With hundreds of cryptocurrencies being launched daily, some are surely destined for a Bitcoin-style explosion. Unfortunately,many will fail to meet the standards.There is no magic formula for success of an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), yet there are a number of ways to measure “success”.
Let’s have a glance at the 10 most successful ICO’s of all time.
- NEO
- Popularly known as “China’s Ethereum”, NEO also uses smart contract applications, with the addition of decentralized commerce, digitized assets and identification.
- It owes its success partly due to the big names backing it.
- It is giving the investors every reason to be confident as it strong supporters include Microsoft, Alibaba and the Chinese government.
- Considering the huge hike in token value from $0.03 to $88.20, NEO surely has big things coming with a 294,000%ROI.
- Stratis
- By craftily creating a platform compatible with .NET and C#, the Stratis platform is surely appealing to the veteran users of Microsoft products. For financial institutions, Stratis is the obvious choice.
- It offers businesses the ability to create, test and deploy custom applications without the need to set up or maintain their infrastructure.
- Having raised 915 BTC in 5 weeks, those who cashed in on the low investment of, $0.01 per token have a giant ROI of 56,000%.
- Ethereum
- Four years after the boom of Bitcoin in 2011, Ethereum entered the marketplace and nailed it.
- Its ROI has been nothing short of jaw-dropping 230,00%. Having its tokens priced at $0.31, an Ether token now sits at a whopping $713-a close second only to Bitcoin.
- Ethereum with its massive potential for application and innovation has enthralled the interest of the corporate world keen to exploit the potential for smart contract applications.
- SpectreCoin
- Having enabled users to send and receive currency worldwide with total anonymity, its currencies like SpectreCoin that have left most government tax offices with lurking trepidation.
- With the optimal utilization of the Tor network and some heavy-handed encryption, SpectreCoin is all but untraceable- a great aider to anonymity in the world of cryptocurrency.
- For a token brought for $0.001 would be worth 0.64, giving a huge ROI of 64,000%.
- Ark
- The Ark’s platform SmartBridge makes the collaboration –the name if the game.
- The system has been designed to integrate other cryptocurrencies into its blockchain.
- With a team with 15 core members from 11 different countries – the project is decentralized inside out.
- Investors have made a massive gain of 35,400%, given the current token price of $3.54.
- Lisk
- Allowing the developers to create their own apps and run them on side chains, the world’s first modular blockchain –based platform, Lisk, is a natural choice for programmers.
- It is built with Javascript.
- After raising $5.8million in 4 weeks at $0.076 per token, Lisk’s current ROI is at 19,080%.
- Storj
- The platform is aiming to become the ultimate cloud storage facility – the first one to be based on the blockchain.
- It is more cheaper, faster and secure than any existing system.
- Users can buy free hard drive space or rent it out in exchange for currency.
- It reached its cap of $30,000,000 in less than a week, tokens are up at 11,888% and steadily growing.
- DigixDAO
- DigixDAO gives grants to different projects that promote the growth of the DGX network.
- It has been created by Digix Global.
- The DGX token has been backed by physical gold bullion.1 DGX token equals to 1 gram of physical gold kept in a vault in Singapore.
- Its current value is $346.88 per token, which gives an ROI of 10,722%.
- Populous
- Built off the Ethereum protocol, it provides the average investor, the ability to participate in an alternative finance marketplace.’
- It has allowed investors from any part of the world to invest in an invoice sold by an invoice seller from anywhere in the world.
- After raising more than 10 million dollars in June 2017, the value of tokens has increased by 6,800%.
- QTUM
- QTUM is the world’s first proof of stake smart contracts platform.
- It is an open-source value transfer platform which focuses on mobile decentralized apps.
- It is meant to be used as a value transfer protocol, like Bitcoin and a smart contract platform, like Ethereum.
- A highly successful ICO was launched in March 2017 and an ROI of 6400% has been seen.
