This is our second installment of our Most Promising Altcoins of 2018 series. We will introduce 5 valuable and promising cryptocurrency projects in every issue and talk about features, market caps and future outlooks. Note here that we didn’t set up a ranking for these projects, they will be ordered according to market cap and are chosen simply by fundamentals and features. We will try to pick from under the top 20 by market cap, some will be more known than the others.

If you missed the first part of the series, check here.

Waves Platform

Current Market Cap: 662M USD

Circulating Supply: 100,000,000 WAVE

Max Supply: 100,000,000 WAVES

Website: https://wavesplatform.com/

Main exchange: https://tidex.com/#/exchange/WAVES_BTC

Roadmap: https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-roundup-for-2017..

Reasoning:

Waves Platform is a multi-functional cryptocurrency, users of the blockchain can issue tokens to do crowdfunding, loyalty programs and voting. After issuing, these tokens can be traded directly on the Waves decentralized exchange (DEX). Users can enjoy no limits on withdrawals on the low fee DEX. The project also launched the Waves-NG protocol (based on Bitcoin-NG) that enables the network to scale to hundreds (or thousands in the future) transactions per second giving a better user experience overall. Smart contracts are part of the new roadmap and will be implemented during 2018.

Dragonchain

Current Market Cap: 359M USD

Circulating Supply: 238,421,940 DRGN

Max Supply: 433,494,437 DRGN

Website: https://dragonchain.com/

Main exchange: https://www.kucoin.com/#/trade/DRGN-BTC

Roadmap: https://dragonchain.com/roadmap

Reasoning:

Disney built Dragonchain is aiming to be the major registered decentralized business incubator in the US. The platform provides ability for app developers to deploy Blockchain applications, while being able to use existing languages (e.g. Java, Python, Node, C#, Go). They promise low cost, high security and scalability smart contracts. The DragonFund Incubator also offers startups the opportunity to work together with Dragonchain and get access to legal, technical, marketing and economic advisory and also an access to a token marketplace.

Zilliqa

Current Market Cap: 322M USD

Circulating Supply: 6,559,003,178 ZIL

Max Supply: 12,600,000,000 ZIL

Website: https://www.zilliqa.com/

Main exchange: https://www.huobi.pro/ko-kr/zil_btc/exchange/

Roadmap: https://www.zilliqa.com/about.html

Reasoning:

Zilliqa offers a highly competent developer team and plans to offer a highly scalable and secure special-purpose smart contract language and platform. They will use distributed sharding as a means of scaling and promise transaction per second rates thousand times that of Ethereum when reaching similar scales and miner counts. They promise a testnet release that is just around the corner, while the mainnet will launch in Q3 2018.

Zcoin

Current Market Cap: 224M USD

Circulating Supply: 4,233,187 XZC

Max Supply: 21,400,000 XZC

Website: https://zcoin.io/

Main exchange: https://www.binance.com/trade.html?symbol=XZC_BTC

Roadmap: https://zcoin.io/zcoin-roadmap/

Reasoning:

Zcoin offers a it’s users complete transaction anonymity, while also keeping some the qualities of Bitcoin. It is the first functional cryptoccurency built on the Zerocoin protocol that has been proposed by John Hopkins University professor Matthew D. Green and graduate students Ian Miers and Christina Garman. It is a direct competitor to Monero, Zcash and Dash. It can also be viewed as the older brother of Zcash, as the Zerocash protocol is a reworked version of the Zerocoin protocol, but compared to Zcash, Zcoin has a transparent inflation that can be followed on the ledger. The project also offers incentivized nodes if you are looking for a passive income.

Mothership

Current Market Cap: 28M USD

Circulating Supply: 140,000,000 MSP

Max Supply: 200,000,000 MSP

Website: https://mothership.cx/

Main exchange: https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=MSP_BTC

Roadmap: https://blog.mothership.cx/mothership-update-january..

Reasoning:

Mothership is a true low marketcap gem out in the wild. It is similar to Dragonchain as it is aiming to be a startup incubator, but it currently targets the EU region. Companies that use their Genesis platform to perform offerings are on board with an EU-compliant KYC process and tokens distributed via smart contracts. They have a custom-made legal toolkit that simplifies this process and their secure crypto exchange will integrate digital identification and eResidency for a smooth experience. The recent ICO crack downs could fuel the need for a platform like MSP. The project also features decentralized governance, where MSP holders can vote for certain features. They also feature a coin-burn, where Mothership will repurchase and burn MSP tokens for 20% of the fees gained from their products.

We hope you enjoyed our second part of our Most Promising Altcoins of 2018 series. We tried to recommend projects that are somehow unique in their own field. They are either first movers or simply promise (or already own) features that are above the competition.

Check out our Machine Learning based forecasts for these projects: https://walletinvestor.com/