Moonshot Portfolio – September 2021

September’s Crypto Moonshot Portfolio

We analyze and rate twenty undervalued cryptocurrencies with moonshot potential

 

 

 

This month saw the overall market edge up by around 12%. That compares to our own portfolio which experienced a 16% increase for the month, 202% year to date.

This month was a month of getting rid of the old and bringing in the new. Our extensive research has opened our eyes to the many quality opportunities in the market compared to that first portfolio we assembled back in February 2021. With that said we waved goodbye to a few of the originals from that first list and said hello to three exciting new projects.

State of play

Let’s now focus on our current portfolio of twenty cryptocurrencies. This month we added three new cryptocurrencies which replaced three of the old guard. Also one project, Strong, exceeded its price target. We have decided to hold that project for the time being because it’s growth rate continues to exceed our expectations with no end in sight.

Additions

Lunch Money (LMY) — Restaurant review platform where users earn for providing reviews and restaurants pay for customer analytics.

Faceter (FACE) — Designed to perform big data video analysis in real time — extracting faces, objects and events resulting in the transformation of these meaningless recordings into meaningful assets.

Petrachor (PTA) — comprehensive monetary system, enabling the creation, storage, and transfer of its currency, the Petra.

Deletions

  • OIN Finance
  • TosDis
  • GeoDB

 

This month saw 8 of our portfolio in negative ground with some spectacular risers.

 

This month’s top 3 performers were:

 

 

The months worst performers were:

 

Overall performance

 

Now let’s look at the overall performance of our portfolio:

 

 

This month’s developments

SYLO

Sylo is a decentralized communication app that works like Whatsapp/Messenger without saving your data or violating your privacy. Sylo has had a busy month announcing the launch of an NFT marketplace and that there is now over $2 million in total locked value in the Sylo Dashboard for their liquidity mining program.

GeoDB

GeoDB the blockchain data sharing project launched on the mainnet after almost two years of testing and improving. The downside to this project is its aggressive tokenomics, with a maximum token supply of nearly 13 the number of its current token circulation. This overhang is definitely a factor weighing on its token price although its mainnet launch is a definite tick in the box. We have decided to remove this project from our portfolio.

Kryll

Kryll.io is a platform for cryptocurrency traders looking to use the most advanced trading tools and strategies. It announced a ‘significant’ investment from a fund backed by BitMEX. It recently updated it’s platform adding a number of new features.

Yield App

YLD, the regulated wealth management platform, increased its managed assets by 42% to $384 million. YLD continues to consistently grow its platform which is an impressive feat.

Listen to our podcast Inside Track here where the founder of Yield App talks about his project, the cryptocurrency market in general and some of his favorite projects.

TosDis

Offering staking as a service to ERC-20 and BSC projects this is a potentially lucrative niche allowing projects to set up their own staking without the risk and infrastructure. However the space is extremely competitive and we believe TosDis is destined to be a small player in a big market. We have therefore dropped TosDis from our portfolio.

Rarible

RARI, a leading NFT platform has been busy simplifying their platform so it is easier to navigate, always a good thing.

StrongBlock

Although there is competition emerging, STRONG is a leading player in the nodes as a service space. In one month STRONG has increased the number of nodes from 65,000 to 88,000 a 35% increase. Although we are not fans of its tokenomics the project is proving its model and is on a growth trajectory. Many leading projects are signing up with STRONG adding further credibility to its model. The token price is now ahead of our target price however we have decided to hold for the time being.

OIN Finance

The DeFi platform suffers from the problem of overly aggressive tokenomics which is an overhang on its token price. We believe there are better value projects and whilst this project is a good one we have reluctantly decided to replace it with another project which we believe offers better value.

Candela Coin

Candela, the solar power energy transfer project, is one of our long shot projects. Candela has obtained additional listings for it’s token and has started trialling its technology in a small residential neighborhood in Australia. Candela is talking of a planned listing on the Canadian Stock Exchange to fund its future roll out which could add huge credibility to this project. It is a high risk project and we continue to rank it a 9/10 for risk.

Listen to our podcast Inside Track herewhere the founder of Candela Coin talks about his project, blockchain and solar power and some of his favorite projects.

Haven

Haven the privacy coin saw its protocol hacked recently with $11 million of coins stolen. The community decided to roll back to the block before the hack and arrange a fork to fix the problem. The recovery from the hack was handled exceptionally well and the project appears to be back on track as it recently launched Haven 2.0.

Mysterium

Mysterium Network the privacy network announced its imminent mainnet launch plus increasing user numbers.

Energy Ledger

Energy Ledger the blockchain for energy announced the launch of their new website and their open beta testing program for their new blockchain product.

Listen to our podcast Inside Track here where the COO of Energy Ledger talks about his project and how it could prevent another Colonial pipeline hack.

