Waltonchain and the IoT Revolution

Waltonchain (WTC) is a project that has caused controversy from it’s ICO during a sensitive time in The Asian crypto markets, but has continued to deliver on the back of a revolutionary team and product in the IoT blockchain space. The WTC blockchain is uniquely built to integrate directly with RFID sensor chips which write directly to the blockchain. This ensures authenticity and ultimately enables teams to build hyper traceable ecosystems. There is massive value in this technology with a large number of supply-chain oriented businesses, and WTC has drawn partnerships with Alibaba Cloud and The China Mobile IoT alliance.

WTC has been trading down the past few months with the bear market, but is starting to show signs of life as the team continues to deliver on the roadmap. The Waltonchain platform has also already birthed child chains in Freychain and Fashionchain, and will continue to grow as a leading IoT project in the space. The long-term value proposition is something to keep in mind, and WTC trades at just $6.71 on Binance today.

from www.waltonchain.org

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Time For Bitcoin Bull Run?

Bitcoin is currently riding towards a three month low and has been sent downward in the past few days by fear surrounding a hack of a small exchange in Korea, along with sentiment from US government that ICOs will be labeled securities moving forward. BTC is the digital father of cryptocurrencies, and altcoins are swift to follow it’s price movements (Often with 10-20% greater amplitude than that of BTC).

While the SEC made their stance clear that initial coin offerings and tokens will be labeled securities(and thus face more stringent regulation), they were also clear that Bitcoin is not a security. BTC will remain a commodity and this is definitely positive news for. China has recently shown signs that the BTC ban may be repealed, which would be a tremendous boost of confidence to the Bitcoin markets. While the ICO environment may be uncertain in the coming months, Bitcoin should see a resurgence in market cap domination as well as price in the months to come. BTC is currently trading at $6,766 on Bittrex, Binance, and Coinbase.

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Hot Altcoin 🔥Dorado Drones (DOR)

The Dorado team has completed their ICO of DOR token, which will be listed on exchanges in the coming weeks. Dorado has built logistics network using drones that can greatly enhance on-demand delivery, and the team is in prime position to disrupt the online food and commerce logistics industry. This is not just a concept, they have already achieved a successful MVP (Minimum Viable Product) in Foodout Group- which has been operating for 3 years, is active in 6 countries, and has over 1 million platform users.

While Foodout Group has focused mainly on last mile food delivery, Dorado will expand that horizon globally to deliver anything that online shoppers should desire. The problem of last-mile delivery is one that the largest service providers such as Amazon and Uber Eats are struggling with at the moment, and Dorado has a big answer. This image from teams website explains how effective their HyperLocal Logistics platform is, which uses blockchain to connect customers to a network of human couriers, drones, and robots(yes, robots) to deliver anything from store/restaurant to front door in just minutes.

Image from https://www.dorado.tech/

The token for Dorado's ecosystem is DOR, and it will be used to gain discounts in the network, and access to a variety of user benefits. A big incentive for these tokens is that DOR holders will receive a disbursement of 7% of the ecosystems net sales, quarterly. Considering Foodout Group already earns $50mn USD a year, this is a compelling case for Dorado’s token. The team's roadmap is solid and can be found on their website (www.dorado.tech) 200 million DOR tokens were sold in the public ICO. Look for DOR to debut on platforms in the coming weeks, as it is a project to keep an eye on.

Image from https://www.dorado.tech/

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Hot Altcoin 🔥Civic

Civic (CVC) is revolutionizing the idea of identity management by providing cross-platform, secure, and low-cost identity management services. The Civic platform is actually a blockchain of verified identities, and the ecosystem includes users, validators and service providers. Identity information(Name, Passport, SS, etc) can be uploaded to a user’s phone and secured with a fingerprint scan. This information will be stored only on the phone and can be referenced on the public blockchain through attestations. Validators(FI’s, governments, utility companies, etc) are tasked with ensuring the information put into the public blockchain is correct, by cross-checking with public references; and they are incentivized to do so by receiving CVC tokens in exchange.

