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The 2025 Top Ten Cryptocurrency Index Fund Experiment Has Begun!
For the eighth year in a row, I am happy to announce the launch of the Top Ten Cryptocurrency Index Fund Experiment for 2025.
For those unfamiliar with the Experiments, my annual tradition is to buy $100 of each of the Top Ten Cryptos every New Year’s Day since January 1st, 2018.
The Top Ten Experiments have now purchased a total of $8,000 in crypto since January 2018.
The 2025 Top Ten Portfolio includes the following cryptos, in descending order as per coinmarketcap.com on January 1st, 2025:
That’s a $1000 investment on the 1st of January, 2025, ($100 each) of #1 BTC, #2 ETH, #3 XRP, #5 BNB, #6 SOL, #7 DOGE, #8 USDC, #9 ADA, #10 TRON, and #11 AVAX.
Fun fact #1: For the second year in a row, all 2025 coins have appeared in at least one past Top Ten Portfolio, meaning no new cryptocurrencies have joined the overall Experiment.
Long time Top Ten Experiment followers will notice I’m again breaking the tradition of strictly investing in the Top Ten by market cap, no matter what. To stay consistent with past Experiments, I will only include one stablecoin, so #11 AVAX is in and #7 USDT is out. I made a similar decision with the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Top Ten Portfolios.
USDC will remain in the 2025 Top Ten Portfolio.
So: The 2025 Top Ten Portfolio = Top Ten – USDT + #11 AVAX.
Q: Why keep a stablecoin in the portfolio at all?
A: Consistency. For better or worse, I included USDT in the 2019 Top Ten Portfolio and one stable in every subsequent year since. Including a stablecoin in the 2025 Top Ten is my attempt at an honest/fair comparison between each year’s portfolios.
Q: Why were stablecoins included in the Top Ten Experiments in the first place?
A: Check out the FAQs.
Where Did You Purchase The 2025 Top Ten Crypto?
Thanks to the good work they’re doing over at Universal, I barely had to leave Base this year. Details/proof of purchases below:
I used Aerodrome on Base for WBTC (ahem, cbBTC) and WETH:
DefiLlama on Base for the Universal assets uSOL, uDOGE, uADA, and uXRP.
Over to BNB Smart Chain’s Pancakeswap for BNB and TRON
And finally, I used DefiLlama to purchase AVAX on Avalanche :
Fun fact #2: For the first time in Experiment history, I purchased 100% of the Top Ten on Decentralized Exchanges
My Homemade Top Ten Crypto Index Fund VS Coinbase’s COIN50
The first Top Ten Crypto Experiment was started on 1 January 2018 in an attempt to capture the gains of the entire cryptocurrency market.
No crypto indexes existed, so I created my own.
Crypto has rapidly progressed in recent years and now more and more options exist.
This year I’ll be comparing my homemade Top Ten Index to Coinbase’s COIN50, Coinbase’s benchmark crypto index, which offers “diversified exposure to 50 leading digital assets.” Here’s the snapshot of what COIN50 was worth on 1 January 2025:
Here’s the question I’ll be tracking: as the year goes by, will COIN50 outperform my homemade Top Ten Index Fund?
All Systems Go!
Like every year, I’m excited to launch the latest iteration of the Top Ten Crypto Index Fund Experiment. If you’re new to the Experiments, welcome! If you’ve been following over the years, many thanks for sticking around.
The first monthly report for the 2025 Top Ten Portfolio will drop in early February. Other reports from the 2018-2024 Top Ten Portfolios will be released periodically over the course of the year.
In the meantime, you’re welcome to pour through years of data here.
Happy New Year and here’s hoping for an up only 2025 (insert rocket emoji here).
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