Some coin stock platform gave me a partnership fee, half of which was paid in US stock tokens, mainly the Seven Sisters, which appreciated 20% in 4 months.

There is also a compliant digital asset platform that paid me in USDC, which I used to buy US stocks on the platform, CRCL, which has now appreciated 30%.
... Although the appreciation of US stocks isn't large, it gives the illusion of the kind of passive value increase from using Bitcoin to pay wages/bonuses at exchanges seven or eight years ago.
In contrast, most crypto projects that pay with tokens for cooperation mostly shrink by about 10% upon receipt, and there's a very high chance of losing half of the value within a month.
Actually, both US stocks and crypto are neither good nor bad; they are just investment logics of warehouses and hunting grounds.
Warehouses are used to store the harvests, and hunting grounds are used for hunting.
Always try not to look for prey to harvest in the warehouse; store your harvest in the hunting ground.