ICO Market

Weekly Review April 13, 2018

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Welcome to ICO Market Weekly Review. This report aims to be your guide to the ICO market and the blockchain community and is based on the data that we carefully gather at ICObench. Increasing popularity of initial coin offering as the means of funding a startup brought particular attention to the ICO market and made the blockchain community grow drastically. In this situation, it is crucial not only for the investors but also for the media and research agencies to have a trustful and complete source of information about the ICO market. With over 2,800 projects and 40,000 professional profiles in enterprise and blockchain published on the platform, we can ensure a clear outlook of the market and its community. We have processed and organised a huge amount of data for this report to show you the ICO market and its community’s widely differing sides - specifically ICO market size for a variety of industries, projects trending this week and countries leading in “crypto”. We hope that the data in the report will be useful to you and your audience. We are happy to have you with us and are looking forward to your feedback on what other information you would like to see in the ICO Market Weekly Review. ICObench Team

Table of content 1. ICO Market Overview

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1.1. Top 5 ICOs completed recently

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1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in March 2018

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1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date

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1.4. Top countries on the ICO market

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1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs

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2. Trending ICOs

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2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs

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2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 04.09.-04.15.2018

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3. ICO market size 3.1. ICO market size per week 03.12.2018-04.09.2018 3.2. ICO market size per month for the past 12 months 3.3. ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months 4. ICO market performance 4.1. ICO performance rate for the past 12 months 4.2. ICO performance rate by industry

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4.3. Top 10 completed ICOs by ROI up to date

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4.4. Top ICOs completed in March 2018 by ROI

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5. Blockchain community

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5.1. Top 10 People of blockchain

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5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts

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5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies

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6. ICO Market Insider

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1. ICO Market Overview As a rating platform, we pay more attention to best ranking ICOs. Our evaluation system is based on a combination of the ICO profile rating based on our own algorithm that uses more than 20 different criteria and the ratings provided by the independent experts. On the other hand, it is highly important how much a project raised during its ICO and how the number and the value of the ratings could affect the number of funds raised. In this section, we try to build a picture of this interrelationship.

1.1. Top 5 ICOs completed recently

ICO

Funds raised

ICO

Rating

#1 Current

$36,000,000

#1 Truegame

4.8

#2 KYC.LEGAL

$28,000,000

#2 Pecunio

4.7

#3 Thrive

$26,000,000

#3 Midex

4.7

#4 Sapien

$10,501,153

#4 PokerSports

4.7

#5 UHIVE

4.7

#5 carVertical

$6,256,586

By the amount of funds raised

By rating

ICO

Rating

Funds raised

#1 GN Compass

4.9

$503,062

#2 Sapien

4.5

$10,501,153

#3 Coinvest

4.4

#4 VISO #5 Biotron.io

ICO

#Ratings

#1 Truegame

81

#2 StopTheFakes

60

$5,000,000

#3 skychain

47

3,4

$1,000,000

#4 Auctus

46

4.3

$4,029,150

#5 MoneyToken

45

By rating and amount of funds raised

By the number of ratings

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1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in March 2018 ICO

Funds raised

ICO

Rating

#1 Dragon

$320,000,000

#1 VeriME

4.6

#2 Dropil

$60,000,000

#2 OnPlace

4.6

#3 Celsius

$50,000,000

#3 Faceter

4.6

#4 TrakInvest

$50,000,000

#4 Friendz

4.6

#5 LeadCoin

$50,000,000

#5 IP Sharing Exchange

4.5

By the amount of funds raised

ICO

#1 Friendz #2 IP Sharing Exchange #3 Play2Live #4 Sentinel Chain #5 XinFin

By rating

Rating

Funds raised

4.6

$12,318,762

4.5

$8,015,720

4.4 4.4 4.3

$40,000,000 $14,400,000 $15,000,000

ICO

#Ratings

#1 Friendz

67

#2 Faceter

64

#3 AdHive

52

#4 Gilgamesh Platform

50

#5 TokenStars TEAM

49

By the number of ratings

By rating and amount of funds raised

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1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date ICO name

