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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3 Altcoins With Real World Use Cases

As more and more Altcoins emerge, it can be hard to determine value when so many do not have even have a working product. This is a big reason that cryptocurrencies are considered a highly speculative investment. We wanted to take the time to highlight some projects that we think are addressing tangible use cases with specific applications and solutions! Here are 3 Altcoins that have real world use cases:

1. MTL (Metal Pay) - Metal Pay is building a payment app that is a lot like Venmo for cryptocurrencies. Using Metal Pay allows you to transfer money to anyone, any time, and rewards every transaction. Metal’s ‘Pop’ features automatically pays out 5% in MTL every time a payment is sent, and the app will support integrations with big banks such as Chase, BofA and Citi, offering an instantaneous bridge between fiat and crypto. MTL could push crypto towards the mainstream and would certainly be simpler solution to sending payment than the standard wallet address copy-paste method (which can limit non-technical folks). The team has been transparent in uploading Metal Pay demo videos to their youtube, and marketing is picking up around the upcoming app launch. it will be interesting to see how adoption of the app plays out and could be worth keeping an eye on as MTL trades at $3.60 on Binance currently.
2. PRL (Oyster Pearl) - Oyster Pearl is creating the future of website monetization and distributed storage, built on IOTA Tangle and Ethereum. Oyster enables a user-friendly way to implement both its revenue generation (only have to add a line of code). Website visitors contribute a small portion of their CPU and GPU power to enable users' files to be stored on a decentralized and anonymous ledger - In return, the website owners get paid indirectly by the storage users and website visitors can enjoy an ad-free browsing experience. PRL trades at $0.81 USD on Kucoin and Cryptopia. The PRL team will be performing an airdrop of SHL(Oyster Shell) in the near future, SHL will be used to pay for connectivity and Dapp operation across the Oyster meshnet and SHL will be paid out automatically to all PRL holders at a 1:1 ratio.
3. ELA (Elastos) - Elastos is the building the first internet operating system that uses the internet as the base-layer infrastructure rather than an application. Elastos will call this the SmartWeb, and Dapps will be able to run on a peer-to-peer network without centralized control.The goal of the team is to build a new type Internet community with honesty and without network attacks. Recently, the team posted a photo of an iphone running on the Elastos operating system to Twitter (see tweet here). There has been a lot of mystery behind ELA as the circulating supply has not yet been reported on coinmarketcap, and many believe this number will be low due to a variety of lock ins by the team and some early investors; which could send the price higher. Regardless, after forming the G3 alliance with NEO and Ontology (ONT), Elastos is a project that is in good company, and could be worth checking out as it trades at $37 on Huobi currently.

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