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Let us list the the old projects with proven tested dev/dev teams that are steadily working through their road maps.

2yrs old ideally but over 1 yr at the very least. Those dev teams that have stuck around and that are still progressing.

Do not list abandoned crap that is just existing and no recent development at all that is worth a mention.

Also 100% no closed ended insta icos or scams to be listed.

Put a reason why you think they are proven devs and still going strong too. Be good to have a list of the quality durable projects now it is almost impossible to weed through 1000s or scam icos and efart airdrops.

Projects that have proven crypto capable developers only that have coded at least some additional features with real use cases.

Most of these new insta icos shits are failed start ups that thought they would scam some fund raising through the new blockchain craze and have no coders/designers with any proven talent or skill in this arena at all. It is merely a business idea that probably failed to entice investment elsewhere.

Don't spam with junk that does not fit the criteria stipulated above. I only want to compile a list of the real projects here with real developers and hear the reasons why these should be listed here with the cream of the crop.


LIST SO FAR

Do you own research once you find a project that interests you and make your own decisions on how proven and durable the devs and project seems from inception to present. Must be going for at least 1 year and still progressing strongly ahead with their plans that have a real use case.

These are the ones I am familiar with that is not to say they are better or going stronger than any others on this op only that I have looked into them myself at this point.

Just because these are proven long term durable projects with active proven developers does not mean they are a good place to invest for sure.. you must look at long term charts and then research and decide for yourself.

LTC - Litecoin - needs no introduction
ETH - Ethereum - needs no introduction
XMR - Monero - still going strong
DCR - Decred - still going strong
BAY - Bitbay - still going strong
CLOAK - Cloak - still going strong
SYS - Syscoin - still going strong
WAVES - Waves - going strong still after over 1 yr.
ICN - iconomi - I've not researched that too much though
AEON - Aeon - still going
ARK - ARK - still going strong
PIVX - PIVx - still going strong
BYTE - Byteball - still going strong
BLOCK - Blocknet - still going strong
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The ones below I have not looked into at all that much these are here at the suggestion of others on this thread. If you have a valid reason why they should not be there then let me know. I am familiar with these to a degree but have not followed closely. They have been around quite a while but I can not say how strong or useful the development has been or the use cases for them read this thread perhaps the person gave a greater explanation or better find the official thread.. They could all be going very strongly though so look in to them and decide yourselves.

GAME  - Game credits - I've not researched thoroughly so do your own research
VRT - Vertcoin - Old project not researched into it lately
NXT - Next -need to look into that one I think development team are migrating to a new project maybe ..IGNIS,.?
REP - Augur - Not researched it myself.
ABY - Artbyte - I've not researched thoroughly so do your own research
NAV - Navcoin - still going strong but I have not looked into it that much check it out yourselves.


Other projects perhaps a little different

Nastyfans - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86854.0  not heard of this before so may be of interest if you read through the thread. Suggested by a legend member.

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These ones are still alive for over a year but I have not heard of them and have no idea if they are strong projects or devs. They could going strong or may be they are not going anywhere. You must research for yourselves like with any project.  These  still have an active thread I can not say if they have an active developer that is producing new and interesting works with real use cases.

I realise now that when I started this thread i had underestimated the work it would be to read all suggestions on this thread and research and review if they have proven active developers that are actively creating and developing useful features with real world use cases. I can only say these have been around for over 1 year and their thread is still active. You must take time to research and see if these have any value.

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Iconomi (ICN): ICO was last September, so barely more than a year old, but it qualifies under your criteria.

ICO: ran a full month, didn't hit the (reasonable) cap.
Dev team: expanded to >30 people, going strong.
Product: Live, working, continuing to build and expand functionality
Communication: Monthly updates & AMA, Quarterly reports.

Plus they've already spun off their investment research arm to form Cofound.it which itself has mentored and launched a number of highly reputable, strong projects.

Yes, that was quite innovative and is still progressing I will start the list with that one. It did a lot of advertising and seemed to be fairly ran for an ico

Keep them coming. Lets start sorting the proven and tested from the dreams and talk projects on here in an easy to read list without having to spend years of time on sifting through the ann section.

Okay since 90% are new here and have no knowledge about the real projects and only have new unproven dreams and talk ico toilet white paper for currency I will start assisting.

Each day I will add one to the list for you to research for your self.

Today

LTC - Litecoin.

Anyone can help list proven durable projects/crypto devs so we can maintain it here.

1. Monero - it was introduced in 2015, and now one of the top privacy focused project. Unfortunately I missed this train, I remembered when moneto just hit $1 and did not buy in. And now growth has been exponentiall.
2. Decred - its over year project, it is being maintained well. And currently have collaborations with litecoin for atomic swaps.
3. Nxt - not sure on why this project didnt took off. It's one of the oldest projects out there and one of the pioneers of PoS. They're still around and devs are working on new project called ardor based on nxt tech.