Raised

ICO name

Rating

#1 Dragon

$320,000,000

#1 Nebulas

4,7

#2 HDAC

$258,000,000

#2 GIFTO

4.7

#3 Filecoin

$257,000,000

#3 Hive Project

4.6

#4 Tezos

$232,000,000

#4 VeriME

4.6

#5 EOS

$185,000,000

#5 TraDove

4.6

By the amount of funds raised

ICO name

By rating

Rating

Funds raised

ICO name

#Ratings

#1 Nebulas

4,7

$60,000,000

#1 WePower

84

#2 GIFTO

4,7

$30,000,000

#2 Friendz

67

#3 TraDove

4,6

$52,000,000

#3 Faceter

64

#4 Friendz

4,6

$12,318,762

#4 Medicalchain

60

#5 Hive Project

4,6

$8,949,421

#5 AdHive

52

By both rating and amount of funds raised

By the number of ratings

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1.4. Top countries on the ICO market

79, 4 ICOs per 1M people 125 ICOs

#by the number of ICOs

#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

$ 1, 170, 007, 879 #by raised funds

239 ICOs

14, 4 ICOs per 1M people

#by the number of ICOs

#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

$ 529, 776, 433

#by raised funds

224 ICOs

#by the number of ICOs

$ 587, 412, 980 #by raised funds

22, 0 ICOs per 1M people

421 ICOs

#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

#by the number of ICOs

$ 2, 660, 133, 797 #by raised funds

16, 8 ICOs per 1M people

#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

196 ICOs

#by the number of ICOs

$ 1, 033, 907, 054 #by raised funds

32, 2 ICOs per 1M people

#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

Countries & Platforms The ICO market has its leaders presented not only as projects but also as countries and the platforms the project teams build their ICOs on. The map above shows the countries those became leaders in the following criteria: the number of ICOs, the number of ICOs per 1 million people, and the total sum of funds raised by the projects from the country. As you can see, Ethereum has become a market standard. At the same time, today many projects base their products on Waves platform and other runners-up.

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1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs

Platform

ICOs

%

Avg.rating

Avg.raised

#1 Ethereum

2,225

81.29%

3.3

$3,624,959

#2 Waves

86

3.14%

2.5

$1,168,388

#3 NEO

14

0.51%

3.8

$4,875,496

#4 Stellar

14

0.51%

3.8

$5,192,857

#5 Separate blockchain

13

0.47%

3.2

$3,590,789

#6 NEM

11

0.40%

3.1

$3,111,537

#7 Scrypt

11

0.40%

2.3

$ 1,267,273

#8 Ethereum and Waves

9

0.33%

2.4

$422,222

#9 Bitcoin

8

0.29%

2.0

$7,896

#10 Bitshares

5

0.19%

2.3

$1,200,624

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2. Trending ICOs The ICO market is changing every day, crowning the projects those succeed to reach the perfect combination of team, vision, and product as well as the hype around them and leaving the losers behind. In this section, we provide this week’s leaders of the market according to their mark and the number of ratings on our platform.

2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs ICO name

Rating

ICO name

Rating

#1 Sharpay

4.9

#1 Sharpay

81

#2 Root Blockchain

4.9

#2 StopTheFakes

60

#3 ZeroState

4.9

#3 Auctus

46

#4 EiraCube

4.8

#4 MINER ONE

45

#5 Flashmoni

4.8

#5 VinChain

45

By number of ratings

By raiting

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 04.09.-04.15.2018 ICO name

Rating

ICO name

#Ratings

#1 GN Compass

4.9

#1 BitRewards

60

#2 Flashmoni

4.8

#2 Auctus

46

#3 PentaCore

4.7

#3 Etheal

43

#4 UHIVE

4.7

#4 Flashmoni

20

#5 Etheal

4.5

#5 Welltrado

18

By rating

By the number of ratings

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3. ICO market size The initial coin offering has become one of the fastest growing means of investment by the end of 2017. The size of ICO market had its ups and downs over 2017 and, at the moment, has slightly lowered after the peak in December. In this section, we wanted to give you the big picture of the size of the market, split into two major categories: market size per month and week and the market size per industry.

