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ICO MarketWeekly Review

August 24, 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 4,100 projects and 60,000 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


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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 08.20-08.26.2018

3. ICO market size

3.1. ICO market size per week 07.23.2018-08.20.2018 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 18

5.1. Top 10 People of blockchain 18

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 London Football Exchange $71,320,000

#2 4NEW $42,100,000

#3 Grapevine $26,799,000

#4 Sword Coin $20,660,000

#5 FOAM $13,750,000

By the amount of funds raised

ICO Rating

#1 GreenLink 5.0

#2 TimeBox 4.7

#3 Tip Blockchain 4.7

#4 Gabro 4.7

#5 SKYFchain 4.6

By rating

ICO Rating Funds raised

#1 Datareum 4.5 $5,144,571

#2 Grapevine 4.4 $26,799,000

#3 FOAM 4.3 $13,750,000

#4 Streamity 4.2 $4,200,000

#5 Inmediate 4.1 $5,000,000

By rating and amount of funds raised

ICO #Ratings

#1 SKYFchain 60

#2 TimeBox 32

#3 TraXion 29

#4 GCOX 25

#5 Codex 25

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 Xriba 4.6

#5 VRT 4.5

By rating

ICO Rating Funds raised

#1 FTEC 4.8 $995,000

#2 Nauticus 4.6 $16,916,000

#3 Xriba 4.6 $12,600,000

#4 Elysian 4.5 $7,000,000

#5 CryptoAds 4.5 $3,230,373

By rating and amount of funds raised

ICO #Ratings

#1 Etheal 59

#2 Open Source University 40

#3 Wemark 33

#4 ZeroState 33

#5 TV-TWO 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 Squeezer 4.7

#4 TimeBox 4.7

#5 Tip Blockchain 4.7

By rating

By both rating and amount of funds raised

ICO name #Ratings

#1 Sharpay 102

#2 Truegame 90

#3 WePower 81

#4 Friendz 63

#5 MoneyToken 60


ICO name Rating Funds raised

#1 Truegame 4.8 $3,426,445

#2 FTEC 4.8 $995,000

#3 Karatgold Coin 4.7 $100,000,000

#4 Squeezer 4.7 $15,000,000

#5 GIFTO 4.6 $30,000,000

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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 num-

ber 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.

526 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$6,971,872,621#by raised funds






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







152.0 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 3,362 80.32% 3.1 $4,903,809

#2 Waves 105 2.51% 2.6 $1,211,506

#3 Stellar 44 1.05% 3.4 $5,532,769

#4 NEO 27 0.65% 3.4 $3,665,302

#5 NEM 18 0.43% 3.3 $3,536,641

#6 EOS 16 0.38% 3.9 $0

#7 Scrypt 16 0.38% 2.4 $1,299,859

#8 Separate blockchain 12 0.29% 3.0 $4,081,755

#9 Bitcoin 10 0.24% 2.3 $6,317

#10 Ethereum and Waves 9 0.22% 2.3 $451,303

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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 GreenLink 5.0

#2 CoinSeason 4.9

#3 CryptoRevolution 4.9

#4 Eternal Trusts 4.7

#5 Gabro 4.7

By raiting

ICO name Rating

#1 INTRO 36

#2 Cryptassist 34

#3 Iagon 32

#4 SafeCrypt 30

#5 Worldopoly 30

By number of ratings

By rating

ICO name #Ratings

#1 Vernam 20

#2 Sudan Gold Coin 17

#3 MDL Talent Hub 16

#4 CoTrader 11

#5 ALLUXE 10

ICO name Rating

#1 Rateonium 4.6

#2 Rubius 4.6

#3 qiibee 4.5

#4 IGT 4.5

#5 Vanig 4.4


2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 08.20.2018-08.26.2018

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3. ICO market size

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.

Week #ICOs Funds raised Avg.funds raised/ICO

Aug 13th, 2018 - Aug 20th, 2018 4* $60,563,454* $2,162,981*

Aug 6th, 2018 - Aug 13th, 2018 8* $71,476,039* $7,147,604*

Jul 30th, 2018 - Aug 6th, 2018 27 $209,248,235 $7,215,456

Jul 23rd, 2018 - Jul 30th, 2018 15 $127,024,322 $7,939,020

3.1. ICO market size per week 07.16.2018-08.13.2018

* 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 17* $209,689,093* $12,334,653*

July 2018 85 $685,669,045 $8,066,695

June 2018 98 $1,507,466,836 $15,382,315

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 104 $1,547,828,927 $14,882,970

