What are the main indicators of success for cryptocurrency right now? The ones which are available for us on coinmarketcap.
First one is market capitalization. It includes price multiplied by the quantity of certain cryptocurrency. It shows us how promising or successful project is as a whole.
Second is trade volume. Basically, is shows how popular given coin among traders. It so happens that some coins have bigger trade volume but, at the same time, are less valued than the ones which have bigger capitalizations.
Third is number of assets. Some cryptocurrencies are also platforms for other cryptoassets and the number of hosted coins does matter. Today we are going to thoroughly analyze the 200 most popular cryptoassets.
On the right part of the slide you can see the platforms (cryptocurrencies that host other tokens) with the biggest cryptoassets in terms of market capitalization. What can we take from this pie chart?
• Ethereum hosts the CryptoAssets which have the biggest capitalizations. Ethereum seems to be able to hold its first place for a very long time
• In comparison to August 2017, Ethereum slightly decreased its market share from 86,82% to 86,5% but it seems that maybe it is because this time I decided to analyze 200 tokens instead of 100
• There was a significant rise of NXT, NEO assets since summer. Currently NXT holds 4.2% and NEO 1.3%
• Ethereum Classic seems to have lost last CryptoAssets it had. Unfortunately, Ethereum Classic is not used by any known project and coinmarketcap doesn’t show any token depending on this blockchain. SAD
We are now moving to the trade volume of tokens. On the right part of the slide, there is a pie chart which shows the platforms with the biggest cryptoassets in terms of trade volume. As you can see, the results are quite surprising. What can we take out of this?
• Omni and Ethereum’s assets are absolute leaders in terms of trade volume
• There is still little to none real competition for Ethereum except OMNI
• Currently, OMNI’s TETHER is the biggest CryptoAsset in terms of trade volume. Why is it so? OMNI’s blockchain has tether, fiat-backed cryptocurrency. A lot of traders are moving their funds to USD, using tether as the main fiat choice
• NXT has 4,2% of all CryptoAssets’ market capitalization and only 0,4% of trade volume
Number of cryptoassets is another important success indicator for cryptocurrency platforms. I analysed top 200 cryptoassets and found out that:
• Ethereum leads in terms of number of biggest CryptoAssets. Not a big surprise
• Out of 200: Ethereum has 167 (83.8%), Counterparty 7 (3.5%), Bitshares 6 (3%), Omni 5 (2.5%), Waves 5 (2.5%), NXT 3 (1.5%), Qtum (1%) & Ubiq & NEO 2 (each at 1%)
• Ethereum remains the biggest and the most attractive platform for CryptoAssets. Ethereum Classic died as a platform. Other interesting project are still in early development (EOS, for example)
On this slide, I showed CryptoAssets capitalization to its respective platforms’ capitalizations. As you can see, some assets are valued significantly more than its platforms. OMNI is the best example. Well, what can we say generally about those numbers?
• Some platforms are less valued than its CryptoAssets. OMNI, NXT, COUNTERPARTY and NUBITS are four platforms with low capitalizations
• I expect that CryptoAssets will be valued more than its platforms in the long-term. Next year (2018) will show this trend more clearly among biggest platforms
What are the top 10 cryptoassets? As of mid of December 2017
EOS is on Ethereum blockchain currently. Valued at $6.6bln. It is made to be the highly scalable blockchain with smart contracts. Yes, it is Ethereum competitor on Ethereum blockchain. When the development is over, it will transition to its own blockchain
TRON is on Ethereum and valued at $2.6bln. The idea is to decentralized the entertainment content distribution
Omise GO is on Ethereum and valued at $1.9bln. This project is going to be about digital payments with fiat/cryptocurrency/other assets. This project will also have its own blockchain, but it will be pegged to Ethereum
POPULOUS is on Ethereum and valued at $1.8bln. Populous is about decentralization of invoice financing
Tether is OMNI’s asset and valued at $1.1bln. It represents fiat on blockchain
Ardor is NXT’s asset and valued at $1bln. This blockchain is created to be used for business enterprises
Augur is on Ethereum and valued at $1bln. This is decentralized gambling project
Status is on Ethereum and valued at $673mln. The project is about getting access to Ethereum decentralized applications from mobile devices
BINANCE COIN is on Ethereum and valued at $552mln. The token is used on Binance exchange to pay for different exchange’s services
SALT is on Ethereum and valued at $502mln. Project is about blockchain loans that you can get by using cryptoassets as a collateral
Let’s now talk about one of my favourite projects in this space. I supported this project pre-ICO and I am going to support it post-ICO. Fundyourselfnow, ladies and gentlemen. I want to cover the latest news and tell you the general facts about it.
• Project aims to be the platform for crowdfunding, which will utilize the advantages of cryptocurrencies
• KICKICO is the Russia-based closest competitor of Singapore-based FYN
• FYN is planning to attract ICOs and non-ICO projects (crowdfunding for games/movies/activities)
• A lot of different methods will be implemented to boost FYN price in the future
• Platform will have all necessary instruments for conducting successful crowdfunding. All services will be offered, using FYN tokens
The latest news is very exciting because the first big Vietnamese cryptocurrency exchange was recently launched with the help of local banks and FYN tokens will be the first to get listing there.
FYNs will be listed on VinaEx in the first quarter of 2018 with fiat pairing (VND and USD).
FYN will be the official fundraising partner of VinaEx exchange.
Starting Q1 2018, projects will be financially encouraged to raise part of their funding in FYN
