Zilliqa is a blockchain platform aimed at increasing transaction scalability. The developers are building blockchain-based payment solutions that will be able to work even faster than Visa or Mastercard. This will be possible thanks to the sharding technology. Sharding are dividing the Zilliqa mining network into smaller "shards", assuming that each "shard" can handle an X number of transactions, and together they are capable of processing 10X number of transactions. The more users (nodes) participating in the network, the higher the network bandwidth. Token: Zillings (or ZIL) is the payment unit of the Zilliqa network and currently running on their own blockchain (mainnet). ZIL is giving platform usage rights to the users in terms of using it to pay for transaction processing or run smart contracts. What makes Zilliqa protocol stand out for me: 1. Smart use of Proof-of-Work. Zilliqa protocol introduces two types of blocks: transaction blocks (TX-Block) and directory servVer reseña completa

Chainlink is one of the few projects working on the development of decentralized oracles. On Chainlink multiple oracles can work simultaneously, receiving LINK as rewards, thus providing a reliable and stable functionality of complex smart contracts. Chainlink can easily become the industry leader for years to come, but don't forget that is has a serious competition. It also takes a lot of real-world adoption of smart contracts to see the full potential of the project. LINK token: LINK is an Ethereum-based token. Chainlink nodes (oracles) are rewarded with the LINK for receiving data from off-chain systems and converting it into blockchain-compatible formats. Thus, the current use-case of using the token is payment of work for the node operators. Why Chainlink is so hyped (my opinion): Chainlink team has attracted a lot of public attention to their project over the last 2 years, and their community is actively growing. Partnerships with a lot of cryptocurrency projects Ver reseña completa

Electrum is an open-source Bitcoin wallet founded on November 5, 2011. Since 2011, over 230 developers have contributed to the source code of the wallet, and since then, the project has expanded and acquired many useful features, as well as a solid reputation in the blockchain community. Supported platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS Supported currencies: Bitcoin (BTC) MultiSig: Yes 2FA: Yes Security (10/10): The security of this wallet is very high. Multisig, 2FA, cold wallet support, and read-only mode are critical security factors: not all wallets have them. It is also possible to password-protect the login. Electrum is one of the most reliable Bitcoin wallets that is available today (aside from cold and paper wallets) Ease of use (5/10): As I mentioned in cons, this wallet will be difficult to use for inexperienced users. Now modern wallets make everything clean and simple, when even your ordinary intuition can tell you where to click. In Electrum, everything is far froVer reseña completa

BitTorrent is a torrent client designed to speed up downloading files on the Internet. BitTorrent was acquired by the TRON Foundation in 2018. After that, BitTorrent announced the release of an extended version of the protocol and introduced the release of BTT token. It's worth noting that other crypto projects tried to acquire BitTorrent, including NEO. They offered $170M, but TRON eventually secured the deal for themselves. Token economics: BTT is a token on the TRON blockchain (TRC10). Designed primarily to motivate seeders to stay online and distribute files longer in order to maintain high download speed (BitTorrent Speed). BTT will also be integrated as a native token into the BTFS ecosystem. Other use-cases of the token in the BitTorrent ecosystem are also possible. Interesting IEO Facts: 1) Hardcap of $7.2M was raised in 15 minutes (not counting $20M raised on private-sale). 2) Public IEO price per token was $0.00012. Individual cap was $20,000 (in BVer reseña completa

Yobit is a crypto exchange which was founded in Russia in 2014. Since the beginning, this exchange is raising a lot of controversies. Founders of this exchange are unknown, and there's been a lot of speculations about it. For those who considering trading on this exchange: Everyone should be aware that this exchange has a shady reputation. You can find a lot of Bitcointalk threads stating that this is a scammy exchange. Newbies should be extra careful: there's a countless number of illiquid coins and tokens, some tokens (like OMG) represents other projects (it's not OmiseGO). Legal investigations: In 2017 it was under investigation by the Russian regulatory authorities (Roskomnadzor) for its questionable financial activities. Nevertheless, it amazes me that the exchnage is stil operates and presumably doing fine. Exchange support: Everyone should be careful trying to reach their support, cause there's a countless number of scammers, trying to impersonate the project manVer reseña completa

