Future Crypto: A list of projects with purpose

Blockchain technology extends far beyond currency and while the phrase “Bitcoin” is becoming a popular buzzword we are still in the infancy of Blockchain technology and that’s extremely motivating. In this crazy unregulated, penny stock, foreign exchange hybrid market there are many ways to evaluate a project.

Today I’ll be giving an un-biased overview of various utility-based projects. This is an ongoing list so please feel free to suggest any coins you would like me to add and provide your feedback in the comments section. My goal is for us to pool our knowledge of these projects together and make an informed decision whether or not to invest. Oh… and don’t hold back any punches.

Scope: The criteria for this list are projects that serve some purpose other than decentralising currency and have a reasonable maximum coin supply. They must provide a white paper, roadmap and a public git repository.

Limitations: This list doesn’t factor in market analysis, community support, partnerships or my personal opinions.

Stratis (STRAT)

Allows applications to be developed, tested and deployed on the blockchain using the C# programming language. The Stratis Academy provides an extensive knowledge base and resources for developers. The website provides use cases for real-world applications such as scientific publication tracking. Price: $4.75. Max coins: 94m.

ARK (ARK)

SmartBridge technology allows easy deployment of custom public/private blockchains allowing different blockchains to be bridged. They offer a physical card system and media transfer protocol, which allow users to share audio and video. Price: $0.47. Max coins: 127m.

Ubiq (UBQ)

An early fork of Ethereum that provides smart contracts and the ability to build apps on the blockchain. Price: $1.09. Max coins: 50m.

Mysterium (MYST)

VPN on the blockchain. Essentially an improved version of the tor network that is build on the backbone of Ethereum. It will likely generate tokens from allowing your machine to be used to route traffic when you aren't using it. If not, it should. Price: $0.75. Max coins: 32m.

Waves (WAVES)

A multi-currency wallet, decentralised trading platform offering crowd-funding, voting and an encrypted messenger. All transactions performed on this platform are fuelled by the Waves token. "Gateways" are multi-currency tokens that can hold shares in companies, commodities and both fiat and crypto currencies. Price: $2.70. Max coins: 100m.

Iconomi (ICN)

Digital Assets Management Platform. It's marketplace for digital assets that allows users to manage assets and create a Digital Asset Array (DAA). Transactions are done transparently on exchanges by Iconomy and the coins are stored in their secure offline wallets. Price: $3.06. Max coins: 100m.

TenX (PAY)

TenX provide a debit card with an accompanying wallet, which can be funded by an ever-growing range of cryptocurrencies. Their physical and virtual debit cards can be used in almost 200 countries at over 36 million points of acceptance. To achieve this they leverage the COMIT network, and COMIT Routing Protocol and Cross-chain Payment Channels. Price: $0.90. Max coins: 200m.

Ionomy (ION)

A gaming platform that rewards you in crypto currency. Their games are available on mobile devices. Only one game exists currently but there are four in development. Price: $1.34. Max coins: 21m.

Blocknet (BLOCK)

The Blocknet aims to be the "internet of blockchains". It links blockchains together via a network overlay, a blockchain router and a p2p data transport, which could open up a world of possibilities in crypto. From what I gather it will appear as a blockchain "wrapper" and appear as a single entity on other platforms. They are currently bringing a decentralized exchange to market. Price: $10.50. Max coins: 3.9m.

Expanse (EXP)

Fork of Ethereum. This is a Blockchain-agnostic, community-based project. Expanse’s projects include services for identity (Borderless Identity Management System), equity (Tokenlab), commerce (EscrowLab), governance (DAOLab) and charity (Borderless Charity). Price: $1.69. Max coins: 16.7m.

Sky coin (SKY)

They aim to build a "rich ecosystem” on the Skywire network including a social media platform and a VPN service. Aether is their bit-torrent-like peer-to-peer network. Price: 2.99. Max coins: 100m.

Bitmark (BTM)

Implements Marking, which is a tipping system similar to Reddcoin that can be used in a variety of applications. They aim to integrate Marking into blogging, community, file-sharing, version-control, project management and crowd funding applications as well as in games. Price: $0.39. Max coins: 27m.

Visio (VISIO)

Media storage and distribution on the blockchain. This includes an online video sharing platform and wallet-to-wallet encrypted messaging. Their GUI prototype is reminiscent of Netflix. Price: 0.039. Max coins: 62.6m.

Shift (SHIFT)

Aims to be a decentralised web, starting with a file sharing platform and peer-to-peer content storage. They wish to rid the internet of advertisement, tracking and data mining. Price: $0.69. Max coins: 11m.

Lisk (LSK)

Platform for building decentralised blockchain applications using the Javascript language. Each app will run in its own side chain to ensure scalability. Lisk are currently developing their SDK. Their documentation will be strengthened by the addition of the List Academy. Price: $1.79. Max coins: 110m.

Particl (PART)

A crypto-currency-agnostic, decentralized marketplace that aims to free the market of the fees charged by middlemen in current, centralised online marketplaces. Particl addresses the issues with anonymous marketplaces and plans to avoid becoming the next silk-road by employing a self-governance system. Price: $5.30. Max coins: 8.6m.

Radium (RADS)

Provides a SmartChain that facilitates identity generation and file hashing along with verification of identities and files. Price: $3.28. Max coins: 3.3m.

CounterParty (XCP)

An asset protocol on top of Bitcoin, using a fork of the Ethereum Virtual Machine for their smart contracts. Offers custom token creation, app-deployment and an exchange. There’s also talk of betting and financial derivatives. The lightning network will be employed for faster transactions. Price: $8.68. Max coins: ?.

CureCoin (CURE)

The Proof of Work algorithm for securing the blockchain involves running mathematical algorithms computer hardware. CureCoin utilizes this processing power to perform protein-folding. Miners actively contribute to research into curing diseases like cancer, preventing viruses and designing pharmaceuticals. Price: $0.14. Max coins: ?.

Decent (DCT)

Decentralised content distribution platform for publishing media and deploying apps. Price: $0.87. Max coins: 73m.

Elastic (XEL)

This new-comer provides super-computing on the block chain using the Elastic programming language, which is a limited version of the C language. Why? It avoids exploits, endless loops and data leakage.

Neo (NEO)

This is China's first open source blockchain project. Serves as a Smart Assets platform, which are a combination of Smart Contracts of blockchain and digital assets. Neo are just days away from their official re-brand from Antshares to Neo. This will be accompanied by their new website and road map.

… to be continued

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