Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are seen by many in the cryptocurrency space as a quick way to generate large amounts of revenue and by some as a quick way to get rich. For some projects, the road to success is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. Here are five projects with potential that are currently trading below their ICO prices.

Enigma

Enigma Catalyst (ENG) is an investment platform that enables developers to build and execute micro crypto-funds. By using the Catalyst platform, developers and traders can develop and back-test trading alternatives based upon sophisticated programmatic strategies. The Enigma token sale was a highly anticipated event with investors generally bullish on the long-term potential of the project. However, the decision to increase the total supply of ENG, in addition to increasing the market cap of ENG from $30M to $45M proved to be a deeply unpopular move with investors. ENG hit the market at a price of $0.60 and immediately began to decline in value, dropping below $0.30. The price of ENG has begun to pick up, and the coin trades at around $0.45, meaning that investors can jump onboard now for a discount of around 20% on the ICO price.

AirSwap

AirSwap (AST) is a token exchange platform that can be used to trade or convert Ethereum based assets and ERC20 tokens. AirSwap allows for much of the trading activity to take place off-chain and operates faster than blockchain-only based exchanges. Airswap was another highly anticipated project with many in the cryptocurrency space predicting that decentralized exchanges are the way forward. AST opened up in October at a price of $0.24 and surprisingly began to decline in value; AST was trading under $0.20 just a few days ago but has since began to rally. AST shouldn’t be below ICO price for much longer, so now is a great time to pick some up.

Request Network

Request acts as a decentralized network that connects payment requests (Request Invoices), and payments. Invoice recipients are able to pay in a secure environment with all the transaction information stored in a decentralized authentic ledger. Request facilitates cheap, simple and secure payments and opens up a number of new opportunities with regards to payments. Request Network (REQ) completed its ICO and entered the market in October, which was a difficult time for ICOs. The REQ token opened up at a price of $0.067 before quickly falling to under $0.05. REQ has a market cap of just under $48M and at the time of this writing began to trade at a price 10% above its ICO level. This is another promising project that looks to be on the road to recovery.

Aventus

Aventus utilizes blockchain technology in order to revolutionize the ticketing industry and bring an end to the mass touting and scalping on tickets. By utilizing distributed ledger technology Aventus allows events, venues, and vendors of all kinds to verify and control their ticket sales. The Aventus ICO took place at the end of the summer and the project emerged as a community favorite after the Red Pulse and Wanchain ICOs were postponed. The team behind Aventus took the decision to limit the number of tokens to just 6 million and launch AVT at a price of approximate $3.10. Despite increasing in price shortly after launching, AVT soon fell significantly below ICO levels. A number of developments and exchange listings have resulted in some positive price action, and the Aventus team remain active. AVT currently holds a market cap of just over $16M, and trades at a price of around $2.60.

Airtoken

The Airtoken project enables users to gain financially from utilizing the AirFox browser and viewing advertisements. Airtoken plans to open up the ability to earn revenue via a mobile phone to millions of users in the world’s more neglected markets. The Airtoken project is more of a long-term model and this may have influenced investors to take their time with contributing to this project. The AIR token opened up at a price of $0.01, with a supply in excess of 1 billion tokens. AIR was hit hard over the next few weeks and fell by as much as 50%. AIR traded at well below its ICO price throughout October and the majority of November, a recently price spike has seen AIR recover its position and trade at just above ICO price of $0.01.