CVC tokens are the utility token of the platform and will also be used by service providers(hotels, bankes, etc) as a means of purchasing access to the rights of the users' information. This system is a massive improvement from a cost perspective on a sector that is racking up higher costs for KYC (know your customer) processes. It also provides a fully decentralized mechanism of trust and confirmation, which is important given the vast scope of the recent equinox hack. Civic's team is backed by many years of experience from their C-level, all of whom have found great success with companies like Deloitte and RBS. They know how broken the current system is, and have been doing a great job to ensure Civic addresses these shortcomings.

The Civic app is already in open enrollment for users, and partnerships between validators and service providers are growing as well. As the team expands, if they can continue to gain adoption, CVC will become increasingly valuable given it’s strongly defined use case. CVC trades at just $0.41 USD on Huobi and Bittrex at the moment.

Civic Ecosystem, from https://www.civic.com/blog/staking-cvcs-token-behavior-model/

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Hot Altcoin 🔥 ELF

ELF token is the fuel behind aelf, which is a top 100 market cap cryptocurrency project. The aelf team has set out to build an overarching blockchain infrastructure built to scale commercially and will accommodate all of the existing systems utilizing cross-chain tech (enabling resource isolation and interpretability). ELF will be the token used to pay fees in the system around deploying side chains and transferring tokens. The aelf network is being built to operate on scalable nodes on clusters of computers, becoming a decentralized cloud computing network. This innovative approach will create maximum computing efficiency distributed across the entirety of the network.

The goal is lofty and the price action has picked up recently around news that the team will be announcing major partnerships with large industry players at an event that the aelf team is holding in Singapore early this week. If they can deliver on some solid partnerships, and continue to progress on their product, ELF token could be a big deal. Currently, ELF trades at $1.90 USD on Binance and Huobi.

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Cryptocurrency Airdrop 101

Airdrops have become a popular term in the realm of crypto. By definition, an airdrop refers to: “a procedure of distributing tokens by awarding them to existing holders of a particular blockchain currency, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.”  Cryptocurrency airdrops are essentially a means of receiving free tokens in a new project by holding the mainchain token it is deploying on. Examples of airdrops include Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold (both of which airdropped from a snapshot of those who held BTC.) As more projects develop, and new protocols emerge, we wanted to discuss a few tokens that could be great to hold in order to benefit from airdrops moving forward.

1. EOS - EOS is a top ten crypto, and the team is building a blockchain platform that is feeless and scalable. The team has already announced they will be airdropping projects that will be going live on the platform such as Everipedia. The EOS mainnet will launch and June and it could pay major dividends moving forward to register and hold EOS for future airdrops as well. It currently trades at $11.48 on Binance.

2. LRC - Loopring protocol is building a decentralized automated execution system that trades across the crypto-token exchanges, shielding users from counterparty risk and reducing the cost of trading. LRC is an ERC20 token(built on Ethereum network), but the team will be airdropping LRN and LRQ to support cross functionality for both NEO and QTUM. As the space becomes more siloed, LRC could be a great connector, and receiving airdrops of future network support tokens could be a big advantage for those that hold Loopring. LRC trades at $0.76 on HitBTC at the moment.

3. PRL - Oyster Pearl is a protocol focused on enhancing web revenue experiences by enabling website owner’s with an anonymous and decentralized user-friendly way to implement both revenue generation (only have to add a line of code), file storage. Recently, PRL holders received a 1 to 1 airdrop of SHL (Oyster Shell), which is essentially the gas of the network they are building. Holding PRL could yield more free tokens if the network expands additional functionality moving forward! PRL trades at $0.74 on Kucoin at the time being.

These are three projects that are not on everyone’s radar, and it is likely that the staple tokens like Bitcoin, Ethereum, NEO will also have a variety of airdrops moving forward. It is important to note that not all airdrops are supported on exchanges, and often the most effective way to receive an airdrop is to store on a personal wallet such as Metamask or a Ledger Wallet.

Always make sure to do extra homework when researching airdrops, and ensure to follow specific instructions given by the project teams themselves!

