Some ICO insights from TokenData :

In April, 48 completed ICOs raised a total of $548M.
This is a significant (25%) decline since March and close to a 70% decline from the "ICO fundraising peak" in January.
Total capital raised by completed ICOs stands at $4.1B in 2018 versus $5.6B for 2017.

Two trends stood out in April:

Higher ICO Failure Rate:
7 out of every 10 ICOs that ended in April did not publish any data about the completion of their token sale or completely disappeared from the internet.
We consider these ICOs to have "failed". Although it's a lagging indicator, it's the highest failure rate since we started capturing data in 2016,
and further shows that many projects are of very low quality.

New definition of "success":
Even for ICOs that do publish data, we're seeing a trend towards vague reporting.
For example: some ICOs claim a "successful" raise but do not report any data on funds raised (USD, ETH, BTC) and/or
the smart contract address through which we verify our data. Instead, these projects report the number of tokens sold,
which is meaningless, since many of these projects give heavy discounts at the start of the sale.
So - we're seeing a downward trend.

Above Data is excluding Telegram and EOS ico.

The Telegram private sale raised $1.7B
The private filings with the SEC show that Telegram raised $850M in February and March... a staggering total of $1.7B.
If we include this data our ICO fundraising estimate for 2018 increases to $5.8B, - surpassing the $5.6B raised in 2017.

It gets even crazier...

EOS has raised $3.3B and is still active for 2 months
Our analysis of all the Ethereum transactions sent to the EOS token sale shows
that EOS has raised close to $3.3B since the sale started in June 2017 with the following annual totals:
2017: EOS raised $840M
2018: EOS raised $2.25B year-to-date
Corrected for Telegram and EOS, ICOs have raised $8B in 2018...
Taking both the Telegram and EOS data into account, we adjust the 2017 capital raised number to $6.5B and 2018's to $8B.
It only took 4 months for ICOs to raise more capital than in all of 2017....
Nonetheless - even with the large adjustments for Telegram and EOS - we see a decline in token fundraising since the start of 2018.

PHANTASMA UPDATE :
Due to overwhelming requests by the community, we have changed the 2nd stage and will now include a 50 NEO maximum individual cap, but it won’t be a guaranteed cap equal to the 1st stage, it will function on a First Come First Served basis. This stage will still only be available to those who are whitelisted, and will start immediately after the 1st stage ends, on the 23rd of May at 00h00.

You can find a full explanation of the Phantasma Crowd Sale, with the updated info, in our Medium post:
https://medium.com/@phantasmaprotocol/phantasma-crowd-sale-token-metrics-4fe7ed2f1e70

You Invest in ICOs for
anonymous poll

I am in it to make more dollars. To become rich and possibly buy a lambo. – 113
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 76%

I am in it for the technology, to utilize token in real life to use the ico product. Token price doesn't matter to me – 35
👍👍 24%

👥 148 people voted so far.

As I had said before, I am making my spreadsheet LIVE!!!!
So here it is......

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE9SSpDNCnfsD6cNFmjMnjFUpuXMChIENB8aLrGTTyk/edit?usp=sharing

More updates/icos and next version coming soon..

First TAB, you will see a big ass Disclaimer. Plz read it carefully.
Second TAB, you will find RATING MECHANISM used to rate ICOs.
Third TAB, you will find the ratings for different ICOs.
Now there, You won't find every ICO out there, just few selective one.
Fourth TAB, you will see list of ICOs which are still under research and not enough info is known to rate them.

If you have any feedback/opinion/view/criticism regarding spreadsheet or if you think any ico/info is wrong or missing, plz fill below form

https://goo.gl/forms/3YM1cQ22W4vd19K93

or you can dm me at @OfficialPramodM

More info about me and conatct form links :
https://news.1rj.ru/str/pramodmicoann/284


What you shouldn't ask :
1. Which are the codename ICOs, they will be revealed at right time
2. Access to edit spreadsheet (This is strictly no-no)


Hope you Like it!!!

