This is sixth installment of our Most Promising Altcoins of 2018 series. We will introduce 5 valuable and promising cryptocurrency projects in every issue and talk about features, market caps and future outlooks. Note here that we didn’t set up a ranking for these projects, they will be ordered according to market cap and are chosen simply by fundamentals and features. We will try to pick from under the top 20 by market cap, some will be more known than the others.

Check out the first, second, third, fourth and fifth part of the series as well.

MaidSafe (MAID)

Current Market Cap: 204M USD

Circulating Supply: 452,552,412 MAID

Website: http://maidsafe.net/

Main exchange: https://poloniex.com/exchange/#btc_maid

Roadmap: https://maidsafe.net/roadmap_dev.html

Reasoning:

MaidSafe is not a new project for many traders as it has been founded back in 2006, way before Bitcoin, and has been since developed with high motivation. Even though the main product isn’t out yet anyone checking their github constantly can see that they are on track to building the world’s first autonomous data network that will power a new and decentralized internet. A new milestone has been reached just recently according to the developers and this has been labeled PARSEC. The new technology offers an asynchronous and permissionless Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism, which aims to solve the problems of distributed computer networks in a decentralized fashion. The developers will soon open-source the solution according to official statements and this will result in new releases soon afterwards. Currently the alpha release of their product is out for testing.

Holo (HOT)

Current Market Cap: 143M USD

Circulating Supply: 133,214,575,156 HOT

Max Supply: 177,619,433,541 HOT

Website: https://holochain.org/

Main exchange: https://www.hotbit.io/

Roadmap: https://github.com/holochain/holochain-proto/wiki/Roadmap

Reasoning:

Holo or HoloChain has seen quite some publicity around crypto channels on social networks. Holo aims to revolutionize the recent wave of crypto based operating systems with utilizing holographic storage for distributed applications. According to the official documents each agent will own an immutable hash chain that will store public data as a monotonic DHT node and this will result in a lightweight, secure and decentralized computing experience on all sorts of devices, even mobile devices. The technology aims to provide a perfect network for decentralized applications and governance, like a turbo-charged Ethereum. An interesting thing is that the CFO of Mozilla has been praising the developments so far, which can be seen via a video on their official website.

MATRIX AI Network (MAN)

Current Market Cap: 129M USD

Circulating Supply: 150,000,000 MAN

Max Supply: 250,000,000 MAN

Website: https://www.matrix.io/

Main exchange: https://www.coinegg.com/man/

Roadmap: https://www.matrix.io/

Reasoning:

MATRIX aims to be an open-source blockchain based network that supports smart contracts and machine learning services. The technology tries to utilize AI to offer a better smart contract execution process, which results in a faster, easier and safer experience. Another interesting feature that is being promised is that the mining power on the network will serve the AI based big data applications. People will be able to write smart contracts with near zero experience, since the AI will simply accompany the developer in the process. A mixture of public and private chains will also result in a better optimized network.

eosDAC (EOSDAC)

Current Market Cap: 117M USD

Circulating Supply: 660,755,177 EOSDAC

Max Supply: 961,919,101 EOSDAC

Website: https://eosdac.io/

Main exchange: https://www.bibox.com/exchange?coinPair=EOSDAC_ETH

Roadmap: https://steemit.com/eos/@eosdac/eosdac-values-roadmap-and-position-on-dividends

Reasoning:

The soon launching EOS aims to be a high performance blockchain that uses dPOS and smart contracts to offer competitor for Ethereum. eosDAC will airdrop 75% of its tokens to EOS holders and aims to build a Decentralized Autonomous Community (DAC) that will work towards becoming one of the main block producers. Altogether 21 block producers will be present on the EOS chain, with hopefully eosDAC being one of them. A part of the rewards earned from creating blocks on the EOS network will be paid out in the form of dividends to the token holders

DAOstack (GEN)

Current Market Cap: 20M USD

Circulating Supply: 33,378,282 GEN

Max Supply: 60,000,000 GEN

Website: https://daostack.io/

Main exchange: https://idex.market/eth/gen

Roadmap: https://daostack.io/

Reasoning:

DAOstack is one of those higher risk higher reward picks currently as this project is still currently lacking bigger exchanges. The ICO sold out in the matter of 2 minutes almost 2 weeks ago. The project aims to be an operating system for collective intelligence. The first of its kind, but hopefully not the last, will offer toolkits and plugins in a modular fashion that will help the governance of future DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organisations). Additionally they will also help to interconnect these separate groups. An early partnership is already on the way with the Talao DAO ICO, where Talao will use the DAOstack tokens to fuel the governance of its DAO. DAOstack will also feature decentralized governance with proposals, where token owners can earn rewards with voting for or creating ideas.

We hope you enjoyed our sixth part of our Most Promising Altcoins of 2018 series. We tried to recommend projects that are somehow unique in their own field. They are either first movers or simply promise (or already own) features that are above the competition.