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ICO MarketWeekly Review

September 10, 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 4,300 projects and 63,000 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 August 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 09.03-09.09.2018

3. ICO market size

3.1. ICO market size per week 08.06.2018-09.02.2018 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 Share of total

1 Peculium $9,917,634 21%

2 Boosteroid $6,800,000 15%

3 IXTUS $6,700,000 14%

4 WestrendCoin $5,118,271 11%

5 Invox Finance $4,188,110 9%

By the amount of funds raised By rating

# ICO Rating

1 Boomstarter.Network 4.7

2 EON Protocol 4.7

3 Pool of Stake 4.6

4 GENEXI 4.6

5 CoinSeason 4.6

* compared to the previous month

# ICO Rating Funds raised

1 Invox Finance 4.5 $4,188,110

2 ORCA 4.4 $1,500,000

3 Peculium 4.3 $9,917,634

4 IXTUS 4.1 $6,700,000

5 Zenome 4.1 $662,000

By rating and amount of funds raised

# ICO #Ratings

1 Cryptics 41

2 GigTricks 36

3 Cryptassist 32

4 Photochain 30

5 Global Protected Crypto Copyright 28

By the number of ratings

Subtotal: 5 $32,724,015 -89.12% *

Total: 18 $46,888,229 -91.49% *

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1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in August 2018

# ICO Funds raised

1 KitToken $117,447,182

2 London Football Exchange $71,320,000

3 4NEW $42,100,000

4 OSA $40,000,000

5 Synco $30,000,000

By the amount of funds raised

# ICO Rating

1 SKYFchain 4.6

2 TimeBox 4.6

3 Tip Blockchain 4.6

4 IZX 4.5

5 Tradelize 4.5

By rating

# ICO Rating Funds raised

1 SKYFchain 4.6 $6,200,000

2 Tip Blockchain 4.6 $352,400

3 OSA 4.5 $40,000,000

4 ENDO Protocol 4.5 $5,000,000

5 Incodium 4.5 $4,000,000

By rating and amount of funds raised

# ICO #Ratings

1 SKYFchain 60

2 TimeBox 32

3 GCOX 29

4 Codex 25

5 One Game 20


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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

By the amount of funds raised

# ICO name Rating

1 Truegame 4.8

2 Squeezer 4.7

3 Friendz 4.7

4 FTEC 4.7

5 Karatgold Coin 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 Faceter 60


# ICO name Rating Funds raised

1 Truegame 4.8 $3,426,445

2 Karatgold Coin 4.7 $100,000,000

3 Friendz 4.7 $27,525,000

4 Squeezer 4.7 $15,000,000

5 FTEC 4.7 $995,000

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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.

532 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$6,974,591,283#by raised funds






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


$1,729,239,372 #by raised funds





160.4 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 ICOsMarket

ShareDiff.*

Avg.

rating

ICOs

RaisedRaised Total Avg.raised

1 Ethereum 3,738 90.86% 1.38% 3.1 1067 $17,495,363,410 $16,396,779

2 Waves 110 2.67% - 2.6 30 $132,208,174 $4,406,939

3 Non defined 67 1.63% 1.52% 2.0 16 $338,107,417 $21,131,714

4 Stellar 54 1.31% 3.85% 3.4 12 $291,354,375 $24,279,531

5 NEO 38 0.92% - 3.2 10 $193,036,153 $19,303,615

6 Bitcoin 24 0.58% 4.35% 2.3 7 $290,611,658 $41,515,951

7 Scrypt 24 0.58% 4.35% 2.2 7 $21,545,568 $3,077,938

8 NEM 21 0.51% 5.00% 3.3 6 $64,159,533 $10,693,256

9 EOS 15 0.36% - 3.9 1 $5,000,000 $5,000,000

10 Separate blockchain 14 0.34% - 3.0 8 $48,981,062 $6,122,633

11 Ethereum and Waves 9 0.22% - 2.3 2 $4,061,725 $2,030,863

Subotal: 4,114

Total: 4,345

$18,884,429,076

* compared to the previous week

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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 Avatara 4.8

2 World Bit Bank 4.8

3 genEOS 4.8

4 PearlPay 4.7

5 Boomstarter.Network 4.7

By raiting

# ICO name Rating

1 Cryptics 41

2 INTRO 37

3 GigTricks 36

4 Iagon 34

5 WONO 33

By number of ratings

By rating

# ICO name #Ratings

1 WONO 33

2 XAYA 15

3 xDAC 10

4 KICKICO 9

5 Health FX 9

# ICO name Rating

1 xDAC 4.6

2 Pigzbe 4.6

3 Dominium 4.6

4 Daox 4.4

5 Metabase Network 4.3


2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 09.03.2018-09.09.2018

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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 last 4 weeks and market size per industry.

