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Does anybody know of any good ETH forks worth investing these days? I've previously invested into Expanse, only to lose a substantial amount of money because of the ever-decreasing prices on the market. I have some ETC left after the hard fork on 2016, but I'm tempted to sell it in exchange for other smart contract platforms with greater tech and features. While TRON and EOS are not ETH forks, they certainly look like a better option than ETH-based forks for long term investing.

Still, I'm on the hunt for good ETH forks that are popular in the mainstream world today. I plan to invest a little into each fork for diversification. If anyone knows a list of good ETH forks, please let me know. Any suggestions or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. :)

I won't suggest you a ETH fork as all of them are useless. Though ETH itself is a fork from ETC, they have become the largest utility coin.
Every other ETH fork after that are just a gimmick to gain popularity. And good developers have stopped forking coins.
If you want competitors for ETH, new chains like Cardano, EOS and to some extent Tron could be a good option.

AFAIK if ETC is the only fork of ethereum, other than it can be considered as a new smartcontract platform. It looks like there was no choice of other than ETC. Isn't it better to put it all into the new coin with new tech? my choice was tezos.

ETH has tons of forks but ETC is the only one that you should invest in rest all are either dead or scam.
But I would suggest not to invest in any forks right now 'coz with the rumour of ETH 2.0 we might see a good movement on ethereum.

1. Not all Eth Fork are useless
2. Ethereum is not a fork from ETC, you got it all wrong, Ethereum Classic is the fork from ethereum.
3. Ethereum Classic (ETC) is good enough for OP to consider, we also have DAO which is another excellent fork of Ethereum

Actually when I'm new to cryptos I have thought of this as well. But after someone corrected me and after reading some insightful materials to support the statement.
ETH is the actual fork which means ETC was the original but ETH is the known and widely supported by us.

Ethereum Classic is the only legit, well built Ethereum fork I've ever known, others are trash jobs, mostly pump and dump projects, you can consider Tezos coin too, very promising it is, it will definitely grow bigger in near future

Another good question, so I did some research and found these forks:

https://i.imgur.com/uo9PSht.png

https://www.forks.net/list/Ethereum/

However, I never heard any of them, so I would say that there's no good ETH forks so far, and just like BTC the one and original still takes the interest of most investors.

Wait, the only one that ring a bell to me is EtherGold, but it is still way behind its previous all time high, like -60%.

OP I suggest you choose only ETC, I was rekt investing on EtherZero, that project is a very bad one and probably other Ethereum forks, the best fork of ethereum is ethereum classic, even the once highly recommended Ethergold is now way down compare to ATH

We are talking about projects that used ETH codebase with a slight change right? then you can try to read this thread:
List of Ethereum forks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5176389.0)
Point to note, there are a lot of them in the ecosystem not limited to the list mentioned above on the link.
I think investing your money on Tomochain is not a bad idea, because it fully supports what ETH supports right now. Not to mention it also has a staking system on its network which allows its users to get passive income from holding it.

Calisto isn't eth fork, it's etc fork same like bsv forked from bch. ethereum has 9.5k fork on github, all erc20 token forked from go-eth.
tbh

I think Tron and EOS are the right choice for long-term investment.
plus if you hold trx you will get an airdrop JST token which some time ago was announced by justin sun.
other eth forks don't look too good in the long term, it just my opinion  ;D

And you know ETC comes from ETH fork, right? that means Calisto is one of ETH fork because it uses ETH codebase as its source.
ETH fork = ETC >> ETC fork = Calisto
It is a sub-fork of ETH itself, nothing changes. We do not need to overcomplicate it.

I do not understand why you have the urge of investing in a ETH fork when ETH itself is considered as the best altcoin. If you looking for short term return then you should go for alts that have a bright future. Most forks of Ethereum have failed miserably in the market. In my opinion you should try Chainlink, great project and good team. The best thing about it is that it's price is still below $10.

