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I have made too many researches to find new high potential projects in crypto world. I have found a new project which is Spl.yt Core Foundation, a Science Blockchain-backed nonprofit operating out of Santa Monica CA, is an open-sourced smart contract-based e-commerce protocol that will support the foundation of a more efficient, transparent, and secure e-commerce system. Spl.yt will help buyers and sellers save time and money by removing middlemen functions and services through decentralizing the e-commerce stack. Spl.yt’s top smart contract capabilities include an automated global inventory system, fractional asset ownership and management, inter- marketplace reputation tracking, fair dispute resolution system, and automated affiliate marketing rewards. All of these features are powered by the blockchain, assuring anyone who buys or sells things online that they will have the most fair and efficient e-commerce experience possible.

They are developing a public social utility protocol to form the foundation for a decentralized e- commerce system. The Spl.yt protocol will help buyers and sellers save time and money by removing middlemen functions to empower e-commerce participants to achieve their economic goals. The design and intent of this protocol is such that, ultimately, it will become a self- sustaining system that is operated and governed by the community with little involvement from the Spl.yt Core Foundation.

When many websites and marketplaces work together through Spl.yt, they can focus on competing on what matters most to customers — like shipping costs/delivery speed, support, niche expertise, etc. Further, independent sellers will love these features as well. For example, when Amazon, eBay, and textbooks.com are all on Spl.yt, a student selling their old textbooks can list to one website and the Spl.yt protocol will take care of the rest to make sure the listing is in front of every potential buyer. Everyone saves time, energy and money with Spl.yt!

Every marketplace worries about the threat of fraud and dissatisfied customers. They know how fake listings can scare away customers and cause unnecessary disputes, all while distracting from their quality products. Fake web-crawler/bot hits are notorious for running up click-through marketing commissions. And a hack or failure of centralized marketplaces can lose sellers’ revenue and customer respect.

Spl.yt counters these issues with token economics, decentralization, and smart contract security. In the Spl.yt ecosystem, customers and sellers can easily settle disputes through our Dispute Resolution Protocol, which ensures any complaint is painlessly and fairly resolved. Token rewards entice anyone to police spam from the comfort of their own home. And because decentralized smart contracts are always running, sellers can know commissions are only paid when due and only quality products are listed — all without downtime. Every existing marketplace will enjoy an upgrade with Spl.yt.

We are only limited by our imaginations for what is possible in Spl.yt-powered e-commerce world. Join us as we change the way people shop online. Learn how today at https://www.spl.yt/

E-commerce is currently dominated by data-rich middlemen like Amazon, Alibaba, CJ Affiliate, eBay, Walmart and other intermediary e-commerce application and services, but while these tech giants accumulate power through collecting more and more data about consumers, the experience and economics for buyers, sellers, and other marketplaces remains stagnant. Buyers must search multiple marketplaces to find product availability and best prices. Vendors must switch between marketplaces to update their inventories or risk double-selling and jeopardize their reputation. Ultimately, these middlemen collect high fees on every transaction, cutting into vendor’s profits and increasing product costs for consumers. Marketplaces lack efficient mechanisms for rewarding affiliate marketers that assist with the sale of products and deal with problems related to fraud, spam, and inefficient dispute resolution systems.

Spl.yt has developed a protocol powered by smart contracts that aims to revolutionize the e- commerce ecosystem with its global inventory on the blockchain and tokenized rewards to incentivize honest, real transactions. Some of the capabilities enabled by the Spl.yt protocol include global inventory wherein listings are synced across marketplaces, more accurate listings and fraud/spam detection, incentivized affiliate marketing via automated payments, dispute resolution, reputation tracking, and fractional ownership managed by smart contracts.

Nebulas (NAS) is a promising blockchain 3.0 They got all chances to be successful if they will implenent the Nebulas rank feature which is based on liquidity, propagation of users' assets, the interactivity between users and used to rank addresses, smart contracts, decentralized applications (Dapps) and other entities on the blockchain.

I think Nebulas and other cross-blockchain intitiatives are big winners. Other instances includes MyWish (smart contract marketplace currently across NEO, ETH, BTC, and soon EOS) and Komodo (decentralized exchange interoperable with different blockchains via atomic swap).

Watch for QuarkChain (QKC) in 2018 because i think it's very promising high-speed blockchain that will compete Etherium and will take place in TOP-10 on coinmarketcap soon.

Just listen to this and decide for yourself: https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/hashing-it-out-14/

e commerce platform is always promising, because it has a billion dollar market and high business potential. but the important thing is to change a person's mind to move and choose an e commerce platform that uses blockchain technology, because it's very difficult to do.

Existing cryptocurrencies fall short of being fully anonymous; whether it's from network-level deficiencies or economic shortcomings. There is no cryptocurrency in existence that guarantees full end-to-end encryption of the distributed network.ADC used a one-million ADC fund to develop this rotation system and community for this system.There will be no regular winners or losers in this system. It does not specify the person who will go first. It does not create a downline because people going ahead may become a loser and vice versa

There are many blockchain based projects related to e-commerce but it is very hard for now to compete with those companies we need at least 5-10 years.

Check Blockshipping.
ICO ongoing.

The blockchain based GSCP platform is the world's first freight container registry and the first global platform allowing all players in the shipping industry to perform a wide range of transactions related to the handling of containers.
The GSCP ICO offers a set of token features including a Revenue Sharing Model as well as a Market Maker Fund that allows ICO contributors to sell their coins back to the platform at a floor price until Blockshipping has met certain fixed milestones.

I took them already for bounty campaign because I want to take as more as possible their tokens. Via bounty and token sale.


Acorn collective. ICO just finished. Soon on exchanges. HITBTC and Bancor. Fund managers invested here; most of collected money is fund industry money.

E-commerce projects are really useless projects in people needs so most of the peoples are not interested to invested on E-commerce project. But this year many projects are arrival but not all are successful in future so all the peoples are really avoid in these kind of projects and I don't encourage this projects in future.

Speaking of the most promising projects in 2018, i think a worthy inclusion is Safex. They have big things planned in upcoming months and are a serious company from Serbia. Feel free to check them out if you are interested...

I am more confident in ICO that the means of transportation become a trusted product, because it takes a lot of people, and I am currently following the ICO of the project

http://oi68.tinypic.com/10d9js5.jpg

https://redcab.io/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3835338.0

ADC vision, capital, technology, management and strong team spirit will give people trusting in ADC a revolution for themselves and the ADC itself. ADC biggest thank to you is the success of the ADC and the ecosystem it creates. Team will does all they can to realize what they want to bring to us.

E-commerce is currently dominated by data-rich middlemen like Amazon, Alibaba, CJ Affiliate, eBay, Walmart and other intermediary e-commerce application and services, but while these tech giants accumulate power through collecting more and more data about consumers, the experience and economics for buyers, sellers, and other marketplaces remains stagnant. Buyers must search multiple marketplaces to find product availability and best prices. Vendors must switch between marketplaces to update their inventories or risk double-selling and jeopardize their reputation. Ultimately, these middlemen collect high fees on every transaction, cutting into vendor’s profits and increasing product costs for consumers. Marketplaces lack efficient mechanisms for rewarding affiliate marketers that assist with the sale of products and deal with problems related to fraud, spam, and inefficient dispute resolution systems.
Spl.yt has developed a protocol powered by smart contracts that aims to revolutionize the e- commerce ecosystem with its global inventory on the blockchain and tokenized rewards to incentivize honest, real transactions. Some of the capabilities enabled by the Spl.yt protocol include global inventory wherein listings are synced across marketplaces, more accurate listings and fraud/spam detection, incentivized affiliate marketing via automated payments, dispute resolution, reputation tracking, and fractional ownership managed by smart contracts.

When many websites and marketplaces work together through Spl.yt, they can focus on competing on what matters most to customers — like shipping costs/delivery speed, support, niche expertise, etc. Further, independent sellers will love these features as well. For example, when Amazon, eBay, and textbooks.com are all on Spl.yt, a student selling their old textbooks can list to one website and the Spl.yt protocol will take care of the rest to make sure the listing is in front of every potential buyer. Everyone saves time, energy and money with Spl.yt!
Every marketplace worries about the threat of fraud and dissatisfied customers. They know how fake listings can scare away customers and cause unnecessary disputes, all while distracting from their quality products. Fake web-crawler/bot hits are notorious for running up click-through marketing commissions. And a hack or failure of centralized marketplaces can lose sellers’ revenue and customer respect.
Spl.yt counters these issues with token economics, decentralization, and smart contract security. In the Spl.yt ecosystem, customers and sellers can easily settle disputes through our Dispute Resolution Protocol, which ensures any complaint is painlessly and fairly resolved. Token rewards entice anyone to police spam from the comfort of their own home. And because decentralized smart contracts are always running, sellers can know commissions are only paid when due and only quality products are listed — all without downtime. Every existing marketplace will enjoy an upgrade with Spl.yt.

    I would not rush to invest in this project, just today the most important thing is the high-tech and potential, all this is Kelvin Blockchain.
    Kelvin Blockchain (https://medium.com/@kelvinchain/the-post-quantum-era-of-blockchain-todays-solutions-for-the-world-of-tomorrow-16bdd970f49a) project itself is flexible to implementing cryptographic algorithms which will make it one of the safest blockchains ever existed with 10+ signature available from the start. This project does not rely on any particular signature algorithm and due to the multi-client use - on some single consensus. In case of any problems, it is possible to quickly locate the threat and prevent it’s distribution throughout the system. Multiple blockchains with different consensus algorithms, token types, and assignments will be available. The multichain technology allows creating almost an unlimited potential for speed and productivity. Kelvin Blockchain can launch up to 2^64 subchains - more available subchains will benefit in increased speed and security. Moreover, all the blockchains will be processed in one wallet so that the client could have fast transactions, secure investments and cheap smart contracts as well as a lot of other services at his hand.

I don't believe there is any promising projects, most project I tipped them of been the best and invested in them during the ICOs stage are all now trading far far below the ICO prices. These projects like Truegame, Credits, NPX are have better team and sound ideas yet nothing to show of as they got enlisted on exchange.

I will not study the ICO project. I think the most promising project this year is Ethereum. I think it will rise very high this year and it is very valuable.

It is rather the most promising project of 2017 or 2016, the most promising project of 2018 is 0x, bat and oax. Others are just one level up from scams.

In addition to being able to create a new ecosystem, purpose of launching ICO is to bring the ADC closer to the community and they can experience the technology that the ADC brings. The idea seems cool. this project would certainly become popular quickly.

"What all of these behemoths have in common is their insatiable hunger and capacity for the personal data of consumers. Every time a sale is made, a customer’s data is collected, aggregated and used toward facilitating more sales. The problem with this kind of endless appetite, is an inherent lack of transparency and privacy that come with a centralized organization actively mining data from its users. The oligopoly of e-commerce — Amazon, eBay and Alibaba — are calling all the shots with consumers’ data.
This problem has become increasingly dangerous, as issues of fraud, identity theft, and other privacy issues have finally come to the attention of lawmakers in the European Union, resulting in the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR as it’s known. This regulation came into effect across the EU on May 25, 2018 and sets principles for data management and the rights of the individual, while imposing fines that can be revenue-based. The General Data Protection Regulation covers all companies that deal with data of EU citizens, so it’s critical for corporate compliance officers. And it’s giving them all a major headache as they scramble to avoid the fines associated with non-compliance. Such are the problems of a centralized system. These are the issues of middlemen.Spl.yt takes the power from the big data gobbling giants of e-commerce and gives it back to buyers and sellers, who can freely engage in a true peer-to-peer experience, securely and simply via blockchain technology and smart contracts. Through this decentralized, more efficient system, the middleman is eliminated. Time and money are saved by automating key intermediary functions via smart contracts. Spl.yt token economics incentivizes its users to transact fairly for a more secure e-commerce experience. Data is not mined by any central authority. Private data is protected, not harvested and used.
The Giants of e-commerce will not be taken down by a bigger giant, but by a global community of individuals all freely connecting with each other through a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem By decentralizing e-commerce, these giants will simply no longer be needed. Smart contracts will automatically facilitate payment to service providers along the e-commerce retail chain (affiliate marketers, dropshippers, etc.). And e-commerce giants will go the way of the dinosaur. "
Spl.yt is the first smart contract-powered e-commerce protocol designed to automate points of friction in the e-commerce industry -- barriers that have allowed large centralized oligopolistic entities (like Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, ebay, Walmart, and CJ Affiliate) to capture the legacy market. Spl.yt’s Alpha demo is available to test loading inventory onto its decentralized inventory system and to use its software tokens. A few other blockchain-based projects are developing platforms to address various issues plaguing today’s e-commerce regime, thereby validating the need for solutions, though their centralized business models and failure to contemplate decentralized governance over their products indicates they will never reach the same levels of success truly decentralized projects Bitcoin or Ethereum have. Without evidence of progress and a truly decentralized mission, we do not believe these new projects represent real competition, so Spl.yt’s real competitors are those listed above that reap a lion’s share of the rewards without adding value for buyers, sellers, and other marketplaces.

"Spl.yt takes the power from the big data gobbling giants of e-commerce and gives it back to buyers and sellers, who can freely engage in a true peer-to-peer experience, securely and simply via blockchain technology and smart contracts. Through this decentralized, more efficient system, the middleman is eliminated. Time and money are saved by automating key intermediary functions via smart contracts. Spl.yt token economics incentivizes its users to transact fairly for a more secure e-commerce experience. Data is not mined by any central authority. Private data is protected, not harvested and used.
The Giants of e-commerce will not be taken down by a bigger giant, but by a global community of individuals all freely connecting with each other through a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem By decentralizing e-commerce, these giants will simply no longer be needed. Smart contracts will automatically facilitate payment to service providers along the e-commerce retail chain (affiliate marketers, dropshippers, etc.). And e-commerce giants will go the way of the dinosaur. "

Cyrus Taghehchian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spl.yt, an e-commerce blockchain protocol that serves as an infrastructure to create a public global inventory system and affiliate network. Cyrus specializes in technology strategy and implementations in the e-commerce and digital marketing space, including leading his previous companies through product and market fit phases. Cyrus entered the blockchain space in 2015, having taken several notable active involvements, collaboration and advisory roles within the blockchain community where he applies his unique business development perspective to promote blockchain and distributed ledger technology. “As an innovator, it’s important to shorten the feedback loop to learn quickly,” says Cyrus. “Fail fast and often. Technology like blockchain and decentralization is a great way to hypothesis test new ideas.”The number of entrepreneurs is growing globally; regardless of this growth, successful entrepreneurs all have characteristics that are commonplace: a mindset to achieve, the ability to create new products and services by realizing something is missing or can be changed in the world, and sometimes, most importantly, the fortitude to make that change happen. The successful entrepreneur has less time at home (or is working when he/she is there), takes fewer vacations, and carries the responsibility for the success of a given organization on his/her shoulders. Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone; but for those who elect to take this path, there is a mindset and a motivation like none other.

How do these giant firms even get to dominate the market in the first place? Historically speaking, high entry costs and legal privilege (for instance licenses which are granted to a limited number of recipients in a given jurisdiction) played a part. Today’s fastest growing platforms that gain power and leverage over the market as they gain value commensurate with more users. Social media platforms like Facebook and e-commerce platforms like Amazon that incorporate social media features such as reviews and comments, are examples of members of this new kind of oligopoly.
Terry Gross, the host of NPR’s “Fresh Air” radio interview show noted, during her talk with New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo:
“…the ‘frightful five’ — Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook — are collectively more powerful than many governments.
Add to this list of giants, Alibaba, the world’s most popular destination for online shopping. Its online sales totaled $248 billion in 2013, more than eBay and Amazon.com combined. And its novel “Singles Day” sales event (begun as a tongue-in-cheek protest against Valentine’s Day, by college students in the 1990s) broke all records for sales in a single day in 2017. This kind of power in e-commerce is impossible to ignore.This problem has become increasingly dangerous, as issues of fraud, identity theft, and other privacy issues have finally come to the attention of lawmakers in the European Union, resulting in the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR as it’s known. This regulation came into effect across the EU on May 25, 2018 and sets principles for data management and the rights of the individual, while imposing fines that can be revenue-based. The General Data Protection Regulation covers all companies that deal with data of EU citizens, so it’s critical for corporate compliance officers. And it’s giving them all a major headache as they scramble to avoid the fines associated with non-compliance. Such are the problems of a centralized system. These are the issues of middlemen.Spl.yt takes the power from the big data gobbling giants of e-commerce and gives it back to buyers and sellers, who can freely engage in a true peer-to-peer experience, securely and simply via blockchain technology and smart contracts. Through this decentralized, more efficient system, the middleman is eliminated. Time and money are saved by automating key intermediary functions via smart contracts. Spl.yt token economics incentivizes its users to transact fairly for a more secure e-commerce experience. Data is not mined by any central authority. Private data is protected, not harvested and used.
The Giants of e-commerce will not be taken down by a bigger giant, but by a global community of individuals all freely connecting with each other through a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem By decentralizing e-commerce, these giants will simply no longer be needed. Smart contracts will automatically facilitate payment to service providers along the e-commerce retail chain (affiliate marketers, dropshippers, etc.). And e-commerce giants will go the way of the dinosaur."
The number of entrepreneurs is growing globally; regardless of this growth, successful entrepreneurs all have characteristics that are commonplace: a mindset to achieve, the ability to create new products and services by realizing something is missing or can be changed in the world, and sometimes, most importantly, the fortitude to make that change happen. The successful entrepreneur has less time at home (or is working when he/she is there), takes fewer vacations, and carries the responsibility for the success of a given organization on his/her shoulders. Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone; but for those who elect to take this path, there is a mindset and a motivation like none other.
We studied today’s top entrepreneurs carefully. Regardless of the sandbox they play in, some characteristics are simply cemented in their successes. These men and women are shining examples of what it takes to make change happen, not to mention what you must give up to see the process through. As founders of organizations, each has had a significant impact on the way we solve the problems of today – and plan for tomorrow.    Cyrus Taghehchian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spl.yt, an e-commerce blockchain protocol that serves as an infrastructure to create a public global inventory system and affiliate network. Cyrus specializes in technology strategy and implementations in the e-commerce and digital marketing space, including leading his previous companies through product and market fit phases. Cyrus entered the blockchain space in 2015, having taken several notable active involvements, collaboration and advisory roles within the blockchain community where he applies his unique business development perspective to promote blockchain and distributed ledger technology. “As an innovator, it’s important to shorten the feedback loop to learn quickly,” says Cyrus. “Fail fast and often. Technology like blockchain and decentralization is a great way to hypothesis test new ideas.”