3.1. ICO market size per week 03.12.2018-04.09.2018 Week

#ICOs

Funds raised

Avg.funds raised/ICO

Apr 2, 2018 - Apr 9, 2018

29

$89,464,009

$3,084,966

Mar 26, 2018 - Apr 2, 2018

122

$43,778,197

$358,838

Mar 19, 2018 - Mar 26, 2018

32

$246,875,163

$7,714,849

Mar 12, 2018 - Mar 19, 2018

34

$685,525,192

$20,162,506

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3.2. ICO market size per month for the past 12 months

Month

#ICOs

Funds raised

Avg.Funds raised

April 2018

62

$89,464,009

$1,442,968

March 2018

214

$1,331,114,062

$6,220,159

February 2018

133

$1,414,752,252

$10,637,235

January 2018

76

$1,135,600,481

$14,942,112

December 2017

99

$1,601,154,671

$16,173,280

November 2017

66

$744,484,271

$11,280,065

October 2017

63

$852,713,991

$13,535,143

September 2017

51

$865,540,994

$16,971,392

August 2017

40

$346,748,662

$8,668,717

July 2017

28

$434,948,461

$30,574,276

June 2017

25

$764,356,908

$12,042,831

May 2017

19

$228,813,793

$12,042,831

#ICOs Funds raised Avg.Funds raised

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3.3. ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months

Category

#ICOs

Raised

Avg. raised

Platform

1,155

$5,502,775,598

$4,764,308

Cryptocurrency

909

$3,619,706,141

$3,982,075

Business services

557

$1,936,777,849

$3,477,160

Investment

438

$1,419,442,849

$3,240,737

Software

363

$1,223,874,580

$3,325,746

Smart Contract

302

$264,583,856

$876,105

Internet

273

$787,800,339

$2,885,716

Entertainment

255

$730,847,072

$2,866,067

Banking

239

$1,785,472,870

$7,470,598

Infrastructure

228

$785,379,855

$3,444,648

Communication

196

$642,447,638

$3,277,794

Big Data

177

$234,946,490

$1,327,381

Artificial Intelligence

172

$165,375,937

$961,488

Media

141

$400,793,579

$2,842,508

Retail

124

$408,363,180

$3,293,251

Health

112

$191,022,331

$1,705,557

Real estate

92

$157,226,094

$1,708,979

Education

86

$78,447,505

$912,180

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Category

#ICOs

Raised

Avg. raised

Other

83

$178,995,097

$2,156,567

Casino & Gambling

76

$182,899,522

$2,406,573

Tourism

73

$62,148,869

$851,354

Sports

69

$123,976,829

$1,796,766

Energy

65

$269,438,306

$4,145,205

Manufacturing

55

$221,315,158

$4,023,912

Virtual Reality

54

$13,951,451

$258,360

Charity

42

$57,859,086

$1,377,597

Electronics

40

$220,934,484

$5,523,362

Legal

40

$37,188,374

$929,709

Art

31

$23,011,290

$742,300

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4. ICO market performance There are two factors of financial success for any ICO: reaching their hard cap during the initial coin offering and having a big ROI (return on investment) after it. In this section, we show the market’s situation by the performance rate and ROI for the past 12 months and for all industries represented on our platform.