Yes those are certainly the type for this list. Although nxt is one to research more its future is migrating to other projects is it not? the dev team are starting ignis or ardor? I've not looked at this one for quite a while.

Thank you cryptohunter for opening this thread!

I hope some veterans will help you to separate the wheat from the chaff.

You're welcome. I am going to add another one today that has a great dev and is still going strong.

bitbay

..i feel like below one had real usecases...potential grow much higher rate than what u mentioned so far......some big partnerships moving forward

1. link
2. steller
3. wanchain (yet to be in market)
4. ada
5. wtc
6. kyber

these are picks for now

No projects younger than 1 yr. I am looking for proven cryto developers that have demonstrated their staying power and abilities already. Potential is not the same thing. That is guessing and estimation. I want only project with a PROVEN track record for staying and getting things done.

Steller is the only one there that I think could be a valid member for the list but I have not really looked into them lately. Have they made a lot of additional developments since branching off xrp?

Yep, they're working at their Ardor project, Ignis is the first child-chain of Ardor, essentially like nxt but running as child-chain. Kind of like parent-child chains architecture. I'm not too psyche about it.

I'm kind of excited about this new project called ADA (cardano) in regards with the development, the project is set to launch their multi-computation layer which houses the smart contract capabilities under K framework, which means in theory the coders can write smart contracts in any language they want. This will significantly decrease the entry barrier of smart contract development. 

This is true. For now though we only want a list of proven long term durable projects. So ada cant go on this list.


Today I add another long term project still going and working forward.

Cloak.

Because of sell pressure, it will unlikely live long.

Waves.
1.5 year old.
2 times ICO price.
Sill developing.
Delivering stuff.
Active Slack and telegram.
CEO travelling the world to promote.
You should check it out.

Yes waves has been at it a while and delivered quite a bit. Added.

NastyFans has been around since 2012 and has distributed more than 700 BTC in that time.  Most members originated from the NastyMining ICO originally listed on the now defunct exchange GLBSE.  When launched, NastyMining had the stated goal of providing 1MH/s of hashrate per seat and recently announced it had surpassed that goal by 1000x while converting to solar/wind energy as well as expanding to offering goods and services.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86854.0

DBTC is going strong for 2 years now  :o this is a coin that can only increase in value over time. You'd be stupid not the buy now as it so cheap  :o

ArtByte, created to support artists of all kinds, launched May 2014.

Active Development:
- enabling SegWit, (http://www.artbyte.me/segwitcsv-progress-tracker)
- working music download site (2+ years) (http://music.artbyte.me
- detailed roadmap (https://www.artbyte.me/roadmap/)
Strong Community of artists & fans, ranked 59th in terms of community size and engagement on CoinGecko.
Real use case: Over 15,000 artist have been tipped on Twitter & Reddit and/or received ArtByte grants & rewards.
Active trading on Bittrex, Lite.eu, Cryptopia, Yobit, Nova

NAV Coin

Started with a PoW phase in 2014 and switched to PoS in 2016. @Prole is still developing the coin with a team around him. Every week updates and development.

https://navcoin.org (https://navcoin.org)

This is truly a shitcoin. Folks if you want to see what a shitcoin is then click here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1485086.0

Usually when a coin converts from PoW to PoS its because they don't have enough miners to secure the network from 51% attacks. In other words.. lack of interest.

Did you not read the OP? Only Augur comes close to qualifying under the criteria set out by CryptoHunter.

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So, for the sake of thoroughness, I'll add ETH to the list. They're slogging stubbornly through their roadmap, one blunder at a time.

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To add something interesting: GAME

GameCredits launched in 2014, they now have a live app store with >300 games, and they're aggressively targeting India along with other markets. On the downside, they then launched the uncapped MobileGo ICO to raise money to fund marketing, but that works out to the advantage of holders of GAME (at the expense of investors in MGO).

CRAVE is still going strong - check it out and then get some passive crypto income, it's great  ;D

Syscoin (SYS) should be on this list, meets all the criteria for sure

Decentralized marketplace with a clear roadmap, been around for years, dedicated dev team, they are about to begin the marketing push to make their platform go mainstream. Blockmarket Desktop recently released, check it out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIqDqReVYAEdRN-.jpg

https://mobile.twitter.com/syscoin/status/902612339765202944/photo/1

https://medium.com/@BlockchainFoundry/syscoin-to-disrupt-ebay-and-real-estate-industries-96aa55ef709a

VTC is good for your list  8)

Wow are you jealous or something bro?  ::) how can a coin that increased 100 times in value in 2017 be shit?  ::)

You think Debitcoin is shitcoin? hahaha laughable  ::)

Take a look at this https://pasteboard.co/GPHkITT.jpg (https://pasteboard.co/GPHkITT.jpg)  :o :o :o :o

you were saying?  :D :D :D

I've not really heard of it can you give  a brief summary of the advancements the developer has made and he usecases?

