I started out trading stocks in the roaring 90’s when online trading was just getting started. Like many others I now straddle the traditional markets along with the cryptocurrency markets. My strategy has been related to developing systems for trading baskets of stocks. Now I position in baskets of ICOs.

You can separate ICOs into two primary buckets:

A) Those that have commercial-grade working products that are being used by consumers.

and…

B) Those that only have plans, whitepapers and roadmaps without a working product.

Here are 3 ICOs that are ahead of the game in terms of having more than just a plan or roadmap but actual working products that are currently being used by the public:

Boulé

Boulé [link] describes itself as a decentralised voting platform and a transparent, safe, fair and fast way for voting.

Boulé makes voting accessible to everyone and allows voters to express a digital ballot for any poll. Votes are verified and counted in real-time and the entire online voting process can be audited at any point, removing risks of fraud, tampering or controversy.

This group has an actual working product although it’s in its ‘pre-beta’ phase, citizens can now register and vote instantly through their mobile phone or secure web browser.

The concept is very intriguing and even more so because, once again, you can interact with their product offering. You can even ‘create elections’ which is amazing. Public access to their product is found here.

Vectorspace AI

Minimizing risk associated to cryptocurrency investing is what the Vectorspace [link] platform offers by enabling anyone to create and trade custom ‘Token Baskets’. They have a product called ‘Crypto Discover’ that is in use today in terms of generating unique customized token baskets based on trends in social media, global and local search trends and just about anything else you can think of.

According to the mission statement: “The Vectorspace AI platform enables dynamically generated intelligent “token baskets” based on user-selected trends that exist in search, social media and news. The reason we’ve included the word ‘intelligent’ is based on the ability for these baskets to determine for themselves whether or not to include additional cryptocurrencies or components from related baskets that may increase overall returns. Baskets that interact this way with one another will conduct these kinds of transactions between one another using the Vectorspace utility token, VEC which is also required to dynamically generate baskets.

Components within the dynamically generated baskets can be made up of cryptocurrencies along with other new innovations for stores of value in the cryptocurrency space that may arise in the future. Traders, investors and funds can optimize basket returns by applying filters such as technical analysis indicators and custom algorithms. Human researchers and curators of baskets are allocated VEC for their work in this area. The VEC utility token can be used to purchase blocks of dynamic basket generations in addition to subscriptions to higher level features offered by the platform including transacting baskets as trades on exchanges. VEC utility tokens are awarded to creators of top performing baskets which are displayed on a leader board each month.”

Vectorspace looks to be designed to help you increase your profits with other cryptocurriences by reducing risk and maximizing your gains. Their focus is on “Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Sentiment Analysis for Smart Cryptocurrency Basket Trading” and they have live products any crypto trader can use today. Their site updates every few minutes powered by their algorithms. It looks like they’re at the early stages of their pre-ICO but farther along in terms of their product offerings released in addition to their patents referenced on their crowdsale page in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GoogleYou can get an invite to their pre-ICO by signing up here and their whitepaper is located here.

KickCity

KickCity [link] is a Y combinator startup school Alumnus and completed Microsoft Bootcamp in Helsinki. The startup has innovative products that currently generate revenue. KickCity has offices in Delaware, Houston, Helsinki, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

KickCity is building products that will drive huge demand of KickCity Tokens (KCY) while creating real value to the users. By creating the online value community, which is supported by a strong offline events community, KickCity will be a bigger Facebook for the crypto community and cause adoption of cryptocurrencies.

KickCity has a built an event community platform with 2 native apps and AI. We understand that events are vital to community building.

P2P event marketing will give everyone a chance to earn by contributing promotional power. KCY -a reserve for other event platforms to using P2P marketing protocols. The Platform will be used for decentralized & transparent P2P event marketing and will accept FIAT, certain ERC20 token and Bitcoins for ticket purchase.

In conclusion:

As some ICOs have raised millions, I still continue to place my confidence in ICOs that raise just a enough while also have a publicly released commercial-grade product or platform. Nothing speaks more highly of an ICO that already has a public track record of executing on the release of products to the public. This remains one of the greatest due-diligence tests an ICO can pass in my playbook.