For information purposes, when I decided to invest in CC's, the only research I performed was going through the coinmarketcap top 100 list, removed anything that was pre-mined or vastly over priced and had a look at the use/potential of everything left on the list. Took me less than an hour.

Verge stood out a mile, even to a relative noob like me.

Ignore the FUD, keep the Faith.