The easy and safe thing we do for earnings with altcoins is to use it for staking, even though the market is still red but I can earning from staking in some top exchanges and dex exchanges, besides that if we focus on the long term then use altcoins for staking is the thing better.
I'm against staking in the bear market or red like you said. The reward isn't worth the time your coin lock behind an amount of time when the market under strong volatility which you can be mitigated by cutting loss and pulling out. Or by sell and buy back it later when it dips further if you want to hold that coin in long term, net in term of that coin.