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Hot Altcoin 🔥 Lisk

LSK (Lisk) - LSK has been hit among the hardest over the last 30 days from a price movement perspective, but the ETH and BTC markets are starting to rally. Lisk's Sidechain Development Kit makes it easy for companies and developers to build their own blockchain. The tools are free for everyone, open source and written in JavaScript. Blockchain technology can provide tremendous value across a large span of industries from healthcare to supply chain management, but many companies do not have blockchain developers to build entire ecosystems from scratch. Lisk is aiming to make this process easier, much like Shopify has made deploying and operating e-commerce sites an easy and accessible process.

The LSK team announced today that they have officially released the beta version of their Core chain. Although altcoins have been hammered of late, Lisk is a project to keep an eye on. The success will depend on the adoption of teams deploying applications on the platform. If it is truly pain-free to deploy sidechains on the Lisk platform, then it certainly could have a bright future! Right now, LSK trades at $9.50 USD on Binance and Bittrex.

Photo from Lisk team twitter(@LiskHQ)

Top 5 Altcoins to Watch in 2018

As Bitcoin is starting to show signs of life again, we wanted to highlight some Altcoins that could go big in 2018. It’s always important to know Altcoins often are associated with higher risk. Approach these with caution, but understand with higher risk comes higher reward. Here are 5 Altcoins that are positioned well for the future:

1. VEN (VeChain) - VeChain is looking to become the top distributed business ecosystem and is led by CEO Sunny Lu (former CIO of Louis Vuitton China). They are making a compelling case with a power lineup of confirmed partnerships that include PwC, Kuhne + Nagel (Massive Global Freight Company), BMW, and China Unicom. The team is offering varying levels of nodes to those who lock in large portions of VEN, which will enable higher staking bonuses of THOR (similar to NEO/GAS relationship). VEN trades at $3.83 on Binance and is starting to rally after getting beat up the past couple weeks.

2. NANO - NANO (formerly Raiblocks) saw a massive surge around the turn of the year, trading as high as $37 at one point. The price took a big hit with the recent bear market alongside a BitGrail exchange hack (which had nothing to do with NANO tech, but was the fault of an incompetent exchange operator). Recently, the price has been steadily rising and Twitch embraced NANO as a means of donating crypto to streamers on the Twitch platform. Thanks to it’s unique block lattice architecture, NANO already offers feeless, instantaneous transactions, as well as unlimited scalability, making it ideal for peer-to-peer payments. NANO trades at $11.77 on Binance, and offers an extremely diversified holding in block lattice technology that is starting to get the credit it deserves.

3. EOS - EOS is building a blockchain architecture that has the potential to scale to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications. They have been running a unique year long ICO and will release their mainnet in the coming months. Projects such as Everipedia have committed to airdroping tokens that launch on the EOS network for free to those who hold EOS. Currently, EOS trades at $6.13 on Binance and Bithumb and it should be exciting to see how the mainet launch and future airdrops play out heading into June.

4. NEO - NEO has emerged as one of the strongest altcoins due to it’s committed team, large community and its strong positioning as the cryptocurrency of China. They have further solidified that positioning in China with the recent formation of the G3 alliance alongside ONT and ELA, and the country continues to show a strong commitment to innovations in the blockchain space. Holding NEO on Binance receives monthly GAS payouts, which you can calculate here. NEO trades at $91.32 at the moment on Binance and Kucoin.

5. XMR (Monero) - Monero is the leader in private and censorship-resistant transactions and has been for a few years. A team of researchers at Princeton recently found it to be the only truly untraceable coin. Moving towards the future of the space, XMR may prove to be immensely valuable to many who are looking to truly move in silence, and no other coin offers this at the moment(according to Princeton). XMR has a strong dev community and trades at $284 on Bittrex at the time being and is the strongest of the privacy coin holdings available.

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Hot Coins 🔥 WePower

WPR (WePower) - WePower recently finished up their ICO in February, during which they raised $40 million USD. The WPR team has set out to fix the problem of companies using dirty energy sources (think fossil fuel / CO2 heavy gas emissions). They are addressing this problem by empowering a more decentralized process of building green energy projects. The two main use cases are as follows:

1. Deploy smart contracts that enable participants to invest and finance green energy projects as well as acquire green energy in an efficient, secure and transparent way.
2. Provide access to live trade renewable energy across the globe, think of this as a green energy ‘secondary market’.

