# A Diversified, Living Crypto Portfolio

By [Matt Piccolella](https://paragraph.com/@mattpic) · 2021-11-25

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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](https://avc.com/2021/11/buying-crypto-assets/).

**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 Protocol
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![Source: St. Louis Fed](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/da5e55a27f3b04ef1e18c1d58c78f339fb5878d7f78ae02172b6ab35a635edb7.png)

Source: St. Louis Fed

*   DeFi pulse ([link](https://defipulse.com/))
    

NFT
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_Content Platforms_ -- Monetization Strategies

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8e036f23b2580decaf4566ac9969c1db9359d45800cefea0166773756564b758.png)

NFT Stack -- Map of the Web
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![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/44fd5524a01cf816d1b892303478659b6a2a47a285808305f2442c2e10d979c3.png)

Web3
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Largely just a map of the ecosystem -- mapping I found to be useful

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/0e8642cf62d105151a12e320b34fcd08ee74378f08fa8a715cfc2d932a45ad69.png)

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

*   [Crypto landscape](https://andyjagoe.com/a-map-of-the-crypto-landscape/) (Andy Jagoe)
    
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*Originally published on [Matt Piccolella](https://paragraph.com/@mattpic/a-diversified-living-crypto-portfolio)*