It’s on red days like these that you should be looking to scoop up undervalued assets.

I wanted to share a few relatively unknown tokens out of Asia that I came across, which I believe are severely undervalued and could see some massive growth going into 2018.

After meeting the CIO of Qtum in Bogotá and consequently seeing the massive run-up in price shortly after, I began digging more into Qtum and its potential future in the blockchain economy.

So, first of all… I think it’s important to explain what Qtum is.

Qtum is a blockchain platform that allows developers to build Decentralized Apps that are executable on mobile devices, and compatible with major existing blockchain ecosystems.

Here’s an interview we did with the CIO, Miguel Palencia, explaining Qtum in his own words: https://youtu.be/Z6d_-Uk1u9c

➕ Speed and ease-of-use

What makes Qtum so interesting, is the ability for developer’s to use existing programming languages to start immediately building on the platform….

Unlike Ethereum, where developers have to learn a new language called Solidity, before beginning to develop dApps on their platform.

➕ Trusted underlying tech

Now that developers have cut their barrier to entry by a significant margin, they can begin building, testing, and then launch their dApp on the Qtum Network…

Which consists of two of the most well-known pieces of technology in the blockchain space: the UTXO (unspent transaction output) model from the Bitcoin core blockchain and smart contract capabilities with the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

They literally took the best of both worlds, rolled them up into a bundle, and created a beast of a platform.

Qtum has also placed a focus on mobile dApps, which is where the future truly is.

➕ Scalable consensus

With a strong foundational basis to build off, the next question would be.. how secure is the network? And how does the network come to consensus?

Qtum is unique as a dApp Platform because they have implemented a 100% PoS consensus algorithm, derived from BlackCoin 3.0.

What does that mean?

“Proof-of-Stake (PoS) aims to replace the way of achieving consensus in a distributed system; instead of solving the Proof-of-Work, the node which generates a block has to provide a proof that it has access to a certain amount of coins before being accepted by the network.”

Bitcoin runs on POW, and so does Ethereum… which actually has plans of switching to a 100% PoS system in the future.

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So, if Qtum has the best of both Bitcoin and Ethereum tech, mobile-focused development, and a scalable consensus algorithm…. why isn’t Qtum more popular?

That’s a good question, other than first mover advantage, I don’t see any reason why Qtum shouldn’t be a Top 5–10 token… they are currently sitting at a $4.5B market cap, with room to grow 2–3x easily.

Are we all in agreement that Qtum is undervalued?

Ok, good.

Now onto the fun stuff….

Because Qtum is a platform that allows developers to build dApps, there are tokens that are launching ICO’s on the Qtum blockchain… just as one would do with Ethereum.

We have all seen how this has played out on Ethereum…

So, I don’t think it’s too irrational to believe that the first ICO’s launched on the back of Qtum, which seems to have better tech…. will be successful.

Alright, I think it’s time to finally get to the part that you all came here for….

What tokens that were launched on Qtum, will go to the moon first?

In my opinion, there are five promising options, and they are all trading on Gate.io:

1.) Bodhi (BOT)- Next Generation Decentralized Prediction Market for China… then to the world. Think of Augur and Gnosis, but better. Read the whitepaper, you won’t be disappointed.

Market cap: $29,915,560 USD

Current price: $0.747889 USD

Circulating Supply: 40,000,000 BOT

Total Supply: 100,000,000 BOT

More info:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bodhi/

http://www.bodhi.network/

2.) Qbao (QBT)- The WeChat of the Crypto world. The Chinese love WeChat.. this may be their gateway into the crypto-world.

Current price: $0.552037 USD

Total Supply: 100,000,000 QBT

More info:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/qbao/

https://qbao.fund/

3.) INK (INK)- an Intellectual Property Asset Exchange for the Creative Industry. I like how they are taking assets that currently are mainly physical and making them purely digital.

Market Cap: $91,326,031 USD

Current price: $0.512348

Circulating Supply: 178,250,000 INK

Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 INK

More info:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ink/

https://medium.com/@inklabsfoundation/ink-project-introduction-d9eb7a942799

4.) Liquid (QASH)- a single globally-sourced trading platform (World Book) with an associated suite of services (Prime Brokerage). Combined, these produce the highest level of liquidity in the world — allowing any individual to access the opportunities and wealth the new Crypto economy offers. QASH is the fuel that will power all services QUOINE provides.

Market cap: $272,301,050 USD

Current price: $0.778003

Circulating Supply: 350,000,000 QASH

Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 QASH

More info:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/qash/

https://liquid.plus/

5.) Energo (TSL)- an energy trading platform that supports peer-to-peer (P2P) trading and auto execution of smart contracts. The POWR of China.

Current price: $0.142927

Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 TSL

More info:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/energo/

http://www.energolabs.com/

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As always, please do your own research before jumping in.

I believe China will come out with regulation in the new year that eases a lot of concerns, which will see a huge inflow of capital into Asian-focused cryptos.

I put a very small amount of my total portfolio in these 5 coins yesterday before the massacre, but I’m holding long-term so I’m not worried about the temporary hit…

I look at them as a possible winning lottery ticket. All it will take is one of them to 3–5x and I will be playing with house money.