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ICO MarketWeekly Review

August 6, 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 communi-ty 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 informa-tion about the ICO market.

With over 4,000 projects and 59,000 professional profiles in enterprise and block-chain 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

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Table of content

1. ICO Market Overview 4

1.1. Top 5 ICOs completed recently 4

1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in July 2018 5

1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date 6

1.4. Top countries on the ICO market 7

1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs 8

2. Trending ICOs 9

2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs 9

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 07.30-08.05.2018 9

3. ICO market size 10

3.1. ICO market size per week 07.02.2018-07.30.2018 10

3.2. ICO market size per month for the past 12 months 11

3.3. ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months 12-13

4. ICO market performance 14

4.1. ICO performance rate for the past 12 months 14

4.2. ICO performance rate by industry 15-16

5. Blockchain community 1

5.1. Top 10 People of blockchain 1

5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts 19

5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies 20

6. ICO Market Insider 21

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1. ICO Market Overview

As a rating platform, we pay more attention to best ranking ICOs. Our evaluation systemis based on a combination of the ICO profile rating based on our own algorithmthat uses more than 20 different criteria and the ratings provided by the independentexperts. On the other hand, it is highly important how much a project raised during itsICO and how the number and the value of the ratings could affect the number of fundsraised. In this section, we try to build a picture of this interrelationship.

1.1. Top 5 ICOs completed recently

ICO Funds raised

#1 4NEW $42,100,000

#2 AISI Coin $5,000,000

#3 Streamity $4,200,000

#4 Ponder $1,500,000

#5 Gamblica $1,371,565

By the amount of funds raised

ICO Rating

#1 TimeBox 4.7

#2 GCOX 4.7

#3 SKYFchain 4.6

#4 GENEXI 4.6

#5 TraXion 4.5

By rating

ICO Rating Funds raised

#1 Streamity 4.3 $4,200,000

#2 4NEW 4.1 $42,100,000

#3 Bitto Exchange 4.1 $1,104,454

#4 Global Spy 4.1 $720,000

#5 AISI Coin 4.0 $5,000,000

By rating and amount of funds raised

ICO #Ratings

#1 SKYFchain 61

#2 Photochain 29

#3 Worldopoly 29

#4 TraXion 28

#5 TimeBox 27

By the number of ratings

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1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in July 2018

ICO Funds raised

#1 Cryptosolartech $68,280,620

#2 Online $50,000,000

#3 Liquidity.Network $26,029,981

#4 Essentia $25,500,000

#5 TravelBlock $25,200,000


ICO Rating

#1 FTEC 4.8

#2 Nauticus 4.6

#3 ZeroState 4.6

#4 CGCX 4.6

#5 Elysian 4.5

By rating

ICO Rating Funds raised

#1 FTEC 4.8 $995,000

#2 Nauticus 4.6 $16,916,000

#3 CGCX 4.6 $8,809,328

#4 Elysian 4.5 $7,000,000

#5 Xriba 4.4 $12,600,000

By rating and amount of funds raised

ICO #Ratings

#1 Etheal 59

#2 Open Source University 40

#3 ZeroState 33

#4 Wemark 32

#5 VRT 32


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1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date

ICO name Raised

#1 EOS $4,197,956,135

#2 Telegram Open Network $1,700,000,000

#3 TaTaTu $575,000,000

#4 Dragon $320,000,000

#5 HDAC $258,000,000


ICO name Rating

#1 Truegame 4.8

#2 FTEC 4.8

#3 Karatgold Coin 4.8

#4 Sharpay 4.7

#5 Friendz 4.7

By rating

By both rating and amount of funds raised

ICO name #Ratings

#1 Sharpay 103

#2 Truegame 91

#3 WePower 81

#4 Friendz 64

#5 Faceter 61


ICO name Rating Funds raised

#1 Karatgold Coin 4.8 $100,000,000

#2 Truegame 4.8 $3,426,445

#3 FTEC 4.8 $995,000

#4 Friendz 4.7 $27,525,000

#5 Sharpay 4.7 $5,973,900

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Russia

Cyprus

Singapore

Estonia

Switzerland

UK

Slovenia

USA

1.4. Top countries on the ICO market

Countries & PlatformsThe 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.