❗️ Sparkster HYPE LEVEL updated from AVERAGE to FOMO

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE9SSpDNCnfsD6cNFmjMnjFUpuXMChIENB8aLrGTTyk/edit?usp=sharing

My views on Sparkster :

Team :
Sparkster has been in existence since 2014 and it wasn't a blockchain centric company.
Team is quiet weak and when I say weak that means, team does not have a prior experience in blockchain tech to execute their claims.
They want to build 10M TPS which is pretty big claim. ETH is struggling to go above 10TPS and NEO has same fate as everyone knows.
These guys want to build what vitalik and his team can't achieve so team must be better than ETH team.

Product :
Their testnet result shows 6000 TPS that means they want to achieve 1666.66667x in live environment, good luck with that.

My opinion :
Use hype for your own benefit, don't get sucked into it and start loving the project.
Sparkster is such kind of ico where I can't say this is gonna work 100% to give good ROI.
The hype sparkster got is short lived. Such hypes don't last long.
Two scenarios :
1. Hype dies until exchange listing or market tanks, I become a bagholder.
2. Market is good and people are still hyped about sparkster, then I will just flip.

Sparkster is a kind of ICO where you just Buy, Flip, Take your money and run.
I'll be doing the same.
Who knows, hype might last longer and gives good ROI in short term, but I won't be taking that risk.

Note : Do your own research and make your own decisions. Opinions above are my personal and should not be considered as a financial advise.

Spreadsheet update :

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE9SSpDNCnfsD6cNFmjMnjFUpuXMChIENB8aLrGTTyk/edit?usp=sharing

New ICOs added

CryptoCurve
MoonLight
Arweave
Uchain
Tolar

Under research :

Code Protocol
Celer Network

Codename reveal :

CN-xoogler(Harmony)

Harmony is an open-consensus protocol which aims to provide transaction speeds of 10 million/per second, 100millisecond network delays, and 0.1% fees.
The protocol seeks to overhaul the current decentralized economy and make it 1000 times faster and more affordable to conduct transactions than Bitcoin and Ethereum

Team :
Team is quiet an All star.
Man behind Harmony is Stephen Tse.Stephen was a researcher at Microsoft Research, a senior infrastructure engineer at Google, and a principal engineer on search ranking at Apple.
He founded the mobile search Spotsetter with institutional venture capital; ​Apple later acquired the startup.
He is also part of http://xoogler.co/ that's why the codename.
Other team members working backgrounds include positions at Alibaba Cloud, Yahoo, WorldPay, Arizona State University, and four former Google employees.

Funding :
SEED round $2M ongoing
First presale in Q3 2018
Second presale in Q4 2018
Exchange listings in 2019

Read more about Harmony in document provided in spreadsheet.

CN-facebook (Pledgecamp)

Pledgecamp is a decentralized crowdfunding ecosystem that protects, rewards, and aligns the interests of key stakeholders.
Ok so whats so interesting about a crowdfunding platform?
Two things
1. Pledgecamp was selected from among hundreds of teams to compete on May 11 for up to $1M in capital and mentorship from Riccardo “fluffypony” Spagni and Indiegogo’s ICO team.
2. Advisors include Randi Zuckerberg,Jim Augustine from Zuckerberg Media, Keith Teare Founding Partner at TechCrunch, Prince Abdullah(Saudi Royal Family) and many more.
So hype will be there.

❗️ EDENCHAIN crowdsale
Begins on 24th May UTC 7:00 AM

More info :
https://news.1rj.ru/str/edenchainannouncements/81

❗️ Lightstreams update :

Review by my good friends at Research Center

https://medium.com/research-center/lightstreams-network-pht-ico-analysis-a-network-with-improved-data-storage-speed-privacy-20165e1a5621

Article by Mertech

https://martechtoday.com/lightstreams-seeks-to-solve-a-blockchain-vulnerability-its-too-public-215817

New ICO added to spreadsheet:

Refer Spreadsheet (Always check "Changelog" tab for new updates)
🚀https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE9SSpDNCnfsD6cNFmjMnjFUpuXMChIENB8aLrGTTyk/edit?usp=sharing🚀


👉 Talking.IM

World’s first Quantum Secure Blockchain, TIM can scale from 100 TPS to 100 Million TPS.
Team is from INDIA and Been working on this project from last 1 year.
But they are not working full time on this project.
They claim to have testnet performance of 50000 TPS.
Hard cap is lower.

