5 best cryptos to hold for long term

A lot of people have been asking us which projects and altcoins we have our eyes on in 2018, so we decided to make this post. We're not going to just jump straight in with some picks though. If we don't take our time over this post, you won't take your time over it either... and when you don't take time over crypto investment decisions, you end up getting burned.

How many of us have been guilty of jumping into a coin too quickly, or when it's at an all-time high, only to get stuck holding it at a loss until it (hopefully) gains again? We've done it a few times, and we're sure you have too.
So we don't want to be responsible for something that causes more people to jump into investments without doing their own research.

In fact, we even created an ICO Evaluation Cheatsheet to simplify the research process and avoid bad investments. We've done a ton of research over the past few months, and we do have a pretty good handle on some of the best long term cryptocurrency projects out right now.
Under the radar coins can yield incredible gains if you are fortunate enough to find one that skyrockets in a short period, but the risk is much higher that you end up holding a bunch of useless projects that never go anywhere.
But for now, let's get to it.

Remember, these are in no particular order.
1.) Neo
We've professed our love for Neo many times on this site and will continue to do so, with good reason. It's got to be one of the best long term altcoins in existence.
When NEO dropped from $50 to $17, we continued to hold, and we were vindicated when it nearly reached $200 last month. We don't think it's going to stop there either.
While many of you may feel that Neo is currently pretty expensive and you may have missed the boat on this one, we disagree. Neo has the potential to reach Ethereum's marketcap, and if you had the chance to pick Ethereum up at $150, you would have backed up the truck right? Neo could end up being the same situation.

2.) ICON
It's the Korean Ethereum! No wait, the Korean Neo! No wait..the Korean..Icon?
Icon is a project that has already experienced huge gains, but it's still got some way to go. Currently, it's not even traded on Korean exchanges, which is just nuts.
For those of you not familiar with Icon, here's the TL:DR:
Similar to Neo, or IBM's Hyperledger, Icon is designed to be a large scale ecosystem. Their vision is to allow many different private and public blockchains to work together, such as universities, banks, hospitals, schools. The idea is that they can all share information together via Icon and other partners like Wanchain.

3.) Dragonchain
This one has come across our radar quite a few times and we were fortunate enough to finally take notice of it during a time it was at a very attractive price. We picked up a relatively heavy bag.
This is an interesting project that many people have tried comparing to Ethereum and Neo (sounds about right!), but actually is more a case of apples and oranges.
Dragon was originally developed by Disney as a business-focused blockchain. It is supposedly one of the most developer friendly blockchains out there. It should end up pretty popular with businesses too, because it allows you to use blockchain for data, while maintaining control of it. It also has a server-less architecture, which is unique in blockchain to the best of our knowledge.

4.) Wanchain
How could you talk about Icon without its possibly-even-more-hyped-up cousin Wanchain? The two projects are in the same category of projects, but are complementary to one another. As we mentioned above with Icon, Wanchain works on interoperability, or to put it another way, the ability for different chains to work together and different projects to work across multiple blockchains. This is going to be of huge value as blockchain develops, especially at an enterprise level.

5.) Nex
Nex hasn't actually launched or even announced details of its tokensale yet, but we're pretty sure it's going to do well. We aren't optimistic that you will be able to put a huge amount into the crowdsale though, because there will be such high demand, they'll probably issue small individual caps.

Special Mentions:
Here are some other projects we hold and are very excited about for 2018 as well, but didn't quite make the top 5:

VeChain
OmiseGo
Loopring
CoinFi
TheKey