I think I'm a bitcoin and Ethereum because these two coins have blockchain technology so from now on many people are investing in both these coins let alone both are the same as decreasing but bitcoin will soon be back

From this year's point of view, EOS.ADA.NEO.BTM is a very promising project, but their actual performance is very disappointing, especially EOS, a lot of loopholes and problems make investors very disappointed with it!

To get higher profit, you can have a look in investing in good ICOs.

There are many interesting projects to check out and others not, so it's important to choose wisely.

Looking at the project as a whole and looking at the team behind it, is very important to make a correct decision.

If I can give you guys my opinion, I discovered an exciting ICO that is very interesting: RAWG.

Check out this great article by Sergey Ulankin, RAWG's Editor-in-Chief, where he explains what has been done so far and what will be the future updates:

https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-5-vision-and-current-state-69127bfbeb2a (https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-5-vision-and-current-state-69127bfbeb2a)

The ICO will start in a short period and they are at the moment in pre-ICO phase. This is the ICO site: https://token.rawg.io (https://token.rawg.io)/. It's a video game discovery platform that converts your skills into goods and services (the site is already working, with more than 57,000 games in the database) and, which is very interesting, they have already reached the soft cap.

Have a look and get some information while doing your own research!

Another interesting point: RAWG has already secured $5m USD, halfway to hard cap of $10m!

Take a look at  EOT (EON) ICO that stands for Entertainment Open Network Protocol. It is a protocol for decentralized games and has big benefits for gaming community. Has a great team and huge socila media following so going to do well.

There are lots of promising projects but the project needs skilled leaders, team members, community, fund, network to be successful  :) so many of them will unfortunately fail.

Hedera Hashgraph has a lot of promise, but also a lot of hype. I suppose the best value project is one that really flies under the radar - that holy grail of a great project that no-one knows about.

I would like to tell you a little about the fact that you should take the time to familiarize yourself with the Tradelize project. I assure you, you really will be satisfied with the idea of the project. Just take a little time.

Bitcoin originally was supposed to offer an efficient means of transferring money over the internet and is controlled by a decentralized network with a transparent set of rules, thus presenting an alternative to central bank controlled fiat money. Market participants changed from geeks and believers in Blockchain to funds and investors looking to make profit with the uptrend volatile market. This led people to ignore the primary function of Bitcoin which was to efficiently transfer money over the internet with no control from central banks.
This is affecting the whole markets including the new ICOs and tokens. New ICOs and tokens are simply being invested in to sell once listed and gain whatever discount rate the ICO is offering. Most of the time these tokens are tied to the price volatility and movement of Bitcoin and Ethereum. INGOT Coin has been studying the market carefully in order to develop in ways that separated from Bitcoin and Ethereum as well as their price volatility
INGOT Coin intends to foster building an interconnected global community of trust and cooperation on which the basis of honesty and transparency between its members exist. INGOT is well on its way in making a breakthrough in Crypto & financial markets by presenting a revolutionary gateway towards an all-inclusive environment. The vision and aim of INGOT is to provide the community with real Utility value whether Bitcoin was at a new low or high. To achieve that aim INGOT has partnered with multiple ICOs in order to provide numerous Utilities with an access from one platform. INGOT also does not base their coin on Ethereum or Bitcoin but rather on USD value.
The ICOs are all in different industries from Health to Financial services and E-commerce to Real Estate. INGOT Coin, GMEX-Group, BolttCoin, Modern Finance Chain (MFChain), SwachhCoin, Black.Insure, PlaceToRent (PTRT), Bineuro and Stella have all formed a unified front under one alliance. The group of ICOs along with GMEX plan to establish a single platform that will allow all their communities to use their utilities simultaneously. Furthermore, plans of enabling different discounts among each one of the ICOs is being discussed in order to give edge to all participants.
Providing all those different Utilities through one gateway will provide true value to the tokens and the end users. In giving real utility to different tokens and access from one point it is clear that the latter will be the value of the tokens and not the price and volatility of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

I think that the Highcoin currency is a very promising currency for 2018 which attracts a lot for its high yield in POSHighcoin is a very rewarding proof of stake (POS) coin with variable APR from 500% to 12000%.
This coin attracts a lot for high yield POS. Anything you earn in a year can be reinvested in other projects. You can easily make x10 or x15.
Soon we will approach the block 170001 and start the stake percentage equal to 3000% per year (8.21 daily). if you want to understand how much earning with HighCoin (HIGHT) download the calculator in excel format at the following link on discord:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/388003088205611011/466324092325199872/HighCoin_calculator_block_500.xlsx

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2537307.0

Best Project 2017-2019 is OPUS

i think the team could rais a big start at end of this period ,
They are working hard on their project !
just look at their finished project

To be honest ones of the most promising projects for me in 2018 is Acorn Collective, Elon City and Yumerium.

Hydro, Twist , Polymath

With all the fervor around the price of bitcoin and news of crypto exchange hacks, the core advantage of blockchain technology isn’t discussed enough. The reason for an explosion in development of blockchain-powered systems across diverse industries, including finance, advertising, healthcare, e-commerce, and more, boils down to one fundamental desire: eliminate dependence on middlemen.The issue with centralized middlemen goes far and beyond financial systems. The digital advertising industry is bloated with intermediaries, creating too many opportunities for fraud and unforced errors. The healthcare systems is beset with inefficiencies due to dependence on middlemen to transfer data and communicate information between doctors, patients, and insurers. E-commerce is dominated by a handful of tech giants with access to such copious amounts of data that endows they control the entire ecosystem.
Blockchain is an ideal technology for building decentralized systems to counter the middlemen-operated ones that are not serving people the way they could. In advertising, Brave’s Basic Attention Token (BAT) enables the direct exchange of information and value between publishers, advertisers, and web users, thereby reducing reliance on intermediaries to facilitate transactions. In healthcare, Doc.AI empowers people to collect and control their own data as opposed to relying on broken healthcare systems to do so. The project I am working on, Spl.yt, harnesses blockchain technology to support the development of decentralized applications that will empower sellers and consumers to control more of their business. The protocol also supports various players in the e-commerce ecosystem make more informed choices without depending on middlemen for necessary services such as payments, affiliate marketing, reviews, and dispute resolution. We hope this will make it cheaper and easier for everyone to shop online without the need for large e-commerce intermediaries who dominate the industry at the expense of small businesses and customer data – and pocket books.
If reliance on middlemen can be reduced or even eliminated across major industries, we will have a more empowered and community-run society that makes decisions based upon what is best for the whole instead of what is best for a tiny fraction of the population. The emergence of blockchain technology enables us to rethink top-down power structures and replace them with decentralized ones that are more fair, transparent, and egalitarian. If we harness technology to the betterment of society, perhaps we can feel a little optimistic about our future.

I think DACC is one of the promising projects. Strong team, famous partners, quick ICO. And now project wait exchange and development. I think we can see much more than x3-x5. Try to research

Agreed. Their idea about copyrights-over-blockchain is pretty good. That's why I interested DACC. And now I continue to watch for him. AMA with key people from advisers is a great idea. And exchange today is not so important because I think DACC will give much more in the long-term

With all the news about scam ICOs out there, I think Menlo.One is the hottest ICO this year since it aims to solve such issue with the use of the proof of reputation algorithm. What I like about this project is that aims to help promising tokens that deserve financing by functioning as a decentralized ICO marketplace or ICO listing platform. Since most advertising platforms have banned ads related to cryptos, I can only imagine how expensive it is now to promote projects. On the other hand, they are fortunate that a platform such as Menlo One is here to help them grow. Their whitepaper can be viewed here https://www.menlo.one

Yeah, is also one of my choices and have a special #3 place in my portfolio.

As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl.yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba.
Such popular online platforms have no doubt transformed the way in which we shop and live. Access, convenience, low prices and the availability of a large selection of products are among the many benefits these platforms deliver to consumers. But such benefits provided by centralized corporations come at a cost — increased prices, process inefficiencies and aggressive marketing using huge amounts of personal data. 
Research from “The Enterprise Guide to Global Ecommerce” projects a 246.15 percent increase in global e-commerce sales, from $1.3 trillion in 2014 to $4.5 trillion in 2021. And while Amazon alone accounts for almost half of that revenue, there remains a huge ocean of online opportunities for other businesses to share.
As the e-commerce landscape faces domination by the likes of established industry players, innovative approaches to buying and selling are experiencing roadblocks to advancement. Consumers are often subjected to lengthy searches of multiple product listings in order to assess availability and price favorability. Moreover, vendors, in varying their marketplace options, must keep their inventories current and prevent double selling to avoid taking a hit to their reputation. 
Across this space, middlemen often capture high fees on all transactions, adversely impacting vendor revenues while leading to increased product costs for consumers. There is also a lack of mechanisms in place to support smaller e-commerce vendors in their product sales, particularly as it relates to fraud, spam and consumer dispute resolution. 
Spl.yt takes the power from the big data gobbling giants of e-commerce and gives it back to buyers and sellers, who can freely engage in a true peer-to-peer experience, securely and simply via blockchain technology and smart contracts. Through this decentralized, more efficient system, the middleman is eliminated. Time and money are saved by automating key intermediary functions via smart contracts. Spl.yt token economics incentivizes its users to transact fairly for a more secure e-commerce experience. Data is not mined by any central authority. Private data is protected, not harvested and used.
The Giants of e-commerce will not be taken down by a bigger giant, but by a global community of individuals all freely connecting with each other through a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem By decentralizing e-commerce, these giants will simply no longer be needed. Smart contracts will automatically facilitate payment to service providers along the e-commerce retail chain (affiliate marketers, dropshippers, etc.). And e-commerce giants will go the way of the dinosaur.

With all the fervor around the price of bitcoin and news of crypto exchange hacks, the core advantage of blockchain technology isn’t discussed enough. The reason for an explosion in development of blockchain-powered systems across diverse industries, including finance, advertising, healthcare, e-commerce, and more, boils down to one fundamental desire: eliminate dependence on middlemen. Spl.yt Core Foundation, a Science Blockchain-backed nonprofit operating out of Santa Monica CA, is an open-sourced smart contract-based e-commerce protocol that will support the foundation of a more efficient, transparent, and secure e-commerce system. Spl.yt will help buyers and sellers save time and money by removing middlemen functions and services through decentralizing the e-commerce stack. Spl.yt’s top smart contract capabilities include an automated global inventory system, fractional asset ownership and management, inter- marketplace reputation tracking, fair dispute resolution system, and automated affiliate marketing rewards. All of these features are powered by the blockchain, assuring anyone who buys or sells things online that they will have the most fair and efficient e-commerce experience possible.

“The existing e-commerce regime only benefits a few powerful middlemen at the top of the ‘food chain,’ so to speak,” said Taghehchian. “Ten years ago it was difficult to build an e-commerce website but easier to monetize. Today, it’s easy to build a website using templates but very hard to make profit due to the couple of online storefronts that own nearly 60 percent of the market share. We believe in a new e-commerce structure that is more egalitarian, instead of top-down.”
He reiterated that the goal is to empower all e-commerce players so that they can make a good living and earn rewards for their contributions to foster the health and growth of the entire e-commerce ecosystem.
The grand vision, said Taghehchian, is to introduce an open and global inventory system for product listings across marketplaces, saving buyers and sellers time and resources. Seller listings will be automatically updated across all Spl.yt connected marketplaces, with buyers only needing to search one platform to access accurate product availability and pricing.
He added that the Spl.yt protocol will also be used to incentivize affiliate marketers, such as social media influencers or even would-be-competitor marketplaces, to assist in the sale of a product. This will be achieved by issuing automated affiliate rewards to any party contributing to the sale of the item.
“The potential use cases for improving efficiency, transparency and security across the industry are as endless as our own imaginations,” Taghehchian said. “Our aim continues to be to open doors for innovative businesses and entrepreneurial individuals to achieve their potential using the capabilities enabled by the Spl.yt protocol. Our long-term vision is to keep moving toward a more decentralized future wherein the greater e-commerce ecosystem is owned and operated by people within a fair and automated network of participating parties.” 

In my opinion, it is better to make your own research and trust your guts.
I was asking myself what to do when cryptocurrency goes down and found out that the most of the privacy coins are undervalued right now.

The best opportunity is to find a privacy-related project with a low total supply (less than 100M), that way the price will be increasing much faster.

I recently found one project called Ethereum Meta, it is related to anonymity and untraceable transaction. They have a very interesting project to build the Anonymous E-Market Place.

They are on exchanges right now, you can check their website: https://ethermeta.com/
Or even better go through their Bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2659058.0

I think one of the most popular and promising projects of 2018 will be such as Swipe, EOT, Acorn Collective, Yumerium and others.

With Spl.yt you don’t have to be a millionaire to contemplate owning a Lamborghini. By splitting the cost and care fairly between several owners, verified and regulated by smart contracts using the Spl.yt protocol, two or more drivers could share the privileges — along with the responsibilities, of course — of owning a luxury sports car like a Lamborghini.
You might be thinking, “is this like a timeshare owned by several people?” Well, not exactly. In the traditional version of a “timeshare” for resort property, for instance, people don’t actually own the asset; they pay to rent it. This is because most timeshares are not structured as shared deeded ownerships but as shared leased ownerships, where the developer owns the deeded title to the property, and each timeshare owner holds a leased interestin the property. A typical lease agreement entitles the owner to use the property for a set week/year, or a “floating” week during a set of dates. This kind of complex record-keeping requires middle men, which incurs added expense, which is passed on to the buyers, of course.
A leased ownership generally restricts property transfers more than a true deeded ownership interest. So as an owner of a timeshare, you might be restricted from selling or transferring your timeshare to someone else.

Ellen Shapiro, of the law firm Goodman, Shapiro & Lombardi in Dedham, Massachusetts, said of timeshares:
“You’re buying the right to use the locus. You don’t exactly have full legal title…You can convey, sell, leave it to your heirs, or perhaps — depending on the timeshare — rent it out, but you don’t have the entire bundle of rights. At the end of the day, you own a right to use a space during a prescribed time.”
Fun fact: according to industry statistics, 50% to 70% of the timeshare retail price paid after a buyer has listened to an elaborate sales pitch, goes towards marketing. So, for example, if you purchase a timeshare for $20,000, as soon as you leave the presentation room, the true value of the timeshare drops to as low as $6,000! This takes paying for the middleman to new heights, with just one of the middlemen taking a huge cut. Not exactly ideal for a buyer.
The Spl.yt protocol challenges and upgrades that tired paradigm, enabling users to “timeshare anything” without the need for middlemen to drive up prices. This solution could be used to purchase all kinds of expensive assets, such as cars, boats, homes, jewelry, filmmaking equipment, musical instruments, sports or theater season tickets, artwork and other collectors’ items. The various owners can also collectively set the parameters to determine what services to hire to facilitate use and maintenance of the asset, giving rise to an “Uber-like” economy of service providers who cater to fractional assets.

I have observed many projects at this stage and found that IAGON is a promising project in the future. They have developed MVP v2 at the main sale stage. This shows that they are really well prepared for the next stage of success. Refer to it as a suggestion :)

2017 is a boom year for Coin MLM (Ponzi), the start of the Lending model is the peak success of Bitconnect early in 2017 but when Bitconnect die, it also marks the end of 2017. And of course in this year, projects that want to raise money from investors need products and talent. They will not earn as much money as they did in MLM, but they are going to be very solid, slowly asserting their position.

As my belief and checked the ann threads I see that some project have big growth in the market.

I love to participate on the bounty and make the money out of it instead of checking projects and invest on the projects directly.

Change
Nauticus
MOZO
Decoin

These project are well good in price and everything according to my view.

Not only does fractional ownership offer opportunities to people who otherwise may not be able to afford or maintain expensive assets on their own, it also provides sellers of these assets with an entirely new consumer base. Assets such as artwork are generally thought to be highly “illiquid,” meaning that even though a work of art may generate a handsome return on investment, finding a buyer can be extremely difficult. One way to increase liquidity in a market, is to increase the number of potential buyers. By enabling fractional ownership, Spl.yt has the potential to expand the buyer pool by a significant percentage. Spl.yt’s protocol can automatically initiate and run digital auctions, eliminating the need for auction houses, which inevitably take a percentage of the final sale — money out of the seller’s pocket.
Given the obvious advantages of fractional ownership to buyers and sellers, why hasn’t this capability been invented previously? The short answer is that the technology to facilitate the sale, use, and maintenance of fractionally-owned assets simply hadn’t been invented until recently. This technology is, of course, blockchain.
Spl.yt uses smart contracts, which are essentially blockchain-based applications, to automate the many transactions involved in the sale, use, and maintenance of fractionally-owned assets. In other words, a process that would normally require intermediaries to carry out (sometimes at such high cost that they wouldn’t be profitable under traditional frameworks), can be simply executed by technology. For example, say two owners of a vacation home want to use the property over the Fourth of July weekend. This process might play out in the below manner:
Alice and Bob each deposit a small amount of Spl.yt tokens (SATs) in order to request use of the property on the same Fourth of July weekend.
Because the two parties requested the same dates, a bidding process is initiated.
Alice bids more than Bob, and so she earns the right to use the property.
Bob’s tokens are returned for him to use on another timeslot’s reservation.
We’re only beginning to realize the potential of blockchain technology, but fractional ownership is certainly one example of how blockchain can give rise to new opportunities that were never before possible. While the Spl.yt community is working to solve the technical problems to make these, the only question that remains for you is: are you ready for your Lamborghini now, or what?

