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A BuckBully Portfolio Strategy
After a major crypto selloff, it can be tempting to either walk away from the market completely or throw money at whichever coin looks ready to explode next.
There may be a better approach: rebuild deliberately.
Instead of trying to predict the exact bottom, this portfolio uses a simple strategy — invest $100 every two weeks, spread the money across different areas of the crypto economy, keep the majority in established assets, maintain a small group of moonshots, and always keep some dry powder available.
The objective isn’t to create a portfolio that only performs when every prediction is right.
It’s to build one capable of participating in crypto’s growth while surviving when some of those predictions are wrong.
The $100 Biweekly Portfolio
Here’s the model:
| Asset | Weight | Biweekly Buy | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin (BTC) | 35% | $35 | Core / Store of Value |
| Ethereum (ETH) | 20% | $20 | Core / Smart Contracts |
| Solana (SOL) | 10% | $10 | Primary Growth |
| XRP | 6% | $6 | Payments / Institutional |
| Chainlink (LINK) | 5% | $5 | Oracle / Tokenization Infrastructure |
| Sui (SUI) | 4% | $4 | Emerging Blockchain |
| Stellar (XLM) | 3% | $3 | Payments / Remittances |
| ASI/FET | 2% | $2 | Artificial Intelligence |
| Pyth Network (PYTH) | 2% | $2 | Blockchain Data / Oracle |
| Balancer (BAL) | 1% | $1 | DeFi Speculation |
| Dogecoin (DOGE) | 1% | $1 | Community / Meme Speculation |
| Cosmos (ATOM) | 1% | $1 | Blockchain Interoperability |
| Avalanche (AVAX) | 1% | $1 | L1 / Tokenization |
| Polkadot (DOT) | 1% | $1 | Multichain Infrastructure |
| Celestia (TIA) | 1% | $1 | Modular Blockchain Infrastructure |
| USD / USDC | 7% | $7 | Cash / Dry Powder |
| TOTAL | 100% | $100 |
At $100 every two weeks, the investor contributes approximately $2,600 per year.
The amount isn’t what makes the strategy interesting.
It’s what happens to that $100 after it enters the portfolio.
55% Goes to the Foundation
Bitcoin and Ethereum receive a combined 55% of every contribution.
Bitcoin — 35%
Bitcoin isn’t necessarily being given the largest allocation because we expect it to produce the largest percentage return.
It gets the largest allocation because it serves as the portfolio’s anchor.
Smaller cryptocurrencies can produce extraordinary gains, but they can also lose most of their value or disappear entirely. Even Fidelity notes that while larger cryptocurrencies such as BTC and ETH have historically reached new highs across multiple cycles, many smaller cryptocurrencies have failed to do so. (Fidelity)
That creates an important portfolio principle:
The investment with the greatest potential shouldn’t automatically receive the greatest allocation.
Risk matters too.
Ethereum — 20%
Ethereum becomes the second core holding.
Rather than trying to predict which individual decentralized application will dominate the future, ETH provides exposure to the broader smart-contract economy.
Together, BTC and ETH establish a 55% foundation before we start pursuing more aggressive growth.
24% Goes to Established Growth
The next portion targets projects with larger upside potential while still having established ecosystems.
Solana — 10%
SOL becomes the portfolio’s primary growth position.
Solana provides exposure to smart contracts, decentralized finance, payments, stablecoins, consumer applications and other blockchain activity.
At 10%, a major Solana run can meaningfully affect portfolio performance without allowing one higher-volatility blockchain to dominate the account.
XRP — 6%
XRP provides exposure to another corner of the crypto market: payments and financial infrastructure.
The 6% allocation makes XRP significant without making the portfolio dependent upon its success.
Chainlink — 5%
LINK represents blockchain infrastructure.
Smart contracts need reliable outside data, and increasingly fragmented blockchain ecosystems need ways of communicating across networks.
Instead of betting entirely on which blockchain eventually wins, LINK provides exposure to infrastructure that can potentially be useful across multiple networks.