January 2018 72 $1,360,515,824 $18,896,053

December 2017 89 $1,626,953,231 $18,280,373

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

October 2017 69 $913,172,460 $13,234,383

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


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Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised

Platform 1,722 $9,965,380,674 $5,787,097

Cryptocurrency 1,163 $11,392,992,228 $9,796,210

Business services 735 $3,057,251,186 $4,159,525

Investment 562 $2,378,895,048 $4,232,909

Smart Contract 489 $1,234,918,751 $2,525,396

Software 487 $2,195,893,355 $4,509,021

Internet 383 $1,771,058,186 $4,624,173

Infrastructure 345 $3,111,216,958 $9,018,020

Entertainment 332 $1,260,042,311 $3,795,308

Artificial Intelligence 322 $671,805,482 $2,086,352

Banking 318 $2,638,351,193 $8,296,702

Big Data 296 $763,584,445 $2,579,677

Communication 262 $1,139,379,175 $4,348,775

Other 204 $459,114,903 $2,250,563

Media 202 $1,330,384,691 $6,586,063

Retail 181 $655,316,089 $3,620,531

Health 149 $449,721,118 $3,018,263

Education 126 $197,760,325 $1,569,526

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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 122 $324,348,500 $2,658,594

Energy 96 $435,645,309 $4,537,972

Sports 94 $305,339,236 $3,248,290

Tourism 93 $151,388,902 $1,627,838

Manufacturing 90 $235,850,504 $2,620,561

Virtual Reality 89 $203,798,716 $2,289,873

Casino & Gambling 82 $601,612,342 $7,336,736

Legal 62 $141,969,715 $2,289,834

Electronics 59 $313,218,844 $5,308,794

Charity 53 $75,428,345 $1,423,176

Art 47 $83,510,399 $1,776,817

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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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2017 2018

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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 $9,965,380,674 1722 36.00% 33.22%

2. Cryptocurrency $11,392,992,228 1163 37.32% 35.00%

3. Business services $3,057,251,186 735 37.96% 34.56%

4. Investment $2,378,895,048 562 39.15% 36.30%

5. Smart Contract $1,234,918,751 489 24.95% 24.74%

6. Software $2,195,893,355 487 37.99% 34.70%

7. Internet $1,771,058,186 383 36.03% 32.38%

8. Infrastructure $3,111,216,958 345 30.72% 29.57%

9. Entertainment $1,260,042,311 332 38.25% 32.53%

10. Artificial Intelligence $671,805,482 322 21.74% 21.74%

11. Banking $2,638,351,193 318 42.77% 38.05%

12. Big Data $763,584,445 296 25.68% 25.00%

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Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC

13. Communication $1,139,379,175 262 33.97% 32.06%

14. Other $459,114,903 204 25.00% 24.02%

15. Media $1,330,384,691 202 35.15% 33.17%

16. Retail $655,316,089 181 28.18% 25.97%

17. Health $449,721,118 149 24.83% 24.16%

18. Education $197,760,325 126 20.63% 20.63%

19. Real estate $324,348,500 122 36.89% 35.25%

20. Energy $435,645,309 96 29.17% 29.17%

21. Sports $305,339,236 94 41.49% 38.30%

22. Tourism $151,388,902 93 35.48% 34.41%

23. Manufacturing $235,850,504 90 18.89% 18.89%

24. Virtual Reality $203,798,716 89 19.10% 17.98%

25. Casino & Gambling $601,612,342 82 51.22% 45.12%

26. Legal $141,969,715 62 27.42% 27.42%

27. Electronics $313,218,844 59 28.81% 28.81%

28. Charity $75,428,345 53 18.87% 18.87%

29. Art $83,510,399 47 23.40% 19.15%

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5. Blockchain community

#1

#4 #7

#8

#5 #6

#9 #10

#2 #3Simon Cocking Ian Scarffe Nikolay Shkilev

252.2ISS85

ICOs

240.7ISS73

ICOs

198.8ISS55

ICOs

Vladimir Nikitin Hung Chih (Jason Hung)

Jeremy Khoo

Ismail Malik Naviin Kapoor

Anders LarssonAmarpreet Singh

178.2ISS

136.2ISS

127.2ISS

141.3ISS

114.2ISS

168.2ISS

16.7ISS

39ICOs

50ICOs

30 ICOs

38ICOs

32ICOs

49ICOs

33ICOs

5.1. Top 10 People of Blockchain

* ISS: ICO Success Score is a combined evaluation of all ICOs a person is taking a part in. The more successful the ICOs

are and the more of them there is the higher the ISS would be.

