Dash - clear roadmap to be a widely accepted currency for spending. Fast and cheap. Have a treasury budget to fund projects. Large team and, most importantly, they're innovative, not just copycats. And masternode shares!
Ark - Extremely ambitious goals and, so far, have delivered consistently. Bigger goals are Smartbridges (connecting different blockchains for interoperability), one-click blockchain launch (clone of Ark blockchain) and a strong public presence. They have sponsored multiple university hackathons. And DPoS!
Rise - been a rocky path recently but if they can survive they have tremendous potential. Drag and drop dapp tools, side chains, multiple languages offered, smart contracts, and the best DPoS around. (I REALLY like coins that earn me dividends)
Ethereum and NEO - because it is Ethereum and NEO
Request Network - payment requesting and invoice solutions. Integrating all forms of payments. Obviously much more than just that but worth looking into.
AdEx - advertising is big money and there are multiple advertising coins out there, this is just the one I liked the most
GenesisVision - the evolution of financial markets. Bringing exchanges, brokers and investors together. Integration of crypto, traditional stocks and banks to bring investing of all mediums together
There are more but these are my biggest
nice. i also have a soft spot for dpos projects. i'll have to look at ark more, i think i once had an issue with their wallet and got frustrated and sold.
do you earn much from rise? i've found dpos coins have terrible returns in terms of voting for delegates in order to get staking shares. i really like dividends as well, free monies :)
The Ark wallet is easy and slick looking, you may have tried it a while ago because I've never had any bad experience.
The "rocky path recently" that I mentioned with Rise is that they got delisted from Bittrex. It happened suddenly and Bittrex and Upbit (which is just Korean Bittrex) were their only exchanges. They've been talking with other exchanges daily in the past few weeks but as of right now there is nowhere to acquire Rise.
Once they get back on some good exchanges, the DPoS returns are awesome. About 18% annual return. 5000 Rise coins held in your wallet will get you a little more than 2 per day. When Rise was consistently over $1 I was using those returns to invest in other coins.
They also had an incubator program where they help dapp startups that want to build on the Rise platform and as a fee they accepted 30% of the ICO tokens. 20% of those were to be airdropped to Rise holders and 10% to stay with the team. Unfortunately this is the reason they were delisted from Bittrex (against SEC regulations to promise passive income for holding) so they put a halt on the airdrops until things get settled, maybe for good.
When they do get back on some exchanges next month I think they will be undervalued because of the bad situation they have been in but I recognize it is still a big risk. They're still testing their core network which was rewritten in typescript ("upgraded" from Javascript) and once that's going and secure they are going to work on getting the sidechains working.
Wow that is really interesting. I remember looking into all DPoS coins at one point and thinking that Rise looked really cool and it seemed strange they didn't have a higher market cap. I'll definitely keep an eye on this. Thanks!!