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This is the next post at a place where we share analysis and opinions for interesting coins, tokens and pure gems in the vast landscape of the blockchain world. There's so many coins out there, but not a lot of free information (looking at you, paid groups) and analysis on them. The Scoop aims to change that by sharing and improving the data available for a given coin and evaluating instead of predicting.

What is NAV Coin?

NAV is a privacy-focused coin built from Bitcoin core. To be clear, it actually stands for two key principles: privacy and usability. Fast, low cost transactions and a staking reward for helping secure the network. Active dev team and weekly updates are pushing this coin into more and more conversations.

More details:

https://navcoin.org/faq/

Quick Technicals

Algo: X13 / PoS

Block time: 30 seconds

Block reward: 5% per year staking (4% for user, 1% for community fund)

Bitcointalk thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=679791.0

Where's the wallet?

https://navcoin.org/downloads/

Along with the whitepaper:

https://www.navcoin.org/files/navtech-whitepaper-beta-v0.9.pdf

How many of them are they?

CMC says ~62m circulating supply.

Who's the team?

Full of engineers and developers, as well as directors for marketing, creative and digital strategist, as well as an ops manager.

Roadmap:

https://navcoin.org/project-roadmap/

Marketcap and Competitors?

~239m with ~8m volume when last checked today.

Similar projects or target industry...

Monero -> ~6b

Zcash -> ~2b

PIVX -> ~668m

ZCoin -> ~400m

How is NAV different?

As they describe it: simple but powerful, rapid block speed that is ideal for retail and e-commerce, staking and optional private payments.

Pros

privacy coins are appealing

mobile product

community / frequent communication

upcoming projects and roadmap

Cons

lack of marketing

competition

Any constructive criticism?

Staking rewards have went from 20% (2015) to 10% (2016) to 5% (2017), which is great for really early adopters but much less great for folks who got in this past year. As we've been told, it actually 4% for users and 1% for the community fund now. This could be changed to better incentivize folks who are just getting in.

Where is it traded?

It's traded across the board. For an older, non-ICO coin to get added to Binance, that's a sign that it's a solid project and brings a lot more volume in.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/nav-coin/#markets

The Final

Based on the FA, NAV looks like a low to medium risk with high reward potential if they continue to deliver products and catch on. Picking it up under 22k sats would be bargain or around $4 - $5 would be an upper entry while still expecting solid, crypto-style gains.

And that's your scoop!

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