TG : https://news.1rj.ru/str/timcommunity



👉 Kambria

Kambria is the first blockchain project to decentralize, democratize, and
radically empower the entire robotics ecosystem.
KAMBRIA platform connects Developers and companies and backers with each other.
MVP is already realeased, BETA in Q3 and full launch in 2019
Team is quiet experinced (Carnegie Mellon, Stanford) in robotics field.Loi Luu from KYBER NETWORK is one of the advisor.
No info on token metrics yet.

TG : https://news.1rj.ru/str/kambriaofficial



👉 Hashgard

Hashgard is a distributed, trusted asset management protocol and a high functionality next generation digital finance public chain.
Core team and advisors are part of Fenbushi capital and BKFUND.
Partnered with VeChain, SCRY.INFO, FORTUNA.
Possibly no private sale, crowdsale and small airdrop for community.



👉 Origo.network

A scalable privacy preserving platform for decentralized applications.
A privacy preserving protocol that supports complete privacy protection for not only transactions but also smart contracts.
New website with full team info to be released soon.

TG : https://news.1rj.ru/str/origoofficialgroup



🤑 CN- Berkeley (CODENAME)
Distributed Cloud Computing on Trusted Hardware + A Resource-Efficient and Scalable Blockchain....
30000 eth cap for 30% of total tokens (20% team, 5% airdrop, 20% community,20% mining)
only 500 eth for crowdsale,FOMO will build up high

Update on HASHGARD :

NOT GONNA FOLLOW OR BUY ON EXCHANGES, LOOKS LIKE A MANIPULATED PROJECT BY FEW ENTITIES. Everything sold out in private sale, telegram group pumped with bots, Those few groups might have already bought and started shilling now by pumping the group with bots and creating fake hype.
I am not up for getting dumped on exchanges.
If a project is sold out 100%, then why those groups/entities shilling it now?
Just be smart and think about it.

Still Many Better projects out there with honest intentions to Invest. Hashgard just not for me.

Phantasma token sale update

Edenchain token sale update

DAILY DIGEST

Beware of ICO Bench! – Cryptocurrency Hub...Read more

Page by Page whitepaper review: QuarkChain (QKC)...Read more

Kambria Progress Update — Springing Forward !...Read more

NuCypher (NU) ICO Analysis: A Data Encryption Protocol for the Blockchain...Read more

The Verge Hack, Explained – The Abacus Crypto Journal...Read more

Hypernet-Giving Consumers the Power to Compete with Amazon and Microsoft...Read more

FANTOM (FTM) ICO Analysis: A Smart Contract Infrastructure for DAG...Read more

ICO updates :

Talking.IM

- Still under research. Lot of FUD uncovering regarding team.
- Team is not working full time on this project .
- Their private sale was supposed to be over in march but it's still ongoing.
- I'll be going through their demo and Github code in a day or two, if it doesn't impress I will be skipping Talking.IM.

Kambria

- Team is good and experienced.Hard cap is around $25M.
- Private sale is ongoing

Hashgard

- Hashgard has good partnerships and team.
- No crowdsale but airdrop for community.
- Possibly it will do well with the FOMO.

Origo.network

- Still under research.

Code reveal :

Ankr.network (CN-Berkeley)

- Website : http://ankr.network (New website coming up in 5 days)

-Token metrics : No solid info yet but looks good and very small allocation for crowdsale. (Possibly at the end of July)

-Telegram : https://news.1rj.ru/str/ankrnetwork

About Team :
- Team is an all star team. Team has combined work experience at Amazon, Didi, SAP, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Uber.
- Founder Chandler Song studied at UC Berkeley(the codename) and has been Ex-member of Blockchain at Berkeley.
- Christel Quek (Marketing Advisor) is founder of BOLT (First DAPP on zilliqa platform). She has advised Zilliqa as well as Switcheo.
- JZ Zhang (Technology Advisor) positions are listed as Distinguished Architect at Yahoo, Principal Engineer at Cisco, Microsoft, Blackberry and AT&T and Founder of PDX funded by Lenovo Capital.

