As we move further into the final quarter of the year, this week’s choices are set to benefit from significant developments and announcements that should strengthen their market positions and benefit their communities. The news should also result in increased amounts of attention to each respective currency over the coming weeks.

1. Tron (TRX)

TRON is a blockchain based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide free content entertainment system while utilizing blockchain and distributed storage technology. The protocol allows users to publish, store, and own data, while the decentralized system manages subscriptions, distribution and the push of content.

Why Tron?

The TRC20-USDT Trading Bonanza is set to begin on October 22 in collaboration with Huobi exchange and users with Net Deposits (Deposits minus Withdrawals) of at minimum 100 TRC20-USDT can enjoy up to 30% APR rewards. The promotion runs until November 1 (GMT+8), and users with a top 20 net deposit ranking position during the promotion will share 320,000 TRC20-USDT rewards. Huobi outline the full details of the promotion in their official post.

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2. Waltonchain (WTC)

Waltonchain is a blockchain architecture that’s been designed for the coming Internet of Things (IoT) age. Waltonchain uses RFID technology and aims is to eradicate retail counterfeiting. After proving the concept by successfully operating in the men’s clothing company industry, the team aim to branch out into areas and are in talks with other clothing companies to roll out their RFID-based technology.

Why Waltonchain?

The team have announced that deposits and withdrawals of WTC will be suspended from 00:00 Oct 22 (UTC+8) to 15:00 Oct 23 (UTC+8) on the Taibi exchange. The exchange will also process the swap over to mainnet WTC tokens with additional exchanges expected to be announced shortly by the Waltonchain team.

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3. Lisk (LSK)

Lisk is a blockchain platform and supporting cryptocurrency that was created as a fork of Crypti in 2016. Lisk uses blockchain apps with their own sidechains which are intended to make the platform scalable, and blocks are created every 10 seconds, making transactions extremely fast. The project also makes use of Distributed Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism and has a partnership with Microsoft, whose Azure Blockchain uses Lisk for its cloud computing infrastructure.

Why Lisk?

The team recently launched Lisk Core 2.0.0 which resulted in a soft fork on the network, and they are now set to host a Coding Workshop in Berlin which will take place on October 24. The event will focus on teaching how to write custom transactions with Lisk’s JavaScript based SDK. The event is scheduled to begin at 18.30 and the full details can be found on the official Meetup page.

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How did the coins perform last week?

The seven day period led to poor results across the market and two of the last week's three coins to watch didn't manage to buck the trend. ARK pulled back by around 14% in value and is currently trading at around $0.18. ZEN performed strongly and grew by around 10% in value, and is currently trading at $3.88. IOTX fell by 30% in value and is currently trading at $0.004. Over the course of the week, the market retraced from $224B to $216B.