Week #ICOs Funds raised Avg.funds raised/ICO

Aug 27th, 2018 - Sep 2th, 2018 24* $258,218,753* $10,759,115*

Aug 20th, 2018 - Aug 26th, 2018 7 $46,414,123 $6,630,589

Aug 13th, 2018 - Aug 19th, 2018 11 $102,655,465 $9,332,315

Aug 6th, 2018 - Aug 12th, 2018 9 $76,728,507 $8,525,390

3.1. 08.06.2018-09.02.2018

* 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

September 2018 10* $20,579,365* $2,057,937*

August 2018 52* $550,844,432* $10,593,162*

July 2018 84 $665,772,843 $7,925,867

June 2018 100 $1,511,789,503 $15,117,895

May 2018 125 $1,070,118,544 $8,560,948

April 2018 106 $1,039,365,892 $9,805,339

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

February 2018 104 $1,547,828,927 $14,882,970

January 2018 71 $1,350,598,190 $19,022,510

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


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Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised

Platform 1,761 $10,057,773,972 $5,711,399

Cryptocurrency 1,209 $11,603,710,096 $9,597,775

Business services 744 $3,098,838,214 $4,165,105

Investment 567 $2,428,454,321 $4,282,988

Smart Contract 494 $1,274,747,921 $2,580,461

Software 491 $2,166,666,499 $4,412,763

Internet 387 $1,873,912,673 $4,842,152

Infrastructure 352 $3,138,338,186 $8,915,733

Entertainment 340 $1,230,420,961 $3,618,885

Banking 328 $2,792,744,836 $8,514,466

Artificial Intelligence 326 $745,152,468 $2,285,744

Big Data 293 $775,317,770 $2,646,136

Communication 268 $1,145,328,298 $4,273,613

Other 211 $486,215,363 $2,304,338

Media 211 $1,308,915,155 $6,203,389

Retail 193 $713,272,863 $3,695,714

Health 154 $549,182,644 $3,566,121

Education 126 $207,255,325 $1,644,884

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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 123 $341,058,756 $2,772,835

Tourism 101 $268,836,084 $2,661,743

Sports 101 $305,339,236 $3,023,161

Energy 95 $442,350,309 $4,656,319

Manufacturing 92 $240,205,280 $2,610,927

Casino & Gambling 85 $605,295,827 $7,121,127

Virtual Reality 84 $203,798,716 $2,426,175

Electronics 67 $319,778,844 $4,772,819

Legal 60 $158,340,388 $2,639,006

Charity 54 $75,428,345 $1,396,821

Art 48 $86,510,399 $1,802,300

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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 $10,057,773,972 1761 36.68% 33.96%

2. Cryptocurrency $11,603,710,096 1209 37.88% 35.65%

3. Business services $3,098,838,214 744 39.38% 36.02%

4. Investment $2,428,454,321 567 40.92% 38.10%

5. Smart Contract $1,274,747,921 494 26.92% 26.72%

6. Software $2,166,666,499 491 38.70% 35.44%

7. Internet $1,873,912,673 387 36.95% 33.33%

8. Infrastructure $3,138,338,186 352 31.82% 30.68%

9. Entertainment $1,230,420,961 340 38.53% 32.94%

10. Banking $2,792,744,836 328 43.29% 38.72%

11. Artificial Intelligence $745,152,468 326 23.93% 23.93%

12. Big Data $775,317,770 293 28.33% 27.65%

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Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC

13. Communication $1,145,328,298 268 34.70% 32.84%

14. Media $1,308,915,155 211 34.60% 32.70%

15. Other $486,215,363 211 25.59% 24.64%

16. Retail $713,272,863 193 30.05% 27.98%

17. Health $549,182,644 154 24.68% 24.03%

18. Education $207,255,325 126 23.81% 23.81%

19. Real estate $341,058,756 123 38.21% 36.59%

20. Sports $305,339,236 101 38.61% 35.64%

21. Tourism $268,836,084 101 33.66% 32.67%

22. Energy $442,350,309 95 32.63% 32.63%

23. Manufacturing $240,205,280 92 21.74% 21.74%

24. Casino & Gambling $605,295,827 85 51.76% 45.88%

25. Virtual Reality $203,798,716 84 20.24% 19.05%

26. Electronics $319,778,844 67 28.36% 28.36%

27. Legal $158,340,388 60 33.33% 33.33%

28. Charity $75,428,345 54 18.52% 18.52%

29. Art $86,510,399 48 25.00% 20.83%

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5. Blockchain community

5.1. Top 10 People of Blockchain

#1

#5 #7

#8

#6#4

#9 #10

#2 #3Simon Cocking Ian Scarffe Nikolay Shkilev

256.0ISS

241.2ISS

192.8ISS

Vladimir Nikitin Hung Chih (Jason Hung)

Jeremy Khoo

Ismail MalikNaviin Kapoor

Bogdan FiedurAmarpreet Singh

171.9ISS

138.1ISS

126.1ISS

149.8ISS

114.2ISS

173.2ISS

118.8ISS

40ICOs

49ICOs

30 ICOs

40ICOs

38ICOs

53ICOs

35ICOs

88ICOs

73ICOs

56ICOs

People of blockchain are members of ICObench community with personal experience in development of ICO projects

