over the past 12 months. Its stock has already rallied nearly 470% this year in anticipation of its recovery, but it still looks cheap at less than 2 times next year's sales.

Lumen Technologies

Lumen, the telecom company formerly known as CenturyLink, didn't expand into the higher-growth wireless market like its industry peers. Instead, it expanded its wireline networks with a goal of generating slower, but steadier, returns. Unfortunately, the growth of its fiber networks couldn't offset the persistent declines at its business wireline division, and its annual revenue plunged from $23.4 billion in 2019 to $13.1 billion in 2024. It also eliminated its dividend in 2022, and its stock price plunged below $1 last June.

But just as it seemed like Lumen WOULD get delisted,and several other tech giants hired it to upgrade their data centers with its fiber optic cables for the latest cloud and AI applications. The cumulative value of those deals reached $8.5 billion at the end of 2024, then rose to $9 billion in the second quarter of 2025. It's also cutting costs to generate $1 billion in cumulative savings through the end of 2027, and it recently agreed to sell its consumer fiber-to-the-home business tofor $5.75 billion. From 2024 to 2027, analysts expect Lumen's revenue and adjusted EBITDA to decline at a moderate rate as it continues to right-size its business.

But looking beyond 2027, it could grow again as it gains more data infrastructure customers and starts recognizing more revenues from those cloud and AI contracts. Its stock still looks dirt cheap at just 0.5 times next year's sales, and its insiders also bought more than three times as many shares as they sold over the past 12 months. That low valuation and warmer insider sentiment indicate that Lumen's unloved stock could soar a lot higher over the next few years.