Top 5 Working Products in Blockchain (Updated — October 2018)

The purpose of this article is purely educational (free of market price discussion) and will exhibit different use-cases of blockchain. The current state of blockchain indicates a level uncertainty ranging from project legitimacy to the staggering amount of money invested in vaporware (reports indicate more than $5.6B was raised through initial coin offerings in 2017).



As projects move in and out of the top 100 list (by market cap), it’s been publicly reported that around 36 appear to actually have working products.



Before we begin we must understand what constitutes a working product within blockchain. It is essential that the projects meets certain strict requirements below to be considered a working product.

Active and available to the public

Version release history (v1, v1.1, etc)

Daily use volume

Viable roadmap

Active community

It is important to recognize the distinctions between having a working product and a dApp platform with no use cases or an active user base. By this definition, the dApp platform will not constitute as a working product.



According to Invest in Blockchain, “just taking into account the fact that a project is open source and built on top of blockchain does not meet the threshold in affirming a working product. Some cryptocurrencies claim to have a working product just because it is in the public domain yet no one has ever used it.”



With our rubric defined we are ready to reveal the top 5 working products within blockchain right now.