I'm going to fill this thread with basic summaries about the top 100 coins (on CMC) that Jow Forums never talks about. I will start with GXChain. If you want to DYOR and add another coin then post here before you start, so that we don't end up both doing the same project.
Top 100 coins Jow Forums never talks about
Nathan Carter
Tyler Kelly
>Name:
GXChain (GXS)
>Market Cap:
$288m (#85)
>Markets:
On Binance but 80% of volume is on Bit-Z
>Historical price behaviour:
Launched last year, J-curve down from a high starting point and then relatively flat movement against BTC since then. No real moons.
>Area/Field:
Kind of an all rounder with a focus on “data”. P2P data marketplace, but also a platform for BaaS, smart contracts, private data ownership. Users can collate their data under the GXS system and then resell it to the marketplace (apparently)
>Team:
Chinese coin. 20 team members listed but no information about them at all
>Status:
GitHub is updated a couple of times a week, with the latest being only 10 minutes ago into their “data exchange service” repository, but it's basically just a readme. Core repository only has commits up to a month ago (and not that many) and from 2 people, despite there being 5+ programmers on the team.
GXS presented at the Blockchain Expo in London a week ago, but it's still listed as an “upcoming event on their website. Latest community update says that “Blockcity” has 1.2 million confirmed users. Further user details are:
“Currently, we have 370K people in Wechat, 30K in QQ chat group, 15K in Weibo, 13K in Beechat, and 5K in telegram community. We noticed a 10% weekly overall growth for our community.”
>Review:
Ehhh, clearly it's popular in China, and if those userbases are accurate then it's got a strong following. Maybe it's lost in translation, but this seems like a pretty sloppy project. Website isn't great, no way to directly access team member info, GitHub progression is nothing to write home about. Nothing here has me racing to Bit-Z to pick up a bag.
Next coin: Cortex
Hunter Thompson
You're a hero but if I may suggest posting the process graph as the pic instead of explaining it
William Roberts
Can you do one on ChainLink
Jaxon Hall
Price* not process
Brayden Rogers
neat project. i will follow this
Aiden Johnson
>Name:
Cortex (CTXC)
>Market Cap:
$173m (#100)
>Markets:
Huobi
>Historical price behaviour:
Only launched a few weeks ago, slow uptrend from launch to ~2x.
>Area/Field:
AI. Trying to launch AI systems on the blockchain, to provide resources for machine learning researchers and ways for smart contracts to handle “inferences” whatever that means.
>Team
Chinese/American. High level academics with strong industry backgrounds and LinkedIns provided.
>Status:
Whitepaper is comprehensive but most of the GitHub is just ported code from Ethereum and Zcash. I'd have to go deeper than I can be bothered to to figure out whether this is working in private repo or something. Very little work so far into the main project. They do claim to have a working PoC that uses AI to correlate image data to identify bird species.
>Review:
Not very sold on this one. They're heavy on the investors/partnerships/advisors front but there is not much in the Github, and no apparent upcoming events. Currently vaporware but if the team live up to their qualifications it might be worth watching in future.
Next coin: Revain
Grayson Thomas
Alright, I'll put the graph instead of the logo form now on.
David Phillips
>Name:
Revain (R)
>Market Cap:
$199m (#94)
>Markets:
BTC-Alpha, OKEx, Kucoin
>Area/Field:
“Next generation feedback platform, so... Reviews. Authors write reviews that are stored on the blockchain and get rewarded for it.
>Team
Russian. CEO has 60 followers on Twitter, no LinkedIn. 20+ team members listed.
>Status:
Platform service is released at version 0.6 and usable on their website. Blog posts are fairly regular with the last 2 weeks ago. GitHub not obviously accessible from the website. Their roadmap literally just goes for this year, with Q4 consisting of “Cooperating with giants of gaming industry”.
>Review:
So they mention in their whitepaper that they are taking on everyone from Yelp to Rotten Tomatoes. Does this field need a blockchain solution? Do reviews need to be locked on the blockchain? Does it need a dual token system (an internal stablecoin and a regular token) to achieve this? They say that people posting incorrect reviews will be penalised tokens, and that a constant inflationary pressure on the token will prevent companies from buying reviews. The whitepaper actually goes through pages and pages of economics before even getting to the project. Big question marks for me about whether this actually needs a blockchain solution, and whether this teams product would be the one to do it anyway.
Next coin: WAX
Caleb Gonzalez
>Name:
WAX (WAX)
>Market Cap:
$210m (#90)
>Markets:
Huobi, Bittrex, Upbit
>Area/Field:
Platform for virtual marketplaces trading in digital goods, with an emphasis on video game items
>Team
American. Executive staff of Opskins, the world's largest video game item marketplace.
>Status:
Regular attendance at blockchain expos (3 in April, 2 in May). Blog posts are regular, announcing support of digital assets like “Etherlambos” and “Cryptoalpacas”. No obvious access to the GitHub from the website. 5700 members in Telegram.
>Review:
Niche product, but with a team who seem to already be the industry leaders in this field. $50b in video game assets traded every year and tons of scamming, which seems like a potentially strong use case for a trustless marketplace. Not a bad one to watch, especially if you're already interested in selling in-game items.
Next coin: KIN