Crypto trends in 2020. How are you making them sweet gainz?

[cryptomarcianos]

As you all know the bull markets have officially begun. This is just the beginning of what is going to be the most epic bull run of all times. I expect a full fledged bull market by 2021. Let us look at the current trends in the market I am not going to be doing TA here or doing a technical analysis but instead looks at the kind of sales that are happening.

Current trends in the markets :

1. Uniswap Tokens :
Uniswap is an exchange protocol that allows users to trustlessly swap ERC20 tokens. Rather using the traditional order book model, Uniswap pools tokens into smart contracts and users trade against these liquidity pools. Anyone can swap tokens, add tokens to a pool to earn fees, or list a token on Uniswap.

Massive gains were seen in projects first introduced in Uniswap. Craziest gainz werenot on centralized exchanges but on Uniswap. Tokens cile Compound, Balancer ,

2. Private Sales :
We saw private sales for many reputed projects.
The Atari Group, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, announced the closing of the first round of private sales of the Atari Token in April 2020, reserved for qualified investors and implemented by Atari Chain. unit price of US$0.08 per Atari Token.
Many private sales happened in projects like Skale Network , Edgeware ,Polkadot dint hesitate to take the private sale route for a portion of their tokens.

3. Lockdrops :
Somenotable projects that did lockdrops are Supernova , Dusty network, Plasm , Darwinia Network were soem notable lockdrops of 2020.

4. Incentivised Testnests :
Incentivized testnets have been a huge flavour the market. Many reputed projects think that thismight be the fair method to onboard legit community members who might contribute and also want them to have some skin in the game. Some projects having/ had incentivised testnets are :
Kusama , Cosmos ,Cardano , Near , Coda , Oasis , NuCypher , Concordium. Concordium is a project I am super excited because it brings regulation and ID on the blockchain so finally it makes sense for businesses to get involved in the public blockchain domain. They already seem to have had 2 rounds of testnet. 3rd round is roumoured to be an incentivised testnet. So do not miss it in case you want to get some GTU.

5. IEO :
IEO is the new IPO. Binance had some cool IEO's this year. Namely,  Kava , Troy , WazirX , Cartesi , The Sandbox ( which will happen in a few days ).

[CaVO32]

Would like to see those mentioned projects progress in the next coming months. Very few of them can realize their objectives and so only few can hit it off in the market. It is good to see that you haven't included the ICOs anymore. IEOs however, depends on what exchange it is happening. Binance may give you a lil bit of relief but don't trust 100% as there are projects that can passed thru stringent requirements, and yet, they have no capability to move forward.

But one thing that I noticed though, less and less crap projects are being introduced. Maybe because people are getting smarter and not swayed easily by scammers anymore. Also, good thing that there are several scam busters here in the forum, so before a fake project can deceive a user, they have been posted in the scam accusations board.

[Yaunfitda]

I'm not familiar with 3 and 4. Maybe you can add POS staking as well or Defi which as of the money have recorded billions of $$$ already. IEO hype looks like it has died down a bit, but in the last couple of months since it's inception, I would agree that we've seen massive growth as well, but just like any hype, it seems to be just another pump-and-dump. Even Binance who launches several successful IEO, delisted them after some time.

[rodskee]

I'm not familiar with 3 and 4. Maybe you can add POS staking as well or Defi which as of the money have recorded billions of $$$ already. IEO hype looks like it has died down a bit, but in the last couple of months since it's inception, I would agree that we've seen massive growth as well, but just like any hype, it seems to be just another pump-and-dump. Even Binance who launches several successful IEO, delisted them after some time.

I'm also looking for that, POS are expected to pull the triggered once the upcoming release of ETH 2.0
is already available inside the market.
While DeFi is hyping and many investors are already enjoying this project, lots of successful coins and
it's really getting big from time to time.
OP's efforts to point the  directions will gives investors and newcomers a good idea where to look and what
are the chances to enjoy the ride.

[leyton11]

I think I still invest in IEO projects on big exchanges. At Binance, as long as we are lucky enough to win tickets, we will surely have high profits. in addition, I am also heading to ICO projects, ideas and technology of Defi. That will certainly be projects with very strong growth in the coming time. while Covid - 19 is well controlled, the demand for borrowing is very high and those ICO projects will solve the problem. That is my thinking about the future market, do you have other opinions?

[boyptc]

Are those lock drops the same as staking?

Your funds will be locked for a period of time and it will earn? Kindly educate me on this as this is the first time of hearing it as a trend. And for IEO, I don't think they'll still be as big as before early this year.

