This is our third 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 and second part of the series as well.

Komodo

Current Market Cap: 347M USD

Circulating Supply: 103,964,397 KMD

Website: https://komodoplatform.com/

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

Roadmap: https://komodoplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Tech-Roadmap.png

Reasoning:

The Komodo Platform is an all-in-one tool for your decentralized needs. They offer the opportunity to manage your dICO (decentralized ICO) on their blockchain, which also offers privacy with the help of Zero-Knowledge technology. They are also adopting the Lightning Network for easy payment channel managing. Another feature is their DEX capability, with the help of atomic swaps.

Fundamentally speaking the project is overloaded with features, but instead of being jack of all trades and master of none, Komodo aims to do everything on a top level. The first dICO will launch in April on their platform and they are also planning a re-branding and redesigning of their project and website.

Syscoin

Current Market Cap: 257M USD

Circulating Supply: 531,512,134 SYS

Max Supply: 888,000,000 SYS

Website: http://syscoin.org/

Main exchange: https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-SYS

Roadmap: Article

Reasoning:

Syscoin is a veteran project, that has been launched in 2014 on Bitcointalk. It has kept up quite well with the expectations so far. They offer a decentralized marketplace named BlockMarket and low fee transactions with SegWit support. Their future outlook is what’s probably more interesting, they are planning on doing the first ICO on their platform (CoinPaymentsCoin from the CoinPayments merchant platform) and an airdrop as well.

Before the ICO they are releasing Masternodes for network security and also Z-DAG transactions. Z-DAG transactions will offer secure zero confirmation transactions via Direct Acyclic Graph based technology. This will be a first time where a blockchain based project uses a blockless tech for solving a problem.

Factom

Current Market Cap: 219M USD

Circulating Supply: 8,745,102 FCT

Website: http://factom.org/

Main exchange: https://www.bit-z.com/trade/fct_btc

Roadmap: Article

Reasoning:

Factom is a veteran project as well, they have been launched in 2014 on Bitcointalk. Factom is a system for securing millions of realtime records in the blockchain with a single hash. They aim so help enterprises with their document management needs, eliminating lost documents and prevent costly disputes with Factom Harmony. Another feature they offer is the Linxens NFC dLoc seal, with is a security chip that holds information, such as images and biometrics, which can be synchronized with the Factom Blockchain.

The Factom decentralized protocol runs on top of Bitcoin and Factom.org is releasing and maintaining the software. Factom keeps securing important partnerships with a product that is ready to use: they are working together with the Gates Foundation on securing medical records and also Homeland Security for audit trails.

Storj

Current Market Cap: 142M USD

Circulating Supply: 133,425,493 STORJ

Max Supply: 424,999,998 STORJ

Website: https://storj.io/

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

Roadmap: Blog

Reasoning:

Storj offers end-to-end encrypted distributed object storage with the help of free & open source software. Users will be able to transfer and share data freely on the network, where peers will be rewarded by the network. With a relative low market cap, a solid developer team and a fundamentally strong idea this is a pretty good mid to long term bet on blockchain platforms.

They have recently partnered with SONM (Supercomputer Organized by Network Mining), Storj will offer decentralized object storage for SONM’s cloud computing platform: the integration will allow SONM consumers to mount data volumes and collect data from containers using STORJ.

For their recent 1 hour video on development recap and roadmap check their Blog.

Blocknet

Current Market Cap: 117M USD

Circulating Supply: 5,049,476 BLOCK

Website: http://blocknet.co/

Main exchange: https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-BLOCK

Roadmap: Website

Reasoning:

Blocknet is a decentralized exchange protocol, the Block DX is the first dApp built on the network, which is a decentralized exchange. Listing on Block DX does not require any permission or control. They recently did a complete redesign on Block DX. An additional feature of Block DX is that they can provide centralized exchange platform with overall liquidity.

This project has taken years in the making, but recently showed that they are still relevant in the scene. The project also features Masternodes called Service Nodes (70% of the block reward goes to them).

We hope you enjoyed our second 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.

Check out our Machine Learning based forecasts for these projects: https://walletinvestor.com/