Ravencoin is a digital P2P network designed to transfer digital value from one person to another. It is a fork of Bitcoin allowing tokens to be created on it's own blockchain. The project is completely open source, launched in January 2018, with no ICO. Coin technicals: Ravencoin represents the ultimate RVN cryptocurrency, and a universal blockchain, mining process of which are resistant to centralized ASIC mining. Thus, it is an improved and more decentralized BTC (in terms of the mining), with the ability to issue tokens. At its core, RVN code is exactly the same as the BTC code. However, there are a few differences: 1) The total issue is not 21 million, but 21 billion. 2) Scheduled block rewards (5000 RVN) 3) Advanced AISC-resistant mining algorithm X16R Features: 1) Ability to issue tokens (Asset Layer) Ravencoin has the ability to tokenize real assets, for example: we can have digitized stocks and pay dividends, tokenize property rights licenses and much much more. Ver reseña completa

Nucleus Vision is a personal identification system based on IoT technology. Nucleus Vision helps businesses to recognize their customers and their consumption habits, thanks to special ION sensors that identify each customer who visits the store, which has installed their. Idea: As soon as a customer enters the store, ION sensors recognises him (via signals from his smartphone) and provide a complete summary of information about his previous purchases, the average bill and even suggest the specific discounts that is suitable for him. Every store that has installed this identification system can view all data in real time through the company app. Token: NCASH is a ERC20 token based on Ethereum. NCASH can be used to pay at stores that have installed Nucleus Vision devices. NCASH is also used in the project's ecosystem to pay loyalty program rewards. Features: 1. Internet of Things. Nucleus Vision enables customers and companies to interact through unique IoT devicesVer reseña completa

FirstBlood is an Esports gaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. The ICO took place in September / October 2016, and according to the press reports, $6 million was raised in two minutes (funny thing that the ICO cap was set at $5.5 million) Main idea: FirstBlood allows players to participate in championships and directly fight each other in matches and win rewards. Platform users can test their skills and compete 1v1 or in a 5v5 team match in games such as League of Legends, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Features: The main feature of the platform is that you do not need to rely on any central point to determine the outcome of the match and distribute the agreed rewards. Decentralization of the platform is achieved by the presence on the platform of “Spectators” and “Jurors”, which ensure the integrity and fairness of the results of matches. Overall imperssion: Blockchain technologies are applicable in many areas, and they find particular use in Ver reseña completa

Golem is a global, open and decentralized supercomputer. Computing power consists of the combined power of users' machines, starting from personal laptops and ending with the biggest data processing facilities around the world. Anyone can use Golem to compute (almost) any program in existence, from rendering 3D graphics to computing super-complex tasks like sophisticated AI data calculations. Those who buy computing power from the Golem Network are called Requestors. Anyone with a computer can rent their computing power on the Golem network and generate automated income. These people are called Providers. Token: GNT or Golem Network Token is a utility-token based on Ethereum ERC-20 standard. GNT is needed to pay for computations on the network. As a Requestor, you set a bid for an amount of GNT you are willing to pay to have your task completed. As a Provider, you earn GNT by computing tasks for Requestors. Features: The service also provides software developers and softwareVer reseña completa

Syscoin is aimed at providing a convenient process for exchanging goods on a decentralized marketplaces. Idea: The creators of Syscoin intend to fulfill Satoshi Nakamoto's vision of creating and developing decentralized online stores on the blockchain. On Syscoin platform you can build many things. But the very first and most stand-out use case is decentralized marketplaces. The project offers its own decentralized Blockmarket, where users can create their own online shops and sell goods for cryptocurrency, completely decentralized, without the participation of third parties. Coin: SYS coin is based on Litecoin source code with some modifications. SYS is a Proof-of-Work coin using a difficulty algorithm called Dark Gravity Wave v3 (DGW). Maximum supply: SYS 880,000,000. Community: Syscoin community is pretty much active and really cares about the project. Twitter feed is always full of project updates, posts is getting lots of attention. Chats are very active and people sVer reseña completa