At its core, WePower is a lot like an independent energy supplier that is aiming to take power away from big oil money and put it into the hands of the general public, to help build a greener tomorrow. The team recently met with the European Commission, who was interested in learning more about the vision. WePower also announced a partnership with Elering, who is the main supplier of independent electricity and gas in Estonia.

It’s encouraging to see the founder of the project, Nikolaj Martyniuk, has over 10 years of experience in the green energy sector, and spearheaded the building of the largest power plant in the Baltics as CEO of Modus in 2016. The WPR project is still early days, yet it offers a differentiated approach, an extremely applicable use case, and strong ties to the industry leaders and bureaucratic powers that be(whether you want to admit it or not, this is important).

WPR currently trades at $0.21 USD on Huboi, and just barely missed out on winning Binance community coin of the month vote (Elastos won the listing). With a Market cap ranking of 165, this is a small-cap crypto project worth paying attention to!

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Hot Coins 🔥 OmiseGO

OMG (OmiseGO) - OmiseGO is a public Ethereum-based financial technology for use in mainstream digital wallets. OMG enables real-time, peer-to-peer value exchange and payment services agnostically across jurisdictions and organizational silos, and across both fiat money and decentralized currencies. Designed to enable financial inclusion and disrupt existing institutions, OmiseGO has already partnered with large names such as McDonalds, MUFG and Mizuho Bank. Omise is a payments company that has been around since 2013, the team is experienced and they already have a strong foothold across Asia - which primes them well to be able to launch the OMG network. It also doesn’t hurt that Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, is advising the project.

Over the rest of 2018, the team’s road map is to complete building the entire OMG network alongside plasma-chain. After completion, and stress testing the network heavily, they will welcome all companies, applications, institutions, and governments to join the network of finance, banking and payments. OMG trades at $16.89 on Binance. and is ranked 22nd in market cap. There is a lot of hype around OmiseGO for good reason, and it could moon if the network launch stays on track.

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Hot Coins 🔥 VeChain, CryptopiaFeeShares & Obsidian

Week of January 14th, 2018

VEN (VeChain) - The VeChain Foundation has set out to become the top distributed business ecosystem. The project’s CEO Sunny LU, who was most recently the CIO of Louis Vuitton China, has been doing a damn good job of getting that done. They have already formed partnerships with PwC, Kuhne + Nagel (Massive Global Freight Company), and China Unicom (Chinese Telecom operator  w/ 4 largest mobile subscriber base in the world). Just today, VEN partnered with the Chinese Government as well, with the National Tobacco Corporation. At $6.20 USD and a market cap ranking of 30, VEN is a solid pickup.

CEFS (CryptopiaFeeShare) - CEFS is an interesting token that distributes 4.5% of the gross fees collected each month on the Cryptopia exchange to those who hold it. The price is strikingly high at about $7,500 USD right now, but there are only 6,300 tokens in circulation and that is a hard cap. At current trading levels, one coin would yield ~$90 USD a month, which would be about $1,000 USD a year. CEFS is greatly undervalued in comparison to similar exchange tokens on Kucoin (KCS) and Binance (BNB). What makes it even more enticing is that Cryptopia added one million users in december, and that number is set to double in January. As the exchange grows, so grows the dividend, and maybe even the price of CEFS. It trades exclusively on Cryptopia at the moment.

ODN (Obsidian) - Obsidian is a project that is building a private data-exchange platform, centered around private messaging. It is definitely an early stages project as the app is in beta, but it is relatively unknown and sits at a market cap ranking of 363.  The team is growing and if they deliver on some Q1 goals, ODN should see a sharp increase. It trades at $1.30 on HitBTC and Cryptopia.

If a private messaging platform seems a bit generic to you, this comparison should explain why people are getting excited about Obsidian, and what they intend to accomplish:

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