By Amirates

During this bear market that is dumping bitcoin into the abyss you are probably feeling lost in the crypto market. Many investors have purchased high and deserted the crypto market with huge losses. Another significant smaller group decided to hold on to their once beloved coins. First of all, let me say congratulations to your hands of steel. I am in this game since 2010 and I have learned (often the hard way) that the market will always recover. So when the market is recovering and is preparing itself for the next bull run you want to get the most out of it. And how does Amirates gets the most out of it? Is what I hear you thinking right now. Well the answer is simple: buy promising projects with a small market cap to obtain what has not been hyped and blown up yet. I spent so many nights awake doing research on low caps that my wife is threatening a divorce. I am sure that I have missed some great projects but I am also pretty sure that I have found some potential projects which I would like to introduce to you. I want to make clear that if you hold top cryptocurrencies like NEO, Vechain and Icon and have purchased them at a nice price level you should definitely keep them. You should make these low market cap purchases as a new investment opportunity. I am aware that it frightens people to invest more money in crypto when they are at a loss but the bear market is the market where you want to buy your cryptocurrencies at a huge discount. An advantage in my opinion is that most of these low cap projects are bottomed out. Their volume is so low that it could be hard to buy tons of them because everyone is hodling or they are bot traded. So I recommend you to buy them in phases. Please note that you always have to do your own research (DYOR) and that I am just sharing where I am invested in and why I think this is a good investment opportunity. It is not guaranteed that these projects will ever succeed and it could easily cost multiple years before they really take off.

1. Zengold (ZGC)

What started as a very successful ICO soon ended in a nightmare. The ICO sold out within 30 minutes and raised over 2000 BTC. They minted Zengold on the Metaverse Blockchain of Eric Gu co-founder of Antshares (former NEO). A partnership with the leading Chinese blockhain company Viewfin should have made this project a tremendous success. Unfortunately Chinese regulations threw a spanner in the works and Zengold had to pay all their ICO funds back. Jenn Lee (VP of Viewfin) was Zengold’s first CEO but for unknown reasons she has abandoned the project. Despite all these setbacks the Zengold team kept on developing and reached many milestones on their roadmap but with a delay. There is a Chinese app and a Western app is currently being developed. The Zengold project has two tokens the first token is ZNG and represents 1 gram of gold. The smallest circulation of ZNG is 1 mg and users could redeem gold in a world-class commercial bank in China. The second token is ZGC a utility token, which is used for the conversion and consumption of digital assets. ZGC holders will receive a fee on the gold purchases. Zengold has a new CEO since a while and has recently received new investments from EU institutions which is good enough to really take off the project. Zengold is currently being traded on Bit-Z and Rightbtc. The latter is Dubai’s first cryptocurrency exchange. It will soon be listed on coinbene and is currently being tested for listing on a Russian exchange. Zengold has a small but involved Western community which is mainly active on Telegram. Most of these early adopters are Dutch, German and Belgian citizens. Furthermore Zengold is invited to attend the 2nd global Fintech & Blockchain China summit 2018 . More than 800 elites from different industries will join this summit and discuss how blockhain applies to daily live, how to seize opportunities and how to deal with challenges in the future. Most of China’s blockchain projects are still in their primary stage. I see ZGC easily passing $ 4 long-term which equals the current market cap of DigixDAO.

The Zengold team

Pros:

Hardly anyone knows about the existence of this project

Zengold has a large professional team

They get financed and supported by EU institutions

You can buy ZGC under 2 cents and it has a max supply of 100 mm tokens

It will get lots of exposure at the Fintech & Blockchain China summit 2018

Gold backed cryptocurrency is performing great during bear markets

The Zengold CEO is active in the Western telegram group

Cons:

Chinese regulations could further delay the project (although they are planning to move their HQ to Dubai)

The team could be more open and specific about details towards the Western community

