Building a $1,000 crypto portfolio is no easy task, especially in a market as volatile as it has been so far in 2026, which has made it difficult for new traders to strike the right balance for their risk tolerance.  To see what might be a good place to start investing, Finbold consulted DeepSeek, the leading Chinese artificial intelligence (AI), asking it to construct a $1,000 crypto portfolio with a balanced growth approach. DeepSeek’s $1,000 crypto portfolio While choosing what to put in its hypothetical portfolio, DeepSeek sought first to build a stable foundation with proven assets. Accordingly, it comes as no surprise that it dedicated 30% of the budget to Bitcoin (BTC) and 30% to Ethereum (ETH)