By the way why do you think Tron and EOS are great for investment?

Is it? I somehow heard of DAO but I was thinking it is kind of stablecoin or something. If DAO is fork of ethereum, we can claim free DAO if we hold ethereum at the time of forking? Honestly I never claimed any ethereum forks. Ethereum classic is existing before I own my first ethereum ::). Could you please add some more details on this DAO as it seems worth of claiming some free etehreum if I had happened to hold some ethereum on my MEW at the time of forking.

EDIT:
Hey you told DAO an excellent fork but coinmarketcap is showing something different.
Yes, if there is only one DAO up to the date, this DAO was dead already as per coinmarketcap. Here is the direct link for DAO : https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/the-dao

Moreover, it was mentioned as token but a fork cannot be a token because it should be a mineable coin if I got the right link from google search ::).

There are more than one hundred of forks from Bitcoin, and I am sure that the number for ETH forks are significantly bigger than 100 and they will keep increasing. That's odds and sucks.

It is a big surprise for all if one can make a thread like that one, but this time, for ETH forks. How Many Bitcoin Forks Are There? You will be surprised!!! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5221882.0)

I haven't seen a good Ethereum fork on the market yet. It is better to join in the ERC20 token system by Ethereum than fight against it by making a completely new fork. Plenty of success in ERC20 tokens than a copy cat of Ethereum.

Here are few ethereum forks I know of
1. Ethereum Classic
2. EtherZero
3. EtherGold
4. Etheroll
5. Ethereum Cash
6. Ethereum Blue
7. Ether-1
8. Ethereum X

And many more, you need to make sure you choose right here, many of these coins aren't that good compare to top 100 altcoins on coinmarketcap, minus only ethereum classic, which I will recommend, it's your risk, goodluck

Even the Ethereum Classic respects the old chain, not changed, it can´t provide the basic blockchain needs: decentralization - there are just few developers and miners - that means that the network is not resistant against PoW attack and thanks to that sooner or later will die.

I don't think there are any good ETH forks.
There is a legitimate reason for ETC to exist, but that's the only one that's not just a money-grabbing scam that exploits the name of ETH.
Every ETH fork apart from ETC is pointless, offers nothing and has no use.
As for ETC - I don't think it really has a long-term future; ETH is and will remain the main version - particularly with ETH 2.0 and staking coming soon, whilst ETC remains PoW.

Let me ask you a question, Do you really need eth fork?. Why not just use the eth itself rather than using an eth fork. If I we're you I would use the eth crypto rather than the eth fork. Eth doesn't have high transaction fee so it's also a good choice to choose where forks might be not as good as the eth itself.

you're right. nobody needs all these forks. this is the dumbest investment you can find. Forks exist in order to improve the main blockchain and I don’t understand why people buy these coins

There are more scam forks as my memory reminds me: Ethereum Dark, etc. Their scam developers asked for mnemonic seed of ETH in order to claim their scam coins. After being detected by community, they tried to make other scam ones. I did not follow up what they did after get failed with their scam attempts. Maybe those mainnet of scam coins have never been launched.

I don't know how correct the stats on that site are because when I checked with Bitcoin forks, there are not many forks are shown. AFAIK, there are more than 100 forks of bitcoin.

That's certainly true, mate. Most ETH forks are indeed useless. I'm surprised that this has not been the case with some Bitcoin forks (such as BCH and BSV). One thing for sure is that forks have lesser value than the original project. This means that no matter which features or technology a fork has, it could fail in the long run if there's lack of demand on the market. Real use cases for the mainstream world is what matters here.

Speaking of ETH-based forks, I guess that the only one that's best is ETC. The rest will simply go down the drain over time. Forks like Expanse, and Ubiq have promising features but they lack mainstream adoption. As far as alternative smart contract platforms go, I believe that Cardano has a better chance of becoming a real contender against Ethereum. At least, it's not an ETH fork, with its own code from scratch. Some say that TRON has "plagarized" Ethereum's whitepaper. I've been using it for a while, and I have to say that everything is the same as ETH except for the part of the DPoS consensus algorithm.

