Crypto Portfolio Categorized by Problems and Solutions

I spent the last few weeks re-balancing my crypto investment profile based on what I considered the tokens' primary problem-solution pair. Wanted share my findings and would be great to get your thoughts. 

Asset Tokens

DigxDAO (DGD)

• Pays dividends with transaction fees
• The Digix DAO decides on profits from trading of Digix tokens (DGX)
• DGX tokens are tokens backed 1:1 with a gram of gold.
• They are claim checks for real gold stored in a vault in Singapore.

Tether (USDT)

• Always 1-to-1 with the US Dollar

Bank Competitors' Tokens

Emercoin (EMC)

• Suite of banking dev services
• Emercoin is part of Microsoft Azure
• Emercoin offers a 6% annual POS reward with 30 day coin maturity.
• One DAPP of interest was a decentralized torrent tracker

Exscudo (EON)

• Exscudo Website
• Distributed financial products
• All-in-one financial solution
• Integrate cryptocurrencies into the traditional financial world

Humaniq (HMQ)

• Banking the unbankable
• Giving out cellphone 

Bank Partners Tokens

Ripple (XRP)

• Panders to the establishment
• Founded by former bankers
• Market control through 70% coin hold back

Stellar Lumens (XLM )

• Optimizes market maker transfers routs
• It’s a fork of Ripple
• Backed by Stripe

Computation Tokens

Golem (GNT)

• Distributed computation (Supercomputer)
• People can rent out idle computer time
• Built on Etherium
• Raised lots of ICO money

MadeSafeCoin (MAID)

• Decentralised databases
• Encrypt data uploads
• Secure access for everyone
• Uses proof-of-resources
• Farming will allow users to donate resources for SafeCoins
• SafeCoins are not released yet and MAID coins are pre-coin holders

Content Tokens

Basic Attention Tokens (BAT)

• ICO Info
• Buy on May 31st
• Solves: Google and Facebook take all advertising money
• Team includes a founder of javascript
• Built on ethereum

ReddCoin (RDD)

• PoS
• Microdonations and tips for social media

Synereo (AMP)

• PoSC
• Content creators should get paid by audience
• This gives them an inherent market value, as any business or individual wishing to bring information to your attention non-organically has to pay you with AMPs for it.

SingularDTV (SNGLS)

• Investment Overview
• ERC 20
• Token holders get ETH rewards
• SNGLS tokens also represent the intellectual property.

Steem (STEEM)

• Reddit-esque blockchain platform
• Content is valued by steem * user karma
• Steem power has 2 year lock-in

Contracts Tokens

AntShares (ANS)

• Slack | Wallet Instructions
• Rebranding to NEO
• Microsoft Azure and the Hyperledger Project
• Popular in China
• 100% premined and released
• Tokenized proof-of-ownership helps with legal complications

EOS (EOS)

• Daniel is also dev with BitShares & Steemit
• ERC-20 compatible
• Blockchain operating system

Ethereum (ETH)

• Validator Nodes (1,000 ETH)
• Pioneered smart contracts
• Large community 
• Generalized blockchain

Ethereum Classic (ETC)

• Proof-of-Work
• Ideologically driven

Currency Tokens

Bitcoin (BTC)

• Most mainstream
• First to solve the double spend problem
• Uses proof-of-work

Dash (DASH)

• Focused on user friendly software
• Focus on speed and privacy makes it good for digital cash
• Good development and marketing team
• Well funded and organized DAO
• Masternodes require 1,000 DASH (8.39% annual return).

Nautilus (NAUT)

• PoS
• Coin tries to reduce volatility but
• Has central bank type levers to pull
• Attempts to reduce volatility and preserve buying power
• Terminal money supply is fixed

NEM (XEM)

• Proof-of-Importance
• Value through transactions discourages hoarding
• Supernode dividends (Too expensive for me)
• Popular in china
• Offer easy developer tools
• NEM harvesting offers some growth

Litecoin (LTC)

• Fork of bitcoin with faster block times 
• Already has implemented segregated witness
• Might be an easy replacement for bitcoin merchances

DAO Tokens

Aragon (ANT)

• Framework to build DAOs
• Vested profits founders
• Super popular ICO

Decred (DCR)

• PoS
• Community-based governance integrated into its blockchain

Wings (WINGS)

• DAO framework
• Etherium based

Enterprise Tokens

Ardor (ARDR)

• PoS
• Create custom DAPPs
• Built on top of NXT

Stratis (STRAT)

• Custom one-click private and public blockchains creation
• Blockchains can be customized to suit corporate needs

Ubiq (UBQ)

• Provides an enterprise level service agreement on top of ETH

Exchange Tokens

Bancor (BNT)

• Ivan on Tech | Bancor’s Math
• Asynchronous coin price discover
• Eliminates need for 2 parties in exchange
• Always liquid

BitShares (BTS)

• All types of assets should be traded on the same ledger
• Same dev @dan from Steem and EOS
• Uses delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS)
• Quality team and technology

BlockNet (BLOCK)

• Polonex-esque decentralized exchange
• High reviews from King of Dew
• Masternode is 5000 BLOCK

Gaming Tokens

DigiByte (DGB)

• Jerry Banfield
• Works on minecraft servers

GameCredits (GAME)

• Belives game currency shold be tranferable
• On Microsoft Azure so maybe for Xbox

MobileGo (MGO)

• MobileGo Website: Unsure if validated
• Blockchain based gamer marketplace
• Gamer-to-gamer betting/competition
• Decentralized mobile game tournaments

Gambling Tokens

Augur (REP)

• Probability/gambling platform

Edgeless (EDG)

• PoS
• ETH based edgeless casino

Gnosis (GNO)

• Probability/gambling platform

Wagerr (?)

