So I am interested in spreading out some of my $$ into altcoins that pay dividends I heard about coss and kucoin shares (don't like the idea of keeping it on the exchange) but is there any other coins that pay you dividends similar to how these two coins work?
Maybe you are looking for something like Minexcoin/Minexbank. You can park your coins for certain period of time and get some extra coins for doing that. And the coins stay inside your own wallet.
While in theory it sounds good, in the reality the USD (or BTC) value of those coins was not doing great this year. There are promises for new development (even release of cards soon) which sound good, but please do your own research before investing your money.
I have been following Minexcoin since Sep last year. I found their concept interesting at first but then saw the price spike from almost 1$ to 60$ which was funny cause the main characteristic of Minexcoin is a low volatile coin.