Waves Platform is a smart contract platform founded in 2016. Waves conducted an ICO, raised over $18M in BTC. Today, Waves is one of the most promising and successful projects: they are developing a convenient application tools for designing smart assets, dapps, etc. Waves DEX is a decentralized exchange based on the Waves blockchain. It operates through the Waves Client application, which is a universal tool for accessing Waves services. Main functionalities of Waves Client: 1) DEX, Wallet 2) Issue of tokens (smart assets) 3) Leasing Waves (PoS mining, from 1000 Waves) Overall Impression: In general, a good impression on the DEX and the entire platform. Waves is now one of the best blockchain projects based in Russia. They also have a huge and active community around the world. I really think that it's a very good project that will go far. Current price of WAVES is a mere pennies for the real value of this token. I really liked the process of introducing ERC20 tokens on Ver reseña completa

I was trying to understand, why this project was rated so high on Revain. And my best guess is that this project have questionable reviews all over the place. Let's dive into this project and understand why this is most likely scam. Why I think this project is a scam: First of all, I can't find the project's whitepaper on the official website, or anywhere on the internet whatsoever. You can only stumble upon their "about page" landing, which is not revealing the project's technical side at all. This is a huge red flag. They also have "Our awesome partners" block on their website, which is stating that Google Developer Launchpad, BlockShow and Aeternity Ventures is their partners, and find it very hard to believe. There's no information on the internet that can justify this false information. Community management: Looking at their social media pages... It seems that their community management is indeed poor, or better Ver reseña completa

Binance was founded in 2017 and today it's the largest cryptocurrency exchange. Within a few months after its launch, the exchange gained immense popularity and was one of the most striking examples of the successful Ethereum-based ICOs in the history. Binance DEX is a decentralized exchange developed by Binance. Binance DEX operates on Binance's own blockchain (Binance Chain), which is recording and confirming all internal transactions and exchange operations. Testnet was launched on February 2019. Binance Chain: Binance blockchain launched on a fork of the Cosmos blockchain. Instead of the standard SDK, Binance decided to launch on the Cosmos fork under the name Tendermint Core, which allows it to scale vertically to meet the needs and volumes of DEX. The blockchain itself is not very complex one and is designed more for high scalability than for an abundance of different features, such as smart contracts etc. Moreover, technically, it is not Bitcoin itseVer reseña completa

Nebulas is building a value assessment system and cuttting-edge governance mechanisms for the blockchains. Using Nebulas technologies, it will be possible to quantify the contribution of a specific network participant to the particular blockchain economy. Idea: To put it simply, Nebulas is a blockchain-based value scoring system. Nebulas-based technologies (i.e. Proof of Devotion Mechanism) allows DAOs and other blockchain-based organisations to accurately calculate the contribution of a specific participant (developer or just a regular user), as well as suggest the correct and adequate motivation system (rewards) for them. Token: There's two tokens in Nebulas ecosystem NAS and NAX. NAS is a platform utility token. All internal operations, including payment of transaction fees and the computing service charges are carried out using this token. Whereas NAX is used as a voting token in a Decetralized Staking (dStaking) - users vote for nodes via NAX, and the candidate node Ver reseña completa

Dogecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, which was founded in late 2013. From the very beginning, DOGE is perceived as a crypto joke, that was created just for fun and so on. Nevertheless, the community of Dogecoin was increasing gradually throughout the years, and at the same time, the average market cap of the coin has also increased, which is now stabilised around ~$340 million, which is not a joke at all. Features: The DOGE code structure is similar to LTC. This crypto can be used as a secure P2P payment method. DOGE payments and tips usually taking place in online communities and subreddits, where users post memes related to the currency. Let's run through it's general particular qualities: 1) Catchy. If you are in the crypto for awhile, you've probably heard of Dogecoin. DOGE is quite memorable thanks to the Shiba Inu meme, which is gaining more and more popularity in the internet. 2) Charitable. Dogecoin community is known in participation in charity eventVer reseña completa