There are projects that are running their ICO even without established exchange.

But nexybit has its own token issuing now, this is becoming popular.

A stupid way to promote for new ICO project. LOL. Why do you think that use lot of low rank account to spam to promote about this new ICO project will make it become better? LOL. I think it'll be different cause people often don't wanna care about this kind of project which promoted by new members in this forum :). Beside you wrote so many things about this project but sorry I don't even wanna read them all :).

Dispute resolutions with customers can be especially challenging for vendors since different platforms might have very different policies. This lack of consistency calls for more time and energy on the part of both buyers and sellers in reaching a solution. Spl.yt employs a dispute resolution protocol using Spl.yt Access Tokens (SATs) that will facilitate the dispute resolution process.
The process is designed to facilitate a fair and efficient resolutions using a poker-like staking mechanism. Let’s say a buyer claims never to have received a purchase. To make a dispute claim, the buyer deposits a set amount of SATs into escrow. This escrow process is designed to deter fraudulent dispute claims. If the seller confirms the buyer’s claim, the tokens are returned to the buyer, the payment for the the item is refunded and the dispute is resolved. However, if the buyer and seller disagree, the seller will then deposit tokens into escrow to make an opposing claim, triggering the dispute resolution protocol. This is where the Spl.yt community and self regulating aspect of the system come into play. Qualified anonymous arbiters who participate in the Spl.yt ecosystem are assigned to random cases in which they are presented evidence from both sides in order to resolve the dispute. When the resolution is reached, the smart contract will automatically dispense the escrowed tokens to the winner. The arbiter will also receive a small percentage of the escrowed tokens as a fee for their efforts. We see the combination of transparency via the blockchain, smart contract resolutions, and Spl.yt token mechanics as a way for the ecommerce to run in a smooth and fair manner that does not require parties to transact with blind trust.

With Spl.yt you don’t have to be a millionaire to contemplate owning a Lamborghini. By splitting the cost and care fairly between several owners, verified and regulated by smart contracts using the Spl.yt protocol, two or more drivers could share the privileges — along with the responsibilities, of course — of owning a luxury sports car like a Lamborghini.
You might be thinking, “is this like a timeshare owned by several people?” Well, not exactly. In the traditional version of a “timeshare” for resort property, for instance, people don’t actually own the asset; they pay to rent it. This is because most timeshares are not structured as shared deeded ownerships but as shared leased ownerships, where the developer owns the deeded title to the property, and each timeshare owner holds a leased interestin the property. A typical lease agreement entitles the owner to use the property for a set week/year, or a “floating” week during a set of dates. This kind of complex record-keeping requires middle men, which incurs added expense, which is passed on to the buyers, of course.
A leased ownership generally restricts property transfers more than a true deeded ownership interest. So as an owner of a timeshare, you might be restricted from selling or transferring your timeshare to someone else.

Today, as TV and video viewing habits change in every country, there is uncertainty and confusion about how to monetize viewers’ time and attention. Television companies don’t know what to charge for it and advertisers don’t know what to pay for it. Tokenizing viewer engagement means that talented creators finally have a way to get paid by the fans they’ve earned, networks have a way to generate new revenue streams, and advertisers will have transparent, safe and accurate audience data on their campaigns. The HIT token and protocol hold the key to the future of viewer interaction with TV and video.

iPowow, the company that brought viewers worldwide the ground-breaking “Participation TV,” presents the next evolution for advertisers, audiences and content producers. iPowow has built over 200 different experiences over the last 8 years that allow viewers to interact with live television and video programs through contests, voting, commenting, Q&A’s, and games. We’ve done this for NBC, ABC, FOX, Disney, ESPN, CNN, Comcast, USA Network, DirecTV, CBC, ServusTV, Red Bull TV, Channel 9, Sinclair, Tribune, CNBC, Univision and online platforms like Twitch and Facebook. Our brand partners include VISA, McDonalds, Lexus, Target, Samsung and Coca Cola. We help brands develop meaningful relationships with viewers. And this creates the kind of brand loyalty that ignites exponential sales and growth of a product or service. With over a billion viewer interactions to date, our platform has a proven track record of transforming the act of watching TV and video into a live participation experience for the viewer.
Our new blockchain ecosystem for television and video content, based on the HIT protocol means:
• Viewers get paid to watch & participate with their favorite shows
• Content Creators engage viewers & generate revenue
• Advertisers gain transparency & insight on their audience
All the players in the media ecosystem benefit using HITs, for a sustainable exchange of HIT tokens between members. Let’s see how this works:

For Viewers
We are creating a global marketplace — a digital Shopping Plaza. With the HIT protocol, every moment a viewer spends watching or interacting with their favorite show is a way to put HIT tokens into their account, which they can seamlessly use to purchase digital and physical goods and services on our inventoried item management system. This transforms the anonymous consumer patterns on TV and online video into a worldwide economy where the consumer of video content is fully engaged and in control, with more choices, tailored to each viewer’s preferences. No more whack-a-moling through annoying and seemingly random pop-up ads a viewer has no interest in, before being allowed to see desirable content.
For TV Networks and Content Creators
The HIT protocol provides TV networks with new interactive marketing campaigns to enhance the viewer experience and keep them coming back for more. To help drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and their programs will be given special campaign management tools, including the ability to create show-specific badges and achievement levels attached to limited-time campaigns. Sponsorship integration will allow the promotion of partners within given campaigns. Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) will present opportunities for partners to recycle evergreen or continued-demand content with new interactive experiences.
Compensation for content creators on channels like YouTube has always been an area of contention in an ever-changing terrain of percentages and viewer stipulations that make earning a fair reward for quality content a challenge. When viewers interact with creators, the HIT protocol tracks that engagement, enabling the content creator to learn more about their audience which in turn helps in the creation of better content.
Using the HIT protocol, these kinds of creators will be able to choose how they will be compensated for their content to let the market decide the value of their contributions. TV shows and content creators can give viewers the power to choose the outcome of character eliminations, plot twists and affect the future by voting with their HIT tokens for an enhanced synergistic rapport to develop a loyal following.
For Brands
Today, brand advertisers don’t have any real data about who sees their TV commercials or what viewers do after seeing commercials. The HIT protocol changes this by allowing full transparency so advertisers can see who is interacting with their commercials or with any interactive promotions they run within TV shows or video content. (Of course, viewers must give their consent to be tracked and they are rewarded for their consent.) This never-before-possible level of transparency gives brands a new level of insight into their customers and potential customers, so they can tailor their advertising, campaigns, messaging, and even products to a specific audience more effectively and for higher sales and a better rate on investment for advertising.
The HIT blockchain protocol of iPowow creates the best possible ecosystem for Viewers, Networks/Content Creators and Brands. It’s win/win/win for everyone. Come up to the next level of TV and video with us!

The older and much longer constituted banking do have a lot to scared from the next generation of digital banks, much more so when it comes to them offering disclosure to the crypto currency environment. INGOT Coin will produce a complete solution by integrating 6 core ecosystem components and providing a one-stop-shop for the digital asset, traditional asset and currency markets. The IC Digital Bank with other components help to work hand in hand under one umbrella, providing all community members the chance to capitalize on upcoming opportunities in all markets.Many functions are integrated with our banking systems. However, nowadays, banking hours neither meet the needs nor the timeliness of the execution of functions needed by market participants. Therefore, creating a bank that will be digitally based, available 7/24, able to operate as a custodial and manage clients’ funds will be a cornerstone to this project.
First of all, IC Digital Bank will allow customers  24/7 automated payment processing with high-level web-based custodial services. The IC Digital Bank will also facilitate the IC Brokerage and IC Exchange duties, along with providing day-to-day online services such as e-payments. Furthermore, clients are able to open different bank accounts ranging from current and saving, to brokerage accounts. The IC Digital Bank will supply fund management for all interested stakeholders and support their trading activities by providing unmatched settlement and remittance speed at the lowest fees. The IC Digital Bank is fully structured and cohesive with the IC Wallet, IC Exchange and IC Brokerage to guarantee the quick and safe movement of funds between clients’ bank accounts. Traditional assets are stored in the IC Brokerage account, fiat will be stored in the IC Bank and cryptocurrencies will be stored in the IC Wallet.
IC Digital Bank will acquire a banking license from a highly reputable, strict regulator that will ensure safe and smooth transactions to increase level of confidence. The IC Community will be able to enjoy a legally compliant entry and exit points to the crypto markets as well as a safe place to store and manage their personal funds in an internationally recognized and licensed institution.

Ellen Shapiro, of the law firm Goodman, Shapiro & Lombardi in Dedham, Massachusetts, said of timeshares:
“You’re buying the right to use the locus. You don’t exactly have full legal title…You can convey, sell, leave it to your heirs, or perhaps — depending on the timeshare — rent it out, but you don’t have the entire bundle of rights. At the end of the day, you own a right to use a space during a prescribed time.”
Fun fact: according to industry statistics, 50% to 70% of the timeshare retail price paid after a buyer has listened to an elaborate sales pitch, goes towards marketing. So, for example, if you purchase a timeshare for $20,000, as soon as you leave the presentation room, the true value of the timeshare drops to as low as $6,000! This takes paying for the middleman to new heights, with just one of the middlemen taking a huge cut. Not exactly ideal for a buyer.
The Spl.yt protocol challenges and upgrades that tired paradigm, enabling users to “timeshare anything” without the need for middlemen to drive up prices. This solution could be used to purchase all kinds of expensive assets, such as cars, boats, homes, jewelry, filmmaking equipment, musical instruments, sports or theater season tickets, artwork and other collectors’ items. The various owners can also collectively set the parameters to determine what services to hire to facilitate use and maintenance of the asset, giving rise to an “Uber-like” economy of service providers who cater to fractional assets.

iPowow is now developing a smart contract to be integrated into its existing platform to improve the overall experience for viewers, content providers, and brands. Data can be used to personalize experiences for viewers. And all will be carefully regulated via smart contract with the permission of the viewer.
Today, by tokenizing the global TV and Video industries, we harmonize and optimize all three important elements of the ecosystem: viewers, networks/content creators, and advertising brands. Through the rapid adoption and use of our HIT tokens among these three groups, we inspire a new, more holistic relationship between them all, with increased transparency and added value.
Our new blockchain ecosystem for television and video content, based on the HIT protocol means:
• Viewers get paid to watch & participate with their favorite shows
• Content Creators engage viewers & generate revenue
• Advertisers gain transparency & insight on their audience
All the players in the media ecosystem benefit using HITs, for a sustainable exchange of HIT tokens between members. Let’s see how this works:

For Viewers
We are creating a global marketplace — a digital Shopping Plaza. With the HIT protocol, every moment a viewer spends watching or interacting with their favorite show is a way to put HIT tokens into their account, which they can seamlessly use to purchase digital and physical goods and services on our inventoried item management system. This transforms the anonymous consumer patterns on TV and online video into a worldwide economy where the consumer of video content is fully engaged and in control, with more choices, tailored to each viewer’s preferences. No more whack-a-moling through annoying and seemingly random pop-up ads a viewer has no interest in, before being allowed to see desirable content.
For TV Networks and Content Creators
The HIT protocol provides TV networks with new interactive marketing campaigns to enhance the viewer experience and keep them coming back for more. To help drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and their programs will be given special campaign management tools, including the ability to create show-specific badges and achievement levels attached to limited-time campaigns. Sponsorship integration will allow the promotion of partners within given campaigns. Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) will present opportunities for partners to recycle evergreen or continued-demand content with new interactive experiences.
Compensation for content creators on channels like YouTube has always been an area of contention in an ever-changing terrain of percentages and viewer stipulations that make earning a fair reward for quality content a challenge. When viewers interact with creators, the HIT protocol tracks that engagement, enabling the content creator to learn more about their audience which in turn helps in the creation of better content.
Using the HIT protocol, these kinds of creators will be able to choose how they will be compensated for their content to let the market decide the value of their contributions. TV shows and content creators can give viewers the power to choose the outcome of character eliminations, plot twists and affect the future by voting with their HIT tokens for an enhanced synergistic rapport to develop a loyal following.

I really like BAT  because is a realistic approach. Advertising is a part of culture. Google isn’t a search giant, it’s an Ad giant. Advertising will never go away. PRL is in my unprofessional opinion a different approach that doesn’t have the same potential as BAT. In a bear market, PRL wouldn’t take off like it has. But in any market, a project with the solid fundamentals of BAT would thrive.

Investing in crypto currency is a good way to generate revenue if your savings are not very significant. Even if the rate drops dramatically, you will not lose much, but with its increase, the profit will be very appreciable.

 I think sonm, aion, litecoin, stratis and vechain are the most promising. I look for projects that have the ability to distupt existing (and thriving) markets, projects that are the better version of current multi billion dollar businesses. Mark my words, all of the above will be x20 within 2 years.

Spl.yt’s infrastructure helps online retailers to connect to the blockchain and utilize smart contract technology for maintaining, listing, and selling the best products online. The blockchain helps with transparent and secure transactions while Spl.yt’s smart contracts enable consumers to do things like fractionally purchase any item that is impractical to buy on their own (think yachts or even planes).
You can imagine how this new tech will be useful in your daily life by accessing our alpha to imagine. There, you will see a dashboard with a user’s identifying info and stats, such as email address, wallet address of SAT tokens, and balances. Across the top are three clickable menu options: ALL LISTINGS, SUBMIT LISTINGS and MY PURCHASES. And under that is a handy search bar to help you find what you’re looking for. Once a buyer decides on an item, making a purchase is quick and easy using SAT tokens. As you can see SATs, are automatically deducted from your total balance once you buy an item. These features and more are available to any marketplace who leverages the power of decentralization by linking to our easy-to-use SDKs.
Further, if you click CHECK MARKET II, you will see how buyers are not limited to any specific marketplace as any Spl.yt-powered marketplace has the same inventory. This gives every buyer the best options for finding the best product at the best price without having to browse multiple stores.

My bet is to look at low cap pow/pos coins here in the forum that has just started recently. I don't wanna dive into ICOs as it is as clear as the day that majority, if not all, are just scam cash grabs.

Failure to provide adequate customer service can critically damage a seller’s good rating and reputation, while the root of these problems continues to go unaddressed. Sellers in this complicated environment are left with two choices:
Charge more to consumers who aren’t even aware of how much these problems make them overpay for the items they need, or
Go out of business.
Spl.yt is a blockchain-powered “public social utility,” meaning anyone with an internet connection can use it at no cost besides the gas needed to secure the blockchain. The power of decentralized cryptocurrencies and smart contracts makes this possible because users themselves can define the growth of the system while directly reaping the benefit of their contributions. What’s more, Spl.yt is run by the Spl.yt Core Foundation, a non-profit designed to work itself out of existence, leaving a system that runs itself (similar to the internet) without any controller-middleman susceptible to bias or corruption.
Spl.yt’s smart contract protocol enables the formation of a global inventory and universalized reputation scores as well as the automation of such costly processes as dispute resolution and affiliate marketing management.

My bet is Ingot! Superb project with arabian Scheich behind
It has already collected 40 million. It is soft cap but 80 million hard cap is coming.
I guess it is one of the most hyped projects in 2018..
Advise you to take a look guys

What i can say is that ORCA is a very promising project that starts their ICO in like 3 days. It could have a real life use case and their team is very strong. Just read and decide on your own ;)

Know about Ingot. To be honest Im impressed they have collected 40 million USD already. If they reach hard cap I would just say "Wow, crazy"

So many good projects that we have for this year and it seems it has been affected with the downfall of cryptomarket. I'm hoping that they can easily recover to gain confidence with their investors and community supporters. Look the OMX and XYO they are a promising project but the current price are lower than their ICO price.

ETH, ADA, Wanchain and ICX. I have a lot of anticipation from these four. If they fail, I will.  ::)

If they fail, your portfolio's definitely will be the bloodiest. Ethereum is still a reliable and one of the best long term coin just like bitcoin.

Personally, I think the most promising project in 2018 is either ethereum or NEO because of the very good potential and feature that they have compared to other project. They also have very strong team and great technology.

That's a good suggestion but you need to be careful as those at low cap can go down easily with a bearish market. It's safe to invest in a good and existing coins that already get the support from the traders and investors.

MAN is one of the most promising projects in 2018.
Mainnet coming on December. Value didn't decrease like the other coins.

I've been buying into a few ICO's recently. Some I was lucky enough to join in on their presale. I love projects like Spotcoin, Wemark and Uchain. Right now I bought into all three, maybe I will enlarge my position once on exchanges....there could be that expected dip again just after launching Smiley.

Anyway. All three have their own unique 'thing'. I like Spotcoin since they are doing the regional approach. Getting people into crypto is important. Wemark was on my list because I am a photographer myself and really understand what they are trying to solve. Uchain has a lot of potential too. If they succeed in getting those existing sharing economy companies on their blockchain, they could become a huge player. Love this project. Check out a nice recap here (https://steemit.com/blockchain/@mrblueberry/restoring-trust-and-preventing-data-abuse-in-the-sharing-economy-with-uchain) if you unfamiliar with it.

Most promising existing projects to me are MAN, Vechain, ICX, CHX (Own), EFX (Effect.AI) and INS. I expect huge things after this rough patch is over :)

One ICO that stuck in my mind is the Level01 which is supported by Thomson Reuters. I have also read Reuters interest on blockchain in an article of cointelegraph which also solidify their support to the ICO.  A project backed by a huge company is going to be successful I can tell. There's also a project like Blackbox Operating system where the team is very much positive for the investors.

