As the first quarter of the year ends and Q2 gets underway, this week’s selection of coins to watch is set to benefit from significant launches and developments that should strengthen their market positions.

Mainframe (MFT)

Mainframe is a platform designed to facilitate the secure launching and hosting of decentralized applications and strives to be resistant to censorship and surveillance. The Mainframe network includes encryption and dark routing and also enables applications to send data, store files, manage payments and run tasks securely.

Why Mainframe?

The team recently announced the upcoming public launch of the Mainframe OS which is set to take place on April 15. The launch coincides with the release of several new dApps and a Mainframe OS developer edition that includes two working dApps, and SDK integrations which allow developers to write, organize, and store rich-text documents, and transfer ETH, MFT, or any ERC-20 token to other contacts.

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Zcoin (XZC)

Zcoin is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that was the first to implement Zerocoin technology. This enables users to enjoy complete financial privacy as a result of using zero-knowledge proofs. The process of minting and spending a coin can be performed an infinite number of times, meaning that a coin’s associated transactional history will never be made public, and Zero-knowledge proofs enable an individual to prove ownership without having to specify exactly which coin is theirs.

Why Zcoin?

The team are scheduled to releases their public testnet on April 15 after concluding their Private Sigma testnet launch at the end of March. The team is working on transition code for a coming hard fork, and successfully developed an RPC for the large scale spending of old Zerocoin mints in preparation of movement to Sigma. The hard fork will continue to allow the team to upgrade the network and they outline the latest steps here.

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IoTEX (IOTX)

IoTeX is a next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) blockchain platform that aims to facilitate the integration of smart devices with distributed ledger technology. The unique blockchain-in-blockchain architecture will upgrade scalability, privacy, and developability issues relating to the IoT DApps and ecosystem growth.

Why IoTEX?

The team recently announced the rehearsal for their public mainnet launch, which is set to take place on April 15. The newest code release of IoTEX brings soft fork compatibility, enables delegates to fast sync more than 1,500 blocks per minute, and has successfully demonstrated more than 200 finalized transactions per second.

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How did last week's coins perform?

BIX lost value over the week, and decreased by around 1.6% and is currently trading at around $0.48. ENG moved sideways and made a minimal gain of around 0.25%, and is currently trading at $0.62. MORPH proved to be the strongest performer and gained around 24% and is currently trading at $0.20. Over the course of the week, the market grew from $144B to close out at around $180B.