5 Crypto Companies To Keep An Eye On In 2018
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We’ll run through the list of 5 plus 2 bonus projects right after I tell you that today’s episode is brought you to by…
Vaultoro
https://www.vaultoro.com/?a=100678
Which is the one of a kind online exchange where you trade between physical Gold and Bitcoin.
Their Gold reserves can be audited online at any time and your Gold reserves are protected if the company where ever to fail.
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0:49 http://securrency.com/
I would call this an exchange but that is too narrow a definition.
They claim to be able to let you tokenise traditional assets and then trade them within one day using their LiquidityEngine product.
You can convert your real world assets into Securrencies which can then be traded virtually.
They recognise that, for the time being, there is still huge value in traditional financial assets so their job is to create a regulatory compliant bridge in the middle so their customers get the best of both worlds.
A Securrency is a blend of the word security and currency. It’s part currency, part bond, part exchange traded fund share.
1:54 https://deedcoinhq.com/
This one is just for the US at the moment as far as I can tell and operates in 50 states.
Their value proposition is to reduce the fees associated with selling real estate by 80%.
They do this by having just 1 representative in each state and using the Deedcoin as the currency to pay their fees.
This allows the seller to keep 99% of the sale price because Deedcoin only has enough agents to serve the market and no more, so the system can run on less revenue.
2:44 https://utopi.io/
This is a project that aims to increase transparency for charitable donations.
When I donate to a charitable cause, I’m giving the money with the expectation that the money is going to help the cause.
There have been many instances over the years where only a fraction of the money donated ends up being spent helping the cause.
The rest of it intentionally or unintentionally gets lost on the operating costs of the charity organisation itself.
That could just be poor cost management, or it could be big salaries. Either way Utopi aims to use blockchain technology so that is a permanent record of when the funds came in and then where they went.
When we know we are being watched, we voluntarily choose to engage in good behavior.
3:50 https://neo.org/
Yes NEO the cryptocurrency and smart contract platform.
NEO may end up being the only cryptocurrency to survive in China over the long term because they have set out with the clear intention of being a fully compliant blockchain.
NEO also allows developers to write smart contracts in Java and C# programming languages, which I know from personal experience to be very easy to work with.
I know I’m known as a massive EOS fan, but EOS is primarily going to use the C++ programming language for smart contracts which is much more complex and much less forgiving.
I personally hold NEO because it is a cashflowing coin. The NEO you hold in your wallet generates GAS tokens that fuel transactions and have tradeable value in their own right.
Agrello aims to allow you to build smart contracts that are legally binding, then use AI to keep track of your rights and obligations. An AI counselor as Agrello call it.
Their other aim is to allow these contracts to be written in natural language so that no legal or programming skills are required to create them.
That will truly provide equal access to legal protections on a level I have never seen before. I’m thinking about every small business being able to have iron clad agreements with their customers and suppliers.
So that’s the list.
5:55 Today’s episode was based on an article from BTC Manager.com so shout out to them again. They helped me out with a tip off yesterday if you remember.
I would donate them some crypto but I don’t see an address anywhere on their site.
Anyway they list a total of 10 companies to keep on your radar however I have gone through them all and created my own shortlist, only keeping the ones that I personally found interesting.
If you would like to see the full list please check out the original article https://btcmanager.com/20-crypto-companies-need-radar-year/
If I had to add 2 of my own picks from outside this list I would choose SALT and Populous because they are doing exactly the right thing.
They are taking traditional, well establish financial services and making them cheaper, better and faster using blockchain technology.
The fact that they are not trying to do anything really fancy is what leads me to believe they are solid projects.
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Vaultoro could be a really important company this year. if everything goes well and governments aren't blocking them this could be huge for btc. if the value of btc/gold is directly linked i can only see the price shoot up for a decent period.
quality post!
Hey I love the fact you broke down your video into text. Nicely done.
NEO is a top ranker for me. They are all out ready for government regulation and I know it's coming. I can feel it in my bones.
The others you highlight are completely new to me. Utopi and Agrello sound unlikely. Two groups of people that wont yield are charity owners and lawyers... So I can't see that happening.
Anything with commodities into crypto tickles my fancy. It's going to happen a lot so an exchange that does it could be big business. Additionally, we all know blockchain is going to rip apart real estate and cutting down fees and middlemen is definitely going to be the first to go.
My point, thanks for the heads up on the first two. I'll definitely keep my eyes open for them. Take care and have an upvote and follow.
Neo scares me so much. I'm here in China and I don't trust a thing done here. Everyone is loving Neo, because, hey, China is a huge market. That's not quite how it works here, this is a communist country who have banned cryptocurrency. Keep that in mind.
Here's some reading on Neo.
http://storeofvalueblog.com/posts/a-definitive-guide-to-neo/
wow very nice post
The future belongs to those that plan for it
I'm really hoping the best for Utopi, just from humane point of view. I think that NGO's really need an effort like this to increase the transparency of where funding is spent etc.
NEO might still turn out to be a success, I'm sure that there's a lot of room for multiple smart-contract platforms to coexist. I'm also more of an EOS fan myself...
The amount of projects bringing real world applications to the blockchain is incredible but makes it so difficult to choose where to place your money. I personally like to read through these whitepapers to differentiate the projects but mainly stick to projects closer to my personal area if expertise.
What methodology do you put around re-balancing your portfolio? You seem to be able to remove emotions from you decision making process, something I need improve. I haven't had much new capital for investments lately, and I have a hard time selling any of my current holdings even though I want to get exposure to 5-7 more projects. Each time I have looked at selling something I feel its either on a run, or just dumped and can't pull the trigger.
Don't forget ONT, Chris. NEO holders today received Ontology, which will ALSO be a dividending coin.
Which is crazy if you think about it.
Because NEO generates interest (GAS) and now a little bit more interest in the form of ONT, which will then also generate interest.
I mean it just blows my mind. I'm familiar with the 8th wonder of the world interest-on-interest. But how do you calculate one's interest-on-interest-on-interest-on-interest?