here's how I think about crypto investments first, "crypto" is too broad of a term and masks too much underlying information and information is the fundamental input of decision so break them up in some way this is roughly how I do it: - apps - chains - protocols - memes now, there's another distinction to be made namely: infrastructure vs. platform basically, infrastructure is fungible but a platform is not a platform has stickiness due to some sort of network effect (either via liquidity, state, developers, socials, mimetics, or whatever) on average, infrastructure is a riskier investment because it exerts no control, it can be switched out — but, infrastructure sometimes can become a platform and this would be an asymmetric outcome (Solana started out as infrastructure and then became a platform for example — almost all new L1s and new L2s are infrastructure at first, not platforms) each of the above categories can either be infrastructure or platform; you would assess this on your own for example: coin/btc/eth/sol are platforms — they have something non-forkable in terms of either tech, liquidity, distribution, social cohesion; basically *state* but shitcoin5670 is "infrastructure" in the sense that it can be swapped out for shitcoin5671 on average — same with *any new chain* or *any new protocol* infrastructure is only useful to the extent that it can result in un-forkable state and become a platform the only exception is if the market is so large that being infrastructure is still highly profitable (e.g., a bank stock in tradfi) from there, you decide how much to allocate to platforms vs. infrastructure and in which categories depending on your risk profile