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![beast_ico Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1499585375534206980.png) IcoBeast.eth🦇🔊 [@beast_ico](/creator/twitter/beast_ico) on x 55K followers
Created: 2025-07-19 19:50:12 UTC

Have been thinking a lot today about optimal portfolio balancing if we really are going full risk on for a little bit.

Key factors:
- ETH going parabolic on the back on seemingly infinite institutional bid

- BTC.D crashing

- Desire for exposure to alts definitely coming back with some retail bid.

Outstanding question:
What do you allocate to/how far out on the beta risk curve do you need to go?

Example: 
for me, ETH alone is good enough for a decent bit of exposure for me…but what if I want exposure to other ecos?

So say Virtuals - is it good enough to just hold the VIRTUAL token, or would I be better off with a basket of the most prominent agent tokens?

Same concept with Avalanche - do I just hold AVAX as a risk-on beta L1, or is it better to hold promising AVAX betas like ARENA/BLACK/etc?

Or with Polkadot - do I just want DOT, or do I want HDX from Hydration since that’s the parachain that everyone uses?

I had previously been thinking the basket of betas underneath the ecos was what I wanted, but now I’m not sure…it’s hard for me to predict how much trickle down will benefit the underlying if retail is bidding the alts on CEX only

Thoughts?


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