As a part of my dive into the web3 space, I’m writing this doc to understand what it means to invest in a crypto portfolio. At present, I don’t know about anything past {BTC, ETH, SOL} and one or two more coins. But, there’s lots more to invest in. I’m figuring this out here - if you’re like me, this post might be useful. Inspired partially by this post.

Areas to invest in:

• Layer one chains (staple): main blockchains -- namely Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH)

• Layer one chains (emerging): new, competing blockchains with benefits over BTC and ETH -- Solana is picking up steam, Avalanche, etc.

• Layer two protocols: new protocols to take pressure off the computation all being done on layer one chains today (Stacks, Polygon, etc.)

• DeFi protocols: Aave, Compound, Uniswap, etc.

• Storage protocols: Filecoin, Arweave

• Privacy-based: Zcash, Monero

• DEXes: Uniswap, SushiSwap, Curve Financial, etc.

• Stable coins: pegged to USD -- Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), etc.

• CEXes: Binance, FTX, Huobi, OKex

• DeFi pulse (link)

Content Platforms -- Monetization Strategies

Largely just a map of the ecosystem -- mapping I found to be useful

Thanks to the authors of these posts -- they helped me pull this together.

• Crypto landscape (Andy Jagoe)