They won’t make you rich, and they won’t 10x again soon.
Here’s step-by-step guide on how to turn $0 into $1M+
➠ 1
If you only have $1 in crypto - you’re not broke
You’re early
But your strategy must change at every stage
Here’s the full roadmap from $1 to $1M
➠ 2
There are 4 stages of portfolio growth:
$0 - $10K: Resource Mode
$10K - $100K: Acceleration Phase
$100K - $1M: Capital Strategy
$1M+: Preservation & Expansion
Each level demands a different mindset, risk profile, and time horizon
➠ 3
$0 - $5K: You’re not an investor yet. You’re a builder or hunter
Don’t buy altcoins hoping for 100x
Focus on:
•Airdrops
•Free NFTs
•Ambassador roles
•Community-based jobs
•Testnets
Turn time into capital
➠ 4
How to turn effort into dollars:
•Farm testnets (ZkSync, Monad, LayerZero, etc)
•Apply to ambassador programs (Wormhole, Celestia, Eigen)
•Grind Zealy, Galxe, and project XP systems
•Write Twitter threads or Discord guides
•Flip NFTs, WL spots, or quests
Every dollar matters
➠ 5
Goal at this stage: reach $1,000 in capital without spending your own money
Your job is to build reputation, presence, and first-mover advantage
Make your wallet look active
Join discords early
Collect POAPs
Bridge, swap, stake
Build history for future airdrops
➠ 6
$10K - $100K: Now you’re an investor
But you still can’t afford to lose much
Every decision here must be asymmetric - low risk, high reward
Focus on:
•Presales
•Lowcaps with real traction
•Yield from stablecoins
•OTC entries into memes before hype
➠ 7
Use capital wisely:
✓ Farm whitelists manually
✓ Buy tokens with locked liquidity
✓ Stick to 4–5 narratives max
✓ Flip early, reinvest later
✓ Avoid leverage - you can’t afford mistakes
We’re not here to be right
We’re here to survive
➠ 8
At this stage, you should know the basics:
•How to evaluate vesting
•How to scan wallets
•How to monitor new launches
•How to read market structure
•How to identify froth vs value
No excuses anymore
You’re playing real money
➠ 9
$100K - $1M: Welcome to capital management
Now the game changes completely
You can’t just gamble into coins
You need systems
•Stake yield
•Diversify across narratives
•Allocate to momentum rotations
•Take profit structurally
➠ 10
Keys to this phase:
✓ Don’t chase green candles
✓ Use ETH/BTC pairs to measure strength
✓ Use stablecoins to rotate into fear
✓ Make every entry/exit intentional
✓ Stop thinking in x’s, start thinking in % returns
Growth slows - risk gets bigger
➠ 11
At this level, you now have access to:
•Private rounds (if networked)
•Seed entries through syndicates
•OTC meme entries
•Advisory/marketing tokens
•Real dealflow
Most of your gains now come from who you know
Not what you trade
➠ 12
If you’re not networked yet, build it:
•Contribute to DAOs
•Help launch projects
•Partner with founders
•Write free research in DMs
•Build audience or Discord presence
Access beats alpha
➠ 13
Narrative rotation becomes key:
Spot the narrative before it’s crowded
Enter lowcaps early
Ride the hype 3–4 weeks
Exit before media coverage
Reallocate to next meta
Repeat
This alone can 5x a mid-size portfolio
➠ 14
Your edge at $100K+ is:
✓ Knowing what not to buy
✓ Knowing when to stop buying
✓ Knowing when to sell
✓ Avoiding drawdowns
It’s no longer about hitting home runs
It’s about consistent, unsexy execution
➠ 15
$1M+: You’re no longer the gambler
You are the casino
Your job is capital protection + long-term wealth creation
Stop thinking in cycles
Start thinking in decades
Now you enter:
•Infra
•Angel investing
•Strategic LP deals
•Building your own product
➠ 16
This is how generational wealth is made:
•Yield-farm stables safely
•Back founders early
•Pay for private research
•Buy cap tables, not tokens
•Build recurring revenue
Crypto isn’t the goal, freedom is
➠ 17
Don’t overestimate the $1M stage
Most blow up here due to:
✓ Overtrading
✓ No plan for exits
✓ Jumping into random deals
✓ Ignoring macro
✓ Too much leverage
✓ Zero patience
Your biggest enemy is boredom
➠ 18
The true game is not getting rich
It’s staying rich while buying time and peace
Use this market to earn capital
Use that capital to buy back freedom
Never forget:
Money is just the vehicle
Strategy is the engine
➠ 19
TLDR:
$0 - $5K: Build, grind, earn free tokens
$5K - $100K: Invest asymmetrically, rotate fast
$100K - $1M: System, structure, discipline
$1M+: Preserve, grow, compound
The rules change at each level
So should you
➠ 20
You don’t need 10 years
You need 10 right decisions
Made at the right time
Executed with no hesitation.