I don't think crypto was ever dead to be back again.
Bitcoin was introduced merely 9 years ago and since has a rapid progress in adoption and influence.
Being a financial assets, pump and dumps are usual things. You can't say it's dead on every dump.

Ripple has a professional team. They have quite a lot of money to fund the progress of Ripple. They are trying for bank partnership and in the same time are looking for other investment options and improvement to the blockchain. We can safely assume they'll have another pump.

You should first look for reference. Verify it through different sources.
Look at the people involved, their prior experience and track record.
The objectives and roadmap. The time when the product or service would be available.
How the price of the token is related to the service or product.

There's still a huge population who know nothing about bitcoin. They don't even know how bitcoin and cryptocurrency can make their lives easier.
But the rate at which bitcoin was adapted and know around the world is one of the fastest for a completely new technology.
It's not even a decade old but already has everyones attention towards its.

Successful ICOs are transparent, has a lot of hype from media and celebrities. Don't change their words ones spoken.
Has a unique and effective advertising policy and a multiple way to make payments for purchasing the token.

Just wait and see.
Coinex is one of the best exchange for a regular user. User friendly interface, low transaction and withdrawal fees. Their withdrawal for BTC and BCH is the cheapest and fastest among the exchanges that I used.
Though I need to accept it has a slow or non existing support and don't clear out any accusation by the users.
I think they'll improve it with time as they are from a popular pool viabtc.

Zilliqa and Pundi X are already trading tokens while Kakushin Ecosystem is still in ICO.
Comparing the three, Zilliqa is the most worthy one. A great technology and platform. They have already partnered to many popular institutions and projects.
Pundi X got popular due to it's low market cap and surge in price. After swap, it has lost its charm.
Kakushin Ecosystem is unkown to me and it didn't impressed me on first look.

Blockchain itself is not security. A centrally managed  blockchain do have multiple ways to cheat. Even a decentralized blockchain can suffer from attacks like a 51% double spend.
Smart contracts are one of the way to prevent most and the blockchain is still developing to make itself transparent and auditable.

I just chunk through them. Just to see how professional they are on technical aspect as well as grammar.
You'll get a basic information form their site and it's better to spend your time verifying the team members and their experience than learning their whitepaper. You're not going to work for them anyway.

For every rise above 10% there's got to be some news whether be it public or not.
In case of small cap coins, a series of buying from a whale can have a huge rise in price.
And for larger cap coins, huge whales like hedge funds or investment companies buying can make a difference.

I'll double on this. Most of the tokens are trying to achieve a completely unique target. While we don't have adopted blockchain on a regularly used and proved sectors.
Tokes should have fields to use the day they are issued to public. Or should be soon implemented and made usable on daily basis by regular users.

It's not just about being fast and technologically advanced.
The thing that counts more in crypto world are decentralization, community,  trust and for the part of bitcoin legacy.
Nearly all of modern coin are more advanced than bitcoin but in bitcoin is still a synonym for cryptocurrency.

And it's also too difficult to differentiate lost coins and hodled ones.
Crypto dies with the person if they didn't shared the private keys, sent to a wallet claimed by none and yes lost private keys.
This is also a measure that controls/diminishes total supply and maintaining the value of the coin.

Thanks for sharing it. The team seems professional and their code open source. They'd certainly challenge some of the muti coin online wallet. They seem to have nice GUI and user friendly interface and the best of all they would ease person who find handling private keys and addresses a hassle.

There's no real use of asking for KYC with bounty users as they are not the investors and their jurisdiction won't get involved when no money is traded.
The current KYC trend tends to be intended to check scam and spam on ICO bounties but there can be easier and more effective way to achieve that than a complete KYC.

Everyone knows about it and everyone has a limit they can invest on crypto. Investing everything on it would be a gamble.
For the market to rise, we would need new investors, the flow from alt to bitcoin and bitcoin to alt would yield nothing.

The thing that wonders me much is why a part of the government implementing a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies for trading is actually making a list while all others aren't.
I know there are a lot of chinese investors active in the market and china is still one of the largest market, but why chinese government and why EOS?

I was positive about bytecoin even though people rumored a lot of things about it as it was the mother of cryptonote algorithm. But with current changes in everything including from the icon to paid listing on exchanges, I'm feeling the rumors are somewhat true and bytecoin indeed is a shady coin. Investors should be cautious with bytecoin.

The most favorite feature on an exchange is of course the profit sharing with it's users. Whether it be through exchange based token holding or fee back offer to large traders. The next good feature are quick and transparent transactions, lower withdrawal fees, OTP to phone for confirmation and many other security measure to feel secure while having your coins on the site.

There are no perfect cryptos never will be. Even the fiat isn't perfect.
We should not categorize every crypto to same genre. There are several cryptocurrencies that are intended to achieve different objectives.
There can be cryptos intended to work as daily transaction tokens but we should expect every of them to do the same.