Start with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and some other well known coin like TenX, Civic, BAT and Omisego. These coin have been in the market long enough and establish themselves as the top cryptocurrencies. In the long run, this portfolio provides low risk and potential high return.

You can track SONM progress from their Twitter: https://twitter.com/sonmdevelopment?lang=en A lot of good news and progress recently, so the increase in price probably reflect investors' confidence in the project.

Rocket Chat should be the standard for ICO from now. It's open source and there are many things you can do to increase the security of the community.

A lot of countries decided to regulate/ban ICOs, which directly affects Ethereum but not Bitcoin

For long term investment, it's safer to invest in coins that have been in the market for a long time
(Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple) as it's less likely for these coins to fall in the long run

Litecoin will at least climb back to where it was few weeks ago ($70-$80) in the next month. Price was declining from the China ban even though it doesn't directly affect Litecoin (Bitcoin has already recovered).

TenX is the better project. They have a very strong team and always update the community on the progress/news on social media.

There is a recent interview between NEO and Red Pulse CEO: https://neonewstoday.com/interviews/qa-with-jonathan-ha-ceo-from-red-pulse/

AIRDROP is a way for a project to give back to its community for completing certain task or to distribute their coin to a partner's project holders ( For example, Kyber distributes their coin to Indorse's token holders which are both based in Singapore)

MyEtherWallet is the best one: https://www.myetherwallet.com/

I would follow some famous crypto Twitter accounts and Bitcointalk ANN thread

You can read this to better understand the difference:
https://medium.com/@encryptotel/encryptotel-why-waves-and-why-ethereum-fe3bc7955f1e

Trading is very profitable due to cryptocurrency volatility, you can learn about some tips here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnukcP0whc

If you follow crypto Youtuber's like Boxmining and others, they will tell you China will regulate and potentially allow cryptocurrency exchange in the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVKeaRXOpo

You can read more here:
https://cryptocanucks.com/metropolis-hard-fork-whats-store-ethereum/

Lisk, Monero and Ripple seems to be the most stable coin in the last 1-2 weeks from coinmarketcap chart

Read on coindesk and cointelegraph daily as they provide the most important information you need to know about the market

Litecoin, TenX and OmiseGo

Even Vitalik admits there's an ICO bubble, so government intervention would be good in the long term:
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-ico-bubble/

You can watch this short Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZI1Ybc95I