The next evolution in online sales has finally arrived. Merchants great and small, from the occasional eBay seller or storefront dealer on Amazon, to large-scale vendors across dozens of international online markets, will all now have a swift, secure, and efficient way to connect to the blockchain and list items for sale through an innovative new smart contract-based protocol called Spl.yt.
Spl.yt is a blockchain-powered “public social utility,” meaning anyone with an internet connection can use it at no cost besides the gas needed to secure the blockchain. The power of decentralized cryptocurrencies and smart contracts makes this possible because users themselves can define the growth of the system while directly reaping the benefit of their contributions. What’s more, Spl.yt is run by the Spl.yt Core Foundation, a non-profit designed to work itself out of existence, leaving a system that runs itself (similar to the internet) without any controller-middleman susceptible to bias or corruption.
Spl.yt’s smart contract protocol enables the formation of a global inventory and universalized reputation scores as well as the automation of such costly processes as dispute resolution and affiliate marketing management.
Once connected to Spl.yt, buyers can view the global inventory of individual listings automatically populated from all e-commerce websites integrated with the protocol. Shoppers only need to visit one e-commerce site to search for and purchase their desired item securely, and at the lowest price. Since all information from these various online retailers is integrated, once a buyer purchases an item, it will automatically de-list from every other marketplace, avoiding double-purchasing the same item.

I think Hydro and Poly. But now a good coin to invest for speculation ...to earn e buy then another promising coin is HighCoin (HIGHT) with APR 3000% (8.21% daily) now started

https://i.imgur.com/Q7Ywylo.jpg

from block 170001 to block 200000 - 3000%  ;D

Personally from new cryptocurrencies (ICOs) I invested in Fantom and GoNetwork. From old top coins I prefer IOTA and Cardano. But also Sparkster and DFINITY look good.

Agree. But this space is huge. 1 or 2 cryptorelated projects can penetrate this market in the next years to come. Unless amazon or alibaba will accept crypto which is very unlikely but who knows. I'm on the former one.

Righy now, I'm currently following OPP and MENLO this 2 projects have captured my interest in terms of having good success at the end of their token sale. The thing with the both of them is that they are security token which I think what the industry needs right now.

Yes I particularly like Menlo One because of its potential to gain mass adoption for being an ICO marketplace. What does security token mean though? I know that you are only required to submit KYC requirements once through menlo and you can then join all its ICOs without having to resubmit again and again. Is this related?

I have always been keep on DASH and IOST since the time their ICOs were launched. But, in case you are only looking for ICOs, then you can have a look at INGOT Coin.
It has been able to raise 40 Mn Dollars already from 6000+ investors. The ICO has been extended till October mid and people have really high hopes from this project.
Also, it was rated pretty well on multiple portals. So, do check it out.

iPowow, the company that brought viewers worldwide the ground-breaking “Participation TV,” presents the next evolution for advertisers, audiences and content producers. iPowow has built over 200 different experiences over the last 8 years that allow viewers to interact with live television and video programs through contests, voting, commenting, Q&A’s, and games. We’ve done this for NBC, ABC, FOX, Disney, ESPN, CNN, Comcast, USA Network, DirecTV, CBC, ServusTV, Red Bull TV, Channel 9, Sinclair, Tribune, CNBC, Univision and online platforms like Twitch and Facebook. Our brand partners include VISA, McDonalds, Lexus, Target, Samsung and Coca Cola. We help brands develop meaningful relationships with viewers. And this creates the kind of brand loyalty that ignites exponential sales and growth of a product or service. With over a billion viewer interactions to date, our platform has a proven track record of transforming the act of watching TV and video into a live participation experience for the viewer.

And we’re just getting started. iPowow is now developing a smart contract to be integrated into its existing platform to improve the overall experience for viewers, content providers, and brands. Data can be used to personalize experiences for viewers. And all will be carefully regulated via smart contract with the permission of the viewer.
Today, by tokenizing the global TV and Video industries, we harmonize and optimize all three important elements of the ecosystem: viewers, networks/content creators, and advertising brands. Through the rapid adoption and use of our HIT tokens among these three groups, we inspire a new, more holistic relationship between them all, with increased transparency and added value.
Our new blockchain ecosystem for television and video content, based on the HIT protocol means:
• Viewers get paid to watch & participate with their favorite shows
• Content Creators engage viewers & generate revenue
• Advertisers gain transparency & insight on their audience
All the players in the media ecosystem benefit using HITs, for a sustainable exchange of HIT tokens between members. Let’s see how this works:

For Viewers
We are creating a global marketplace — a digital Shopping Plaza. With the HIT protocol, every moment a viewer spends watching or interacting with their favorite show is a way to put HIT tokens into their account, which they can seamlessly use to purchase digital and physical goods and services on our inventoried item management system. This transforms the anonymous consumer patterns on TV and online video into a worldwide economy where the consumer of video content is fully engaged and in control, with more choices, tailored to each viewer’s preferences. No more whack-a-moling through annoying and seemingly random pop-up ads a viewer has no interest in, before being allowed to see desirable content.
For TV Networks and Content Creators
The HIT protocol provides TV networks with new interactive marketing campaigns to enhance the viewer experience and keep them coming back for more. To help drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and their programs will be given special campaign management tools, including the ability to create show-specific badges and achievement levels attached to limited-time campaigns. Sponsorship integration will allow the promotion of partners within given campaigns. Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) will present opportunities for partners to recycle evergreen or continued-demand content with new interactive experiences.
Compensation for content creators on channels like YouTube has always been an area of contention in an ever-changing terrain of percentages and viewer stipulations that make earning a fair reward for quality content a challenge. When viewers interact with creators, the HIT protocol tracks that engagement, enabling the content creator to learn more about their audience which in turn helps in the creation of better content.
Using the HIT protocol, these kinds of creators will be able to choose how they will be compensated for their content to let the market decide the value of their contributions. TV shows and content creators can give viewers the power to choose the outcome of character eliminations, plot twists and affect the future by voting with their HIT tokens for an enhanced synergistic rapport to develop a loyal following.
For Brands
Today, brand advertisers don’t have any real data about who sees their TV commercials or what viewers do after seeing commercials. The HIT protocol changes this by allowing full transparency so advertisers can see who is interacting with their commercials or with any interactive promotions they run within TV shows or video content. (Of course, viewers must give their consent to be tracked and they are rewarded for their consent.) This never-before-possible level of transparency gives brands a new level of insight into their customers and potential customers, so they can tailor their advertising, campaigns, messaging, and even products to a specific audience more effectively and for higher sales and a better rate on investment for advertising.
The HIT blockchain protocol of iPowow creates the best possible ecosystem for Viewers, Networks/Content Creators and Brands. It’s win/win/win for everyone. Come up to the next level of TV and video with us!

Dispute resolutions with customers can be especially challenging for vendors since different platforms might have very different policies. This lack of consistency calls for more time and energy on the part of both buyers and sellers in reaching a solution. Spl.yt employs a dispute resolution protocol using Spl.yt Access Tokens (SATs) that will facilitate the dispute resolution process.
The process is designed to facilitate a fair and efficient resolutions using a poker-like staking mechanism. Let’s say a buyer claims never to have received a purchase. To make a dispute claim, the buyer deposits a set amount of SATs into escrow. This escrow process is designed to deter fraudulent dispute claims. If the seller confirms the buyer’s claim, the tokens are returned to the buyer, the payment for the the item is refunded and the dispute is resolved. However, if the buyer and seller disagree, the seller will then deposit tokens into escrow to make an opposing claim, triggering the dispute resolution protocol. This is where the Spl.yt community and self regulating aspect of the system come into play. Qualified anonymous arbiters who participate in the Spl.yt ecosystem are assigned to random cases in which they are presented evidence from both sides in order to resolve the dispute. When the resolution is reached, the smart contract will automatically dispense the escrowed tokens to the winner. The arbiter will also receive a small percentage of the escrowed tokens as a fee for their efforts. We see the combination of transparency via the blockchain, smart contract resolutions, and Spl.yt token mechanics as a way for the ecommerce to run in a smooth and fair manner that does not require parties to transact with blind trust.

iPowow is now developing a smart contract to be integrated into its existing platform to improve the overall experience for viewers, content providers, and brands. Data can be used to personalize experiences for viewers. And all will be carefully regulated via smart contract with the permission of the viewer.
Today, by tokenizing the global TV and Video industries, we harmonize and optimize all three important elements of the ecosystem: viewers, networks/content creators, and advertising brands. Through the rapid adoption and use of our HIT tokens among these three groups, we inspire a new, more holistic relationship between them all, with increased transparency and added value.
Our new blockchain ecosystem for television and video content, based on the HIT protocol means:
• Viewers get paid to watch & participate with their favorite shows
• Content Creators engage viewers & generate revenue
• Advertisers gain transparency & insight on their audience
All the players in the media ecosystem benefit using HITs, for a sustainable exchange of HIT tokens between members. Let’s see how this works:

For Viewers
We are creating a global marketplace — a digital Shopping Plaza. With the HIT protocol, every moment a viewer spends watching or interacting with their favorite show is a way to put HIT tokens into their account, which they can seamlessly use to purchase digital and physical goods and services on our inventoried item management system. This transforms the anonymous consumer patterns on TV and online video into a worldwide economy where the consumer of video content is fully engaged and in control, with more choices, tailored to each viewer’s preferences. No more whack-a-moling through annoying and seemingly random pop-up ads a viewer has no interest in, before being allowed to see desirable content.
For TV Networks and Content Creators
The HIT protocol provides TV networks with new interactive marketing campaigns to enhance the viewer experience and keep them coming back for more. To help drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and their programs will be given special campaign management tools, including the ability to create show-specific badges and achievement levels attached to limited-time campaigns. Sponsorship integration will allow the promotion of partners within given campaigns. Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) will present opportunities for partners to recycle evergreen or continued-demand content with new interactive experiences.
Compensation for content creators on channels like YouTube has always been an area of contention in an ever-changing terrain of percentages and viewer stipulations that make earning a fair reward for quality content a challenge. When viewers interact with creators, the HIT protocol tracks that engagement, enabling the content creator to learn more about their audience which in turn helps in the creation of better content.
Using the HIT protocol, these kinds of creators will be able to choose how they will be compensated for their content to let the market decide the value of their contributions. TV shows and content creators can give viewers the power to choose the outcome of character eliminations, plot twists and affect the future by voting with their HIT tokens for an enhanced synergistic rapport to develop a loyal following.
For Brands
Today, brand advertisers don’t have any real data about who sees their TV commercials or what viewers do after seeing commercials. The HIT protocol changes this by allowing full transparency so advertisers can see who is interacting with their commercials or with any interactive promotions they run within TV shows or video content. (Of course, viewers must give their consent to be tracked and they are rewarded for their consent.) This never-before-possible level of transparency gives brands a new level of insight into their customers and potential customers, so they can tailor their advertising, campaigns, messaging, and even products to a specific audience more effectively and for higher sales and a better rate on investment for advertising.
The HIT blockchain protocol of iPowow creates the best possible ecosystem for Viewers, Networks/Content Creators and Brands. It’s win/win/win for everyone. Come up to the next level of TV and video with us!
These are our official social platforms:
Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL/

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol

Spl.yt is not a marketplace, retailer, seller, buyer, or really any discrete function in the supply chain. Rather, it is only a self-enforced protocol to more efficiently allocate resources throughout the e-commerce industry. The Foundation only helps to develop the shared core smart contract infrastructure necessary for this to occur. We believe marketplaces serve an analogous purpose to Spl.yt as websites and service providers do for the internet, or as wallets, exchanges, and node-clients do to Bitcoin or Ethereum; its fullest power can only be realized through healthy competition of parties utilizing it. Further, the network effect required for Spl.yt’s success will be more easily achieved if we can allow other marketplaces (with existing customer bases) are incentivized to join us rather than having to amass our own buyer and seller bases. We look forward to supporting and learning of all the approaches online retailers take to take the most advantage of the Spl.yt vision

The Spl.yt system is designed to allow independent parties to pool resources for their mutual benefit. Foreseeable benefactors of the system include marketplaces who have increased exposure and revenue from share listings, co-owners of fractionally owned assets, and the buyers and sellers in ecommerce transactions. Legacy ecommerce models accomplish this by providing “middleman” services, such as affiliate marketing services, centralized rating systems, or trusted marketplaces. However, the rampant fraud and inefficiencies throughout the ecommerce industry due to the failures of these middlemen cause unnecessarily high purchase and transaction costs. Spl.yt’s smart contract blockchain backed protocols automate middleman functions, reducing the cost of virtually every transaction. These are our official social platforms:
Website: https://www.spl.yt/
Telegram Chat: https://www.reddit.com/r/splyt/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/splyt/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/splytcore
Medium: https://medium.com/splytcore
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/splytcore/
Github: https://github.com/splytcore

The currency would also compensate viewers for sharing data — quickly proving to be a precious commodity — about who they are, what they watch and what they buy. And if all of this wasn’t buzzworthy enough, the iPowow folks are planning to use blockchain as the technological foundation for their new business. What iPowow calls HIT tokens and the HIT protocol can benefit the TV business by offering three solutions to problems such as viewers watching on noncommercial platforms, inconsistent cross-platform audience measurement and a lack of data about TV advertising,iPowow plans to build its new HIT protocol on a blockchain foundation and migrate its current technology to blockchain as well by year end. Blockchain enables the cryptocurrency HIT tokens, which cost less to distribute initially than real dollars and also provide transparency, immutability and consistency while decentralizing account information. The HIT protocol will also be open, allowing other companies to develop apps, which will increase the utility of the system. iPowow has been scanning the horizon but doesn’t see any competitor ready to implement an effective TV rewards program. “The way we see it is, someone going to do this,” Douglas said. “Someone’s going to produce a media engagement token that’s global and covers all video interactions, and people get rewarded for watching and they can go spend it on things. We say it’s going to be us, so that’s what we’re going to do.”There have been previous efforts to create reward systems for watching TV. GetGlue, which rewarded viewers with stickers, was acquired in 2012 by Viggle, a mobile app that offered points that could be exchanged for gift cards or access to premium content. For the past seven years, iPowow has been in what it dubbed the “participation TV” business, creating interactive features that can be sponsored for 200 shows on networks such as ABC, Fox and USA, local stations and digital video platforms such as Facebook Live and Twitch. For Twitch, iPowow created an extension that lets viewers pay gamers they’re watching live and have input into how games will be played. Douglas said iPowow has demonstrated that its system works whether on the first screen or second screen, and on all platforms — linear broadcast, VOD, over-the-top and online. He hopes to raise the millions iPowow will need in AugustThese are our official social platforms:
Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL/

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol

Oligopolies through history have ranged from steel manufacturers to wireless carriers, oil companies to e-commerce. In general, an oligopoly is not good for a free market economy because it tends to block new competition, slows innovation, and increase prices. Firms in an oligopoly often set prices, either collectively — such as by a cartel like OPEC — or under the leadership of a single member. This way, profit margins are artificially kept higher than they would be in a truly competitive free marketWhat all of these behemoths have in common is their insatiable hunger and capacity for the personal data of consumers. Every time a sale is made, a customer’s data is collected, aggregated and used toward facilitating more sales. The problem with this kind of endless appetite, is an inherent lack of transparency and privacy that come with a centralized organization actively mining data from its users. The oligopoly of e-commerce — Amazon, eBay and Alibaba — are calling all the shots with consumers’ data.
This problem has become increasingly dangerous, as issues of fraud, identity theft, and other privacy issues have finally come to the attention of lawmakers in the European Union, resulting in the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR as it’s known. This regulation came into effect across the EU on May 25, 2018 and sets principles for data management and the rights of the individual, while imposing fines that can be revenue-based. The General Data Protection Regulation covers all companies that deal with data of EU citizens, so it’s critical for corporate compliance officers. And it’s giving them all a major headache as they scramble to avoid the fines associated with non-compliance. Such are the problems of a centralized system. These are the issues of middlemen.
Spl.yt takes the power from the big data gobbling giants of e-commerce and gives it back to buyers and sellers, who can freely engage in a true peer-to-peer experience, securely and simply via blockchain technology and smart contracts. Through this decentralized, more efficient system, the middleman is eliminated. Time and money are saved by automating key intermediary functions via smart contracts. Spl.yt token economics incentivizes its users to transact fairly for a more secure e-commerce experience. Data is not mined by any central authority. Private data is protected, not harvested and used.
The Giants of e-commerce will not be taken down by a bigger giant, but by a global community of individuals all freely connecting with each other through a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem By decentralizing e-commerce, these giants will simply no longer be needed. Smart contracts will automatically facilitate payment to service providers along the e-commerce retail chain (affiliate marketers, dropshippers, etc.). And e-commerce giants will go the way of the dinosaur. To learn more about Spl.yt and the decentralized future of e-commerce, visit https://www.spl.yt/learn-more.

