With the bear market in full swing, it can be scary to see so many red candles on the charts. However, a bear market also presents money-making opportunities. When the market is down it is a great time to diversify a portfolio. Holding “safe” coins like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Litecoin will lead to small so-called “gains” as the crypto market climbs back up, but diversifying your portfolio with some low market cap value-projects could yield much bigger returns.

In this article, I will share four projects with low market caps and high investment potential (if you are interested to know which non-law cap altcoins I think will do well in the next year, look here).

Disclaimer: Do not take this article as investment advice. Instead, take them as reasons to do more of your own research on the projects that I will be discussing below.

Stakenet (XSN)

Stakenet (XSN) is an ambitious project aiming on replacing traditional banks, fiat currencies, payment gateways, and much more through groundbreaking innovation, and with an unmatchable progress. Stakenet is already on the beat with Lightning Network, SewWit and Atomic Swaps already implemented and working. They are likewise working on the world’s first truly decentralized DEX run entirely by Masternodes. Unlike any other DEX currently in existence, the XSN Exchange cannot be taken down by any authority including the government or Stakenet themselves.

Stakenet has two ground breaking innovations called Trustless Proof of Stake (TPoS) and Cross Chain Proof of Stake (CCPoS). TPoS allows anyone to stake their coins from cold storage, for example from a cold storage device like the Ledger, or Stakenet’s own XSN Hardware device to be revealed later this year. CCPoS allows you to stake one coin and receiving stake rewards in another coin of your choice with no intermediaries or risks, utilizing their own combination of Lightning Network and Atomic Swaps called Lightning Swaps.

As mentioned, Stakenet is working on their own hardware device, which will be way more than just a means of storing coins in cold storage like Ledger. This device will be a personal companion for your everyday life with usecases not yet realized. The prototype is in the works and will be revealed to the public later this year. Combining this with their XSN Exchange allows you to make the first ever cold storage exchanging directly from your XSN Hardware device, without compromising the security.

Lastly, Stakenet’s XSN Cloud is an online Staking and Masternode service that takes the stress off of your shoulders when it comes to staking and running a Masternode. On the cloud you can stake your coins and before the end of the quarter, you can trustlessly let Stakenet maintain and update your masternodes while you keep your coins in cold storage. See more at https://stakenet.io/

Genesis Vision (GVT)

Genesis Vision (GVT) is another interesting investment right now. The Genesis Vision platform has a working iOS application that allows individuals and organizations to become investors who build a portfolio and actively trade. In turn, these investors have public profiles that show their portfolio and trade performance to help others sort out good investors from bad. Users of the platform can then invest their own GVT in the trades of these investors. The Genesis platform has a solid use case for the cryptocurrency community and many active users already.

Storm (STORM)

STORM is a gamified micro-task platform that lets users complete surveys, online tasks, and try new products in exchange for STORM tokens, which can be sold on exchanges. STORM is already listed on Bittrex and Binance. What makes this project more interesting than a lot of other projects that I’ve seen is that it has a working product. Its web platform is already available in the Google Play store and will soon be available on iOS.

STORM token currently has a market cap of about $29 million and a daily volume of $1 million. It’s a bit of a sleeper coin in my view. Down from an all time high of over 1400 sats, STORM is now trading at around 128 sats.

Dent (DENT)

The last coin on my list is Dent (DENT). Dent is trading at 42 sats, down from an all time high of 600. The Dent platform plans to disrupt the mobile device industry by hosting a free market where users can trade phone data. This would break up the monopoly of telecommunications companies and increase global efficiency. In most regions around the world, telecom companies sell minutes and data packages that expire monthly and don’t roll over. With Dent, unused data can be sold by users instead of wasted.

Dent’s mobile app is already rolled out and is getting solid reviews. The team has established Dent’s presence in over 130 countries and continues to make progress. DENT coin is listed on Binance and KuCoin.

Conclusion

I think portfolio diversification with established low-cap altcoins is one of the best things a crypto investor can do during a bear market. I hope the picks described above will succeed when the bulls return.

Full disclosure: I own DENT. This article is not investment advice. It is just my personal opinion. Please do your own research!