One of the greatest things about crypto is the possibility for micro investments. This system gives an opportunity for the regular people to start investing small and build from there. Of course, people with deeper pockets can do it as well.
I have made a post about this a few months ago and it can be found here. But things change fast in this space so I’m now revisiting this post and updating it according to the latest situation. There are differences.
The Steem blockchain in a many way is a blockchain of opportunities. Maybe you have a friend who don’t want to get that much in the crypto world. Ain't time for that time for that 😊. What are the possibilities for investing with Steem and get some passive income?
Investing trough delegation
The delegation option is amazing tool on the Steem blockchain. It allows new business and apps to start easy with delegations from the community, and at the same time allows the Steem Power holders to earn something with delegation. The most wonderful thing of this concept is that, this is basically risk-free investment. You don’t give your Steem to the project but lending it. There is also no commitment to give away the SP for a certain period. Everyone can undelegated at any time he wishes. The delegator has a total control on his asset.
Probably the most of the Steemians are aware of the delegating option. Just don’t know do they appreciate enough. To an outsider this can be very attractive. Instead of just investing in some crypto and hoping for the best, you can buy some STEEM power it up, delegate it and start earning. This can be a great argument to Steemians to bring some new people here 😊.
Promotional services - aka bots
Bid bots in my opinion are still the most obvious way to delegate. The payments are daily and in STEEM. Not a different token. If you are long enough on Steemit you know how the posts end up on trending. They buy their votes trough services that offers exactly that. A liquid STEEM for a big vote. These services need a lot of SP to deliver a big vote. Long story short, one can delegate SP to them and have a passive income in Steem. The ROI is a not crazy number, it is somewhere around 1.5 to 2% per month. But it is better then nothing. It is also reasonable. Because projects with crazy numbers for ROI usually doesn’t ends well.
One of the most known promotion service is 
Note: In a short while there will be a hardfork with changes in the economics of Steem and probably there will be impacts on the bid bots economics as well.
Delegating to projects for tokens
This is another great way of delegating. Projects usually needs some SP to support their user base trough upvotes. They need SP as well. In return you get tokens.
There are more and more projects out there now and choosing the right one can be hard. Steem Engine made it possible for the STEEM tokens to be traded, so most of them are liquid now and can be traded immediately. No frozen assets.
Here are some of the projects that for delegating at the moment.
Steemmonsters/Splitnerlands
This project is on the top of the list and well deserved. The Steemmonsters game is now one year old, with its developers 
Steemhunt
Steemhunt is another great project to delegate to. They are rewarding HUNT tokens to delegators on the 
Actifit
Actifit has been around for a year now. The delegators to Actifit receive daily amount of AFIT tokens. At the moment they are giving 18 AFIT per day for 100 SP delegated to the 
Gambling dApps
Well we cannot ignore this one. They can be very controversial, but people have gambled and will continue to gamble. The 
Steemmonsters cards
The Steemmonsters cards can be excellent investment, especially the rarer and expensive cards. The price of those have a great probability of going up. The even more interesting thing is that you can rent these cards even if you don’t play the game. The more expensive the card the easiest to rent it. So, you have an asset that has a big probability to increase the price and it is easy to rent it and made income. The maxed out legendary summoners (200$ to 300$ worth) are the most wanted on the rental market. They go easily for 5% ROI, sometimes even more.
Palnet
I will just mention Palnet here as well but will not go in details since it is quite a new one. It is a great project with a great potential. There is possibility to earn some PAL coins trough delegation. The account to delegate is 
Digital Mining
This is a completely new thing. Maybe it is the first time it is happening in the crypto space, and it is here on the STEEM blockchain. Thanks to Aggroed and the team. The point with the so called virtual mining is token a mines token b. Part of the reward pool goes to mining, something as the witnesses share on Steem. There is a couple of projects that have mining token now. Some of them the ENG token with its EM and EMFOUR mining token, then PALM and PALMM mining tokens for PAL, next SCTM for SCT etc. No details for ROI on these ones from me yet.
Conclusion
Comparing this post with the previous one, there is a clear improvement in the options for investing on STEEM. A more mature projects, and more new ones with a great potential. Having some SP is a nice thing and a worthy asset. The delegation concept is allowing a risk free investment. The projects mentioned here are just a few from all the possible projects out there.
From time to time I will be coming back on this topic, update it and review it, since I believe investors are key for the success of the platform. Having nice and clear overview of the possible investments is a great thing.