A security token,, nice, But How its work ?
Personally i just heard about this project from you my friend
Because in my opinion this year is the year of exchange token or coin

You are right ... I as a gift hunter have seen 30% of the prize programs are about exchange programs while 30% are coins and health products

As the e-commerce system stands today, sellers must switch between different marketplaces in order to update their inventory, which consumes precious time and resources. Spl.yt powers a revamped e-commerce system that enables inventory to be updated automatically across different marketplaces — no more accidental double-selling items that can jeopardize your reputation.
“Affiliate Marketers” Is this you?
Affiliate marketing describes the system of cross-marketing and cross-promotion that occurs throughout the sale of a product in e-commerce. (This is a highly influential market currently contributing 16% of all US e-commerce sales with an estimated growth rate of 10% annually to $6.8B in 2020.) Affiliate marketing commissions are paid on a “per-click,” “per-signup,” or “per-sale” basis, but keeping track of these payments are often problematic without a trustworthy tracking mechanism.
The Spl.yt protocol uses “smart contracts” to automate payments to affiliate marketers. This data is then recorded on the permanent blockchain ledger so that if a disagreement between parties were to arise, an automated resolution pact would be triggered. The requirement of economic investment deters potential scammers and rewards honest behavior. When disputes are settled swiftly, it saves all sides time and resources.To learn more about Spl.yt and the decentralized future of e-commerce, visit Spl.yt Website: https://www.spl.yt/
Spl.yt Lite Paper: https://www.spl.yt/litepaper.pdf Spl.yt for Devs: https://www.spl.yt/devs.html Live dApp: http://demo.spl.yt/
Medium: https://medium.com/@splytcore Twitter: https://twitter.com/splytcore
 Telegram: https://t.me/splyt

Merchants great and small, from the occasional eBay seller or storefront dealer on Amazon, to large-scale vendors across dozens of international online markets, will all now have a swift, secure, and efficient way to connect to the blockchain and list items for sale through an innovative new smart contract-based protocol called Spl.yt.
Every online vendor today is well aware of the problems that plague the e-commerce industry. Aggregate marketplaces like Amazon regularly charge 25–50% of a final sale price — a charge ultimately felt by consumers — while providing less than fair customer service to vendors who are completely defenseless against the threat of an unfair ban. Affiliate Brokers, like Commission Junction (CJ Affiliate), facilitate intermediate collaborative marketing between marketplaces, sellers, and influencers. Unfortunately, affiliate brokers often unfairly charge for false positives caused by web-crawlers and data siloing while selling unwitting consumer data.
Spl.yt is a blockchain-powered “public social utility,” meaning anyone with an internet connection can use it at no cost besides the gas needed to secure the blockchain. The power of decentralized cryptocurrencies and smart contracts makes this possible because users themselves can define the growth of the system while directly reaping the benefit of their contributions. What’s more, Spl.yt is run by the Spl.yt Core Foundation, a non-profit designed to work itself out of existence, leaving a system that runs itself (similar to the internet) without any controller-middleman susceptible to bias or corruption.
Spl.yt’s smart contract protocol enables the formation of a global inventory and universalized reputation scores as well as the automation of such costly processes as dispute resolution and affiliate marketing management.To learn more about Spl.yt and the decentralized future of e-commerce, visit Spl.yt Website: https://www.spl.yt/
Spl.yt Lite Paper: https://www.spl.yt/litepaper.pdf Spl.yt for Devs: https://www.spl.yt/devs.html Live dApp: http://demo.spl.yt/ 
Medium: https://medium.com/@splytcore Twitter: https://twitter.com/splytcore
 Telegram: https://t.me/splyt

Most promising now is Vertex. You can visit Vertex announcement thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4630951.0 to learn about it. Vertex is the worlds first ICO aftermarket , an ecosystem that will change the ICO industry. Vertex benefits ICO buyers and ICOs.

I heard a lot of positivie reviews about Ingot project. project almost reached 80 mil $ hard cap. I guess it is worth of being considered as promising project ;D

Thats the most hyped ICO of this summer dude! ;D :D They have reached 40 million soft cap while ETH was 400 and now is reaching 80 million while ETH is below 300! Damn thats crazy project

agree, incredible result but still not the major factor if you considering the picking up the ICO. Chinese ICO collected 60 million but still turned into a scam

Ingot is backed by Pantera Capital ;D I dont think Pantera would not be able to sort out scam project from the legit one

The HIT Protocol team believes that blockchain technology is the perfect technology for achieving interoperability between these stakeholders while strengthening the bonds between them and their viewers. We’re strong proponents of tokenization to drive interactions, allowing individuals to enjoy a more personal experience while earning rewards, as well as providing advertisers and shows with in-depth data about their viewership.
The HIT Protocol and its use of the distributed ledger technology comes with a number of benefits that are set to revolutionize this sector, including immutability, transparency and micro-transacting. Combined, these give users granular control over their own experiences, and shift the focus of the ecosystem to a more viewer-centric model. Incentivizing viewers is key to ensuring that quality insights can continue to be derived from a highly lucrative and core component of the entertainment industry, and ensuring a widespread standard will be paramount to its long-term viability.
There’s a reason why blockchain technology is taking off, and there’s no shortage of use cases where it can be successfully applied in the TV and OTT industries. The sector is in need of a solution, which the HIT Protocol aims to provide. From smart contracts automating some of the existing infrastructures’ laborious tasks, to implementing a vastly more secure means of storing information, to strengthening the connection between viewers and the content they enjoy, distributed ledger tech is an excellent tool by which to enhance existing processes and redefine the industry as it stands.
In order for OTT to achieve its fullest potential and meet the needs of viewers, advertisers, and content providers, it’s crucial that we acknowledge and implement technologies such as blockchain to incentivize viewers and to streamline the evolution of the industry to benefit all parties. These are our official social platforms:
Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL/

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol

iPowow calls HIT tokens and the HIT protocol can benefit the TV business by offering three solutions to problems such as viewers watching on noncommercial platforms, inconsistent cross-platform audience measurement and a lack of data about TV advertising, iPowow CEO Gavin Douglas said. Benefits for Viewers, Advertisers With the HIT protocol, viewers get paid to watch shows, content creators and networks engage viewers and generate more revenue from digital viewing, and advertisers get transparency and audience insights. It would work this way: A viewer tunes in a show and sees a graphic that says they’re getting five HIT tokens. The viewer either clicks his or her remote or goes to a second screen to activate an account and accept the tokens. The viewer must have granted GDPR consent to share data. Later, the viewer can go to a digital shopping plaza to buy things with the HIT tokens. A number of large retailers have expressed interest in letting viewers use HIT tokens to buy real merchandise, Douglas said. Jill Rosengard Hill, executive VP at market research firm Magid, said there was potential to the idea of a reward program for TV. “There is a segment of consumers who are open to the exchange of their data for a fee,” she said. A recent Magid study found 33% of mobile users said they would give up access to their data in exchange for a discount. “Marketers are looking at loyalty programs or the exchange of coins, gifts or money to drive loyalty and to drive tunein,” she said.There have been previous efforts to create reward systems for watching TV. GetGlue, which rewarded viewers with stickers, was acquired in 2012 by Viggle, a mobile app that offered points that could be exchanged for gift cards or access to premium content. For the past seven years, iPowow has been in what it dubbed the “participation TV” business, creating interactive features that can be sponsored for 200 shows on networks such as ABC, Fox and USA, local stations and digital video platforms such as Facebook Live and Twitch. For Twitch, iPowow created an extension that lets viewers pay gamers they’re watching live and have input into how games will be played. Douglas said iPowow has demonstrated that its system works whether on the first screen or second screen, and on all platforms — linear broadcast, VOD, over-the-top and online. He hopes to raise the millions iPowow will need in August. Blockchain Migration for HIT iPowow plans to build its new HIT protocol on a blockchain foundation and migrate its current technology to blockchain as well by year end. Blockchain enables the cryptocurrency HIT tokens, which cost less to distribute initially than real dollars and also provide transparency, immutability and consistency while decentralizing account information. The HIT protocol will also be open, allowing other companies to develop apps, which will increase the utility of the system. iPowow has been scanning the horizon but doesn’t see any competitor ready to implement an effective TV rewards program. “The way we see it is, someone going to do this,” Douglas said. “Someone’s going to produce a media engagement token that’s global and covers all video interactions, and people get rewarded for watching and they can go spend it on things. We say it’s going to be us, so that’s what we’re going to do.These are our official social platforms:
Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL/

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol

Augur (REP)
$17,54
It is a good coin to invest your money next quartal. After increasing it`s price from 4 usd to 100 in Jan 2018, i think it will hit the highs again despite the fact that it is a down now..it is a down for all coins now unfortunately.

I like infrastructure projects and blockchain projects. I have invested in couple of blockchains projects. Some a doing well, some not. So, Zilliqa, PChain, Quarkchain. By the marketing, quarkchain doing better than others. By the technology zilliqa is better from my point of view. 

i heard Ingot really hype this year, but i will wait only to buy in market. Because when i see something good, i prefer to buy it in market even not really have high perseption in profit. But Ingot worth to try

It is really hard to speculate when market is so volatile. Fluctuations of prices really affecting trend in each coins which  could not be good for long term hold.  It is not a way to discourage long term holder but for me,  I've never been doing that today until market will get stabilize and less volatility.

Today, by tokenizing the global TV and Video industries, we harmonize and optimize all three important elements of the ecosystem: viewers, networks/content creators, and advertising brands. Through the rapid adoption and use of our HIT tokens among these three groups, we inspire a new, more holistic relationship between them all, with increased transparency and added value.
Our new blockchain ecosystem for television and video content, based on the HIT protocol means:
• Viewers get paid to watch & participate with their favorite shows
• Content Creators engage viewers & generate revenue
• Advertisers gain transparency & insight on their audience
All the players in the media ecosystem benefit using HITs, for a sustainable exchange of HIT tokens between members. Let’s see how this works:
For Viewers
We are creating a global marketplace — a digital Shopping Plaza. With the HIT protocol, every moment a viewer spends watching or interacting with their favorite show is a way to put HIT tokens into their account, which they can seamlessly use to purchase digital and physical goods and services on our inventoried item management system. This transforms the anonymous consumer patterns on TV and online video into a worldwide economy where the consumer of video content is fully engaged and in control, with more choices, tailored to each viewer’s preferences. No more whack-a-moling through annoying and seemingly random pop-up ads a viewer has no interest in, before being allowed to see desirable content.
For TV Networks and Content Creators
The HIT protocol provides TV networks with new interactive marketing campaigns to enhance the viewer experience and keep them coming back for more. To help drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and their programs will be given special campaign management tools, including the ability to create show-specific badges and achievement levels attached to limited-time campaigns. Sponsorship integration will allow the promotion of partners within given campaigns. Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) will present opportunities for partners to recycle evergreen or continued-demand content with new interactive experiences.
Compensation for content creators on channels like YouTube has always been an area of contention in an ever-changing terrain of percentages and viewer stipulations that make earning a fair reward for quality content a challenge. When viewers interact with creators, the HIT protocol tracks that engagement, enabling the content creator to learn more about their audience which in turn helps in the creation of better content.
Using the HIT protocol, these kinds of creators will be able to choose how they will be compensated for their content to let the market decide the value of their contributions. TV shows and content creators can give viewers the power to choose the outcome of character eliminations, plot twists and affect the future by voting with their HIT tokens for an enhanced synergistic rapport to develop a loyal following.
For Brands
Today, brand advertisers don’t have any real data about who sees their TV commercials or what viewers do after seeing commercials. The HIT protocol changes this by allowing full transparency so advertisers can see who is interacting with their commercials or with any interactive promotions they run within TV shows or video content. (Of course, viewers must give their consent to be tracked and they are rewarded for their consent.) This never-before-possible level of transparency gives brands a new level of insight into their customers and potential customers, so they can tailor their advertising, campaigns, messaging, and even products to a specific audience more effectively and for higher sales and a better rate on investment for advertising.
The HIT blockchain protocol of iPowow creates the best possible ecosystem for Viewers, Networks/Content Creators and Brands. It’s win/win/win for everyone. Come up to the next level of TV and video with us! These are our official social platforms:
Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL/

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol

if in my opinion, the project is promising if the prediction of bounty hunters is not necessarily right / right because we as a bounty are just trying and choosing which ones can benefit us more, but that is all an opinion and hope that is not yet certain, hopefully our choice is right and as expected.

The next evolution in online sales has finally arrived. Merchants great and small, from the occasional eBay seller or storefront dealer on Amazon, to large-scale vendors across dozens of international online markets, will all now have a swift, secure, and efficient way to connect to the blockchain and list items for sale through an innovative new smart contract-based protocol called Spl.yt.
Spl.yt is a blockchain-powered “public social utility,” meaning anyone with an internet connection can use it at no cost besides the gas needed to secure the blockchain. The power of decentralized cryptocurrencies and smart contracts makes this possible because users themselves can define the growth of the system while directly reaping the benefit of their contributions. What’s more, Spl.yt is run by the Spl.yt Core Foundation, a non-profit designed to work itself out of existence, leaving a system that runs itself (similar to the internet) without any controller-middleman susceptible to bias or corruption.
Spl.yt’s smart contract protocol enables the formation of a global inventory and universalized reputation scores as well as the automation of such costly processes as dispute resolution and affiliate marketing management.
Once connected to Spl.yt, buyers can view the global inventory of individual listings automatically populated from all e-commerce websites integrated with the protocol. Shoppers only need to visit one e-commerce site to search for and purchase their desired item securely, and at the lowest price. Since all information from these various online retailers is integrated, once a buyer purchases an item, it will automatically de-list from every other marketplace, avoiding double-purchasing the same item.
SAT’s logic is specifically designed to leverage the positive aspects of dispute resolution. The system is based on a double-staking method:
1. Parties must stake a small number of SATs when they engage the platform, which will be returned to them or go to other parties if justified or desired upon a transaction’s successful completion.
2. Any party interested in disputing the first party’s good faith behavior may stake a matching amount of SATs to indicate skepticism.
3. The first party may then concede that there was poor behavior (e.g., a spam listing or a missed shipping deadline), and surrender the stake to settle the dispute However, if the first party’s confident in that party’s behavior, then that party can stake additional SATs (up to the first staked amount).
4. The disputing party can either surrender that party’s original stake or place a second matching stake to indicate confidence that the first party indeed behaved improperly.
5. If both parties double-stake, then the dispute is sent to a third party who can analyze the evidence and arbitrate, with a portion of the double-staked amount going to the arbitrator for their efforts and the rest going to the winner of the dispute. This double-staking method can be leveraged at any point where human actors are capable of bad faith actions in order to discourage that behavior and give all users confidence in the system.
To learn more about Spl.yt and the decentralized future of e-commerce, visit Spl.yt Website: https://www.spl.yt/
Spl.yt Lite Paper: https://www.spl.yt/litepaper.pdf Spl.yt for Devs: https://www.spl.yt/devs.html Live dApp: http://demo.spl.yt/
Medium: https://medium.com/@splytcore Twitter: https://twitter.com/splytcore
Telegram: https://t.me/splyt

As e-commerce evolved, so did all supporting systems, including inventory management, affiliate marketing, delivery and fulfillment, and buyer and seller reviews. But what we’re seeing now is a stagnation in this natural development caused by the formation of oligopolies of the prevailing legacy marketplaces. In other words, the top ten e-commerce companies in the US leverage their data reach and operational infrastructures to prevent newcomers from gaining traction.As the e-commerce system stands today, sellers must switch between different marketplaces in order to update their inventory, which consumes precious time and resources. Spl.yt powers a revamped e-commerce system that enables inventory to be updated automatically across different marketplaces — no more accidental double-selling items that can jeopardize your reputation.
“Affiliate Marketers” Is this you?
Affiliate marketing describes the system of cross-marketing and cross-promotion that occurs throughout the sale of a product in e-commerce. (This is a highly influential market currently contributing 16% of all US e-commerce sales with an estimated growth rate of 10% annually to $6.8B in 2020.) Affiliate marketing commissions are paid on a “per-click,” “per-signup,” or “per-sale” basis, but keeping track of these payments are often problematic without a trustworthy tracking mechanism.
The Spl.yt protocol uses “smart contracts” to automate payments to affiliate marketers. This data is then recorded on the permanent blockchain ledger so that if a disagreement between parties were to arise, an automated resolution pact would be triggered. The requirement of economic investment deters potential scammers and rewards honest behavior. When disputes are settled swiftly, it saves all sides time and resources.
To learn more about Spl.yt and the decentralized future of e-commerce, visit Spl.yt Website: https://www.spl.yt/
Spl.yt Lite Paper: https://www.spl.yt/litepaper.pdf Spl.yt for Devs: https://www.spl.yt/devs.html Live dApp: http://demo.spl.yt/
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There are lots of promising projects and right now is a good time to buy into any of them. Personally, I'm interested in those that bring buyers and sellers of services and products together and Linkchain is one of such projects for me. I also like projects that encourage peer-to-peer transactions and I won't mind buying into a good one.

Online markets are constantly improving as platforms become easier to use and more convenient for both buyers and sellers. As we move towards a more digital centric day-to-day, the parties that facilitate e-commerce become gatekeepers to competition and center points prone to security concerns. Spl.yt, a Science Blockchain backed start-up out of Santa Monica CA, leverages Blockchain and smart-contracts to solve these problems, enabling all users to profit from a decentralized e-commerce experience and set the stage for the continued evolution of online marketplaces.
Spl.yt automates the inventory listing process, fraud and spam detection, and payments to affiliate marketers by using smart contract protocols. Spl.yt “splits up” these tasks, normally done by 3rd parties, to incentivized users by combining Blockchain and Smart-contracts. The result, e-commerce buyers and sellers can transact online for cheaper with less hassle than ever before.For those not heavily versed in Blockchain or Smart Contract tech, the breakthrough this technology provides is trust (or more so, no longer needing trust) — allowing for decentralizing the services intermediaries provide to the participating community. Smart contracts are essentially digitalized legacy contracts which execute commands autonomously, built upon Blockchain. We will share a more in depth write up of what a proof of stake system is, and how its pivot of Blockchain’s traditional proof-of-work system will work for the e-commerce space. Spl.yt Core is a blockchain-based self-regulating social utility that is publicly-accessible and easy to use. Spl.yt’s seamless integration with existing online retailers redefines ecommerce using smart contracts and Spl.yt’s own ERC-20 compliant crypto-token. This serves to help any buyer, seller, marketplace, or ecommerce party improve their experience and maximize value.  Spl.yt Core’s development will be overseen by the Splyt Core Foundation, a nonpartisan, non-profit entity. Spl.yt Core boasts the following capabilities to help ecommerce applications better support users who buy, sell, and manage goods on their platform:
To learn more about Spl.yt and the decentralized future of e-commerce, visit Spl.yt Website: https://www.spl.yt/
Spl.yt Lite Paper: https://www.spl.yt/litepaper.pdf Spl.yt for Devs: https://www.spl.yt/devs.html Live dApp: http://demo.spl.yt/
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I have done some researched and picked some of the projects:

1. POLY - targeting security tokens industry, currently the only one to do so. SEC chief and SEC have already declared that all ICO tokens are security tokens, it's only about regulating them and when it happen, it'll boom POLY price. Currently it's at $0.15 only and token supply is around 220M, huge space to grow.

