It’s already been half a year since bitcoin started its free fall. Against the backdrop of the assumption that the highs of 2017 were artificially inflated, and also due to the actions of a number of countries and banks aimed at prohibiting transactions with crypto-currencies, the market lost the fiat support.

But if we turn to statistics, we will see that the number of new bitcoins-wallets is growing faster than it was when the bitcoin was at its highs. From June to December 2017, about 5 million wallets have been created, but from December 2017 to June 2018–6 million.

The statistics of the money attracted to ICO (Initial Coin Offering) beats all records:

2016–226 million, 2017–2.6 billion, and during the first half of 2018 5.5 billion has already been invested.

These data show that the crypto-currency market is actively developing and attracting new users and fears that bitcoin has created a bubble which could burst at any time are groundless.

It can be seen as if the market is accumulating the potential and ready rise at any moment and show new price records.

Market’s volatility which frightens many will last until a bridge between the world of digital currencies and the real economy is built.

Having not been secured by physical assets, crypto-currencies are exposed to rumors, news and information throws which may affect their price dramatically.

It’s no wonder that companies from the real sector recently started attracting their primary financing through ICO and issue tokens secured by physical assets. Several successful projects have shown that their profitability is comparable to the yield of crypto-currency schemes and has much less risks.

A few most successful projects, both already completed and under development, are worth mentioning:

Ambrosus is a platform that monitors the quality of manufactured food and medicines, which has raised more than $ 30 million.

The Bee (https://www.beetoken.com/) is a real estate rental platform based on smart contracts, which has raised $ 10 million.

ZrCoin (https://zrcoin.io/) is a plant for the production of zirconium dioxide, which earned a profit of about 7 million US dollars.

PrimalBase (https://primalbase.com/) is a company for the construction and leasing of office space, which has attracted $ 8 million.

Beverage.cash (https://beverage.cash/) offers tokens secured by wine and craft alcohol. Being at the stage of private placement, it has already attracted 150,000 US dollars.

Royal Mint Gold (RMG) is the project of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom intended for production of tokens secured by gold has not yet been launched, but has already caused a huge resonance in the crypto-currency world.

It is worth noting that all these projects have chosen exactly those segments of the real economy market, which, firstly, are in high demand and therefore can be scaled up practically without restrictions; secondly, they have a huge profit potential, comparable with the yield of the crypto-currencies.

These business models have shown that despite the binding of the token to the sales volumes, its price does not directly depend on them. The price of the token is formed by speculative market expectations and is outstripping the growth the assets by which it’s secured.

Nowadays more and more crypto-currency players are seriously considering not only classic block-projects, but also businesses from the real economy while forming their investment portfolios.

This diversification allows them to protect their crypto assets even in periods of falling prices of bitcoin and other digital currencies.es.