4.1. ICO performance rate for the past 12 months

% reached HC % reached SC

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4.2. ICO performance rate by industry

Category

Raised

ICOs

% reached SC

% reached HC

1. Platform

$5,509,420,088

1153

30.88%

26.54%

2. Cryptocurrency

$3,651,794,969

908

24.89%

21.70%

3. Business services

$1,942,418,751

555

28.11%

23.42%

4. Investment

$1,426,054,601

437

24.49%

20.82%

5. Software

$1,223,874,580

366

26.50%

21.58%

6. Smart Contract

$268,613,006

302

8.61%

8.28%

7. Internet

$789,412,091

270

24.07%

18.52%

8. Entertainment

$731,850,660

254

29.53%

21.65%

$1,787,084,622

238

30.25%

23.95%

10. Infrastructure

$785,379,855

227

20.26%

18.50%

11. Communication

$642,447,638

195

19.49%

16.92%

12. Big Data

$238,975,640

176

11.93%

10.80%

13. Artificial Intelligence

$165,375,937

171

7.60%

7.60%

14. Media

$400,872,739

140

24.29%

20.00%

9. Banking

15

Category

Raised

ICOs

% reached SC

% reached HC

15. Retail

$408,363,180

124

22.58%

19.35%

16. Health

$191,101,491

111

12.61%

11.71%

17. Real estate

$157,226,094

92

17.39%

14.13%

18. Education

$78,924,581

84

11.90%

11.90%

19. Other

$208,995,097

83

28.92%

26.51%

20. Casino & Gambling

$182,899,522

76

32.89%

26.32%

21. Tourism

$62,148,869

73

17.81%

16.44%

22. Sports

$123,976,829

69

26.09%

21.74%

23. Energy

$269,438,306

64

21.88%

21.88%

24. Manufacturing

$221,315,158

55

18.18%

18.18%

25. Virtual Reality

$13,951,451

54

5.56%

3.70%

26. Charity

$57,859,086

42

9.52%

9.52%

27. Legal

$37,188,374

40

10.00%

10.00%

$220,934,484

40

12.50%

12.50%

$23,011,290

31

16.13%

9.68%

28. Electronics 29. Art

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4.3. Top 10 completed ICOs by ROI up to date ICO

Current

Token

Ended

Rating

ICO price

#1 NEO

NEO

Sep 7th, 2017

4.4

0.03 USD

55.20 USD

172,403.12%

#2 Emphy

EPY

Nov 5th, 2017

3.9

0.10 USD

130.13 USD

130,030.99%

#3 Emiratecoin

EMC

Dec 24th, 2017

1,0

0.01 USD

2.35 USD

23,448.25%

#4 Bitquence

BQX

Jul 16th, 2017

3.0

0.03 USD

2.09 USD

6,099.30%

#5 Populous

PPT

Jul 24th, 2017

3.8

0.25 USD

12.01 USD

4,741.70%

#6 OmiseGO

OMG

Jul 23rd, 2017

4.3

0.23 USD

9.48 USD

4,052.72%

#7 Neblio

NEBL

Aug 20th, 2017

3,5

0.20 USD

8.13 USD

3,903.08%

#8 Circles

CRC

Oct 18th, 2017

3,3

0.02 USD

0.42 USD

2,690.83%

#9 Golem

GNT

Nov 13th, 2016

3.6

0.01 USD

0.26 USD

2,417.28%

#10 ICON

ICX

Sep 22nd, 2017

4,1

0.11 USD

2.25 USD

2,043.27%

price

ROI

4.4. Top ICOs completed in March 2018 by ROI

ICO

Current

Token

Ended

Rating

ICO price

#1 Edgeless

EDG

Mar 21st, 2017

2.8

0.04 USD

0.56 USD

1,210.96%

#2 Cappasity

CAPP

Mar 22nd, 2018

4.2

0.01 USD

0.03 USD

280.40%

price

ROI

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5. Blockchain community 5.1. Top 10 People of Blockchain

