This is seventh 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, fifth and sixth part of the series as well.

Current Market Cap: 764M USD

Circulating Supply: 4,357,556 ZEC

Website: https://z.cash/

Main exchange: https://www.binance.com/trade.html?symbol=BAT_BTC

Roadmap: https://basicattentiontoken.org/bat-roadmap-1-0/

Reasoning:

Zcash has been a known project all over the crypto space and is probably also the most risky recommendation historically speaking. Even though the project offers excellent fundamentals and one of the strongest anonymity technologies that work with blockchain networks, the inflation and the developer tax have been historically a thing consolidating prices. Now recently Coinbase has announced that they are researching the possibility to add Zcash to the exchange and this coupled with the fact that the exchange is releasing new features targeting institutional investment might give the coin the long awaited kick-start. The charts indicate that the price is currently in a historical accumulation zone and a possible re-bound might happen. The roadmap also indicates work on several upgrades, such as decentralized governance, funding of a Rust implementation and further researching privacy tech.

Current Market Cap: 328M USD

Circulating Supply: 1,000,000,000 BAT

Max Supply: 1,500,000,000 BAT

Website: https://basicattentiontoken.org/

Main exchange: https://www.binance.com/trade.html?symbol=BAT_BTC

Roadmap: https://basicattentiontoken.org/bat-roadmap-1-0/

Reasoning:

BAT, the project of Brendan Eich who has co-founded Mozilla and Firefox, has been making great progress this year with fulfilling the token’s vision. The Brave browser has acquired more than 2 million users by April 2018 and has been one of the top downloaded apps in the browser section of smartphone app stores. Basic Attention Token will fuel the Brave ecosystem, since there are native wallet features included in the browser, which can be used to fund premium features in the ecosystem. BAT will get rewarded to users who browse website with ads, meaning that this can be a win-win for everyone. BAT was also one of 5 coins, which might get added to Coinbase in the next batch.

Current Market Cap: 174M USD

Circulating Supply: 50,000,200 HT

Max Supply: 500,000,000 HT

Website: https://www.huobi.pro/

Main exchange: https://www.huobi.pro/ko-kr/ht_btc/exchange/

Reasoning:

Even though there is technically roadmap for the HT Token, it is still one of the best bets for the rest of the year considering that it was created and is being utilized by Huobi, which is constantly between the top 3 exchanges by daily volumes. Huobi has been constantly innovating exchange features like the Huobi 10 Index, which has been recently added to Bloomberg Terminal as well. The exchange also opened pre-registrations for HBUS with the help of a strategic partnership meaning that Coinbase might get a solid competition in the US. HT tokens have several use cases on the exchange including reducing fees and can also be used to transfer value between the different branches of Huobi.

Current Market Cap: 69M USD

Circulating Supply: 10,000,000 EOSDAC

Max Supply: 25,000,000 EOSDAC

Website: http://skycoin.net/

Main exchange: https://www.binance.com/trade.html?symbol=SKY_BTC

Roadmap: Reddit.com/r/skycoin

Reasoning:

Skycoins aims to build a decentralized internet, a wireless mash network that will reward those who use it. The project also uses a unique consensus algorithm and has been written in Golang. Mining Skycoin can can be mined via custom built hardware and will be paid in Coin Hours for providing services for the Skywire network.

Obelisk, the new consensus algorithm promises a more decentralized network built on the web-of-trust. According to the description Obelisk can never be centralized yb mining pools or manipulated by shareholders.

Even though the project had been in the focus of many news sites recently and has been labeled as controversial because the developer has extremist visions and there was also an alleged kidnapping story, the project itself seems very solid and is at a historically low exchange rate while being traded on Binance.

Current Market Cap: 34M USD

Circulating Supply: 2,163,833,975 MFT

Max Supply: 10,000,000,000 MFT

Website: https://mainframe.com/

Main exchange: https://www.binance.com/trade.html?symbol=MFT_BTC

Reasoning:

Mainframe has been one of the most hyper recent blockchain projects. After being added to Binance not soon after releasing the tokens into circulation, Bittrex has also added MFT and UpBit will be the next to follow probably.

The project has only been sold via a private sale towards the biggest crypto related venture funds including BlockTower, Node Capital, Danhua Capital, DFund, Matrix CIB , AlphaBit and a lot more. Additionally MFTs will be airdropped to the community at events in the future.

Mainframe aims to be a network for decentralized and unstoppable applications with a focus on privacy and encryption. Onyx, a decentralized and anonymous Slack alternative has already been released and soon other application that allow private emails, group chats and file storage will be built on the platform that promises that no one can follow your data.

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.