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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5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts

#10

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

390 286 89/100 117 117 88/100

494 248 84/100 149 113 84/100

478 166 88/100 234 94 88/100

232 149 89/100 597 203 90/100 377 133 90/100

Rating Rating

Rating Rating

Rating Rating

Rating Rating Rating

Reviews Reviews

Reviews Reviews

Reviews Reviews

Reviews Reviews Reviews

Weight Weight

Weight Weight

Weight Weight

Weight Weight Weight

#6#4 #5

#9#8

#7Nathan ChristianDouglas Lyons Tran Van Tinh

Mofassair HossainTyler Sanford

Nikolay Shkilev

147 122 82/100 Rating Reviews Weight

Paul Mears

An ICObench expert is an active member of ICObench community that has the right to rate ICOs and conforms to the rules of the experts community.

The expert's weight depends on several factors, such as the number of reviews given by an expert or the quality of their communication with the ICObench team.

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# Agency ISS #ICOs

1 Coinzilla 251.5 92

2 MarketAcross 243.4 54

3 ICO RAY 238.1 39

4 AmaZix 238.0 81

5 Barracuda Club 213.8 62

6 ICOgraph 199.8 37

7 TokenSuite 183.2 68

8 PRD Media Group 164.2 85

9 Bountyhive 156.7 50

10 BeFirst 141.6 36

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.

Juan PabloFernandez Aguero

AdvisorConsultant

Pr and Marketing Expert

Maksym Vysochanskiy

Founder of ICOExpertAppsmoment

Blockchain Advisor

The ICO market has changed in 2018 motivated for the bear market and new regulations. 2017 was the best year for public sales, but now all is turning to more private fundraising.The market is more professional now, something healthy por the industry. The ICO projects have to make more professional work to access to private seed funding. Every investor starts his research looking for red flags, the first filter to focus on really good projects. The work of each ICO should be offering the best possible experience for that more professional audience.The professionalization of the industry will be an amazing evolution for the success of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, atracting smart money and putting the right eyes over the market.There are some kind of projects that can impact the real world very quickly, improving existing industries with the benefits of blockchain. I love supplychains, for instance, a quick real use of it. Also I see a great potential on improving old systems and platforms with blockchain technology, making much more light, secure, quick and transparent industries like banking systems, hybrid exchanges, social and community platforms or burocratic and database infrastructures.New regulations are coming, it will protect better to investors and more capital will come to the market. It’s exciting to think about how the market will evolve and what new ways will find to improve our world.

It was nice to see that crypto market started to recover during the first week of September with some positive news. First of all, Bitcoin finally started a “bull run” from 6K to 7,3K after long summer months. If we would compare this situation with all other years in the past - we would see the similar picture every single year. Summer time usually is coming with dropped prices for crypto coins.Secondly, crypto news are coming with more positive ones. Like IOTA got FUJITSU partner and Yahoo Finance intergrated crypto coins for payments. For that reason, it is great to see that market went up again and hopefully it will continue to rise up. Why is that important?Answer is very simple - it will help ICOs to get more funds and investments. More people will invest in cryptocoins - more potential investors into ICOs projects. For that reason, I believe that during the next couple weeks, we will see a better picture with investing results for ICOs as well. There are some interesting projects which launched last week and will do during the next days as well.

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Reed Sutton

ResearcherSpeculator

Advisor

The ICO market appears to be more mature, even looking back from the last few months. Projects are getting called out for not delivering on many promises, investors are skeptical, and fewer token sales are reaching their raises, aside from the very cream of the crop. Exchange projects in particular seem to be among the few doing well, as there is a need for innovation, decentralization, and liquidity in that space. There is also a shift happening from ICOs to STOs at least in the US market. Whether mature ICOs will continue to remain viable will depend on the regulatory decisions of other countries, which we might start to get more clarity on in 2018 to 2019 (eg. Canadian Government just recently pushed back itТs date for announcing their new regulations). But at least in the US, the STO is becoming highly favored. Key differences in these STOs are that they raise over much longer time periods (think 6 months to 1 year), often sell some form of equity tied to the token, and are issued through exemptions including Reg S (international raise), Reg Db (private placement without marketing, Reg Dc, and Reg CF (crowdfunding with $1,000,000 cap open to non-accredited investors). The STO space does still have some evolving of its own to do however. While it is growing, there have only been a handful of token sales in 2018 (under 10), and liquidity is still an issue. If you think of the problems with liquidity on regular crypto exchanges, the secondary markets for security tokens are even fewer due to the strict regulations they must comply with. Allegedly Airswap and Bittrex are working towards being able to list security tokens. My team and I are keeping our eye on new developments in the STO space, and once there is enough data, we hope to analyze and compare the profitability and economics of STOs vs. ICOs.

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