Let's keep it simple.
Crypto is more than just a way to make money.
It's about the freedom.
Everyone longs for the economic flexibility to be able to spend their time
they have in their life to chase their dreams.
It's hard to do that when you're spending 40+ hours a week
helping your boss chase theirs.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying to go quit your job,
and I'm not throwing shade on anyone that works hard.
This is for the people who feel stuck and don't know what to do
or where to start.
I don't know about you,
but before crypto saved my life, I worked a number of odd jobs.
And that's all that I had.
And that's okay!
Today, right here and now,
you can make a decision to take control of your life
and choose to take crypto more seriously than any job you've ever clocked in at.
Invest in yourself.
Spend your spare time learning anything and everything you can.
And if you're dedicated and disciplined enough,
no matter how little you have to start with,
you can succeed and live the life of your dreams.
What a time to be alive!
Crypto has made more new millionaires in the past couple years
than any other industry ever.
As glamorous as that all sounds,
this is not for the faint of heart.
Making it in crypto requires patience,
conviction,
critical thinking skills,
and most of all,
guts.
Scared money don't make no money.
If you know how to play the game,
you can let your money make more money for you.
That's what we're going to focus on today.
Let's get it!
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In this video, we're going to focus on four specific alts
that you can stake to generate multiple streams of passive income.
When you have a crypto portfolio, or any type of portfolio for that matter,
it's crucial to have multiple streams of passive income.
A great way to do this is to stake your coins.
There's hundreds of different ways and places to stake your coins,
so always do your homework before staking
so you get the best bang for your buck.
Staking is perfect for beginners
because it allows them to constantly keep building their portfolios
without having to transfer more money from their bank accounts.
It's the easiest way to put your money to work.
You don't need any special equipment to stake crypto like you would for crypto mining.
The best part is
you don't have to do anything else once your coins are staked.
You don't have to logarithmically proof complex algorithms,
or go to college for computer science,
or battle with GPU overclocking.
Once your coins are staked,
kick back and watch them grow.
Some staking requires you to lock up your coins for a specific amount of time,
while other times, you can take your coins out as easily as you put them in.
Staking is also extremely helpful for whatever project or protocol you decide to use.
For protocols that utilize a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism,
the coins you choose to lock up are used to validate nodes,
confirm transactions and create new blocks.
The reason protocols and staking pools pay you interest to stake with them
is because you're helping maintain the security and efficiency of their blockchain.
It's a win-win situation that's mutually beneficial for you and the project of your choice.
So let's dive into some popular coins that offer substantial ways
to help their users generate passive income.
This list has to start with the king of staking,
Cardano.
Out of Cardano's $42 billion market cap,
almost $31 billion worth of Cardano is currently staked.
It's a little over 70% of all Cardano in existence.
This is why so many people remain bullish on Cardano
even though a downwards trend and all the FUD is popular right now.
Because the floor can only fall so low
since so many of its investors are staked in the project for the long haul.
The main wallets used to stake ADA are Yoroi and Daedalus.
ADA staking is available on many exchanges such as Binance UK, KuCoin, Atomic Wallet,
Exodus and several others.
Most exchanges will give you around 3-5% for staking your Cardano with them.
There are hundreds of staking pools for Cardano.
If you'd like to make 6%,
you can stake your Cardano in the BitPool.
There's a step-by-step guide in the link down below on how to do that.
If you're playing the long game and you're planning to HODL a coin for several years,
HODLing ADA while staking it is one of the best one-two punches available in crypto.
If you're looking for a lower cap altcoin with plenty of room left to run
that also offers incredible staking benefits to its users,
I would highly recommend Cartesi.
CTSI is currently priced in 68¢ with an all-time high of $1.43.
If you were to jump in today and patiently wait for it to retest its all-time highs,
that's a double up right there.
Boom!
Not to mention of its $333 million market cap,
almost $140 million of it is currently staked.
That's just about 42% of its market cap.
Any coin with over 40% of its market cap actively staked
is a great indication that the coin has a strong group of believers
who have the conviction to stick around for the big picture to play out.