I think that the best option here is to buy and "hodl" Ethereum Classic (ETC) for the long term. It has reached new milestones in development after it came into inception in 2016. Now, ETC is a store of value just like Bitcoin with only 210 million coins that will ever be mined on the Blockchain. The total supply vs current price on the market, shows us that ETC is quite undervalued. But who knows? Maybe ETC turns out to be a good long term investment as miners from ETH switch to the ETC chain. After all, the main ETH blockchain will become a full-fledged PoS cryptocurrency. If active development continues on ETC, it could turn out to be widely successful over time. ;D

Hmm.. Isnt ETC stay on the old chain?


So which one is the fork??

The only reason why ETH become dominant is because of the support of the majority of the community and developers.  Try to read this article : Ethereum Classic vs Ethereum (ETC vs ETH): What’s the Difference? (https://coincentral.com/ethereum-classic-vs-ethereum/#:~:text=Ethereum%20is%20a%20fork%20of,stay%20immutable%20no%20matter%20what.) to know which one is a fork.

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@OP this one is a good read Mapping the Most Important Ethereum Forks (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-major-ethereum-forks/)

Why people still finding alternatives? Currently a lot of happening on the Ethereum network, finally they should deliver what they are promising for 3 years and what's better? The price is 83% down since the last ATH price. So I do not see any reason, why you should care about the copies when you can have the original one :).

I recommend one token which in my opinion is very good. I followed the journey of the token starting from the first project listing until now. Atomic Wallet Coin is a wallet platform that has two token versions, the Ethereum and Binancedex versions.

If you look at this time, the price of the token has reached
$ 0.318849 USD (19.26%)
0.00003233 BTC (18.15%)
0.00128816 ETH (17.72%)

I am sure if you have a lot of capital, you will reap greater profits.

but in the reality many of them are "claimed" ethereum fork are useless and shitcoin.
i just know ETC and ETI are still running and have big community than other Ethereum fork coin

for now idon't think any good ethereum hardfork are good to be an investment coin, but why not to trying in old Ethereium fork like Ethereum classic where tis coin are more trusted and reliable where developer and community are active and have big marketshare

Thanks for sharing. There are currently many ETH forks out there with unique features in the crypto/Blockchain space. For instance, Ubiq has a greater block time than ETH in order to reduce the number of orphaned blocks (uncles) on the Blockchain. It makes the network more stable than the original Blockchain platform. The only thing is that UBQ is not as widely adopted as bigger forks like ETC and EXP. At least, the idea/concept is there. We can have as many ETH forks as we like, but ultimately one will win. Considering that ETC is the biggest ETH fork in the blockchain space, it has all the odds of surviving for a very long time. I'm placing my bets on ETC, hoping that it'll become extremely valuable in the future due to its limited supply of only 210 million ETC. :)



Well, the Ethereum blockchain is currently clogged with high transaction load. The dev team is taking a long time to scale the blockchain with the adoption of PoS. Everything is starting to look like Bitcoin right now. In ETH, there are already Layer-Two solutions on the works to reduce the burden on the main Blockchain network. But we definitely need ETH to go full-fledged PoS in order to drastically boost transaction performance. Right now, ETH forks may be cheaper and less widely adopted than Ethereum, but they're faster and much more scalable.

My favorite ETH fork so far is ETC due to its hard cap in supply which resembles Bitcoin in every way. I believe that once ETH goes full PoS, miners will migrate into the ETC chain. As a result, ETH will become less secure while ETC will gain all the benefits. Since I still have some ETC from the fork back in 2016, I have nothing to lose if it turns out to become a failure in the future (I hope not). The more it rises in price, the better it'll be for my pocket. I think that buying and "hodling" both ETH and ETC will turn out to be a great investment in the long term. :D