• Wager will ensure deflation
• Betting fees are burned in relation to coins value

Insurance Tokens

Aeternity (AE)

• Provides insurance

DAPP Building Tokens

Lisk (LSK)

• Forging Rewards
• Create blockchain with JAVA
• Create custom side chains
• Team has former ethereum core members
• Founders responsible with ICO money

Stratis (STRAT)

• Blockchain for C# AND .NET 

SysCoin (SYS)

• Azural partnership
• Framework for DAPP dev

Marketplace Tokens

Counterparty (XCP)

• Makes bitcoin turning-complete
• Proof-of-Burn (miners should show proof that they burned some coins)
• Coins are burned to create dividends
• Marketplace built directly on the Bitcoin blockchain

Masternodes Tokens

Boolberry (BBR)

• Seed Node

Crave (CRAVE)

• Masternode
• Masternodes = 500

CrownCoin (CRW)

• Masternodes = 10,000

ExclusiveCoin (EXCL)

• Masternode = 5,000

iCash

• MN Setup | Reddit
• No ICO or Premine

NeosCoin (NEOS)

• Masternode = 5,000
• MN’s Return 160 NEOS or $700 per/month
• 135 masternodes online
• V3 is on the way

Neutron (NTRN)

• Setup Guide

PIVX (PIVX)

• Hosted by: [email protected]
• Masternodes = 10,000
• Private Instant Verified Transaction

Renos (RNS)

• Masternode = 30,000 (payouts are 70%)
• Coins on coinexchange.io will switch over to v3 automatically. 

TransferCoin (TX)

• Masternode = 10,000

PoS Tokens

BitSend (BSD)

• Masternode

Diamond Coin (DMD)

• DMD Investing Experience
• PoS (Coins must vest for 9 days)
• Masternodes require 10,000 DMD
• Returns for minting 1000 DMD is approx.. 5.2 DMD per week

HyperStake (HYP)

• Github
• 230% returns
• Generous returns without massive inflation

MonitaryUnit (MUE)

• Masternode is 500,000 and MN shares are 10,000
• Making a transition to a X11 base

Portfolio Tokens

Iconomi (ICN)

• Quantopian-esque crypto platform
• Users can create “Digital Asset Arrays” of cryptos
• ICNX - crypto Index fund coming later
• 20% of platform fees buy & burn tokens (dividends)
• Central point of failure 

Melonport (MLM)

• Slower to market but completely P2P 
• Blockchain software for full asset management

Numeraire (NMR)

• Crowd sourced artificial intelligence hedge fund
• Team includes an apple and google engineer.
• Data scientists received the initial NMR coins at no cost.

TaaS (TAAS)

• Closed-end like fund where they invest in crypto assets
• Payments made via an Ethereum smart contract
• Premined tokens and ability to see all token investment's helps with trust. 
• 25% of profits reinvested in tokens and 25% to fund managers
• 50% of profits go to token holders each quarter
• Profits show up in the form of ETH when stored with MyEtherWallet

Privacy Tokens

ByteCoin(BTE)

• Solves: Privacy / Anonymity
• Stable enough banks might like it. 

Komodo (KMD)

• PoS
• Private contracts and coins

Monero (XMR)

• Solves: Privacy / Anonymity
• Darknet crypto of choice
• Receivers information is anonymized. 

ZCash (ZEC)

• Hides sender, recipient, and value info
• Partnership with JP Morgan

Storage Tokens

Factom (FCT)

• Already used for permanent documentation
• Investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Deflationary (coins removed every year)
• Network uses enterprise level federation servers

StorJ (STORJ)

• Storj.io Token Sale
• PoS
• Decentralized file storage
• End to end encrpytion

SiaCoin (SC)

• Decentralized file storage

Science Tokens

1337 Coin (1337)

• Reddit
• PoS
• High rewards and inflation control
• Community is driven by fun and games
• King of Dew & Folding @ Home

GridCoin (GRC)

• Leading Zroooos
• Proof-of-Research algorithm
• Compensate miners for participating in BOINC social good projects

Nexus (NXS)

• Mistakenly sent coins can be retrieved. 
• Something about space travel

Token Building

Ardor (ARDR)

• PoS
• Built on top of NXT
• Offers blockchain as a service to dev new coins

Bata (BTA)

• PoW
• Built for barter exchange for goods or services
• Masternode = 10,000 BTA
• Near-zero cost payments

Radium (RADS)

• PoS
• Medium
• Files on computers can thumbprint against the blockchain to verify they were not changed. 
• AWS and Azurl Intigration

Waves (WAVES)

• Waves Fullnode
• Developers from NXT 
• Help ICO’s launch and provide an exchange
• Government and traditionals bank compliant
• Easy colored-coin creation for assets
• Lease-Proof-of-Stake with a Full Node needing 10,000 waves
• Leasing Address List

Quantum Tokens

IOTA (MIOTA)

• Zero transaction fee
• Tangle architecture replace blockchain
• Eachbrodcasts must also verify transactions
• Built for a machine to machine economy

Quantum Resistance Ledger (QRL)

• Specially designed security should stay protected from quantum computing.