While cryptocurrencies are often hailed as “anonymous,” in many cases user identity can be traced by following the transaction history on the blockchain. Zcash was born from a project called ZeroCoin, originally geared towards improving anonymity for bitcoin users. Using a specialised form of zero-knowledge cryptography, Zcash makes it possible for fully encrypted transactions to be validated by the network’s consensus protocol. It is worth your while to studySee full review

Iota is an extremely interesting technology and I'm excited for its potential, I just think there's way too much misinformation and hype spreading around. Once again, remember, Iota isn't really a competing solution to Ethereum. It's a competing solution to Raiden and similar systems and I'm interested to see some analysis comparing the two.See full review

NEM is a production ready Blockchain platform and has been tested by many companies and institutions. Its features and contracts are ready out of the box with no need for developers to write complicated contracts from scratch. These facts make this ecosystem one of the best choices for implementing Blockchain applications in this early stages of the Blockchain revolution. I like this projectSee full review

Dash is very clear and elaborate roadmap with significant progress made and as per the planned schedule. The entire progress report is very transparent in the read-only/view-only portal for project documentation that is open to the entire community. As far as I see it is a good projectSee full review

EOS is a controversial project in the dapp arena with a proven team, lofty vision, but questionable execution so far. The $4bln budget should be more than enough, though, for the project to accomplish all it’s set out to do. The next couple of years will be crucial for the platform to place a foothold in the dapp market.See full review