Lack of marketing towards the West

You can buy ZGC by clicking here

2. Shield (XSH)

What started as a Verge code fork is allegedly going to be one of the best peforming cryptocurrency projects of 2018/19. Shield started in Q4 2017 with no ICO and no pre-mine which makes Shield currency a true community based privacy coin. The Shield core development team is aiming to become the major leader within the privacy coin segment. The Shield protocol will replace Elliptic Curve Digital Signatures with Lamport, Winternitz, or Bliss signatures to enable the creation of truly quantum proof peer-to-peer addresses. Shield currency is going to be Quantum Proof (project Shield) which is huge because it is just a matter of time before quantum attacks are going to take down some major blockchains. Currently Shield is quite similar to Verge but as they are achieving the milestones of their roadmap the product distinguishes itself significantly. The Shield core development team is going to release masternodes in Q2 this year. The Shield masternodes are currently still under development and more details about this will come out in Q2. All I know for now is that they have estimated a 200k Shield for running a masternode. This makes a Shield masternode affordable as the current rate goes under 3 cents per $XSH. Shield has 7 core developers and 4 persons within their community team. Shield is working on secret projects and once in a while they release an announcement about the secret project they are working on. Their first secret project is the Shield economy a decentralized marketplace which will be a code fork of OpenBazaar. The other projects are still speculation but the Shield team listens very well to its community and the community is demanding a Dex and a gambling platform. Shield’s core developer NullFunction has indicated that he is willing to create these platforms. Sometime in Q2 they will release an official announcement about their second secret project.

Pros:

Great flourishing and involved community

Easy to contact their community team and core developers

True quantum proof blockchain

Already being used in a Japanese liqor store

Large Japanese community

Upcoming marketplace, dex and gambling platform

No ICO & premine

Great team that always delivers on time and stick to their promises

Justin Vendetta core developer of Verge hates Shield and often mislead people with false information about the privacy coin and he loves to bash Shield. This is in my opininion a very strong indicator that he feels threatened by Shield as a competitor.

2018 will be the year of privacy coins

Much coins needed for a masternode which make them quite exclusive

Cons:

Anonymous team (however they are thinking about changing that)

T-shirt created by a Shield community member

You can buy XSH by clicking here

3. INS ecosystem (INS)

INS is developing a platform to enable direct interaction between brands and people in the consumer sector. Reaching the next generation audience via data-driven mass personalization. The team consists of a large global collective of professionals with solid industry experience. The INS ecosystem makes it possible to buy directly from manufacturers. INS has established a couple partnerships with Dutch food manufacturers. Giant “media” platforms have written about INS such as Forbes and Nasdaq. With their direct-to-consumer platform they are trying to overcome retailer domination. 7 out of Top 20 largest global FMCG manufacturers and 100+ in total from all around the world expressed interest to join the INS ecosystem. You can purchase INS on Binance and it is currently being trade under its ICO price which was $2,54.

Pros:

The team consists of a large global collective of professionals with solid industry experience.

Is currently being traded under its ICO price

Trying to disrupt grocery market domination by retail chains

Targeting a 8.5 trillion market

Great blockchain partners such as Civic, Ambrosus and Bancor

They have a dream team and an impressive advisory board

They attend large blockchain conferences

The project has enough funds at its disposal to continue for years

Cons:

Project needs mainstream adoption to succeed

Project needs partnerships with suppliers as Procter & Gamble and Unilever to offer a large varied stock

Large retailers could exert pressure in a negative way

INS token usage

You can buy INS by clicking here

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Shield address (XSH): SjCDTQUZfbFrNxFmc3G3936yurSiERaUXq

Bitcoin address (BTC): 1Kh9m7PqzzRHK8vRk5TFTvm8qeYWZ8bbDS

Bitcoin Cash address (BCC): 1Kh9m7PqzzRHK8vRk5TFTvm8qeYWZ8bbDS

Ethereum address (ETH): 0x1df997d1de09fc6acea5a095a6a116d884f11b25

Litecoin address (LTC): LYsr6UbUeqWC45vvnzRPTTRxarvYHgMxg9

Ripple address (XRP): rEb8TK3gBgk5auZkwc6sHnwrGVJH8DuaLh (tag: 105949657)

Dogecoin address (DOGE): D5KioQuMTcWvkcyAtkeCWsRMyjHacsh2Bp

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