Rentible

Rentible continues to work on the imminent launch of its much anticipated platform for mass adoption — making it possible for tenants and landlords to send/receive rent payments in different cryptocurrencies.

Ethbox

Having recently launched it’s new platform Ethbox has been busy signing new strategic partners. They just announced a partnership with Reef, a $300 million project and have promised an announcement on 24 September of a partnership with a top 25 project. We are excited by the potential of this project and the fact that big players are taking them seriously.

CertiK

The decentralized security solution provider announced their Security Leaderboard. They bill it as the first and only security focused ranking platform for blockchain and smart contract projects. A one-stop shop for security research for all your favorite projects.

Opacity

The decentralized storage platform announced the release of the beta version of their desktop app for Windows and Mac. They also announced that they are offering storage for NFTs which is likely to be an eye catching service.

New Additions

Faceter

Overview

Faceter is designed to perform big data video analysis in real time — extracting faces, objects and events resulting in the transformation of these meaningless recordings into meaningful assets.

Description

In the next 3 years over 1 billion cameras will be installed across the globe, producing petabytes of video recordings daily. Faceter is designed to perform big data video analysis in real time — extracting faces, objects and events resulting in the transformation of these meaningless recordings into meaningful assets.

FACE token is the core of the decentralized network as a flexible, transparent, cross-border settlement mechanism for all participants. Starting with the payments they receive from customers who want to use Faceter for video analysis. Work of miners in their decentralized network is also paid by FACE.

Click here to view Faceter White Paper

Team

An experienced accomplished team. View the full team here

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 6

Target Price: $0.05

Maximum Supply: 1B

Faceter has found a potentially lucrative niche which has so far remained unexplored particularly in the blockchain space. With over 500,000 users of its app this is a project that deserves significantly more attention.

Lunch Money

Overview

Lunch Money describes itself as a universal loyalty rewards program aimed at improving customer service through anonymous customer oversights and incentives. Restaurant customers and restaurant delivery service customers can simply earn Lunch Money by providing real feedback on their service experience.

Description

Lunch Money aims to implement the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency into everyday life through strategic partnerships with existing technologies including video games, POS terminals, ATMs, digital and paper wallets, Credit Cards, online payment services, and eCommerce platform providers. It is already incorporated within 150 vending machines which have been programmed to accept cryptocurrencies.

Lunch Money is an Ethereum based ERC20 token sharing all of the benefits of compatibility with Ethereum based apps such as Uniswap, Bancor and 1inch exchange. Lunch Money has been integrated into over 25 different wallets including MEW, Incognito, Trust Wallet, Trezor, Ellipal, Zelcore, Infinito, and Enjin Wallet.

To date, Lunch Money has formed strategic partnerships with IvendPay, PolisPay, Origin Protocol, Blockfolio Signals, Block Card, and Fowler Electronics, the developer of the TheCryptoBill.Com paper wallets.

Click here to view Lunch Money White Paper

Team

A committed and dedicated team with a background in tech and blockchain. You can view the team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 8

Target Price: N/A

Maximum Supply: 189,000

Lunch Money has been around now for a few years with the token price falling from a high of $0.26 to its current price of $0.004. But the project is far from dead. The team has been quietly beavering away. Amazingly it is one of the few crypto projects who registered their token with the US’s Securities Exchange Commission exempting it as a security.

The big question we have to ask is what have these guys been doing for the last few years because the platform has not gained any major traction.

The major reason for this is their focus on building and upgrading their platform and getting the fundamentals rights. You only have to look at the partnerships they have formed and the SEC registration to see that these guys take that deadly seriously. That focus on the technology and the basics has meant that their marketing spend has been sacrificed. Of course when it came time to market Covid hit.

To be fair, Lunch Money has the same problem as many blockchain projects. They focus on the technology and leave marketing as an afterthought.

However saying all that this is the kind of project that could easily go viral. Why wouldn’t you provide a restaurant review if you are being paid to do it? This project is all about getting traction. It is in exactly the right spot, the gig economy. With a fully diluted market cap of $760,000 this project is a long shot but could well end up being a gem hidden under a mound of pebbles. It has no real volume at the moment and can rightly be described as undiscovered. That can work both ways.

Petrachor

Overview

Petrachor is a secure and scalable digital asset platform, empowering a decentralized Internet experience.

Description

Its light-weight architecture can run from a phone, tablet, or desktop. Petrachor uses 100% original code for the Ariel Protocol; a resource efficient and censorship resistant Proof of Stake consensus. Millions of nodes can actively participate in mining, which eliminates the need for mining pools, and provides optimal security.

Petra is the native unit of the Petrachor network and can be used for payments,smart contract interactions and mining for block rewards.

