2021 has been a bit of a whirlwind year for me, what with settling in to a new country, buying my land and getting into Defi, and I've only just had a chance to review my monthly returns from my various staked-tokens. 

This is how the rewards break down for the major stakes I've got. 

![Token staking rewards.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmYnPLfo8YBKyHm5pY3f1cWvAJrLS1M6bCioqzbCNgNStv/Token%20staking%20rewards.png)

As usual I'm not going to be so indiscrete as to outline the exact amounts, so I'm just giving proportions.

I've included the Hive and Leo Author rewards, as they are significant and I did say 'passive-ish' returns. 

### Cub comes out as a clear leader 

As I've mentioned before I was fortunate enough to have some other tokens kicking around - BTC and stables, so I piled in early and I got a nice Cub airdrop from my LEO stake and Cub is doing nicely for me! 

Given the returns, it's not surprise people are powering down, presumably to go in harder, so this may well come down! It'll be interesting to compare this next month! 

### Hive and Leo author rewards are a close second 

This kind of surprised me - that my author rewards are so much more than my curation returns! 

I'm quite humbled by this, I'm just an ordinary bloke really that tries to post with integrity and support the ecosystem by 'Powering up so you don't have to'. 

I appreciate every upvote, so cheers! 

### Hive and Leo curation returns and the leo bounties 

These are a bit limp TBH, especially Hive, given the size of my stake, then again I have had 30% of it delegated to @leo.voter for leo bounties, it's been a good returner the last few months. 

Then again 12% ish return just for curating, it's not bad compared to fiat earnings! 

### Rune returns on BEP 

I bought a fair whack of Rune at $0.40 cents, and I've had about 30% of it staked on BEP for 2 months, but I'm gradually pulling out to stop it getting drained - it's yielded me around a 60-70% APY and I've had it pooled with tokens that have bounced around quite a lot, so I've done well I think! 

I've now left only a minimal amount in and will wait for a while until Chaosnet is almost in full swing then pile into that with maybe 40-50% of my Rune, and I've got some ETH and BTC kicking around that I'll pair it with! 

### AKT 

Akash network - I didn't buy too much, but this has trebled in value since I bought and what I've got staked is a 50% APY which is nice 

### AVA 

Again this has increased a lot in value since I bought - about 5-6 times even if the staking returns are now quite mean - 8% it's enough to bring up the rear with 1% of my APY. 

### Other coins

I've also got a couple of new coins I'll be staking for a return - ORN and WAN, but I haven't got around to that yet, all in good time!

And I've got some coin staked on Pancake too and Splinterlands cards rented out, but I think they both account for only around 0.5% so I didn't bother including them! 

(Oh and I just realised I forgot to include my WLEO returns, that's about 2% of my rewards, so adjust all the other figures down slightly!)

### Final thoughts - too Hive/ Leo/ Cub heavy?

I'm now looking at my returns thinking this is way too imbalanced - I'm too reliant on Hive and Leo and then Cub for DEFI. 

Although at least I've got 7% of my passive rewards coming from outside of the Hive/ Cub ecosystems. 

I actually paid for most of those investments by selling a little Hive and Leo - and that was quite painful, but now looking at the above I'm thinking I ought to squeeze that up to 10% and then up to 20%

Of course I may not have to anything at all to do that, price swings might do it for me! 

My next move is to diversify out into other DEFI platforms - Swamp is next on my list.







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