I am just compiling a list. So if it has made some advancements and the dev is proven it can be added.

It has increased in value 100 times in the last year. It's a self sustaining ecological coin.

Just look at this https://pasteboard.co/GPHkITT.jpg (https://pasteboard.co/GPHkITT.jpg) the coin is going places and looks very impressive.

Karbo. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/karbowanec/

Launched 17 months ago. No premine, no instamine, no dev tax, Pow. Fairly launched and steadily developed cryptonote coin.

Independently from Monero developed gui, ecommerce plugins (WooCommerce, OpenCart) and has working (not yet released) android wallet.

Actively developed and constantly updated.

Development process sometimes funded by community just like in Monero Forum Funding System.

Due to small market cap, not yet particularly famous.

wow interresting coin, it's weird i didn't eard of it before, maybe it still has room to grow i will need to investigate more.

My personal favourite is ARK although it's still young project but they're very ambicious and developing so many things at the same time. Their road/progress map is awsome.
And sooner or later crypto space will need something like smart bridges and then Ark will shine

AEON, already known as Litecoin of Monero. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aeon/

More than two years in existence. Developed by one of the Monero core developers (Smooth).
Biggest version update announced this month and is tested on the test network.
This already lead to big spike of interest - hashrate quadrupled in couple of days.

Hey its not weird friend. There are so many alt coin now, over a 1000. That sometimes a good decent coin just doesnt get noticed amongst all the other coin with big banks shouting behind them. It's up to grass root investor like me and you to believe in a coins potential if it is worth it. Debitcoin has proven it worth  :D

I think they just had their 1 yr birthday

Another coin is

PivX

still going strong and distributed by POW

I'm actually amazed that no one has mentioned xtrabyte.

I'm not in anyway a seasoned investor and I haven't got the thorough knowledge that a few don on this forum, but the product is capable and robust, the community is active, devoted and enthusiastic, the developers are hard-working and committed and I believe this year they are implementing masternodes, which could mean an upward trend. In fact, I think the price has increased over the past few days in lieu of this fact.

As I said I'm not a seasoned investor and you can get some stronger arguments from both sides I'm sure, but do a bit of research and see for yourself. If I had 12gs I'd probably set myself up for a masternoðe

I was listening to an interview yesterday with the lead developer of vertcoin. The project has been around for a few years but he’s been leading it for about 1. Vertcoin is the coin that tested the atomic swap with LTC not too long ago. Vetcoin has an active developer community. Also, it doubled in value this month.

Sadly I don’t own any - yet - but I think it should go on your list

Thanks for the list. I am not active in the alts and was wondering what projects were worth looking at.

Yes a very interesting one. I wish some very high level devs would do a review. Sounds very promising

Is it yet 1 year old though. I can not see that it is quite at that age as yet or is it?

BYTEBALL

No ICO, free distribution.
New technology, smart contracts, predictions, gambling bots etc. already working, very active development.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1608859.0
https://byteball.org/

This is a good list, I also feel that I've missed the monero boat, but in a few years we can see it at $700 each and we can say the same thing about it being $90 at now..

You're welcome it;s time to highlight the good projects with functional code already developed and teams that have been proven durable and here for a good amount of time.

That picture that you posted means nothing. I thought that you were going to post a chart showing the price of Debitcoin.

I still wouldn't trade my BTC to get that coin, just sayin'.

blocknet with successful fork this weekend?

Couldn't agree more.... one of the projects with the most potential of all.

However they need to stop forking things up.

Will add.

there is an update on UI coming soon.

Here is a short list of what's in the works for the Blocknet:

- Design partner reveal (today)
- UI reveal (next week)
- "Toolkit" site that lists supported coins, their config files, documentation, and other data (thanks @ishkb1!)
- TradingView integration work (Core Team)
- Bot "skeleton" in Python for easy DX bot building (thanks @infinity7592!)
- DX API enhancements (Core Team)
- DX order book enhancements (Core Team)
- Visual DX explorer (@infinity7592)
- Monthly quant report (courtesy of FinancialFactory.com)
- New Blocknet website
- New DX website
- Analytics site (think bfxdata.com, but for a DX)
- First demo/testing cycles of the DX frontend
- 0x integration (addition of Ethereum and all ERC20 tokens to the DX)
- Ethfinex integration (Bitfinex's order book on the DX)

Hi, yes hopefully they can speed all of this up and get it functional asap.

I am all for decentralising everything that can be decentralised.