As 2019 was the dream year in the stock market, I wanted to invest part of my earnings into crypto coins to diversify a bit. I already did some crypto trading on Poloniex a few years ago, but it was with a small amount and with some automated trading bot and it was far from being a success...

This time I want to try to be a "hodler" and use the new opportunities of companies surfing the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) trend to provide access to new tokens and interest on my "hodlings".

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So, this is what I did

During august 2019, I opened an account to Celsius Network

• I sent the few remaining tokens (for around 4000$) I had in BTC and ETH on Poloniex and Coinbase to Celsius Network
• I started earning CEL tokens as weekly interest
• I actually did receive my first 3$ as weekly interest like that.

Then I switched all my browsers to Brave

• I started earning monthly BAT tokens when seeing ads or getting tips
• I moved the BAT tokens to my Uphold wallet
• I then sent those BAT tokens from Uphold to CredEarn and start earning 3% interest on those BAT tokens.
• I actually did receive 0.01$ interest like that... after 3 months.

End of October 2019, I converted 16000$ to USDC using Poloniex

• I sent 14000$ of that to Celsius Network
• I converted 2000$ in ETH, send them to IDEX and buy CEL tokens
• I finally sent the CEL tokens to Celsius Network
• Thanks to that, I reached Platinium level at Celsius Network and started earning max interests. 

Mid February 2020, I decided to diversify a bit my hodlings

• Send USDC to Uphold
• Purchase LBA to maximize CredEarn interest
• Purchase ETH, BAT, ZCash and BTC
• Send ZCash and BTC back to Celsius Network
• Send LBA, ETH and BAT to CredEarn

And this is what I got

On the 1st March 2020, I have

• 0.56 BTC
• 4062 USDC
• 20.28 ETH
• 8087.01 BAT
• 41524.57 CEL
• 16.68 ZEC
• 10000 LBA

Evolution since I started the tracking

Evolution of the capital invested compared to the interests earned 

This last diagram is interesting. It shows that my diversification happened at a particular bad timing, basically when most cryptos currencies started to go down. The portfolio is still somehow flat mostly thanks to the interests earned. In this diagram I count as interest anything coming for free from  Celsius Network, CredEarn or Brave, so it includes interests, referred awards or bonus tokens.

What will come next?

• I plan to continue posting regularly evolution my crypto portfolio and the new tokens or service I'm using.
• I also plan to take into account comments and feedback you could have on my hodlings, the services I'm using or the strategy I should employ...