Stellar — 3%
XLM provides another payments and remittance position.
Because XRP already represents a larger portion of the same broad payments theme, Stellar receives the smaller 3% allocation.
Diversification isn’t simply owning more coins.
True diversification means owning different ideas.
8% Goes After Emerging Growth
Now we become more aggressive.
Sui — 4%
SUI receives the largest emerging-project allocation.
Newer blockchain ecosystems can potentially grow much faster than established trillion- or multibillion-dollar networks, but they also carry considerably greater uncertainty.
That’s why SUI gets enough capital to matter — but not enough to wreck the portfolio.
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance / FET — 2%
Artificial intelligence remains one of technology’s largest investment themes.
Rather than turning the portfolio into an AI gamble, ASI/FET receives a controlled 2% allocation.
If blockchain-based AI grows dramatically, the portfolio participates.
If the thesis fails, 98% of the portfolio sits elsewhere.
Pyth Network — 2%
PYTH provides another infrastructure bet through blockchain market data and oracle technology.
Again, the strategy isn’t predicting that PYTH will become the dominant provider.
We’re purchasing exposure to the possibility.
The 1% Moonshot Rule
Now comes the fun part.
Six cryptocurrencies receive exactly 1% each:
BAL — DeFi
DOGE — Meme/community
ATOM — Interoperability
AVAX — Layer-1 and tokenization
DOT — Multichain infrastructure
TIA — Modular blockchain infrastructure
Celestia is particularly interesting because its architecture focuses on data availability rather than trying to perform every blockchain function itself. Rollups can publish their data to Celestia and pay for that capacity using TIA. TIA can also be used for staking and potentially as a gas token for rollups. (Celestia Documentation)
That doesn’t make TIA a guaranteed winner.
That’s precisely why it’s 1%.
The philosophy behind the moonshot bucket is simple:
Never risk enough on a moonshot to destroy the portfolio.
A failed 1% investment hurts.
It doesn’t destroy you.
But imagine one of those 1% positions eventually becomes worth 5, 10 or 20 times the original investment.
Suddenly a tiny position matters.
That’s asymmetric speculation.
7% Stays in USD or USDC
Every $100 contribution leaves $7 uninvested in volatile cryptocurrency.
Why?
Because crashes create opportunities only for investors who still have money available.
After 10 biweekly contributions, that reserve could contain roughly $70 before considering any deployment.
After 26 contributions, approximately $182 would have been directed toward reserves.
The reserve could be held in USD, USDC or divided between the two.
Circle states that USDC is redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars and backed by reserves including bank deposits, short-term U.S. Treasuries and overnight Treasury repurchase agreements. (Circle)
However, stablecoins still introduce risks that ordinary dollars may not, so investors should understand the difference between holding USD and holding a digital stablecoin.
Don’t Automatically Spend the $7
This is important.
Dry powder isn’t another investment allocation that must immediately be deployed.
Let it build.
When crypto experiences another meaningful correction, that reserve becomes ammunition.
And instead of automatically buying whichever tiny altcoin crashed the hardest, consider directing the reserve toward quality.
BTC down substantially?
ETH significantly below its target?
SOL beaten down?
LINK suddenly underweight?
Those situations may deserve the reserve before a speculative token that’s down 80%.
Buy weakness with a plan — not simply because something became cheap.
Why Invest Every Two Weeks?
Because predicting bottoms consistently is nearly impossible.
Dollar-cost averaging means investing predetermined amounts at regular intervals regardless of whether prices are rising or falling.
Fidelity specifically uses purchasing crypto every two weeks as an example of the strategy. DCA can reduce the temptation to time every market movement, although it does not guarantee profits or protect investors against losses. (Fidelity)
Our hypothetical investor isn’t asking:
“Is today the perfect day to buy Bitcoin?”
They’re asking:
“It’s payday. Where does this $100 go?”
That’s an entirely different mentality.