505 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$6,900,631,446#by raised funds


$982,986,954#by raised funds




21.5 ICOs per 1M people#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people







142.8 ICOs

per 1M people#by the number of ICOs

per 1 million people

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1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs

Platform ICOs % Avg.rating Avg.raised

#1 Ethereum 3,191 80.24% 3.0 $5,114,523

#2 Waves 102 2.56% 2.4 $1,247,139

#3 Stellar 40 1.01% 3.4 $4,900,546

#4 NEO 24 0.60% 3.4 $4,123,465

#5 NEM 17 0.43% 3.2 $3,744,678

#6 Scrypt 15 0.38% 2.2 $1,386,517

#7 EOS 14 0.35% 3.6 $-0

#8 Separate blockchain 12 0.30% 2.9 $4,081,755

#9 Ethereum and Waves 9 0.23% 2.2 $451,303

#10 Bitcoin 9 0.23% 1.9 $7,019

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2. Trending ICOs

The ICO market is changing every day, crowning the projects those succeed to reach the per-fect 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.

ICO name Rating

#1 WhenHub 4.8

#2 Eternal Trusts 4.8

#3 Spokkz 4.8

#4 INTRO 4.7

#5 TimeBox 4.7

By raiting

ICO name Rating

#1 SKYFchain 61

#2 Iagon 33

#3 INTRO 31

#4 Worldopoly 29

#5 SafeCrypt 29

By number of ratings

By rating

ICO name #Ratings

#1 TraXion 28

#2 Cryptassist 20

#3 Swace 18

#4 LeadRex 16

#5 TontineTrust 16

ICO name Rating

#1 Avatara 4.6

#2 Swace 4.6

#3 Unboxed 4.6

#4 TraXion 4.5

#5 FXPay 4.5


2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 07.30.2018-08.05.2018

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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 pic-ture of the size of the market, split into two major categories: market size per month and week and the market size per industry.

Week #ICOs Funds raised Avg.funds raised/ICO

Jul 23rd, 2018 - Jul 30th, 2018 17* $127,024,322* $7,472,019*

Jul 16th, 2018 - Jul 23rd, 2018 19 $205,978,723 $10,840,985

Jul 9th, 2018 - Jul 16th, 2018 14 $107,082,807 $7,648,772

Jul 2nd, 2018 - Jul 9th, 2018 20 $113,984,558 $5,699,228

3.1. ICO market size per week 07.02.2018-07.30.2018

* this data will be updated

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

Month #ICOs Funds raised Avg.Funds raised

August 2018 4* $7,675,165* $1,918,791*

July 2018 85* $664,266,252* $7,814,897*

June 2018 99 $1,515,866,836 $15,311,786

May 2018 126 $1,071,855,244 $8,506,788

April 2018 107 $1,059,069,548 $9,897,846

March 2018 116 $1,735,377,226 $14,960,149

February 2018 105 $1,509,137,748 $14,372,740

January 2018 70 $1,271,442,824 $18,163,469

December 2017 88 $1,618,438,021 $18,391,341

November 2017 65 $749,225,976 $11,526,553

October 2017 68 $877,172,460 $12,899,595

September 2017 51 $837,753,177 $16,426,533


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Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised

Platform 1,607 $9,816,903,567 $6,108,839

Cryptocurrency 1,085 $11,298,772,968 $10,413,616

Business services 692 $2,999,252,539 $4,334,180

Investment 524 $2,356,163,609 $4,496,495

Software 463 $2,157,092,147 $4,658,946

Smart Contract 462 $1,192,361,180 $2,580,868

Internet 354 $1,764,232,186 $4,983,707

Infrastructure 325 $3,085,466,958 $9,493,744

Entertainment 313 $1,238,042,311 $3,955,407

Banking 298 $2,617,870,933 $8,784,802

Artificial Intelligence 296 $665,005,482 $2,246,640

Big Data 271 $750,839,874 $2,770,627

Communication 252 $1,139,379,175 $4,521,346

Media 182 $1,330,234,691 $7,308,982

Other 175 $341,526,693 $1,951,581

Retail 168 $655,316,089 $3,900,691

Health 142 $423,072,118 $2,979,381

Education 122 $197,760,325 $1,620,986

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

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Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised

Real estate 115 $310,572,500 $2,700,630

Tourism 89 $151,362,902 $1,700,707

Energy 88 $435,645,309 $4,950,515

Sports 83 $211,869,236 $2,552,641

Manufacturing 83 $235,850,504 $2,841,572

Casino & Gambling 82 $281,612,342 $3,434,297

Virtual Reality 79 $203,798,716 $2,579,731

Legal 59 $141,969,715 $2,406,266

Charity 51 $75,428,345 $1,478,987

Electronics 48 $292,668,844 $6,097,268

Art 39 $71,510,399 $1,833,600

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4. ICO market performanceThere 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.

% reached HC

% reached SC


4.1. ICO performance rate for the past 12 months

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4.2. ICO performance rate by industry

This graph is showing the percentage of the ICOs that reached soft and hard cap in the past 12 months by industry.

% reached soft cap

industries

% reached hard cap

Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC

1. Platform $9,816,903,567 1607 38.02% 35.03%

2. Cryptocurrency $11,298,772,968 1085 39.45% 36.96%

3. Business services $2,999,252,539 692 39.74% 36.13%

4. Investment $2,356,163,609 524 41.79% 38.74%

5. Software $2,157,092,147 463 39.09% 35.64%

6. Smart Contract $1,192,361,180 462 25.54% 25.32%

7. Internet $1,764,232,186 354 38.42% 34.46%

8. Infrastructure $3,085,466,958 325 32.00% 30.77%

9. Entertainment $1,238,042,311 313 40.26% 34.19%

10. Banking $2,617,870,933 298 44.97% 39.93%

11. Artificial Intelligence $665,005,482 296 23.31% 23.31%

12. Big Data $750,839,874 271 26.94% 26.20%

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Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC

13. Communication $1,139,379,175 252 35.32% 33.33%

14. Media $1,330,234,691 182 38.46% 36.26%

15. Other $341,526,693 175 27.43% 26.29%

16. Retail $655,316,089 168 30.36% 27.98%

17. Health $423,072,118 142 26.06% 25.35%

18. Education $197,760,325 122 21.31% 21.31%

19. Real estate $310,572,500 115 37.39% 35.65%

20. Tourism $151,362,902 89 35.96% 34.83%

21. Energy $435,645,309 88 31.82% 31.82%

22. Manufacturing $235,850,504 83 20.48% 20.48%

23. Sports $211,869,236 83 43.37% 39.76%

24. Casino & Gambling $281,612,342 82 50.00% 43.90%

25. Virtual Reality $203,798,716 79 21.52% 20.25%

26. Legal $141,969,715 59 28.81% 28.81%

27. Charity $75,428,345 51 19.61% 19.61%

28. Electronics $292,668,844 48 31.25% 31.25%

29. Art $71,510,399 39 25.64% 20.51%

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5. Blockchain community

#1

#4 #6

#10

#5 #7

#9#8

#2 #3Simon Cocking Ian Scarffe Nikolay Shkilev

245.3ISS85

ICOs

238.8ISS69

ICOs

178.6 ISS51

ICOs

Vladimir Nikitin Jason Hung

Phillip Nunn

Ismail Malik Naviin Kapoor

Anders Larsson Joakim Holmer

149.6ISS

120.3ISS

109.9ISS

137.8ISS

116.2ISS

135.6ISS

110.2ISS

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32ICOs

34ICOs

32ICOs

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5.1. Top 10 People of Blockchain

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#3#2#1Douglas LyonsVladimir Nikitin Igor Karavaev

372 128 84/100

487 239 84/100

149 113 84/100

480 167 88/100 230 147 89/100 224 84 85/100

395 291 89/100 326 59 90/100 574 180 90/100

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Rating

Rating

Rating Rating Rating

Rating Rating Rating

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews Reviews Reviews

Reviews Reviews Reviews

Weight

Weight

Weight

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#5#4

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#7

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#6Nathan ChristianJason Hung

