A proposal on how to make crypto investing simpler
coherence.finance
coherence.finance
But recently, he told me that he really has no idea what he's doing when he invests in crypto. He told me that there are too many tokens for him to keep track of. The tokens are way too complicated and its impossible for him to really do his due diligence on the tokens because these are not just simple companies. This is an emerging industry with a million ideas with a million different ways of doing anything. There are too many details for him to make any reasonable judgement on if a token is a good investment or not.
This got me thinking.
If someone who has been in the industry for 6 years is clueless on how to really invest then what hope is there for the retail investor to make smart investing decisions?
There is no hope. They're literally just buying lottery tickets and a lot of people are going to lose all of their money.
But then I started thinking a little more. There are common ideas in the cryptocurrency space that are very likely to succeed. These ideas are pivotal to the future of web3. We cannot build a new financial system or the idea of web3 without these things. Some examples of these are energy efficient blockchains, environmentally friendly blockchains, proof of work blockchains, blockchains that aim to be used as major world currencies, protocols working on decentralizing data storage, blockchain oracles, and many more. Many of these ideas are pivotal and will be very important in the future. Wouldn't it be so much simpler if all a retail investor needed to learn was a simple concept of wtf is a blockchain oracle, at a very high level, and why is it important to make their investment decisions? This is compared to studying the differences between Chainlink, API3, and a bunch of other random oracles.
With this methodology, users could invest in technologies they believe in without worrying about the tokens. They'd be automatically diversified, making their investments safer, and crypto would have been way simpler for them to invest in.
This idea has led me and some friends to begin working on an app. We're currently working through our SEC registration and are planning on launching it next month. If you'd like to try it out or tell your annoying friends (who keep asking you about crypto) to screw off and invest on their own you can find the waitlist sign up on our site, which is linked to this post.
There is a ton of jargon and extremely cryptic terminology used in many tokens which that jargon makes the project creators appear too smarter than the investors and that gets diluted in the hype where many people don't critique their flaws or see the problems early on; but only until it is too late.
Education on the basics needs to be clearer and simpler to translate and untangle the cryptic jargon used to blind and manipulate investors. Your proposal is close to that.
> But recently, he told me that he really has no idea what he's doing when he invests in crypto. He told me that there are too many tokens for him to keep track of.
This is the problem.
Over-diversifying into a countless amount of tokens and coins isn't really a good idea and they're highly likely to lose more money by doing that. It's better to focus on a very few number of coins or an extremely few amount of tokens that have been around for years or have a valid use case, rather than jumping into thousands of ERC-20, SPL governance tokens that are just all the same but have little reason to exist.
Hence this, I rarely look at tokens. For the long term, it is the coins that have stood the test of time for years that matter and one hint to look out for is regulations. Ask yourself is it realistic for 20,000 coins and tokens to all survive regulations?
If the answer is no then you would agree that not all of them will survive and that the top 30 exceptional coins or a very few selected tokens and the ISO 20020 compliant coins would survive this.
Therefore, there is no need to look at hundreds of new tokens at all. (This is not investment advice) But, please keep building.