Top Ten ICO Tokens by Market Cap – September 7, 2017: The market caps of ICO tokens are constantly changing in the volatile crypto market. Urban Crypto is starting a new series, bringing you the top tens once a week. Please find to the left the top ten tokens based on data taken from https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/ as of September 7, 2017 and a summary of each company below.
OmiseGO
OmiseGO is a public Ethereum-based financial technology for use in mainstream digital wallets, that enables real-time, peer-to-peer value exchange and payment services agnostically across jurisdictions and organizational silos, and across both fiat money and decentralized currencies. Designed to enable financial inclusion and disrupt existing institutions, access will be made available to everyone via the OmiseGO network and digital wallet framework, starting in Q4 2017.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/neCaG0LoKQ0
Qtum
Combining a modified Bitcoin Core infrastructure with an intercompatible version of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Qtum merges the reliability of Bitcoin’s unfailing blockchain with the endless possibilities provided by smart contracts. Designed with stability, modularity and interoperability in mind, Qtum is the foremost toolkit for building trusted decentralized applications, suited for real-world, business oriented use cases. Its hybrid nature, in combination with a first-of-its-kind PoS consensus protocol, allow Qtum applications to be compatible with major blockchain ecosystems, while providing native support for mobile devices and IoT appliances.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/RS_wd_jmJng
Golem
Golem is a global, open sourced, decentralized supercomputer that anyone can access. It’s made up of the combined power of user’s machines, from personal laptops to entire data centres. Anyone will be able to use Golem to compute (almost) any program you can think of, from rendering to research to running websites, in a completely decentralized & inexpensive way. The Golem Network is a decentralized sharing economy of computing power, where anyone can make money ‘renting’ out their computing power or developing & selling software. Applications include Computer Graphics, Business Big Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Cryptography, Microservices and Science.
Tether
Tether converts cash into digital currency, to anchor or tether the value to the price of national currencies like the US dollar, the Euro, and the Yen. Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves. So, 1 USD$ is always equivalent to 1 USD$. Reserve holdings are published daily and subject to frequent professional audits. The Tether platform is built on top of open blockchain technologies, leveraging its security and transparency. Buy, sell, and use tethers at Bitfinex, Shapeshift, GoCoin, and other exchanges. Tether’s blockchain-enabled technology delivers world-class security while meeting international compliance standards and regulations.
TenX
TenX makes digital currencies spendable, anytime, anywhere; and connects your blockchain assets for everyday use. TenX’s debit card and banking licence will allow us to be a hub for the blockchain ecosystem to connect for real-world use cases. The TenX wallet and the TenX card have been tested by well-known figures in the industry with payments in 50 countries across the world and are available to the public.
MaidSafeCoin
The SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) Network is made up of the unused hard drive space, processing power and data connection of its users. It offers a level of security and privacy not currently available on the existing Internet and turns the tables on companies, putting users in control of their data, rather than trusting it to organisations. Several features make this possible: Self-Authentication, Self-Encryption, Distributed Network, Data availability and built-in redundancy.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/U1ffmf6z50E
EOS
The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication and the scheduling of applications across hundreds of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that scales to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications.
Augur
Augur combines the magic of prediction markets with the power of a decentralized network to create a stunningly accurate forecasting tool – and the chance for real money trading profits.
Video link: https://youtu.be/yegyih591Jo
MCAP Labs
The MCAP Labs mission is to promote and support research, development, and education to bring decentralized financial tools to the world that empower investors to earn huge returns in the long run by investing in one single coin rather than investing in multiple cryptocurrencies and hoping for their price to increase. MCAP Labs has innovated an in-house “two-way research methodology” to combat the increasing “centralization” in cryptocurrency mining hardware. The first of its kind ICO evaluation platform built at MCAP Labs is a step to assist new ICO’s in assessing their pain points before the launch. The special “KPI Test” takes into consideration 16 parameters against which ICO’s are tested before the final report. MCAP labs focusses on three key areas: Mining research, ICO evaluation and ICO investment.
Basic Attention
Digital advertising is broken. It is a market filled with middlemen and fraudsters, hurting users, publishers and advertisers. The Basic Attention Token (BAT) was developed to address this. BAT, an ERC20 token built on top of Ethereum, will be the token of utility in a new, decentralized, open source and efficient blockchain-based digital advertising platform. In the ecosystem, advertisers will give publishers BATs based on the measured attention of users. Users will also receive some BATs for participating. They can donate them back to publishers or use them on the platform. This transparent system keeps user data private while delivering fewer but more relevant ads. Publishers experience less fraud while increasing their percentage of rewards. And advertisers get better reporting and performance.
The first part of the solution, the Brave browser, is already operational. Brave is a fast, open source, privacy-focused browser that blocks ads and trackers, and contains a ledger system that anonymously measures user attention aggregate to accurately reward publishers. The next step is introducing BAT.
Basic Attention Token radically improves the efficiency of digital advertising by creating a new token that can be exchanged between publishers, advertisers, and users.
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/209336437