[el kaka22]

The thing about the market is that you could make money in anyway when it is bull, and you could lose money when it is bear, so there is really not a method that is better than the other most of the time. I personally made my profits from the simplest of ways, I invested into bitcoin early in April when it was low, and right now it is close to double the profit for example, and that method is the most old school method in crypto space, just buy bitcoin and hold it.

Obviously other methods did made people profit as well, I am not going to deny that, but if a method that is old as crypto itself made me 2x profits, that means that other methods are not some miracle profit maker neither, there was profit to be made by everyone and everyone made it on their own methods.

[amrulshare]

Are those lock drops the same as staking?

Your funds will be locked for a period of time and it will earn? Kindly educate me on this as this is the first time of hearing it as a trend. And for IEO, I don't think they'll still be as big as before early this year.

This is an old method of making profits but covered with "decentralization" which is now a new trend in the crypto community. whereas it is ETH 2.0 promotional propaganda will be upgrad to PoS consensus. 

[The Sceptical Chymist]

5. IEO :
IEO is the new IPO. Binance had some cool IEO's this year. Namely,  Kava , Troy , WazirX , Cartesi , The Sandbox ( which will happen in a few days ).

IEOs aren't anything new, and they were quite popular last year if I'm not mistaken--I stay away from new investment types like those until they've been proven not to be a scam.  So much of everything is in the world of crypto, and I'd rather miss out on potentially massive profits than risk what little capital I have on something unproven.  In any case, I'm not sure how popular IEOs are going to be in 2020.  Haven't they at least started to fizzle out?

I'm not familiar with 3 and 4. Maybe you can add POS staking as well or Defi which as of the money have recorded billions of $$$ already.

Lol, I'm not familiar with any of them, really.  But I agree with you about Defi, because I've been hearing so much about it as of late that I'm betting it's going to be huge....whatever the hell it really is.  PoS coins aren't anything new, either, but I've been kind of surprised that they haven't caught on more so than they have.  I used to hear so much about people wanting to earn passive income, and PoS coins offer one of the best options in crypto to do that. 

ETH is going to become PoS, but I haven't read anything about when that's going to happen.  I did see a Youtube video in which someone pointed out that there are a lot of wallets filling up with exactly 32 ETH, the minimum amount you need to stake it.  Maybe PoS coins will start to boom once people are able to stake ETH.

[stompix]

I don't know about the rest of them but this one caught my eye:

The Atari Group, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, announced the closing of the first round of private sales of the Atari Token in April 2020, reserved for qualified investors and implemented by Atari Chain. unit price of US$0.08 per Atari Token.

Atari is a shadow of the shadow of what it once was, the company has been sold two times, went bankrupt, change its business model to casino games tying to survive with revenues barely reaching a few million a year.  Probably another stunt as they did it once more in 2018

That will certainly be projects with very strong growth in the coming time. while Covid - 19 is well controlled, the demand for borrowing is very high and those ICO projects will solve the problem.

I never understood how people are seeing this as gaining traction because of the demand for borrowing in times of crisis when the people asking for money have zero to none collateral.

[Kasabus]

The thing about the market is that you could make money in anyway when it is bull, and you could lose money when it is bear, so there is really not a method that is better than the other most of the time. I personally made my profits from the simplest of ways, I invested into bitcoin early in April when it was low, and right now it is close to double the profit for example, and that method is the most old school method in crypto space, just buy bitcoin and hold it.

Obviously other methods did made people profit as well, I am not going to deny that, but if a method that is old as crypto itself made me 2x profits, that means that other methods are not some miracle profit maker neither, there was profit to be made by everyone and everyone made it on their own methods.

These new methods nowadays may seem not familiar to everyone here but in my case, i would still prefer to do the most old and less risky way to earn profits by buying at its bear and hold, and sell them only during its bull run. Although i know that everyone here has different methods to follow just to make profits at the end of the day.

[boyptc]

Are those lock drops the same as staking?

Your funds will be locked for a period of time and it will earn? Kindly educate me on this as this is the first time of hearing it as a trend. And for IEO, I don't think they'll still be as big as before early this year.

This is an old method of making profits but covered with "decentralization" which is now a new trend in the crypto community. whereas it is ETH 2.0 promotional propaganda will be upgrad to PoS consensus. 

Okay.

I thought that this is something new and there's a difference between staking and lock drops. But for most of which, ETHs 2.0 is the most promising.

[PowerDubs]

I don't know about the rest of them but this one caught my eye:

The Atari Group, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, announced the closing of the first round of private sales of the Atari Token in April 2020, reserved for qualified investors and implemented by Atari Chain. unit price of US$0.08 per Atari Token.