2. PRIV - targeting anonymity of the users, it's a private transaction coin, they're only couple of months old and didn't raise a dime through ICO. They're airdropping 11M out of 21M tokens to the community members through 20 continuous weeks of airdrop. Current price is only $0.035 and with 21M supply, it can grow easily by 20-30x on a good bull run.

You need to invest in projects with low market capillarity, this is the key to success!

I invest my money in Spectrecoin (XSPEC).
This project has a small market capitalization due to a lack of marketing, but as we know, the start-up of the company for public relations is very simple.
The conclusion is simple, buy now and keep.

There are now so many promising projects so you can check out the development team and product of the project that really potential for future consumers and you choose them to invest.

look for projects that offer the biggest disruption, and most of all take away the most pain. People (and businesses) take the fastest action because they can remove discomfort, not because they can add rewards. Sonm, Aion, iMusify, Datum, Adbank, Stratis, VeChain, ... all take away significant problems. Look for these types of projects

sparkster looks so good and valid. they did hardcap, already signed with two major exchanges which is hidden from community.. for now tokens are locked but not for long.

Currently, the majority of TV broadcast, Video on Demand (VoD) and Over the Top (OTT) content is still presented to viewers as a one-way experience despite audience demand for more ways to engage. Additionally, the rating and measurement systems that enable content providers to gain data insights and generate better content for their audience remain limited. iPowow supports the evolution of the entire media ecosystem with its HIT Protocol by empowering viewers with more ways to engage while simultaneously driving results for brands and content providers.
OTT refers to the act of content providers delivering content over the internet via streaming to a specific device or smart TV apps like Roku, Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV. OTT apps offer viewers access to HBO, Netflix, Hulu, SlingTV and other video services, as well as “TVOD,” or “TV On Demand.” As an industry poised to reach a valuation exceeding $160 billion by 2025, it’s clear that this is a market brimming with untapped potential for advertisers and content providers; however, there are still some challenges to resolve before these opportunities can fully be realized.Evidently, there’s a need for standardized metrics for content providers and advertisers in OTT. The HIT Protocol team believes that blockchain technology is the perfect technology for achieving interoperability between these stakeholders while strengthening the bonds between them and their viewers. We’re strong proponents of tokenization to drive interactions, allowing individuals to enjoy a more personal experience while earning rewards, as well as providing advertisers and shows with in-depth data about their viewership.
The HIT Protocol and its use of the distributed ledger technology comes with a number of benefits that are set to revolutionize this sector, including immutability, transparency and micro-transacting. Combined, these give users granular control over their own experiences, and shift the focus of the ecosystem to a more viewer-centric model. Incentivizing viewers is key to ensuring that quality insights can continue to be derived from a highly lucrative and core component of the entertainment industry, and ensuring a widespread standard will be paramount to its long-term viability.
There’s a reason why blockchain technology is taking off, and there’s no shortage of use cases where it can be successfully applied in the TV and OTT industries. The sector is in need of a solution, which the HIT Protocol aims to provide. From smart contracts automating some of the existing infrastructures’ laborious tasks, to implementing a vastly more secure means of storing information, to strengthening the connection between viewers and the content they enjoy, distributed ledger tech is an excellent tool by which to enhance existing processes and redefine the industry as it stands.
In order for OTT to achieve its fullest potential and meet the needs of viewers, advertisers, and content providers, it’s crucial that we acknowledge and implement technologies such as blockchain to incentivize viewers and to streamline the evolution of the industry to benefit all parties.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

iPowow, a global platform for TV producers and streaming video broadcasters, is introducing the HIT Protocol, a blockchain-based initiative that will empower all players in the media ecosystem with more opportunities for viewer engagement, revenue, and rewards. Using HIT tokens, the HIT Protocol’s in-ecosystem cryptocurrency, the initiative strengthens the relationships between all ecosystem participants.
Who is the HIT Protocol Team?

Gavin Douglas, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder - Gavin is a multi-award winning media producer and TV format developer with over 20 years of experience. As the CEO of iPowow, Gavin has driven the business deals and the production of over 100 broadcast television + streaming video projects that link linear storytelling with real-time interactive technology, offering a unique perspective important to bridging blockchain technology and the media ecosystem. Gavin has overseen iPowow’s growth across both linear television and streaming video by negotiating and signing production deals with clients including ESPN, NBC, ABC, Fox Sports, CNBC, CNN, Red Bull, Discovery and Disney. Prior to iPowow, Gavin had written, produced, directed or edited more than 30 television series around the world, including “BBC Top Gear,” “MasterChef,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “Big Brother” and “MythBusters.”   

Christine Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder - Christine is responsible for the day-to-day financial and human resource management of iPowow. Christine is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California and began her finance career at Price Waterhouse in San Francisco. She has held various finance positions at large technology firms, including Raychem and Novell. She worked for her first early stage company when she was the Corporate Controller of OmniCell Technologies and held the position of CFO of Connectix Corporation when it was acquired by Microsoft.

Mathieu Lohier, VP Engineering - Mathieu is a full stack engineer with extensive experience architecting and leading state of the art development, high volume applications, and scalable platforms. Before joining iPowow, Mathieu co-led the development and rollout of a nation-wide, wireless broadband network in Australia as well as the development of high-profile enterprise-wide applications for NTT Docomo. 

Robert Simpson, Chief Strategy Officer - Robert is an experienced executive producer and product manager with an established record of media format innovation and a strategic vision for creating industry-defining partnerships on television, eSports, and online platforms. During his career, Robert has developed and executed brand strategies, events, athlete programs, media products and partnerships for clients that include Blizzard Entertainment, Red Bull Media House, NVIDIA, Walmart, Twitch and Honda.  

Colin Hornett, Chief Creative Officer - Having overseen the development of the digital multimedia department at the Miss Universe Organization for NBC, where he directed and produced the first webcast in the 60-year history of Miss Universe. Colin joined iPowow as an experienced executive producer with a track record of generating record-breaking audiences. Colin spent his late teens as a professional snowboarder before becoming a lawyer, writer/journalist, producer, photographer and, eventually, a specialist in interactive storytelling and viewer engagement. He has more than a decade of experience producing and directing commercials, documentaries and short films all over the planet for companies large and small.

Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
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I have been with many projects so far, but the most promising ones are DIGIWAGE, MAG, BUZZCOIN, PRiVCY, and GRFT. Try to do your own research about these coins I mentioned, they have roadmaps and Whitepaper available, the support of the dev and team, along with the community is very active as well.

Bought some quarckchain, NEO, EOS and ETH. IMHO there are a lot of more hype projects on the market with great hype but low price: FSN, ONT, MFT and others.

https://www.coindesk.com/stealth-staking-privacy-coin-plan-mask-proof-of-stake/

CoinDesk article

A Small Crypto Coin Is Making Big Claims About a Private Proof-of-Stake


and


Neblio - smart contracts and 8 lang Dapps platform used for enterprises

With how 2018 is playing out it's probably best to look further into at least 2019 I'd say. I like both NEBL and XSPEC as well! 

If XSPEC can deliver everything they plan, they will essentially be a proof of stake Monero, natively built on TOR with stealth staking. So Monero (almost literally tech-wise + TOR and S.S.) with faster, cheaper transactions and you earn by staking? Seems like a winner to me if everything comes to fruition. This is a long play for me, I look back at September of 2015 and see XMR at $0.50 and think of what the future can bring with some patience. 

There are a LOT of good projects, at least in theory, it really does depend on who can deliver of course. Some of the projects I'm also invested or at least keeping an eye on are....

OMG
EOS
KMD
RHOC
VET
ENG
NPXS
KIN
QASH
WAN 

That's not all but definitely some good projects in there.

For me, NEO will gonna kick off this year, by the end of the year, NEO will create a big noise in the cryptocurrency market. NEO is one of the biggest project blockchain in China and it is fully supported by the Chinese Government. NEO is really good for long term position.

The data and cloud market has never been outdated and lost its important, effective features. I believe that IAGON( IAG) will be the next big growth project. They have experienced and professional devs. After MVP they constantly exchange ideas and bring them together with EOS. This is the basis for me to believe that my speculation will bring profit in the long run.

These are my Top 3 most promising project’s that I believe will make it big in 2019/2020

1. Ark Coinmarketcap - 72

ARK provides users, developers, and startups with innovative blockchain technologies. Ark aim to create an entire ecosystem of linked chains and a virtual spiderweb of endless use-cases that make ARK highly flexible, adaptable, and scalable. ARK is a secure platform designed for mass adoption and will deliver the services that consumers want and developers need. Ark has 8 second block times which makes it one of the fastest in the industry.ARK utilizes a modified Delegated-Proof-Of-Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism featuring 51 delegates. You can simply stake your coins and earn a passive income of approximately 10% per annum.

2. Spectrecoin coinmarketcap - 442

One of the most secure privacy coins on the market. Stealth address , Native Tor integration + OBFS4, Ring sigs, PoSV3. Spectrecoin will implement proof of stealth in Q1 2019. This feature is a game changer for Proof of stake privacy coins.Proof of stealth will allow the user to stake and be rewarded with untraceable coins. You can stake spectrecoin and earn 10% per annum. The best way to understand Spectrecoin today is to think of Bitcoin + Proof-of-Stake.v3 + anonymous transactions (using similar technology to Monero) + Tor / OBFS4 to hide your IP.

3. Nuls coinmarketcap - 91

Instead of designing a one-size-fits-all type of blockchain, NULS specializes in modular blockchain architecture – a design concept similar to that used in web construction by WordPress – allowing clients to create their own type of blockchain depending on their needs. It will be especially useful for companies with little or no technical expertise, who want to incorporate blockchain technology into their business, but can’t afford to recruit expensive software engineers to do it for them. If you own 2000 Nuls you can stake for approximately 10% per annum

These days, on-demand downloadable and streamable content are a standard expected by consumers. These developments have led to more modular offering for viewers, who now possess the ability to watch programs free of time constraints once imposed by networks. This has thrown a proverbial wrench into the works where monetization in this sector is concerned.
In the wake of these developments, shows and advertisers alike are lost. Targeting viewers, as well as gleaning insights, was once a task made easy by having specific shows aired at specific times. As audiences increasingly migrate to the internet for their content, these methods are no longer as efficient as they once were, and will only continue to diminish in effectiveness over time.
OTT refers to the act of content providers delivering content over the internet via streaming to a specific device or smart TV apps like Roku, Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV. OTT apps offer viewers access to HBO, Netflix, Hulu, SlingTV and other video services, as well as “TVOD,” or “TV On Demand.” As an industry poised to reach a valuation exceeding $160 billion by 2025, it’s clear that this is a market brimming with untapped potential for advertisers and content providers; however, there are still some challenges to resolve before these opportunities can fully be realized.
Evidently, there’s a need for standardized metrics for content providers and advertisers in OTT. The HIT Protocol team believes that blockchain technology is the perfect technology for achieving interoperability between these stakeholders while strengthening the bonds between them and their viewers. We’re strong proponents of tokenization to drive interactions, allowing individuals to enjoy a more personal experience while earning rewards, as well as providing advertisers and shows with in-depth data about their viewership.
The HIT Protocol and its use of the distributed ledger technology comes with a number of benefits that are set to revolutionize this sector, including immutability, transparency and micro-transacting. Combined, these give users granular control over their own experiences, and shift the focus of the ecosystem to a more viewer-centric model. Incentivizing viewers is key to ensuring that quality insights can continue to be derived from a highly lucrative and core component of the entertainment industry, and ensuring a widespread standard will be paramount to its long-term viability.
There’s a reason why blockchain technology is taking off, and there’s no shortage of use cases where it can be successfully applied in the TV and OTT industries. The sector is in need of a solution, which the HIT Protocol aims to provide. From smart contracts automating some of the existing infrastructures’ laborious tasks, to implementing a vastly more secure means of storing information, to strengthening the connection between viewers and the content they enjoy, distributed ledger tech is an excellent tool by which to enhance existing processes and redefine the industry as it stands.
In order for OTT to achieve its fullest potential and meet the needs of viewers, advertisers, and content providers, it’s crucial that we acknowledge and implement technologies such as blockchain to incentivize viewers and to streamline the evolution of the industry to benefit all parties.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

ICOhotlist or ICObench can be helpful for yourself to find the good projects for this year but I see the people here sharing their review for their project and keep their information at here buddy.

Since I noticed the projects as bounty hunter I would give some suggestions here.

CHYNGE
XYO
BQT
LUYNR
INSUREPAL
Suncontract

wow. that is really a good list. i own most of these coins. basicly, yeah, they are lots of good projects. but in the bearish market, hype is not enough for them to rise agaisnt btc.

I would suggest media protocol buddy, Im not going to shill it to you, but look it up and read about it

in any case, a good product needs advertising, as there are a lot of Media projects on the market today, but they have very little information.

The way I'm approaching the market is by accumulating coins that I think have large growth potential for late 2018-2019. I do not believe we are out of the bear market yet so my selections are not based on coins I think will offer a quick turn around but rather coins I believe are at a good accumulation zone and will net you a solid profit for late 2018-2019.

1. Spectrecoin, Xspec  Spectrecoin - (This is my biggest bet) Xspec is a privacy coin that uses POS as opposed to POW to support it's network. With its tech it is among one of the few truly private privacy coins out there. It has a functioning product and strong team behind it that is continuing to push the coin forward. If successful with their roadmap Spectrecoin could be at the head of the privacy class by 2019. This would push Spectrecoin into the limelight/ mainstream and the coin would see tremendous gains being a small cap. So at a price of around .29 cents currently we could be looking at a value of $10 or more come 2019. This is not that far fetched as Spectrecoin already achieved an ATH of $6 in 2017 during the last crypto bull run with less resources and development behind it. This is definitely a coin to keep in mind if your looking for a solid return on your investment. As always patience is needed if you jump aboard.

2. Cardano, ADA - I'm not sure how sustainable blockchain is for the future and I could foresee a world where blockchain's tech is actually obsolete except for maybe bitcoin (being a symbolic store value) DAG technology may win out and if this happens expect Cardano to be a major player in the DAG revolution. The team behind Cardano is taking an excellent approach by excessively peer reviewing their work and constantly trying to streamline things. real world applications for Cardano are very limited as of now but a series of ADA ATMS are set for release in Japan relatively soon. When this happens expect the price of Cardano to skyrocket. At a current price of around 0.08 cents and former all time high of 1.25 I'd expect you'd see a good return in the next 2 years by investing in Cardano which I expect will hit 5.00 by 2020.

3. Banca, Banca - Banca is a new type of an investment bank community built on blockchain technology. It’s based on AI and an expert system which is used to create a platform to help inform investors or potential investors about potential crypto risks or opportunities. The cool thing about Banca is it offers a functional product, is a fairly new crypto currency, and has a strong team behind it. There is alot of room for growth here since Banca is still very young so investing now is almost equivalent to getting in on the ground floor. it is a large supply coin and is currently worth 0.0003651 but by 2020 I could see it hitting 0.02 cents. Thats not a bad return if you buy a cheap million Banca today.

 in this case it seems that we cannot be sure, seeing that there are so many projects to offer new coins, so it will be difficult if all new coins have to be of high value all

In my opinion Yumerium and NEL.network is the most promising projects for investment in 2018, these projects do not have a decent competition.

The top coins are always lower risk and the reason is they have shown promising technology/use case. Hence my core holdings are ETH, NEO, XLM, XRP and ADA.

Low MC coins have the higher risk but rewards can be ENORMOUS. My low MC coins are XSPEC and PRL.

XSPEC - After the PM Mandica let go of the bad apples in the team, XSPEC has shown to be strong team and even stronger community. They have hired core devs and are still hiring more devs and continue to push out github commits and constantly update the roadmap. Additionally the coin addresses one of the major concerns in crypto/DLT i.e. Privacy and being a POS coin makes it even more attractive.

PRL - PRL is another beaten down gem. The team is strong and constantly works on development. The prices dumped after the mainnet release but in the long term (2yr+), I think this coin will do great.

also I would like to recommend you guys a DSTRA a project :) I've got a trust in them.

I would say this with so much hope and optimism, that as a freelancer, i see Linkchain standing out here simply for one of the many brilliant reasons which is their Digital Freelancer Revolution as they Invade Block Chain!

