NEO is one of the more established projects on the market. It was one of the most discussed coins after it underwent a rebranding exercise in 2017 and shortly after started to rally from under $10 fo an all-time high of almost $200. It’s often described as the Chinese Ethereum as NEO operates in a similar manner and allows smart contracts to be delivered via its blockchain. Here's a selection of the best NEO projects.

Ontology

Ontology is a diverse, integrated, distributed blockchain/distributed ledger. Its applications vary from distributed identity verification, data exchange, data collaboration, procedure protocols, communities, attestation, and various industry-specific modules. Together this builds the infrastructure for a peer-to-peer trust network which is cross-chain, cross-system, cross-industry, cross-application, and cross-device. The project is deeply connected to NEO since both share the same founder - the Chinese company Onchain.

Ontology has gathered an experienced team and also managed to establish partnerships with a number of renowned firms from Asia. The project’s roadmap is optimistic, but the milestones should be achievable as the project has a skillful team and full support of Onchain and the NEO community.

NEX

Neon Exchange is a highly anticipated project that is promising to create a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange on the NEO platform. The exchange will support features that are currently not available on other decentralized exchanges, such as limit orders. The City of Zion (CoZ) team aims to support cross-chain trading between NEO and Ethereum-based assets. The exchange is promised to deliver state of the art security while also providing speed and ease of use, comparable to ones seen on the centralized exchanges.

NEX will rely on an off-chain matching engine. As this can cause conflicts of interest, all off-chain matches will follow a publicly trackable algorithm. NEX has a high chance of becoming the most successful project and a big step forward for NEO and decentralized exchanges.

Phantasma Protocol

Phantasma is a next-generation messaging protocol, and decentralized content distribution service based on the NEO blockchain. The project will offer Phantasma based-mailboxes that are compatible with normal email addresses and can communicate with email systems outside the blockchain. After establishing their email service, the team plan to include all types of data into their network and allow users to email, photos, invoices, and movies. Phantasma runs on top of a crypto-wallet address and allows artists and content creators to receive a large percentage of their own revenue streams and operate in an environment free from centralized platforms.

The Phantasma ICO ended on May 28 when it reached its hardcap of $9.7M.

Zeepin

Zeepin aims to become the first customizable platform dedicated to the decentralization and protection of creative works. The team, led by Zhu Fei, a veteran in the creative industry, is dedicated to being the world’s leading blockchain-powered platform that will embrace innovation, facilitate transaction and investment in creative industries. Through the platform, writers, designers, and other artists will be able to protect their work. Furthermore, the platform will connect artists, allow them to find venues to play at, recruit new talents. Recently, Zeepin teamed-up with Ontology for Zeepin Chain, its own public and consortium chain.

The ZPT token is currently trading at $0.037, which is 69% below its ICO price of $0.12. The current price represents a good entry point for investors that believe in the project.

Qlink

Qlink is a decentralized mobile phone network that enables users to sell spare data including 3G, 4G and text messages from various mobile carriers. The team wants to build the world’s first decentralized mobile network. The platform will give users a way to “rent” out unused bandwidth to other users of the platform, for which they will be compensated in QLC tokens. Qlink will offer Wi-Fi sharing, mobile data access and content distribution, and an enterprise-to-peer SMS service, all of which will be integrated into one mobile and desktop application.

Qlink is available on Binance and three other exchanges.

DeepBrain Chain

DeepBrain Chain (DBC) is a token which launched on the NEO blockchain as a means of administering computational power for AI purposes. The team aims to disrupt the world of Artificial Intelligence computing by developing “a low-cost, private, flexible, safe, and decentralized artificial intelligence computing platform to artificial intelligence products”.

Today, the AI companies have to teach computers how to behave through neural network calculations. The process is very time-consuming and expensive. DeepBrain hopes to greatly reduce these computing costs. Their business model predicts that every node will obtain 70% of its income from mining, while the remaining 30% will be paid as fees by the companies that wish to train AI systems. The market for these kinds of services is very big, as Google and Baidu alone spent an estimated $30 billion dollars on AI development in 2016. DeepBrain looks to capitalize on this industry branch that is predicted to be worth more than a trillion dollars by 2035.