Atari is a shadow of the shadow of what it once was, the company has been sold two times, went bankrupt, change its business model to casino games tying to survive with revenues barely reaching a few million a year.  Probably another stunt as they did it once more in 2018

Atari went bankrupt in 2013, the current CEO Fred Chesnais took over at that time while stating a plan to pay off the debts over the following few years and then start a comeback.

Indeed he achieved his goal- Atari is debt free, and about to explode.

This is the same Atari Token project that started in early 2018.  Atari and their partners have been quietly working on all the pieces of the puzzle behind the scenes.

As an example- they only recently announced the partnership with Wax and Robot Cache, but I can show you were we were talking about both of those companies being partners over 1.5 years ago.

This is a massive global project in the making.  Ties in with their upcoming new www.AtariVCS.com which will be the worlds first blockchain game console.

They also have partners such as Unikrn for Esports and sports betting, (Unikrn is backed by Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher and more)

Not announced yet, and not released- but the website is up in a basic way- www.AtariBetting.com will have live streamed sports games that you can bet on while watching.

Also in the works- www.AtariHotels.com

Also unannounced yet is Lightforms.cc but if you look on their website it says-

"Atari Inc., and LightForms.cc Group LLc., signed into a strategic partnership agreement with each other.
This opens up the entire Atari eco-system to LightForms and LightForge technology for use in Atari mobile applications and the new Atari VCS console."

All that is just part of the interconnected web of projects Atari is doing.  The CEO has said in a few video interviews that this will be 'the token of reference'.

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[Drahzar]

I think one of the promising trend in cryptomarket - defi tokens. seems one of the best trading opportunities now. IEO still is interesting, but not much good projects on market I see((

yes I agree that DeFi concept is actual, and I'm sure it has a great future. it signed even by initiatives which exvhange running - I heard that cex.io announced defi platform and enable debit/credit card  purchase of tokens

[retalids]

I think one of the promising trend in cryptomarket - defi tokens. seems one of the best trading opportunities now. IEO still is interesting, but not much good projects on market I see((

yes I agree that DeFi concept is actual, and I'm sure it has a great future. it signed even by initiatives which exvhange running - I heard that cex.io announced defi platform and enable debit/credit card  purchase of tokens

cex.io is ok, i trade UNI there. and yes they have promo campaign with 0% deposit fee till september

[carter34]

5. IEO :
IEO is the new IPO. Binance had some cool IEO's this year. Namely,  Kava , Troy , WazirX , Cartesi , The Sandbox ( which will happen in a few days ).

In the terms of new hype, DeFi is what seem to be the market best choice. IEO was another major hype after the ICO time.
However, I have only heard of cartesi and many traders have taken gains of it by trading on it.

[pooya87]

In the terms of new hype, DeFi is what seem to be the market best choice. IEO was another major hype after the ICO time.
However, I have only heard of cartesi and many traders have taken gains of it by trading on it.

these are all short term hypes and they are all the same exact scam but with a name that keeps on changing to fool people into thinking they are different and "this time"  they won't empty your pocket! otherwise ICO, IEO, STO, and now DEFI should all be avoided and if you want to gamble then go to a casino and gamble with your money.

[justdimin]

Unfortunately I am not doing any gaining from any of these. Obviously a lot of people made some money from these but the reality is they are not the most reliable ways to make money, so I didn't do them, instead I just invested. Thankfully I made some good returns this year in crypto, during the famous fall in march I got into bitcoin itself a bit and now I am doing much better, I am still holding and planning to sell even higher.

This regular old method of buying bitcoin and selling it still makes you 2x yearly if you know when to buy and when to sell, it is not glorious and it is not going to make you rich over night but if you can 2x per year that is going to get you retire very early as well instead of hoping that maybe this weird obscure coin could make you rich over night.

[J1mb0]

Defi and IEOs on large transactions are still the 2020 trend. Almost all IEOs on Binance help investors make profits.
I don't know in the future what the trend of cryptocurrencies will be, maybe it will be some form of investment that we are not aware of.

[tbterryboy]

They are all good, what works for you might just not work another. We just have to look for the things that are going to work for us. Uniswap token is a good one for this year, and they have been doing a lot great, although I don’t know about the hype surrounding it and how long it’s going to last; some people have been saying that the market is doing well and having such a huge growth because of the hype around it and it will soon fade off.

I am not completely sure about this and sometimes I feel like the people that are saying it are those who missed out from the opportunity to invest in the token and they are now trying to discourage others and cause the token price to go down.