Crypto Good Guys

5 min readMar 15, 2019

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 🕹️

“Can’t stand that crypto winter anymore! Sell all my tokens!! (p.s. don’t tell those good guys)”

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”