Luca Cotta

Mofassair Hossain

Tyler Sanford

Nikolay Shkilev

5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts

162 161 83/100 Rating Reviews Weight

#10

Richard Kastelein

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Agency ISS #ICOs

#1 Coinzilla 253.2 92

#2 MarketAcross 244.3 54

#3 AmaZix 241.6 80

#4 ICO-TOP 174.1 49

#5 TokenSuite 164.8 62

#6 ICO Vortex 131.6 54

#7 Bountyhive 127.0 41

#8 ForkLog Consulting 122.0 18

#9 FoxTail Marketing 120.8 30

#10 ICOBOX 110.7 41

5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies

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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.

Tran Van Tinh

Internet MarketerCrypto Enthusiast

InvestorTrader

ICO Advisor

Graham Doggart

Blockchain Advisor and ICO Growth Consultant

Founder at DynamicAbundance Advisory

ICO market will be growing up very fast soon especially when Bitcoin price is reaching its new ceiling as predicted by many high-profile experts. It is evident that the recent endorsements of big financial and banking institutions have created a sudden rise of Bitcoin price. For example: The new chief executive of U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs is reportedly interested in the market. Upon receiving his appointment, David Solomon said Goldman would be looking to add more bitcoin and cryptocurrency services in the future. Also, a giant hedge fund management firm BlackRock has been quietly building a taskforce to investigate the uses of bitcoin and blockchain in the market.

These endorsements prove the importance of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. ICOs or ITOs projects are being developed on the platform of this technology so it will enjoy the potential for growth.

Although the ICOmarket is potential, there are many scam ICOs or fake ICO projects out there with the aim to steal investorsТ money such as Confido or Centra, just a few to mention. Therefore, I think that a good ICO project which can attract potential investors, should focus on Уuser experience.

With the sheer amount of new ICOs arriving with everwidening use cases it is becoming clear that you have a strategy to pick the best ones. If you are a trader you ay look for ones that are heavily undervalued, good projects that have come to market and not been as successful as they hoped so they have lower circulation and could trade up quickly as they move through their roadmaps. Others will just look for niches they like, team members that they like from previous projects, or even causes such as the array of environmental, educational and financial inclusion plays coming to market.

Most seem to filter on hard and fast attributes but I would argue that the landscape is now so varied that having fixed ideas on what makes a good project could mean that not only will great (but eclectic) projects fall through the cracks and they could be the best performers or at least create the most positive impact.

As an active reviewer I look at the team and usually find projects have a diverse set of professionals trying to change the world, not just cash in. When I look at the vision, people are generally looking to help and improve things. The product is often where projects fall down as it has not quite hit home yet that 95% of the time a somewhat working product makes a project fly more than anything.

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Tobias Schulz

Investment ManagerPre-ICO VentureCapital Investor

ICO Advisor

2ICOs

Bitcoin proves its strength! After the Winklevoss twins’ bitcoin ETF was rejected, the market only showed a minimal correction. This might be an indicator, that the current price level is not driven by visions of the future, but the network value as of today. Altcoins did not anticipate the recent surge of Bitcoin, yet in the past, Crypto Coins showed high correlations. To me this is an indicator that we will be seeing some upward movement in Altcoins in the next weeks.

ICO volume is continuing its strong momentum and the volume of coin offerings in 2018 is already double as much as it was in last year’s market. When it comes to legislation, I see the small European country Liechtenstein, right next to the borders of Austria and Switzerland, becoming the top destination for Initial Coin Offerings in Europe. Due to its size (Population of 38.000) the country is able to handle request very efficiently, helping Blockchain entrepreneurs to get things going. Additionally, Liechtenstein is a member of the European Economic Area, which gives it a competitive advantage over Switzerland.

Currently, many large corporations are looking into the Blockchain technology and try to find out what it can do for them. This might a trend for the upcoming year, cultivating use cases for large corporations and establishing industry standards. The technology is surely just at the beginning of its lifecycle.

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