Today, by tokenizing the global TV and Video industries, we harmonize and optimize all three important elements of the ecosystem: viewers, networks/content creators, and advertising brands. Through the rapid adoption and use of our HIT tokens among these three groups, we inspire a new, more holistic relationship between them all, with increased transparency and added value.Our new blockchain ecosystem for television and video content, based on the HIT protocol means:
• Viewers get paid to watch & participate with their favorite shows
• Content Creators engage viewers & generate revenue
• Advertisers gain transparency & insight on their audience
All the players in the media ecosystem benefit using HITs, for a sustainable exchange of HIT tokens between members. Let’s see how this works:
For Viewers
We are creating a global marketplace — a digital Shopping Plaza. With the HIT protocol, every moment a viewer spends watching or interacting with their favorite show is a way to put HIT tokens into their account, which they can seamlessly use to purchase digital and physical goods and services on our inventoried item management system. This transforms the anonymous consumer patterns on TV and online video into a worldwide economy where the consumer of video content is fully engaged and in control, with more choices, tailored to each viewer’s preferences. No more whack-a-moling through annoying and seemingly random pop-up ads a viewer has no interest in, before being allowed to see desirable content.
For TV Networks and Content Creators
The HIT protocol provides TV networks with new interactive marketing campaigns to enhance the viewer experience and keep them coming back for more. To help drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and their programs will be given special campaign management tools, including the ability to create show-specific badges and achievement levels attached to limited-time campaigns. Sponsorship integration will allow the promotion of partners within given campaigns. Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) will present opportunities for partners to recycle evergreen or continued-demand content with new interactive experiences.
Compensation for content creators on channels like YouTube has always been an area of contention in an ever-changing terrain of percentages and viewer stipulations that make earning a fair reward for quality content a challenge. When viewers interact with creators, the HIT protocol tracks that engagement, enabling the content creator to learn more about their audience which in turn helps in the creation of better content.
Using the HIT protocol, these kinds of creators will be able to choose how they will be compensated for their content to let the market decide the value of their contributions. TV shows and content creators can give viewers the power to choose the outcome of character eliminations, plot twists and affect the future by voting with their HIT tokens for an enhanced synergistic rapport to develop a loyal following.
For Brands
Today, brand advertisers don’t have any real data about who sees their TV commercials or what viewers do after seeing commercials. The HIT protocol changes this by allowing full transparency so advertisers can see who is interacting with their commercials or with any interactive promotions they run within TV shows or video content. (Of course, viewers must give their consent to be tracked and they are rewarded for their consent.) This never-before-possible level of transparency gives brands a new level of insight into their customers and potential customers, so they can tailor their advertising, campaigns, messaging, and even products to a specific audience more effectively and for higher sales and a better rate on investment for advertising. Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

If entrepreneurs always waited for consumers to tell them what they want, we wouldn’t have innovation. No one told Steve Jobs they wanted a little box with just a few buttons that could play all their favorite songs. We already had Discman, and we didn’t know we wanted the iPod until it was right in front of us.

The Genesis of iPowow

Back in the late Nineties I was working at a London-based TV production company. The idea was to provide viewers with a little box with plastic buttons labeled, “A, B, C, and D” that would allow them to interact live with the TV show’s host. For example, if the guest today was Brad Pitt, a question might pop up on screen with four choices like this:

What topic do you want to hear next?

Pitt’s upcoming epic sci fi thriller, Ad Astra

What happened to Angelina Jolie?

Best and worst Hollywood experience

Acting vs. producing

Viewers could then select their choice and ultimately determine the direction of the show they’re watching. In the late Nineties, the technology wasn’t where it needed to be to make interactive TV possible. But the idea of providing viewers with opportunities to engage directly with their favorite shows stuck with me.

For the next decade I produced, scripted or edited TV shows such as “BBC Top Gear,” “MasterChef,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “Big Brother,” and “MythBusters.” It seemed I was the only one asking how we could get the audience engaged in real-time. Why? No viewers were asking to engage with the TV show in real-time, so why change them? This is why what’s next is more important than what’s now.

In 2010, technology had developed to a place where the idea of connecting viewers directly to TV shows in real time was finally possible. I worked with a team of engineers and TV producers to build the first prototype for iPowow. A year later, our technology allowed Sports Center to pose a question live on air to the audience like, “Who will win the superbowl this year?” Viewers use their phones to go to the Sports Center vote page to pick their team and the results of the poll show up in real time in the TV studio. Viewers feel more connected to the show, and Sports Center and their sponsors learn more about their viewers.

Turns out people do want to engage more with their favorite content, but they just didn’t know it. When we presented iPowow to TV executives at Disney, Fox, and NBC, they all went for it. We’ve since worked with all the major TV networks and Fortune 500 brands from Coca Cola, to Samsung, to Lexus.

If I’d asked viewers what they wanted to change about their TV experience in 1996, they may have told me they liked it just the way it was. This is why the mantra of what’s next drives me to continue iterating novel solutions for iPowow rather than resting on our laurels as a globally known technology for enabling participation TV.

The next development for iPowow takes engagement to the next level. We are building an initiative called the HIT Protocol, which enables viewers to get paid for watching and engaging with their favorite shows. No one asked us for this invention because people didn’t know it was possible. The advent of blockchain changed that, as the technology allows for the tokenization of activities like watching and participating in TV shows.

Here are 3 steps for anticipating what’s next instead of what’s now:

Read the signs

Though people may not be conscious of what they desire beyond the here and now, they will leave hints about what they may want in the future. This is actually how Facebook and other tech platforms know more about their users than users know about themselves. People leave clues to their unconscious desires through their actions and behaviors. Facebook has been known to predict whether a user will get married or get divorced before the user has consciously made that decision.

Trust your instincts

It’s always a good idea to listen to mentors and those who came before you, but at some point you have to trust that voice in your head (or the gut feeling you get) and go for it. If I’d listened to and accepted the way things were all those years I worked in television, I never would have built that first prototype with iPowow.

Don’t stop

If you’ve successfully built a product that people want and use, great! That’s hard to do, but don’t stop there, because there’s always the next thing. This is why, despite iPowow’s work and relationships across the TV and media industry, we are now developing the HIT Protocol to further deepen the bond between viewers, content, and brands.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

Maker, Mixin and Bitcoin Cash cost more than the Ethereum so I don't think that Ethereum can cost more than the bitcoin because bitcoin is much older here in the market.

^The first two I have never heard about and I saw them recently in the Coinmarketcap in the first page and it's surprising that within a short period of time new coins are listed in the first page.

The iPowow folks are planning to use blockchain as the technological foundation for their new business. What iPowow calls HIT tokens and the HIT protocol can benefit the TV business by offering three solutions to problems such as viewers watching on noncommercial platforms, inconsistent cross-platform audience measurement and a lack of data about TV advertising, iPowow CEO Gavin Douglas said. Benefits for Viewers, Advertisers With the HIT protocol, viewers get paid to watch shows, content creators and networks engage viewers and generate more revenue from digital viewing, and advertisers get transparency and audience insights. It would work this way: A viewer tunes in a show and sees a graphic that says they’re getting five HIT tokens. The viewer either clicks his or her remote or goes to a second screen to activate an account and accept the tokens. The viewer must have granted GDPR consent to share data. Later, the viewer can go to a digital shopping plaza to buy things with the HIT tokens. A number of large retailers have expressed interest in letting viewers use HIT tokens to buy real merchandise, Douglas said. Jill Rosengard Hill, executive VP at market research firm Magid, said there was potential to the idea of a reward program for TV. “There is a segment of consumers who are open to the exchange of their data for a fee,” she said. A recent Magid study found 33% of mobile users said they would give up access to their data in exchange for a discount. “Marketers are looking at loyalty programs or the exchange of coins, gifts or money to drive loyalty and to drive tunein,” she said.There have been previous efforts to create reward systems for watching TV. GetGlue, which rewarded viewers with stickers, was acquired in 2012 by Viggle, a mobile app that offered points that could be exchanged for gift cards or access to premium content. For the past seven years, iPowow has been in what it dubbed the “participation TV” business, creating interactive features that can be sponsored for 200 shows on networks such as ABC, Fox and USA, local stations and digital video platforms such as Facebook Live and Twitch. For Twitch, iPowow created an extension that lets viewers pay gamers they’re watching live and have input into how games will be played. Douglas said iPowow has demonstrated that its system works whether on the first screen or second screen, and on all platforms — linear broadcast, VOD, over-the-top and online. He hopes to raise the millions iPowow will need in August. Blockchain Migration for HIT iPowow plans to build its new HIT protocol on a blockchain foundation and migrate its current technology to blockchain as well by year end. Blockchain enables the cryptocurrency HIT tokens, which cost less to distribute initially than real dollars and also provide transparency, immutability and consistency while decentralizing account information. The HIT protocol will also be open, allowing other companies to develop apps, which will increase the utility of the system. iPowow has been scanning the horizon but doesn’t see any competitor ready to implement an effective TV rewards program. “The way we see it is, someone going to do this,” Douglas said. “Someone’s going to produce a media engagement token that’s global and covers all video interactions, and people get rewarded for watching and they can go spend it on things. We say it’s going to be us, so that’s what we’re going to do.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

I think that Dash and Ripple are the most great projects in this year becaus ethey show good and stable raise during long term

I think in 2018 the project will be very successful AtlantICO Network platform .
The project is based on a proven successful business model

✔ The project team has already concluded a number of agreements on the practical use of AtlantICO Network platform with a number of pharmaceutical networks and medical clinics around the world

✔ AtlantICO Network project is recommended for use by leading experts from all over the world

✔ The technology on the basis of which AtlantICO Network platform works is patented and has no analogues in the world

You can join AtlantICO Network project by purchasing ATL tokens as a part of the ICO campaign. ATL tokens comply with the Mosaic standard and are utility tokens that help to build a relationship between the platform participants and provide an opportunity to interact with the goods and services presented on the platform.

There is a lot of different projects with a promising features and great potential but honestly in this bear market it's very difficult for me if which is the best projects because there are many good and scam projects.

I have already checked dozens of different project and decided to pick up Aeron!
First of all it is just one more scammy ICO, at second the price is at the bottom, at third team is making a giveaway https://medium.com/@aeronaero/aerotrips-aeron-gleam-io-giveaway-invitation-cdba4c2468e6 and price will most likely give even more up!

Price for all the tokens are on its bottom! A lot of coins are worth of picking up now. Aeron has to be in portfolio for sure but not all in ARN

That depends on the size of the portfolio and free cash to invest. If person has just 3k USD to invest then worth a shot to make all in Aeron. Market cap is just 3 million USd but volume on Binace is always 1 million USD and price is growing. Moreover team is doing marketing actively

No matter  how big or small portfolio is - no need in investing in one single project! No matter how promising it! The last example ETH - the top alts but it dropped the most from top 20 in a week! Who knew that was possible? Now one. But it happend. Thats portfolio has to be diversified. Aeron is good project for investing, right. But still not all in as I wrote above

It seems to me that first of all you need to pay attention to the public interest in the product itself, which is provided by this or that team. Which companies can be very promising, even with a bad state of the crypto-currency market.

Have a look at Bitbay, it's a good project with a promising future.

The HIT Protocol includes several critical pathways for HITs to flow. First, a content provider integrates the iPowow interface with content, such as a TV show. During the show, viewers are prompted with a call to action to participate in some way with the content they are watching. Viewers can respond to the call to action directly on the device on which they are watching the content or through a second device. Once viewers sign up to begin earning rewards, they can interact with specific elements of the show and accumulate HITs for their time and interaction. These valuable HIT tokens can then be used on the Digital Shopping Plaza to purchase physical and digital goods, access to more content, and experiences offered by our content partners.Get Started
The entrypoint for all viewers to access their HIT balances is the “HIT Account.” To start, adoption incentives are offered for signing up to the platform, creating a profile, and referring others. Data incentives are also offered for viewers who opt-in to provide their viewing and interaction data to support their favorite shows. This provides valuable data to brands and show creators. Gamification incentives are offered for competing on participation leaderboards, and achieving consecutive login streaks. We include milestone incentives for those reaching and maintaining HITs balance milestones and leveling-up their profiles. This encourages viewers to keep track of their HITs and engage in opportunities to increase their numbers.
In addition to driving engagement and participation, fans have the opportunity to create social profiles to display their earned recognition for activity in the community. The most dedicated and active participants of the HIT community will also be first in line for feature and content test groups as the platform develops and grows, encouraging healthy competition among users.
Earn Rewards for Watching & Engaging
Viewers earn HITs by watching and interacting with shows and ads. Poles and contests are a couple of the ways viewers can engage. Loyalty and rewards incentives are presented by broadcasters, brands and advertising campaigns, customized to viewers.
Viewers can circulate HITs by spending them to influence the trajectory of a given show. This can be done by voting and by sending donations or tips to broadcasters, streamers and content creators. This active exchange of tokens, encourages viewer participation with shows as well as with each other, strengthening the show’s fan base and the health of the ecosystem.
Tools for Shows and Advertisers
In a world where sequels are king, and building on existing universes matters (both for dollars and mindshare), iPowow has the features to match the market. To drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and showrunners are given several campaign management tools. We offer the ability to create show-specific badges and achievements matched to limited-time campaigns for brands. This highly targeted marketing is especially effective with dedicated fans of ongoing series. The incentivized model powered by HITs ultimately allows for fandom to reign supreme, providing a highly effective mechanism for networks to better understand their specific audiences.
Looking to the Future
We are committed to fostering the creation of new and exciting audience engagement applications by rewarding developers with HITs for building novel solutions on our protocol. Our Source Development Kit, or SDK, and GitHub repository will enable easy scaling, pulling from and adding to the codebase. With our application distribution system, iPowow’s worldwide partnerships for the HIT Protocol will be an attractive launchpad for apps made for the HIT token. The true power of the HIT Protocol will be unlocked by allowing developers to distribute HIT-based interactive apps across a global platform.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

Unlike most Blockchain projects that are being freshly minted without an established track record, iPowow has a documented portfolio of over 200 different initiatives over the past 8 years, boosting viewer interactions through gamification, contests, comments, and Q&A.

The company has done work with NBC, ABC, FOX, Disney, ESPN, CNN, Comcast, USA Network, to name a few. In addition, VISA, McDonalds, Lexus, Target, Samsung and Coca Cola are among the brand partners iPowow has assisted in developing meaningful relationships with viewers.

iPowow’s “Participation TV” concept allows viewers to connect directly to TV content via second screen mobile devices such phones and iPads. The company, through the use of blockchain, aims to deepen connections between viewers and content providers through tokenized content.

In short, this new platform based on the HIT protocol will allow:

Viewers to get compensated for watching and participating with their favorite shows
Content Creators to engage with viewers and create a revenue stream
Advertisers to gain transparency & insight on their audiences.
With this level of transparency brands will now have access to new kernels of insight into their customers and potential customers. This allows for the more effective targeting of advertising and product campaigns to specific audiences, leading to higher sales and advertising return on investment.

Says Douglas: “By tokenizing the Global TV and Video industries, we are able to harmonize and optimize three critical elements of the ecosystem: viewers, networks/content creators, and advertising brands. As the adoption and use among these three groups takes shape, we’ll be able to spark a new set of holistic, collaborative relationships, with increased transparency and added value.”

Towards this quest, iPowow is developing a smart contract for integration into its existing platform — one designed to enhance the overall experience for viewers, content providers, and brands. This blockchain-based system will provide all stakeholders with greater opportunities for engagement, connection, revenue and incentive rewards.

Asked about the genesis and evolution of iPowow, Douglas had this to say: “While we had been aware of Blockchain for quite some time, it hadn’t really grabbed our attention until the end of 2017. It seemed to us that our gamification platform—where we were already providing points to viewers for answering questions live on television with their phone, or live on a laptop—was just one small step away from a tokenized viewing experience. So, we dug into it at the beginning of 2018 and decided we would set off down the track, of migrating iPowow interactive platform onto the Blockchain.”

Douglas then offered his assessment of what he and his team are learning on this journey: “We are discovering how difficult it must be for other companies to launch a Blockchain project from zero. Frankly, it must be extremely tough because we ourselves are finding it to be an unusual business challenge even with us having a platform that has traction, relationships and contact with every broadcaster in the US.”

He concludes: “Blockchain is like the wild west. It is a fairly straightforward concept, but when you get into it, there are a number of different complexities. It’s so important to pick the right way of doing things to ensure that our product is going to be effective. Gratifyingly, through the work of our engineering team and our advisors, iPowow’s platform as it stands is extremely robust and only a couple of steps away from what it needs to be in terms of the Hit token flowing through it. This has been very gratifying.”Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

It can be said that 2018 is full of good and promising projects, but because there are too many ICOs, it makes competition very tight and difficult, making good projects fail to achieve softcap.

Most promising project right now is futurax/FTXT, now this token listed in mercatok, hotbit and will be winning vote in indodax, next target is latoken and binance, nice move by community and dev

This is a very cool and strong idea. There are a lot of speculators and intermediaries now. Because of this, the price of goods is constantly growing. If this system works then it will be of great benefit to many people.

If he prediction of bounty hunters is not necessarily because we as a bounty are just trying and choosing which ones can benefit us more, but that is all an opinion and hope that is not yet certain, hopefully our choice is right and as expected.

Here are so many projects showed up during last year but a;lso so many scamers and I am afraid to try something knew!

Now there are very few projects that really deserve attention. I participated in 5 different ICOs and only 2 of them turned out to be normal

In my opinion, it is better to make your own research and trust your guts.

The most of the privacy coins are undervalued right now.

The best opportunity is to find a privacy-related project with a low total supply (less than 100M), that way the price will be increasing much faster.

I recently found a hidden GEM called Ethereum Meta, it is related to anonymity and untraceable transaction. They have a very interesting project to build the Anonymous E-Market Place.