#1

#2

#3

Simon Cocking

Vladimir Nikitin

David Drake

201.1

167.0

164.1

58

38

49

ISS

ISS

ICOs

ISS

ICOs

ICOs

#4

#5

#6

#7

Ian Scarffe

Jason Hung

Nathan Christian

Reuben Godfrey

161.9 ISS

43 ICOs

116.1 ISS

29 ICOs

103.5 ISS

#8 Nikolay Shkilev 77.6 ISS

17 ICOs

82.1 ISS

29 ICOs

#9

#10

Michael Terpin

Amarpreet Singh

74.6 ISS

20 ICOs

71.8 ISS

22 ICOs

17 ICOs

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5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts

105 Rating

#1

#2

#3

Nikolay Zvezdin

Vladimir Nikitin

Jason Hung

137

30

95/100

341

46

95/100

190

111

94/100

Rating

Reviews

Weight

Rating

Reviews

Weight

Rating

Reviews

Weight

#4

#5

#6

#7

Ian Scarffe

Nathan Christian

Richard Kastelein

Douglas Lyons

67

92/100

Reviews Weight

478

169

Rating

Reviews

P.B. Stanton Esq. Rating

104 Reviews

100

90/100

289

184

88/100

Reviews

Weight

Rating

Reviews

Weight

#9

#8 248

101 Rating

92/100 Weight

87/100 Weight

#10

Mofassair Hossain 375

121

86/100

Rating

Reviews

Weight

Wannipha ( Jen ) 110 Rating

61 Reviews

85/100 Weight

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5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies

Agency

ISS

#ICOs

#1 AmaZix

184.1

59

#2 ICOBOX

103,3

34

#3 TokenSuite

97.3

31

#4 FoxTail Marketing

96.6

25

#5 Token Market

95.9

17

#6 Ambisafe

78.6

23

#7 ROQ Media

70.6

20

#8 Tokenget

52.9

14

#9 Crynet

49.4

17

#10 BitCoinSuisse

47.0

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6. ICO Market Insider We have asked our top experts to comment on the market trends and give their forecast for the upcoming week.

In the “mad dash” to get ICO funding, I have recently observed a trend that is both disturbing and dishonest. Good projects do things right: they don’t cut corners, attempt to deceive and are completely transparent in their approach and management of the investor community. The trends of “bad projects” are: creating fake project team members, having advisors that are not associated with the ico in any way, creating “ghost communities” through agencies or bots, being not registered properly as a business and numerous other “deceptions” to entice investors. Even if the technology is sound and has promise, Webster’s Dictionary defines SCAM as: a dishonest way to make money by deceiving people. So, the projects better put in the time, money and effort to do it right.

Douglas Lyons Investor and Community relations Advisor to Blockchain

Well, there will always be spikes in the wheels with cryptocurrency and ICOs, but I think that the market will adapt to these difficulties as soon as possible and will then start growing, and both fresh blood and new users along with new investments will catch up to everything. The world will find a way out, as eternal downfalls simply cannot happen. Now, nobody will invest money into empty ICO projects, where there is no advertising, rapid growth, strong team and strong advisors and no MVP. Therefore, given current conditions, if the company wants to carry out a successful ICO, it shall think beforehand of the budget on advertising, marketing, branding, MVP and experts.

Nikolay Shkilev Entrepreneur | CEO ICO Advisor | Crypto enthusiast | Blockchain expert | Public speaker | Mentor

The market is recovering and we believe we are slowly approaching a new bull run. The new developing scenario appears to be less driven by hype and more responsive to the solidity of the new crypto market growing infrastructure. It’s important to point out that in this phase the ICO which rely on less known blockchain networks have more chances to succeed. It’s up to the experts to distinguish between legitimate ICO and fraudulent ones even by simply not accepting to advice indifferently ANY of them. According to this, it might be appropriate for a good expert to fix an advising limit of one ICO every three months.

Luca Cotta Crypto-currency enthusiast, Icodriver & IT expert

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