I'm very bullish on Cartesi,
especially for the long term,
which is why I'm an advisor on the project.
Although CTSI staking is not common on exchanges,
you can find several staking pools that offer absolutely massive returns.
Staking for Cartesi is now available directly on their mainnet as well.
They currently have 295 active nodes.
Each pool earns 2,900 CTSI per block.
The projected annual earnings for staking Cartesi on their mainnet is 46.7%.
Try going to your local bank and ask them if you can get 46% yearly interest on your money.
Let me know how that works out.
Since one of Cartesi's main focuses is passive income,
they also offer masternode coins, dividend tokens and lending protocols.
For a step-by-step guide on how to run a node and how to stake with Cartesi,
learn more at medium.com.
If you would like to stake your CTSI with the BitSquad,
learn more in the link down below.
Another popular coin I highly recommend staking whose popularity snowballed into a heck of a year
is Avalanche.
For some context, this project has grown over 4,000% since the start of 2021.
Known as the fastest smart contract platform and blockchain,
it makes sense to stake with AVAX
because it has the most amount of validators securing its activity
compared to any other proof-of-stake protocol.
With a market cap just under $30 billion,
59% of all AVAX in circulation is currently staked.
A big reason this percentage is so high is because there's a plethora of places
to stake your AVAX.
The most popular among those are Binance, OKEx, Nexo and the Avalanche Wallet.
From the Avalanche Wallet,
you can expect to yield a maximum of 11% APY of your staked AVAX.
Avalanche is also partnered with Ledger.
Because of this, you can securely keep your hard-earned tokens in cold storage
and still reaping the benefits of staking thanks to Ledger Live.
You run your own validator node for a minimum of 2,000 AVAX,
and you can be a delegator and stake on an existing validator node starting at 25 AVAX.
Pretty soon, we'll be starting an AVAX staking pool,
so keep your eyes and ears open for that future announcement.
Just because some coins don't offer staking,
or they do offer staking, but it's not worth it compared to other coins,
it doesn't mean you can't use the utility of that project to earn passive income.
Look at Gala.
If you don't already know,
Gala is a blockchain-backed NFT gaming platform
that is drastically changing the way people use NFTs in the gaming world.
Since their launch in 2020,
they gracefully made their mark on the scene in a very short amount of time.
You can stake Gala on Bitrue for 1.5%
with an unlimited lockup period.
But that's not what's attracting the masses to their platform.
Gala is known for their variety of fun play-to-earn games.
But the best is yet to come.
According to coindesk.com,
Gala Games and C2 Ventures recently started a $100 million fund
to invest in blockchain gaming.
This includes more play-to-earn games with metaverse ventures as well.
These games are spectacular outlets for gamified DeFi,
which is an increasingly more popular way to earn passive income.
Although some of the games don't roll out until 2022,
you can already purchase land for those games.
You can earn passive income through the resources the lands provide.
Other people can pay to rent your lands as well.
It's like Airbnb on the metaverse.
These games include Legacy,
Walking Dead Empires,
Fortified,
Mirandus,
Spider Tanks,
Last Expedition,
Town Star
and the popular space-based play-to-earn
Echoes of Empire.
You can also earn passive income through running a node on Gala,
but it's an expensive endeavor, to say the least.
For some insight on how fast Gala inserted itself into the blockchain gaming industry,
in March of 2021, you can buy a Gala node for $7,500.
If you want to buy one today, it would run you 186,000 smackeroos.
Gala nodes will earn you 400 Gala per day.
If you want to make passive income through play-to-earn NFT gaming,
be sure to check out app.gala.games.
Earning passive income is a must in every successful portfolio.
I highly recommend to all the members of the BitSquad to let your money work for you.
Don't just let it sit there. Put it to work.
It's a win-win incentive structure that not only helps you make more gains,
build your portfolio,
but it supports favorite blockchain projects as well.
To compare and contrast staking percentage rates
for all your favorite coins through wallets, exchanges or pools,
make sure to check out stakingrewards.com.
Comment down below with the coins you're looking to stake through 2022.
That's all I got.
Be blessed.
BitBoy out.