One Year of $100 Biweekly Investing
Assuming 26 contributions:
| Asset | Annual Contribution |
|---|---|
| BTC | $910 |
| ETH | $520 |
| SOL | $260 |
| XRP | $156 |
| LINK | $130 |
| SUI | $104 |
| XLM | $78 |
| ASI/FET | $52 |
| PYTH | $52 |
| BAL | $26 |
| DOGE | $26 |
| ATOM | $26 |
| AVAX | $26 |
| DOT | $26 |
| TIA | $26 |
| USD/USDC | $182 |
| TOTAL | $2,600 |
Now imagine following the system for several years.
Not chasing every pump.
Not abandoning the strategy during every crash.
Not moving the entire portfolio into whatever cryptocurrency is trending that week.
Just accumulating.
Don’t Buy Every Coin Blindly
There’s another wrinkle.
The target percentages don’t necessarily mean every biweekly contribution has to be split into 16 separate transactions.
Transaction fees, spreads and minimum purchase requirements matter, especially when we’re talking about $1 purchases.
Instead, the percentages can function as portfolio targets.
Suppose BTC rises rapidly and reaches 42% of the portfolio while ETH falls to 16%.
The investor doesn’t necessarily have to sell Bitcoin.
Future contributions could simply put more money toward ETH and less toward BTC until the portfolio moves closer to its intended balance.
That’s rebalancing with new money.
It potentially reduces unnecessary trading while keeping the portfolio aligned with the original strategy.
The Portfolio Pyramid
Think of the entire strategy as a pyramid:
🛡️ 55% — Foundation
BTC + ETH
The assets intended to provide the strongest base.
📈 24% — Established Growth
SOL + XRP + LINK + XLM
Larger growth positions built around different crypto use cases.
🚀 8% — Emerging Growth
SUI + ASI/FET + PYTH
Higher potential accompanied by higher uncertainty.
🎲 6% — Moonshots
BAL + DOGE + ATOM + AVAX + DOT + TIA
Six different 1% bets.
💵 7% — Dry Powder
USD / USDC
Capital waiting for opportunity.
What Happens When a Moonshot Explodes?
This is where discipline becomes important.
Imagine a 1% investment becomes 10% of the entire portfolio.
Congratulations.
But the portfolio has also changed.
What began as a controlled moonshot is now one of your largest holdings.
That’s when rebalancing deserves consideration.
Taking some profit doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve stopped believing in the project.
It can simply mean you’re returning the portfolio to the risk level you originally chose.
Let winners grow — but don’t accidentally allow a moonshot to become the foundation.
What Happens During the Next Crypto Crash?
There will eventually be another major decline.
We don’t know when.
We don’t know which projects will suffer most.
And we don’t know exactly where the bottom will be.
That’s why this portfolio doesn’t depend on knowing those answers.
Continue the biweekly strategy if your financial circumstances permit.
Review which projects remain fundamentally sound.
Use portions of accumulated dry powder deliberately.
Rebalance toward assets that have fallen below their intended allocations.
And remember that DCA itself doesn’t eliminate downside risk. Crypto remains extremely volatile, and smaller altcoins can fail entirely. (Fidelity)
The strategy is designed around surviving uncertainty rather than pretending uncertainty doesn’t exist.
The BuckBully Rule
There’s one idea behind this entire portfolio:
Own enough of your winners that they matter — but never enough of your moonshots that one failure can destroy you.
Bitcoin doesn’t have to 100X for the portfolio to work.
Every speculative cryptocurrency doesn’t have to succeed.
We don’t have to perfectly identify the bottom.
And we don’t have to invest thousands of dollars at once.
We need a strategy.
$100.
Every two weeks.
26 contributions per year.
$2,600 invested annually.
Core assets for stability.
Growth projects for upside.
Moonshots for asymmetric potential.
Dry powder for opportunity.
Then give the portfolio something every investor needs but can’t buy on an exchange:
Time.
Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, tax or legal advice. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile and speculative, and investors can lose some or all of their investment. Portfolio percentages are hypothetical examples rather than individualized recommendations. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Research every asset independently and consider your financial situation, risk tolerance and investment objectives before investing.