I would say this one caught my eye.
Grin Coin : Not just a new currency in the list.. That time I never heard of Grin whatsoever, and I was surprised that Theymos himself love it.
I'm super excited about
grin. All past altcoins have been just Bitcoin with a few bits tacked on;
occasionally these extra bits are useful/interesting (eg. Monero or Ethereum), but in the vast majority of cases this extra stuff is just meaningless marketing-oriented garbage. But grin is packed full of useful innovation from top to bottom; moreover, it's clearly built in the same cypherpunk spirit that Bitcoin was: increased freedom/sovereignty through technology.
So it was really a eye opener early in 2019, so I did my own investigation of Grin myself and had tried to support this coin and thanks to that thread.