It'll be best for OP to select only audited projects as well as low apy pools in order to participate into staking as whales can manipulate the price of any project if that project provides higher apy. So, it's better to join any liquidity providing farming of uniswap, 1inch, pancakeswap or bakeryswap because all of these projects are the best for staking ( As of now, I'm still doing farming on all of this ). But DYOR first before taking any further steps on new defi projects as rug pullers are everywhere.