You put a thread saying which is the next big alt you get reams of pages of replies spamming dirt.
You ask for a validation and put some reasonable criteria and you get very few replies.
There are NO other good (outside of the top 10) projects that meet the criteria we have in the OP??
it is simply because people are not interested in altcoins because they are good or bad. most don't even care if the altcoin exists in real life, it may very well have no working blockchain as far as they are concerned and they will still invest in it and call it "awesome".
example? BTU= bitcoin unlimited, doesn't exist. volume=$10k daily on average. it does not even exist!
i am no different from others though. i am only interested in money and i have given up on altcoins being good or being "next big thing" a long time ago. but since you asked i choose Byteball.
the development team is decent enough. they haven't given up on the project to go away. they even try for some real adoption with merchants.
the technology (DAG) is pretty interesting and Byteball uses it properly. it even has anonymous transactions.
i don't like the distribution model but it was fair.
I agree with some of your points for sure. People just want money (fiat or more btc) however I do think finding REAL undervalue projects that have a REAL usecase and have proven devs with a proven skillset are the best way to make BIG money. Sure jumping from one scheme to another can make a good chunk of cash. However finding REAL projects early and holding will make you a fortune and reward those real dev teams and real communities that are not just for pump and dumps.
Again with byteball i nearly did not add it because I do NOT like the distributional model at all. I can not say it was a scam because it was not really a scam but to me rewarding those that have the most BTC with the most of an ALT coin with NO risk to their BTC is still very unfair but is not a scam to me.
However if he does not run of dump the remaining coins and there is a detailed ledger for how the remaining BB are used to build value into the coin...just the new real tech he has developed deserves a mention at this reasonably low cap.
I hope people will keep adding more real projects here so we can eventually filter peoples focus to worth while projects and stop them getting scammed by pump and dump dreams and talk white papers.