Hive as an investment ...

"... but any new investments I make will likely be isolated to those four or five core tokens like BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, or USDC."

Given your reference to precious metals, you may wish to consider DCAing into PAXG. If you are currently unaware, it is an RWA for gold. On the ETH blockchain.

For my personal investing, I DCA back and forth between it and BTC, with the goal of keeping a more or less 50:50 position in each.