They are already trading on exchanges, you can check their website: https://ethermeta.com/
Or even better go through their Bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2659058.0

“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful” ― Warren Buffett

iPowow is looking to fund a plan to create a cryptocurrency that would pay people for watching their favorite shows. The currency would also compensate viewers for sharing data — quickly proving to be a precious commodity — about who they are, what they watch and what they buy. And if all of this wasn’t buzzworthy enough, the iPowow folks are planning to use blockchain as the technological foundation for their new business. What iPowow calls HIT tokens and the HIT protocol can benefit the TV business by offering three solutions to problems such as viewers watching on noncommercial platforms, inconsistent cross-platform audience measurement and a lack of data about TV advertising, iPowow CEO Gavin Douglas said. Benefits for Viewers, Advertisers With the HIT protocol, viewers get paid to watch shows, content creators and networks engage viewers and generate more revenue from digital viewing, and advertisers get transparency and audience insights. It would work this way: A viewer tunes in a show and sees a graphic that says they’re getting five HIT tokens. The viewer either clicks his or her remote or goes to a second screen to activate an account and accept the tokens. The viewer must have granted GDPR consent to share data. Later, the viewer can go to a digital shopping plaza to buy things with the HIT tokens. A number of large retailers have expressed interest in letting viewers use HIT tokens to buy real merchandise, Douglas said. Jill Rosengard Hill, executive VP at market research firm Magid, said there was potential to the idea of a reward program for TV. “There is a segment of consumers who are open to the exchange of their data for a fee,” she said. A recent Magid study found 33% of mobile users said they would give up access to their data in exchange for a discount. “Marketers are looking at loyalty programs or the exchange of coins, gifts or money to drive loyalty and to drive tunein,” she said.There have been previous efforts to create reward systems for watching TV. GetGlue, which rewarded viewers with stickers, was acquired in 2012 by Viggle, a mobile app that offered points that could be exchanged for gift cards or access to premium content. For the past seven years, iPowow has been in what it dubbed the “participation TV” business, creating interactive features that can be sponsored for 200 shows on networks such as ABC, Fox and USA, local stations and digital video platforms such as Facebook Live and Twitch. For Twitch, iPowow created an extension that lets viewers pay gamers they’re watching live and have input into how games will be played. Douglas said iPowow has demonstrated that its system works whether on the first screen or second screen, and on all platforms — linear broadcast, VOD, over-the-top and online. He hopes to raise the millions iPowow will need in August. Blockchain Migration for HIT iPowow plans to build its new HIT protocol on a blockchain foundation and migrate its current technology to blockchain as well by year end. Blockchain enables the cryptocurrency HIT tokens, which cost less to distribute initially than real dollars and also provide transparency, immutability and consistency while decentralizing account information. The HIT protocol will also be open, allowing other companies to develop apps, which will increase the utility of the system. iPowow has been scanning the horizon but doesn’t see any competitor ready to implement an effective TV rewards program. “The way we see it is, someone going to do this,” Douglas said. “Someone’s going to produce a media engagement token that’s global and covers all video interactions, and people get rewarded for watching and they can go spend it on things. We say it’s going to be us, so that’s what we’re going to do.These are our official social platforms:

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL/
Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol

I think Yumerium and NEL network is the most promising projects for investment in 2018, these projects do not have a decent competition.

I have invested in couple of blockchains projects. Some a doing well, some not. So, Zilliqa, PChain, Quarkchain. By the marketing, quarkchain doing better than others.

So many promising projects so you can check out the development team and product of the project that really potential for future consumers and you choose them to invest.

DataBlockchain and Yumerium can be your choice for investment,
in my opinion these two projects are very good concept,
and I'm sure to be the top ICO 2018

Spectrecoin (XSPEC) is the most promising project. what drew me into spectrecoin is that it already has good tech compared to other privacy coins, the developers are come of the most professional and highly qualified, the community and developers actually truly care about privacy, but most importantly is that it has the most room to grow compared to other privacy coins.  

By offering viewers with a direct path from content to commerce, we also provide content providers with invaluable knowledge about what content is most successful in generating revenue. Historically, brands and content providers needed to sort through many disparate data sources to make conjectures about which content led to purchases. By connecting to the HIT Protocol, content providers no longer need to guess about what is working and what isn’t, as HITs connect the dotted lines between viewing habits and product purchases.
Get Started
The entrypoint for all viewers to access their HIT balances is the “HIT Account.” To start, adoption incentives are offered for signing up to the platform, creating a profile, and referring others. Data incentives are also offered for viewers who opt-in to provide their viewing and interaction data to support their favorite shows. This provides valuable data to brands and show creators. Gamification incentives are offered for competing on participation leaderboards, and achieving consecutive login streaks. We include milestone incentives for those reaching and maintaining HITs balance milestones and leveling-up their profiles. This encourages viewers to keep track of their HITs and engage in opportunities to increase their numbers.
In addition to driving engagement and participation, fans have the opportunity to create social profiles to display their earned recognition for activity in the community. The most dedicated and active participants of the HIT community will also be first in line for feature and content test groups as the platform develops and grows, encouraging healthy competition among users.
Earn Rewards for Watching & Engaging
Viewers earn HITs by watching and interacting with shows and ads. Poles and contests are a couple of the ways viewers can engage. Loyalty and rewards incentives are presented by broadcasters, brands and advertising campaigns, customized to viewers.
Viewers can circulate HITs by spending them to influence the trajectory of a given show. This can be done by voting and by sending donations or tips to broadcasters, streamers and content creators. This active exchange of tokens, encourages viewer participation with shows as well as with each other, strengthening the show’s fan base and the health of the ecosystem.
Tools for Shows and Advertisers
In a world where sequels are king, and building on existing universes matters (both for dollars and mindshare), iPowow has the features to match the market. To drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and showrunners are given several campaign management tools. We offer the ability to create show-specific badges and achievements matched to limited-time campaigns for brands. This highly targeted marketing is especially effective with dedicated fans of ongoing series. The incentivized model powered by HITs ultimately allows for fandom to reign supreme, providing a highly effective mechanism for networks to better understand their specific audiences.
Looking to the Future
We are committed to fostering the creation of new and exciting audience engagement applications by rewarding developers with HITs for building novel solutions on our protocol. Our Source Development Kit, or SDK, and GitHub repository will enable easy scaling, pulling from and adding to the codebase. With our application distribution system, iPowow’s worldwide partnerships for the HIT Protocol will be an attractive launchpad for apps made for the HIT token. The true power of the HIT Protocol will be unlocked by allowing developers to distribute HIT-based interactive apps across a global platform.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

most projects with solid teams, working products and a low cap can be considered promising, and there are a few ICO's as well (iMusify, cgcx, securix, tachain, ...) that can really go the distance as well

good projects.. and i can agree with you with Datablockchain, i hope they will hit hardcap soon. i advise everyone to check their projects and make your own research.

Go and buy PECULIUM. Savings platform combining ai and blockchain. Their product AIEVE is working flawlessly. Do not miss this exceptional project. Just dyor.

QuarkChain, Metronome, Dfinity, Nos, Nex …

in terms of the future of the team and the project, too much. what's the best project for? its the one who collects the most money. there are many projects of high quality. I'm confused. :)

The fact is that the problem in small collections of funds from investors is not because of a bad team or because of a bad idea, but it all boils down to the fact that the ico market is full of scammers and therefore investors do not invest their money even in sufficiently promising projects.

First, a content provider integrates the iPowow interface with content, such as a TV show. During the show, viewers are prompted with a call to action to participate in some way with the content they are watching. Viewers can respond to the call to action directly on the device on which they are watching the content or through a second device. Once viewers sign up to begin earning rewards, they can interact with specific elements of the show and accumulate HITs for their time and interaction. These valuable HIT tokens can then be used on the Digital Shopping Plaza to purchase physical and digital goods, access to more content, and experiences offered by our content partners.

By offering viewers with a direct path from content to commerce, we also provide content providers with invaluable knowledge about what content is most successful in generating revenue. Historically, brands and content providers needed to sort through many disparate data sources to make conjectures about which content led to purchases. By connecting to the HIT Protocol, content providers no longer need to guess about what is working and what isn’t, as HITs connect the dotted lines between viewing habits and product purchases.
Get Started
The entrypoint for all viewers to access their HIT balances is the “HIT Account.” To start, adoption incentives are offered for signing up to the platform, creating a profile, and referring others. Data incentives are also offered for viewers who opt-in to provide their viewing and interaction data to support their favorite shows. This provides valuable data to brands and show creators. Gamification incentives are offered for competing on participation leaderboards, and achieving consecutive login streaks. We include milestone incentives for those reaching and maintaining HITs balance milestones and leveling-up their profiles. This encourages viewers to keep track of their HITs and engage in opportunities to increase their numbers.
In addition to driving engagement and participation, fans have the opportunity to create social profiles to display their earned recognition for activity in the community. The most dedicated and active participants of the HIT community will also be first in line for feature and content test groups as the platform develops and grows, encouraging healthy competition among users.
Earn Rewards for Watching & Engaging
Viewers earn HITs by watching and interacting with shows and ads. Poles and contests are a couple of the ways viewers can engage. Loyalty and rewards incentives are presented by broadcasters, brands and advertising campaigns, customized to viewers.
Viewers can circulate HITs by spending them to influence the trajectory of a given show. This can be done by voting and by sending donations or tips to broadcasters, streamers and content creators. This active exchange of tokens, encourages viewer participation with shows as well as with each other, strengthening the show’s fan base and the health of the ecosystem.
Tools for Shows and Advertisers
In a world where sequels are king, and building on existing universes matters (both for dollars and mindshare), iPowow has the features to match the market. To drive repeat engagement, broadcasters and showrunners are given several campaign management tools. We offer the ability to create show-specific badges and achievements matched to limited-time campaigns for brands. This highly targeted marketing is especially effective with dedicated fans of ongoing series. The incentivized model powered by HITs ultimately allows for fandom to reign supreme, providing a highly effective mechanism for networks to better understand their specific audiences.
Looking to the Future
We are committed to fostering the creation of new and exciting audience engagement applications by rewarding developers with HITs for building novel solutions on our protocol. Our Source Development Kit, or SDK, and GitHub repository will enable easy scaling, pulling from and adding to the codebase. With our application distribution system, iPowow’s worldwide partnerships for the HIT Protocol will be an attractive launchpad for apps made for the HIT token. The true power of the HIT Protocol will be unlocked by allowing developers to distribute HIT-based interactive apps across a global platform.Where do I get the most up-to-date information?

Medium: https://medium.com/@HitProtocol
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GbhICkzlix0FAiTlQIzufA
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITPROTOCOL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitProtocol

Geonodes are a way to geofence your assets in smart contract which can have customisable level of access like 2FA, MFA, LDAP and Biometrics. The mining computer of geonode is kept in physically secure location which has a 100m radius of fencing.

The tighter integration of geolocation by GPS in TIM Blockchain provides this unique feature by which one can write smart contracts to allow/disallow it’s execution in a given geolocation. And there can be many use cases of this feature. One of which is to create specific locations where smart contract based wallets can be secured. Having telecom partners for this is going to improve the geolocation security as well. Telecoms companies use GPS to synchronize their towers. Therefore Telecoms are a natural partner for TIM.

How will Bitcoin and Ethereum benefit?
TIM is getting ready with atomic swaps and all cryptocurrencies having this interoperability can work with TIM. This way one can secure bitcoin and ethereum by geonodes. This will put an end to next 4 million bitcoins being lost to theft and losses.

Ecosystem Driven Development
Our core effort has always been to build the state of the art blockchain to enhance our enterprise partnerships. And there are so many new frontiers to cover. We want your opinion and advice on how to build the adoption roadmap. There are so many alternatives and choices. Which interoperability features should be tackled first? What level of interoperability should be developed? Should it be limited upto smart contract to smart contract based interoperability or transactions based swaps as well?

Geonodes Bids open on 11 October 2018
The Request for Proposal has been initiated for inviting bids to build the enterprise security framework. TIM Blockchain will dedicate $5M towards developing this framework.

I would recommend you to look into following two projects, I've done a through research on it and quite confident about them getting successful in the near future.
1. TV-TWO: Targeting TV advertisement industry, already have a working product and there app is available in LG and Samsung store, rated 5/5 stars on both the TV app stores.
2. PRIV: Targeting anonymity, they've been forked out of DeepOnion and following the same strategy of doing many number of airdrop rounds to community members, not doing any ICO.

According to my best project in 2018 is SCAVO, it has a serious case and the ICO investment figure is up to $ 100 million. The purpose of SCAVO is the construction of large-scale mining farms.

Once they release this then the rocket ship can launch 😂

TIM Blockchain in partnership with SOLYD and BCTCLabs is dedicating $5 Million for developing Enterprise Security Framework for all interoperable blockchains
Geonodes will make exchange operations more secure and efficient
Enterprise security is key to mass industry adoption of blockchains. So far 4 million bitcoins have been lost as per reports. And this is scary.

No valuable asset can have adoption if their theft and loss rate is 25%. And this situation will be a history very soon. Thanks to Geonodes.

Geonodes are a way to geofence your assets in smart contract which can have customisable level of access like 2FA, MFA, LDAP and Biometrics. The mining computer of geonode is kept in physically secure location which has a 100m radius of fencing.

The tighter integration of geolocation by GPS in TIM Blockchain provides this unique feature by which one can write smart contracts to allow/disallow it’s execution in a given geolocation. And there can be many use cases of this feature. One of which is to create specific locations where smart contract based wallets can be secured. Having telecom partners for this is going to improve the geolocation security as well. Telecoms companies use GPS to synchronize their towers. Therefore Telecoms are a natural partner for TIM.

How will Bitcoin and Ethereum benefit?
TIM is getting ready with atomic swaps and all cryptocurrencies having this interoperability can work with TIM. This way one can secure bitcoin and ethereum by geonodes. This will put an end to next 4 million bitcoins being lost to theft and losses.

Ecosystem Driven Development
Our core effort has always been to build the state of the art blockchain to enhance our enterprise partnerships. And there are so many new frontiers to cover. We want your opinion and advice on how to build the adoption roadmap. There are so many alternatives and choices. Which interoperability features should be tackled first? What level of interoperability should be developed? Should it be limited upto smart contract to smart contract based interoperability or transactions based swaps as well?

Geonodes Bids open on 11 October 2018
The Request for Proposal has been initiated for inviting bids to build the enterprise security framework. TIM Blockchain will dedicate $5M towards developing this framework.

unfortunately in 2018 there are very few costing projects in which one wants to invest. There were several projects in which one could invest

In 2017 I headed into the 4th ICO. 2 failed projects, one was underdeveloped and only one quarter away from ICO. Only 1 project is successful and is giving me a profit, not much. And that successful project was underestimated by the other 3 projects at the beginning of the ICO.
So when it comes to saying that "most good ICO projects" are just relative, you can not be sure which ICO is really good with a general rating.
This year the new ICO is too much and I do not see them as good, probably investing in altcoin in the top 50 CMC will be more certain.

Oil and gas is sold in large volumes and as such entail significant value, not unlike the size and scale of transactions between banks. The frequency of transactions is also high; for example, a 300,000 barrel per day oil refinery will need to source a large crude carrier every week to maintain adequate volumes, and cargos can cost as much as USD 100 million (two million barrels at USD 50 per barrel). Oil companies also need to be aware of where crude is ultimately sourced. Some exporting nations are from time-to-time under sanctions to prevent trade in this commodity. Blockchain could provide a fully transparent and secure record of the entire supply chain. Using a distributed ledger, digital tokens can be used to represent the asset being transacted. These tokens can be issued by a trusted authority for the needs of the companies or participating parties; for example, if oil and gas companies used a blockchain ledger to buy and sell barrels of oil, transactions could include digital tokens named Brent or WTI. These tokens would represent the underlying asset of a barrel of oil and would remain digitally attached throughout its supply chain journey. Currently, around nine percent of crude oil transactions are disputed, which equates to around USD 150 billion each year. By using tokens in a blockchain, payment could be processed more quickly, paperwork such as title transfers would be eliminated, and disputed transactions could be significantly reduced. It is important to note that the token being exchanged will be subject to gains or losses based on the strength of the underlying fiat (local) currency. If 50 WTI tokens are purchased using US dollars, the value of these tokens are exposed to fluctuations in the US dollar. As the use of cryptocurrencies increases, governments are forming positions on the taxation implications of cryptocurrencies and their exchange for fiat currency.

Once an XPR is bought, it can be then liquidated via a the PermianChain Exit Facility or used by midstream companies to claim their rights for the associated barrels of crude oil from the PermianChain platform. Daily production by the suppliers determines how many XPR can be used to claim oil per day. Once an XPR token holder exercises her rights and the transaction order for the barrel is filled, the XPR token will be returned to Treasury and re-listed with new Platform Prospects upon listing Proven Reserves. Blockchain validates each transaction, rights claim and supplier fulfillment for security and transparency on the platform. Shipping logistics would be streamlined as well through the use of digital wallets. Each wallet is registered to a specific buyer and contains that specific buyer’s drop-ship location. Whenever XPR token is exercised for a barrel of oil, the blockchain protocol knows exactly where to ship the order and can calculate shipping / logistic cost to deliver the barrel to the designated location specified in the wallet. This would ultimately reduce cost and streamline business operations for upstream and midstream companies. Thus, increasing the value / price of each XPR, and providing immediate income for the supplier. This could have positive future developments that should potentially allow PermianChain to prove sources of oil and decrease corruption and smuggling of oil as a result of war-torn countries around the world. For the meantime, the PermianChain is a needed solution for the cash flow gap faced by oil companies and for oil producing economies to reduce their risks of deficits.

Good day! I would recommend you check SCAVO. ICO is live and yet you can now trade them at 2 exchange for now which proves that the project is really srious on making this a success. Scavo technologies is an innovative blockchain company established in Argentina specialized in the construction of data center infrastructure for crypto-mining using renewable resources. A legit company using blockchain tech. Just amazing!

In my opinion, the most promising projects in two thousand and eighteen are Ethereum and Litcoin because of the extraordinary potential and features they have, which is a very cool idea.

Of course, ethereum is by far the most promising platform, this will be especially noticeable after the announcement, which should occur before the end of 2018.

Datablockchain(DBCC), is most promissing, it remains only to find a large number of users willing to work on this platform :)

I don't invest in new projects such as new coins that appears in 2018 year I am trying to save my money in popular coins like ethereum