no update or message from travis in a full week and still no clarity on premine.. what does this guy have up his sleeve ?

a couple weeks ago it was going for 25k sats but now people trying to OTC for 40k+ sats. a bit ridiculous but i guess might make sense if block reward decreasing from 8 to 2 soon.

I can't speak to eMarketChain but I know when it comes to ecommerce and markets within markets they will need to be in strict compliance with all regulations. I've been following a project tangentially related known as FIC Network (creating a fixed income market), and they going through all the hoops to ensure they are abiding with laws so that their token is not a security but rather a utility. In fact, their ICO smart contracts are audited by Blockvis. If eMarketChain has some similar sort of auditing mechanism, that would be very appealing to me.

FIC's token will derive value from issuance, servicing, trading, and redemption of financial instruments. It is used in every aspect of the asset's lifecycle from beginning to end!

The value will be demand driven, basically. The more information stored in the network, the more activity in FIC Network, and thus the more demand for the tokens.

If you're looking for team and partners I think you would like FIC Network. They used to do a bounty (not anymore), but their ICO just finished (about 8k ETH reached, very small cap with huge upside imo)

Just to list a few of their partners:
BoostVC (accelerator program)
StartUp Bootcamp
Bialla Venture Partners
Ben Franklin Tech (startup funding)
WilmerHale (law)
NewBlock Capital (hedge fund)
BlockVis
MCCAIN (global ad agency)

No one has the timeline for sure. Calls for doomsday have been made since the 2008 financial crisis. But we do see it coming miles away. and It will happen. Within the next five years, imo. One thing is for sure, it's a bigger bubble and we can't really have negative interest rates this time around to reinflate that bubble.

The current economic machine works through a credit basis.

Basically this,
Borrowing = more spending = more income for others = more spending

It's a feedback loop that allows for productivity growth.

But it is also dangerous because eventually the debt burden can lead to a depression.

Is this credit economy dangerous in something like cryptocurrency, where supply is fixed and the currency is deflationary in nature?

I'm very interested in projects like SALT, BlockEx, Fortuna, FIC Network, etc which aim to create secondary markets within the crypto landscape. What do you think?

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Don't get trapped in the short term game. The big players want weak hands to sell. They will shake you out. Think in terms of long term. The top 100 on Coinmarketcap will be exponentially higher by then, given the influx of institutional money.

And if you're looking to sidestep the volatility in crypto, look at different markets like the loaning and credit industry within the crypto space. FIC Network will be launching their mainnet in June and kind've like SALT, plan to provide secondary loan investment vehicles for institutions and retail investors. So you can get paid for hodling crypto. Fixed income markets will be huge!

I agree, but there are a few tell-tale signs that can tip you off to potential success. WAN, ICON, HOLO were all hits when they were listed on exchanges. This was due to a few different factors, including but not limited to social sentiment, progress of the tech, market conditions, etc

They're actually ahead of schedule! They'll be launching Mainnet next month in June.

What ICOs are you guys looking at for the latter half of 2018?

Also which ones do you see hitting exchanges soon and doing well?

Personally, I use altcoins to accumulate more BTC. Because of this. BTC is king in this market and will continue to be for years to come. It will rise to triple digits imo.

That being said, there are a few projects that stand to be worthy of long term holds. VeChain is my biggest long-term hold. Been holding since 30c and will continue to hold. Those masternodes will pay my through retirement. Honestly the best project in terms of fundamentals. Jim Breyer as an investor? PwC incubator? Parternships out the wazoo and Sunny Lu handles everything with grace and elegance. They got style man, and I guarantee they will be Top 5 over the next year.

Besides VEN, I'm big on XLM (and maybe Ripple by association) for similar reasons. The market share to be had is large, and their target audience: the 2 billion unbanked.

A long long long term hold you should consider is FIC Network. They will be facilitating mass adoption through fixed income markets. Great for institutional money, which is ultimately needed to drive the next major bull cycle.

I wouldn't say 100x but FIC Network definitely has a chance for moonshot.

Bloom looks interesting. KYC and identification in general will be critical to be in compliance with SEC regulations.

I've been investing in FIC Network's ICO. They just partnered with Civic, a blockchain based KYC service (https://medium.com/fic-network/fic-network-partners-with-civic-technologies-2d29de52abe0). Presale ends tomorrow and they've been way ahead of schedule so they are ready to release mainnet in June rather than Q4, which is pretty awesome. Check it out!

Mm, not quite. Existing mutual funds and other investment vehicle creators benefit from the platform since they can do the same thing on FIC Network. More efficiency in terms of speed, cost, and auditability.

FIC Network is one that's on my radar. They're targeting institutions > retail investors, so they don't really need to advertise to the average consumer. This makes marketing much easier for them. They've already been vetted by a few financial businesses, and have investments from some big crypto funds as well (https://www.chipin.com/astronaut-capital-invests-fic-network/). Obviously DYOR and exercise caution, the ICO market is not the same as it was at the end of 2017.

Which ones are you guys looking at? I'm currently looking at these three:

https://medium.com/@BlockchainSeers/top-3-ongoing-ico-picks-april-22-2018-d81a12f7c3c6

FIC Network may be worth a look. They're building a decentralized marketplace for fixed income. I'll post some links to jumpstart your research:

https://medium.com/fic-network/bonds-on-blockchain-f3dfac3e16b6

Dav and Quant seem like a good one to check out as well.

https://medium.com/@BlockchainSeers/top-3-ongoing-ico-picks-april-22-2018-d81a12f7c3c6

Careful on eBoost. Their roadmap is largely filled with placer events like "hope to be listed on these many exchanges by this time" and "hope to be top 20 on coinmarketcap by this time" which isn't a goal or development aspiration. Moreover, I looked into their supposed partnership with Rocket League and it's basically nonexistent. I was banned from their discord for posting legitimate questions about the project and they said I was spreading FUD. DYOR obviously.

Stellar has a lot going for it. There's two billion unbanked people and that's their main target.

I love dApps built of XLM since it is scalable and super fast! For example, FIC Network, an up and coming ICO will be launching their marketplace on the stellar lumens platform.

Check it out! https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@zamanngn/top-five-fintech-blockchain-comes-of-2018