Crypto Good Guys
The crypto space is just like any space: you will often have over-simplifications & vulgarizations in order to get people to dumb down the young-but-huge blockchain community. 🤪
I have read 100+ whitepapers, talked with 10s of crypto founders, created investor reports for 100+ projects for Ten8 VC, created 30+ investor reports for IPA News, digged for Initial Supply data for 50+ traded projects (visible on my Reddit profile’s posts). All-in-all, just in 2018, I spent 2000+ hours reading, analyzing & creating reports about crypto projects. 🤓 🤯 💪
All this to say that I have gathered a unique overview of the crypto landscape. This is list is by no mean perfect. The “Crypto Good Guys” list is what I’d call the “biased list of crypto project with a very good image”. 😍
Some projects kept being mentioned as “good projects” by very knowledgeable community members, usually these guys who’ve been in crypto before 2015. 🤓 These people usually developed an eye for projects that act in a good way & have a taste that’s certainly more mature than someone who came in the crypto space recently (yes, these guys screaming “MOOOOON” and abusively using that 🚀 emoticon).
Without further ado, here are the lists…
Tokenized “Crypto Good Guys” Projects
- Ethereum, does it really need introducing? 💁♂️ 💎
- MakerDAO, since 2014, creating the 1st (and only so far) onchain stable coin ✨✨✨
- Gnosis, decentralized prediction market platform 🔮 , built on Ethereum
- Polkadot, interchain protocol 👽
- Omisego, Omise’s crusade for crypto remittance 💸
- Ocean Protocol, Decentralized Data Exchange Protocol to Unlock Data for AI (read more) 🤖
- Aragon, powering the DAOs of tomorrow 🗳️
- Bancor, superpowering crypto liquidity 💱 🏦
- Status, mobile OS built on Ethereum 🖥️
- Augur, oracle & prediction market 🔮 , Joey Krug’s creation
- Tezos, since 2014, smart contract platform with on-chain governance (no forks), read more ️️ ️💵️ 🗳
- Cosmos, interchain protocol 👽
- Decred, crypto currency & possibly having the best DAO Governance out there, very powerful & smart community 🗳️
- Golem, decentralized supercomputer 🖥️
- 0xProject, decentralized exchange protocol 💱 🏦
- District0x , framework of smart contracts and front end libraries for the purpose of deploying, operating, and governing communal marketplaces (read more) 🗳️ 🛒
- Loom Network, gaming on the blockchain, educating the blockchain devs of tomorrow 🕹️
- DFinity, decentralized internet hosting ☣️
- DigixDAO, gold ownership on the blockchain 🔆
- LivePeer.org , decentralized video infrastructure 📺, built on Ethereum
- ChainLink, connecting Smart Contracts to the real world 🏛️
- Liquidity Network, layer 2 solution for any chain ⚡
- Foam, proof-of-location on the blockchain 📍👮
- Factom, data integrity 🔒
- Holochain, decentralized internet ☣️
- Raiden Network, layer 2 solution for Ethereum (read more) ⚡
- DAOStack, powering the DAOs of tomorrow 🗳️
- Blockstack, decentralized internet ☣️
- POA Network, crosschain protocol
Non-Tokenized “Crypto Good Guys” Projects
You may not know but there are actually a lot of crypto projects that do NOT have a token. 🧐 These guys are really too cool for a shameful ICO ya know 😎
- ipfs.io, peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open (censorship resistant) 🦸
- Protocol Labs, organization behind FileCoin, IPFS, Libp2p, IPLD, & Multiformats 🧙🏭😲
- Parity, blockchain infrastructure company behind Parity Ethereum Client, Parity Bitcoin Client, Polkadot, Substrate, and so much more 🧙🏭😲 Parity & Web 3 Foundation work hand-in-hand, Gavin Wood’s creations
- Consensys, blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices for the Web 3 🧙🏭😲 Joe Lubin’s creation
- Metamask, your ETH & ERC20 browser wallet 👛
- Colony.io, since 2014, powering the DAOs of tomorrow (decided to cancel its ICO) 🗳️
- EthLend, The World’s First Crypto Lending Marketplace 🛍️ 💸
- Plasma, layer 2 solution for Ethereum ⚡ , lead by Joseph Poon & Vitalik
- Uniswap, superpowering crypto liquidity 💱 🏦 Just like Bancor, but without a token.
EDIT: “Blockchain For Good” Projects
I decided to add this section as it made sense and got quite a lot of popularity when I originally posted that “Blockchain For Good Project List” on Reddit.
- IXO Foundation, “ixo solves the current issues in impact investing, results-based finance, and sustainable development by enabling projects to cost-effectively collect, verify and share their impact data” — public sale date TBD and the IXO blockchain is live since Dec 7th 2018
- ConsenSys Social Impact, Consensys is the biggest consulting firm in the blockchain space, created by one the cofounders of Ethereum
- Gitcoin, aims to drive change & grow the open source movement
- Giveth, donation platform supporting crypto donations (ETH for now)
- Wadappt, platform to fund impact projects
- Alice, “a platform that brings transparencyto social funding through blockchain technology”
- Bounties Network, “empowers humans to incentivize and self-organize, from freelancing to grassroots social action, and anything in between”
- Blockchain 4 Humanity, “Leverage the full potential of blockchain to make the world a better placeby inspiring, connecting and supporting projects that bringpositive change to humanity”
- RightMesh, “RightMesh enables developers to retrofit existing mobile applications and build new, P2P mesh applications.”
- Proof Of Impact, “verifies, traces and values individual impact events as they happen”
Additionnaly, UNICEF’s Innovation Fund Reveals First Round Of Blockchain Technology Investments (Dec 2018)
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