With short - term bond fund rates between 0.5 % and 2 %, and intermediate - term bond fund rates between 1.5 % and 3.3 %, there is plenty of downside
risk due to the potential for higher future interest rates (bond prices fall when interest rates rise), and not much
upside potential
due to the current low rates.
While these projects have very high
upside due to their low market cap, they also come with a ton of
risk because the projects are usually not as established as high cap coins.