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#3#2#1Hung Chih (Jason Hung) Igor Karavaev Luca Cotta

392 288 89/100

110 110 83/100

491 245 84/100

149 113 84/100

478 165 88/100 231 91 87/100

232 149 89/100 592 198 90/100 374 130 90/100

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Rating

Rating

Rating Rating

Rating Rating Rating

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews Reviews

Reviews Reviews Reviews

Weight

Weight

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#5#4

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#6Nathan ChristianDouglas Lyons

Tran Van Tinh

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 MarketAcross 252.2 54

#2 Coinzilla 250.6 92

#3 AmaZix 237.9 81

#4 TokenSuite 167.2 62

#5 ICO-TOP 167.0 48

#6 PRD Media Group 164.9 85

#7 Bountyhive 162.3 50

#8 Tge.company 142.4 54

#9 ICO Vortex 140.8 53

#10 Hypercube Video 123.3 32

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.

Fanjiang Zeng

Cryptocurrency SpeciallistICO Advisor & Angel Investor

During the passing summer season of 2018, more than 90% newly listed tokens have gone below their ICO price and a lot of them are now only worth around 10% of their initial value. What does this mean? Most of these ICO projects were overvalued at the very beginning and speculative investors are waking up. To reduce further money loss, they are dumping those assets with a bubble price. So is this a Tulip Mania for crypto market? ThereТs no simple answer for this question, and we need to split the answer into two parts: yes for those Уscam projects, their token price will definitely go to zero, sooner or later; no for those projects that has a dedicated team who are determined to make a change to the world and to make it better.

All in all, crypto world will never collapse, but right now it needs to release some bubbles gradually to build a more solid foundation to facilitate the rocket growth in the near future!

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Mihai Alexandru Bisnel

Experienced ICO analystEditor at TokenCouncil.com

Token Sale Platform supplier Advisor

Blockchain Enthusiast

The next stage in ICO evolution?Since the very beginning, ICOs have had the same main purpose: to fund a project that has more or less to do with blockchain technology, either trying to solve real-world problems or to contribute to the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. Some early stage ICOs have offered huge profits to their contributors, so it is easy to understand why investors were desperate to throw their ETH into any project they could contribute to, without even reading the one-pager version of their whitepaper. Not to forget, none of this could have been achieved without the mighty Ethereum platform. My opinion is that times have changed and none of the above apply anymore. And this is a good thing!

The times when you could raise a lot of money with an ICO by simply having a website are long gone. Nowadays, in order to launch an ICO, you need to have a good plan, a strong team of experts and advisors and a few hundred thousand dollars in your account. More than that, you don’t necessarily need to do something that has never been done before, you can focus on substantially improving previous ideas and projects.

As we are mainly experiencing an overall bear market, the majority of investors are not rushing into new ICOs and this has led to many projects delaying their token sales until the market trend will change.Changes will happen in this environment, and while nobody knows for sure what they will be, here are my opinions:We could see the rise of alternative ICO platforms: I have a huge respect for Ethereum, as I said earlier, but lately it’s had its issues, and the updates Vitalik promises for a long time now could arrive a little late. It might sound impossible, as Ethereum is huge right now, but this has happened before in other domains. Remember Netscape Navigator, Nokia or Yahoo? The first alternative platform that comes to mind is Stellar. The main reason ICOs haven’t chosen Stellar until now is linked to some issues regarding exchanges not being able to list Stellar generated tokens very easily, an issue I understand has been solved. NEO is also a great candidate, with a strong team and great infrastructure. In addition, we should not forget they present themselves as “The Ethereum of China”, and we all know the sheer power of the Asian markets in the cryptosphere.

We could assist to the extinction of the utility token: as projects are getting stronger and more serious, we could experience the appearance of more projects that will be based on security tokens. It’s not a bad thing to issue a security token, it’s just harder for the project to comply with the extra requirements. In my opinion, SEC compliance is a trust factor, rather than a dealbreaker.

In bear times, we could see the dollar-pegged token: due to market conditions, some projects will decide to postpone their token sales, while others will decide to peg their tokens to the dollar, a method that is mostly welcomed by investors.

No matter what happens, I consider the ICO environment is still in early stages and with huge potential, as important things are still to happen. It is called evolution and that is always a good thing!

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