here are only a few projects that I would bet on for 2018.
By this I mean hold a large position in due to investment.
Of course any project that you help create, through actively being a participant in its development and marketing can be very lucrative, but I'm talking about actually undervalued projects that have released enough to be competitors in the top 10 best blockchains while still being under 1 billion in marketcap.
In truth there is only one. Waves!!!
It has the fastest on chain tx
It has secure smart contracts
It has a decentralized exchange built into the client that trades at blazing speeds
It has a blockchain creation tool that instantly allows you to create a token for under 10 dollars which can be traded against eth bitcoin and a myriad of other tokens without a verification process
It has fiat on and offramp for 50% of the planet,
And so much more..
Best of all it has these things now!!!
With a marketcap of approx 40th place on cmc.
I fully agree with you. All valid points that you list. There is no hype to drive the prices up. Price increase will be gradual over time as more organizations adopt the platform and roll out tokens. It is a longer term project in my view. What would be great though to add to the list are Ledger Nano S support and integration with a Bitcoin ATM.
Yes, just add on your list that Waves has an actual working platform, which most of the top cmc cyptos don't have yet. Most of these are still on testnet, or have a very limited usable platform. Also, based on dev updates on github in past 12 months, Waves is on 8th place of all cryptos.
https://www.cryptomiso.com/This means that dev team is very active
