Cryptocurrencies often get a bad rap for being risky, and many are. With that in mind, let's take a look at three cryptocurrencies you've definitely heard of and take a minute to appreciate why it's worth placing at least a sliver of your portfolio's value into them as a group. As a trio, Bitcoin, (CRYPTO: BTC) Dogecoin, (CRYPTO: DOGE), and Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) offer a useful mixture of risk that walks the line between making an aggressive yet measured set of investments, and swinging for the fences with reckless abandon.