3 Ways to Generate Passive Income with Crypto in 2022.

Earn Passive Crypto Currency in 2022.

Judah Owolabi
The Side Hustle Club
2 min readJul 20, 2022

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One of the many attractive features of the cryptocurrency market is the ability to earn passive income. Investors can earn rewards on their cryptocurrency holdings in several ways, with varying degrees of risk and technical knowledge. Here are three ways crypto investors can earn passive income in 2022.

Staking

Proof-of-stake is a blockchain consensus mechanism. It allows distributed network participants to come to an agreement about new data being added to the blockchain.

In many ways, staking is the purest form of earning a passive income from crypto. It is an alternative or even a replacement for the role of the crypto miner. And it can be highly profitable for users over time.

Here’s how staking works and why you can’t stake every cryptocurrency.:

  • Proof of stake (POS): Some cryptocurrencies use a proof-of-stake system to secure the network. Proof of stake is a popular and more sustainable model than the one Bitcoin uses — and you need a POS crypto for staking.
  • Validating transactions: Validators earn rewards for checking that new transactions are legitimate. In the proof-of-stake model, validators need to own a certain amount of the currency to participate.
  • Earning rewards: When you stake your coins, you’re usually contributing to a validator node, and you make a percentage of the rewards from that validator.

Yield Farming

Yield farming is one of the more complex options listed here and will require a lot of additional research for those interested. But it can also be one of the most lucrative options available to make passive income with crypto.

Investors deposit tokens into a special smart contract called a liquidity pool to earn the reward. The liquidity pool’s traders receive a portion of the fees they generate. This is a method to contribute to a decentralized exchange system and receive rewards for it.

Crypto Lending

Crypto lending is another good way of ensuring that your digital assets do not sit around idly. You will be earning a profit for providing liquidity to other crypto users. The loan will be paid back to you, with interest, with a Defi platform acting as the intermediary.

You can borrow or lend digital currency through Defi platforms such as Aave or Compound. Alternatively, you can use central finance (CeFi) networks such as Celsius. Essentially, you will be using a Defi platform to become the liquidity provider in a crypto loan. In exchange, you will be rewarded with an interest rate once the loan is paid back.

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Judah Owolabi
The Side Hustle Club

I Write about Personal Development and Finance. You can reach me here judahowolabi@gmail.