Product :
- They already have a working prototype and are way beyond the whitepaper stage.
- They have finished implementing the consensus protocol Proof of Useful Work and have swapped it into bitcoin core for testing purposes.

Token Metrics :
- 30% are available for sale. Need more info before properly rating and calculating ROI possibility.

This project is gonna get hyped in coming days and their telegram blew to 4K in a single day. It's not quite active at the moment.
There is not much info available but new website with all the details regarding whitepaper, token metrics will be made public.
You can join the telegram first and become an early supporter. Their are quiet a lot of benefits of joining a project at a early stage.
I am giving an opportunity for those who didn't know about this project by introducing it to you at early stage.
Join them before it blows up and get involved with the community.
It will only grow your chances at being first preference for whitelist.

Updated spreadsheet :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE9SSpDNCnfsD6cNFmjMnjFUpuXMChIENB8aLrGTTyk/edit?usp=sharing

DAILY DIGEST

Edenchain crowdsale is over...Read Statistics

PHANTASMA tokensale will resume on May 27th Sunday...Read more

An Outlook on Nexo Dividends and Beyond...Read more

NEW Wanchain Explorer (1.1) is now LIVE...Read more

Security Tokens Vs. Utility Tokens...Read more

How does Bitcoin / Blockchain Mining work?...Read more

The Ethereum-blockchain size has exceeded 1TB, and yes, it’s an issue...Read more

ARWEAVE ICO

About

1) Arweave claims to be a new data storage blockchain protocol based on proof of access consensus mechanism that provides permanent, low-cost and censorship free data storage.
2) Decentralized data storage is not a new concept and we have other projects Sia, FileCoin, Storj which provide IPFS (inter-Planetary File System) since 2014.
3) But we haven't seen any mass adoption yet( has anyone even used those services in real life yet?)
4) Arweave claims to have high throughput, persistency of data and incentives to participate in network to maximise the use case.
5) Tech offered by Arweave :
a. The Blockweave - Blockweave is a distributed network of nodes and DAPPS can be built on top of it.
b. Decentralised App Development - Developers can build Arweave apps in any programming language using Arwave own REST APIs.
c. Self-Organising Network - A self-organising decentralised algorithm (‘wildfire’) that allows the network topology to adapt autonomously to the most efficient routes of information distribution.

Team

CEO Sam Williams and CTO William Jones were both Assistant Lecturer at University of Kent prior to Arweave.
Arweave being their second start-up, they are quiet inexperienced in Blockchain Tech.
Rest of the team is weak as well and adviors are not so great.

Community

Telegram : 29460 (They don't have an announcement channel)
Twitter : 2727
They had been running Telegram bounty campaign to join the telegram group which shows it's an artificial hype and
community growth is not natural and contains mostly flippers and Bots.
This is quiet dangerous for the actual serious investors.

Product

Github : https://github.com/ArweaveTeam/arweave (GitHub is active with decent code)
Mainnet : Launching in 12 Days (8th June)

Whitelist : CLOSED

Token Metrics
Hard cap : $8,700,000 which is at lower end
Market cap : Can't estimate the market cap yet as team has yet to release the circulating supply details.

Negatives :
1. No whitepaer, No roadmap, No detailed token metrics yet even though mainnet is launching in 12 days, this shows lack of team's ability to deliver.
2. Native tokens will be issued after Mainnet which could cause dealy in exchange listings.

Positives :
1. Hype is there and it will be shilled by "Twiiter Shillers" after exchange listing.
2. Hard cap is on lower side. Tech is good and team is focused on delivering product.


My investement strategy :
When negatives outweigh the positives, I try to go small. Hype is there and I'll be investing small to utilize the hype.