Ontology is building a high-performance blockchain platform capable of combining several different blockchains together, improving cross-chain transactions and cross-platform interoperability for dApps. For example, dApps on separate blockchains for cannot always cope with all the functionality, scalability and full applicability of a cross-chain application scenarios. To solve this problem, Ontology devs decided to design a hyper-transition chain in the form of a matrix grid, which can bring together several blockchain chains. Technology-wise Ontology is using a combination of PoS, verifiable random function and BFT (Byzantine Fault Tolerance) systems. Token: Ontology implementing a two token system (ONT & ONG). ONT coin can be used for staking in PoS, whereas ONG is a utility-token in the platform ecosystem that is used to access Ontology on-chain services. Started out as NEO-based token, Ontology quickly became the most hyped and financially successful NEO-basedVer reseña completa

OMG Network is the answer to almost every fundamental questions related to all existing financial institutions and blockchain-based payment systems. The platform enables a fast value transfer for Ethereum-based tokens. It achieved by second-layer transactions based on Plasma technology, which is most likely proposed by Vitalik Buterin. In 2017 it was one of the hottest tokens on the market. OMG was the first Ethereum-based token that has reached $1 billion in market capitalisation. It had the most prominent advisors: Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood. Let’s run through their main advantages: 1) Real-world ready payment system on Ethereum blockchain. OMG Network interconnected with the Ethereum, everyone will be able to conduct financial transactions such as cash payments, process card payments, employees payroll, B2B commercial trading, supply chain financing, loyalty programs, gift cards, asset management and other services in a completely deceVer reseña completa

Qtum is basically Bitcoin on PoS combined with Ethereum. Developers came up with the idea to effectively (not so much) combine bitcoin-like transactions with ethereum-like smart-contracts. Proof-of-Stake combined with UTXO is a pretty interesting idea, but only in theory. They using same transaction output mechanisms (UTXO) like Bitcoin, but confirming the network consensus by validators with higher stakes (PoS), not higher hashing power (PoW). They also utilised the Virtual Machine from Ethereum (EVM), and modified it to be able to work with Bitcoin-like ledger. QTUM Foundation claims that they’ve been the first chain that enables dApps to work on PoS with UTXO technology, which they inherited from BTC. But there’s some shortcomings to that. Vulnerabilities: UTXO accounting mechanism is time-tested only in Proof-of-Work, but it hasn't been properly stress-tested with Proof-of-Stake protocols. Just like in Bitcoin, Qtum nodes are required to store UTXO database in RAM (Ver reseña completa

NEM is a long-timers, they’ve been around since 2015 and now they represent a multi-level organization: NEM Foundation, NEM Studios, NEM Ventures as well as supernode owners, community members, core team and ecosystem partners. I want to emphasise on the fact that NEM was never a hardfork of Bitcoin, but was written from scratch in Java and C ++. For sure, NEM developers drew inspiration from the idea of the blockchain, but they never used an open-source code, like many other altcoin developers did. This was something that caught my attention about them. For me, the most interesting thing from NEM was Proof-of-Importance concept. In "ordinary" PoW protocols, the most valuable players are the ones with the most powerful computing equipment. In Proof-of-Importance - the most valuable players are the ones who contribute the most in terms of participation in the system development, and those with whom they’ve been exchange assets. Thus, the XEM token is fundamentallyVer reseña completa

Simply put, NEO can be called Chinese Ethereum. If Ethereum is Apple, NEO is Samsung. Compared to Ethereum, NEO claims that their smart contracts work better due to their high scalability, interoperability and interconnectivity. Smart contract developers are able to write code in JAVA, C/C # and GO, rather than learn new programming languages like Solidity. According to devs, this approach makes NEO a more attractive platform for developers. At the moment, NEO is in the top-20 by market cap (you can call it mid-cap sh*...altcoin 😉). This means that quite a large number of people trust this platform, and I'm not only talking about China. NEO technologies are of interest to people from many other countries. NEO devs hope to overcome Ethereum in terms of the number of users, which, in my opinion, is quite ambitious. As of real expectations about their ambitions - I will not promise anything. I can only say that at the moment, any 3rd grade smart-contract platform can envy the Ver reseña completa