Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are going mainstream, whether we like it or not.

Despite today’s crash (almost 30%), more and more people are becoming interested in the market because it has made so many millionaires in the past 12 months.

2017 was the year of cryptocurrencies: the total market cap grew by approximately 3,900%, we had 886 ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) which raised a total of $6 billion and then we had Ethereum who grew from a mere $8.54 in January 2017 to an all-time high (ATH) of $1,431 last week.

While Ethereum and Bitcoin are still great investments, they won’t grow as much as they did in 2017, so we’re going to take a look at three new ICOs that have an amazing potential to skyrocket in 2018.

#1 MWAT Token by Restart Energy

There‘s a new ICO every day and it’s becoming very overwhelming to keep up with the industry and figure out who’s legit and who’s a scam, but there’s one thing that almost always signals a green light: an existing company, especially a company who’s been around for 10 years.

Restart Energy, the company behind the MWAT token is the fastest growing energy provider in the European Union with over 30,000 existing customers in Romania and revenue of $20 mil. in 2017 (= 400+% growth from 2016).

What are they doing? They are building a platform, RED-P platform, where you’ll be able to send and receive energy anywhere in the world using the MWAT token.

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The most interesting thing about MWAT is that each token will have a certain amount of energy (kWh) stored in it, energy that you can either use in the forms of tokens to pay your energy bill or sell on the platform to make a few extra $$.

They have a community fund of 5%, which means that every month 5% of the total energy provided by the company goes back to the token holders and it’s divided by the total amount of circulating coins. What this actually means is that, as the company is expanding (their goal is to expand to 7 more countries in 2018 and to 45 by 2024), the energy stored in each token will grow exponentially.

The pre-sale started on the 15th of January and it lasts until February the 12th, and the public sale starts February 14th and lasts until March 14th, but at the time of this writing, they’ve already sold 1/2 of their hard cap of $30 mil. If you like this project, you can contribute here!

I almost forgot to mention that Restart Energy has a member of the European Parliament in their advisory team, Catalin Sorin Ivan, and, unlike most ICOs or established blockchain companies, they will launch the MVP in less than two months after the end of their coin offering (the official launch in Romania will take place in August of the same year).

You can also follow them on Twitter & Telegram.

#2 BEE Token

UPDATE: unfortunately, Bee Token has disappointed in a big way and their communications skills are equal to zero. Tried to get in touch with them with questions and scam alerts, but got no reply back. I’ve tried to catch their attention about ten times. This downgrades this coin and team to an average coin. Marketing and PR should be an essential part of a startup and should not be treated with indifference.

First of all, The Bee Token has a very powerful team consisting of former employees from Google, Facebook, Uber and Civic (CVC). Besides a great team, they’ve also managed to convince some big industry names to join their advisory board, like Richard Ma (co-founder & CEO at Quantstamp), Can Kisagun (co-founder & CPO Enigma Project) or Binh Tran (co-founder at Klout)

This ICO consists of two very important and equally powerful parts.

One, the Beenest, which is their home sharing platform where people can list their homes or find accommodation. Not sure if they like to be associated with Airbnb, but Beenest will be pretty much the same thing, but decentralized and on the blockchain.

The best part of their home sharing platform is that it features 0% commissions* on bookings or listings, unlike Airbnb who charges guests between 5% and 15%, and about 3% for hosts.

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I’ve also enjoyed the fact that they will have reputation scores, depending on which you could pay less in cancelation fees or security deposit, and will only allow people with a certain reputation score to host or book.

The second part is their Bee Protocols. These are a set of smart contracts that developers can use to rapidly launch new dApps in the sharing economy.

The protocols are built in such a way that existing applications like Couchsurfing or Airbnb can integrate them in the easiest way possible to tokenize their offerings and switch to the blockchain. This right here tells me that the team has vision. Big plus.

Part of the good news, is also the fact that their testnet comes out in Q2 of 2018, their mainnet in Q3 and they should be ready to onboard a few dApps (2–5 they say) in Q4 of the same year.

*A minus of this ICO is the fact that they advertise everywhere that they have 0% commissions, but they only specify in their white paper that that 0% applies to payments with their tokens. If you choose to pay with BTC, ETH or any other ERC20 token, you will be charged a 1% fee and a 3.99% fee if you pay with fiat.

Not a big thing, but they could have been a bit more transparent about it.

If you want to contribute to this ICO, you can do so here and you can also follow these guys on Twitter & Telegram.