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Opendoor’s business model? Flashy algorithmic offers, slapdash renovations, and praying the next buyer is dumber than the last. It’s Monopoly money meets real-world chaos. Sure, their Q2 numbers had investors swooning-$1.6B revenue, $23M adjusted EBITDA-but let’s not forget the kicker: contribution margins cratered to 4.4%, inventory’s still bloated with stale properties, and guidance for Q3 is a dumpster fire. They’re not a company; they’re a roulette wheel.

Sixteen years after Bitcoin‘s birth, the crypto landscape has settled into a grim hierarchy. At the top sit the blue chips-Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether-while the rest flounder in the churn of hype and collapse. XRP, with a $171 billion market cap, occupies a peculiar middle ground. Born in 2012, it benefits from age and brand recognition, though its technical merits rarely rival those of newer contenders. Trust, it seems, is currency enough in an industry starved of it.

So, let’s talk of three stocks that seem as certain as sunrise and as tempting as a ripe peach. They’re not for the faint of heart, but for those who fancy a gamble with a dash of logic.

The stock’s 135% gain in 2025 is impressive. So is the 373% surge in 2024. But let’s not confuse velocity with sustainability. Wall Street analysts, bless their collective optimism, still call it “overvalued.” Not a warning sign. A neon sign with a siren. And history? History is holding a megaphone: “You think this is overpriced now? Wait until next Tuesday.”

Consider this: Nvidia, that colossus of computation, has staked 91% of its portfolio upon CoreWeave, a sum so vast it could fund a minor empire. Its holdings, 24 million shares, gleam like a trove of stolen dreams, valued at nearly four billion dollars. And lo! A Wall Street scribe, clad in the garb of a prophet, has declared this stock shall ascend 35% in the coming year. A decree as certain as the sunrise, yet as enigmatic as a riddle posed by a drunken oracle.

The pact, they say, is to forge a custom solution for artificial intelligence in data centers, as if the gods of silicon and code had conspired to etch their names into the annals of human folly. Intel’s x86 chips, now entwined with Nvidia’s GPU chiplets, promise to push the “bounds of personal computing”-a phrase that rings hollow to those who recall how often such promises have dissolved into the ether of obsolescence. Yet the market, ever a creature of habit, cheers as though it were the first time such alchemy had been attempted.

Now, perhaps there’s a simpler route, one that relies not on the whims of individual stocks but on the collective weight of AI-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The choice is still yours, though the menu is admittedly leaner. A mere handful of ETFs to sift through, each promising to deliver its own brand of AI enlightenment. Here, for the weary investor, are three funds that claim to possess the key to your future gains. Let us venture forth, then, with caution, for the world of AI is no less treacherous than it is promising.

Let’s cut to the chase. Is XRP in trouble? Let’s check their résumés.

This resurgence, one might suppose, was fueled by whispers of rate cuts and the latest fascination with artificial intelligence-a new folly, perhaps, to rival the speculative mania of the South Sea Bubble.