Click here to view Petrachor’s White Paper

Team

Petrachor is a community run project.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 8

Target Price: N/A

Maximum Supply: 1B

The first question many of you may be asking is why are we adding a blockchain investment to our portfolio when there are hundreds of these already, all vying for investor dollars. And we would have to say, that is a fair question. But Petrachor breaks the mold To demonstrate the potential of Petrachor let’s turn our attention briefly to a platform called Pi. It is an app that allows you to mine their native currency. It has captured the imagination of the mainstream attracting over 18 million users. The funny thing is it isn’t even a blockchain and Pi isn’t a cryptocurrency. Their idea of mining is logging onto the app daily.

Like Pi Petrachor allows any user with limited technical ability to mine it’s native currency. That is made possible because of the limited processing power required allowing practically any device to participate in the mining process and earn. By opening up mining to the masses this makes the system far more secure whilst also providing an opportunity for the mainstream to earn from mining, something Pi promises but fails miserably to deliver.

Petrachor is an operational blockchain although a new more powerful version is due to be launched within the next six months. Their focus so far has been on technology, their next focus is on user growth.

With a fully diluted market cap of $2.8 million this project is under the radar. It is one of the few blockchain solutions that could easily be adapted by the masses and that alone makes this an interesting investment opportunity although like with any moonshot, high risk.

 

Portfolio Selection — September 2021

Sylo

Overview

Decentralized data exchange. Operator of the SYLO smart wallet, which has over 250,000 users.

Description

The Sylo Protocol provides confidential communication as a utility to the Sylo Confidential Communication App. The protocol acts as the confidential networking layer for the Sylo App, creating P2P connections and providing a way for users to interact and exchange data confidentially.

The Sylo Protocol is being developed to provide fully decentralised confidential communication as a utility to all connected-apps within the Sylo ecosystem. Powered by blockchain and combined with other decentralised technologies, this Protocol will act as the networking layer for the Sylo DApp and 3rd-party connected-apps, while providing charging options for specific communications and services over the network.

The fully decentralised Sylo DApp will be the 1st application built on the blockchain-based Sylo Protocol, using technology already commercialised in the Sylo App that’s currently used by thousands globally, available on Apple Store and Google Play Store.

Sylo is a decentralised communication and data exchange network powered by a layer 2 micropayments infrastructure and the SYLO token. User-run Service Peers provide infrastructure to the network which allows developers and businesses to run privacy-first, unstoppable apps without deploying any infrastructure of their own. A staking architecture and unique probabilistic ticketing solution ensure minimal transaction fees and limitless scalability. This scalability is already on show within the project’s flagship app, the Sylo Smart Wallet; a decentralized, private messenger and crypto wallet with over a quarter-million users.

Click here to view Sylo White Paper

Team

The team appears to combine a broad range of talents, skills, and experience which should provide any investor with confidence in this project. This is Sylo’s description of their core team: ‘…combines a deep background in computer science, development, and user experience with the real-world business experience of entrepreneurs, designers, and world-leading technologists. Both in experience and attitude, the strength of Sylo is in its people.’

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 5

Target Price: $0.02

Maximum Supply: 10B

The team has already demonstrated it is a force to be reckoned having developed and launched its smart wallet which has over a quarter-million users. It also has a decent-sized community following it. We have ranked the coin a 5 in terms of risk as the team has already achieved a level of success however the potential has not been fully recognized in the price.

PlotX

Overview

Prediction market platform.

Description

PlotX is a non-custodial prediction protocol that enables users to earn rewards on high-yield prediction markets.

Dubbed as the Uniswap of Prediction Markets, PlotX uses an Automated Market Making algorithm to create, settle markets and distribute rewards on the Ethereum Blockchain without any counterparty risk. Markets are focused on crypto-pairs like BTC, ETH, YFI, etc, and are automatically created in intervals of 4 hours, 1 day, and 1 week. PlotX also uses on-chain governance powered by GovBlocks.

Click here to view PlotX White Paper

Team

Check out the team in this video on PLOT’s website. A well rounded team who have launched an impressive platform. They appear to have a close eye on regulation having restricted access to high risk countries such as the US. That is a comforting sign for the future.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 7

Target Price: $1.00

Maximum Supply: 200M

PLOT’s closest competitor is Augur which is one of the biggest players in this market, although PLOT’s focus is more on financial bets. It benefits from an experienced management team and a platform that is already proving popular with users. The main risk is potential regulation. However with a market cap significantly less than Augur, PLOTX represents a decent investment opportunity.

Listen to our podcast Inside Track here where the co-founder of PLOTX talks about the prediction market, the cryptocurrency market in general, including his favorite projects.

Kryll

Overview

Kryll is your first intuitive platform to define powerful crypto trading strategies.

Description

Kryll is your first intuitive platform to define powerful crypto trading strategies through a simple drag n drop editor. Create automated winning strategies, benchmark them, share with the community, and enjoy user-generated content.

Kryll is the ultimate platform for cryptocurrency traders looking to use the most advanced trading tools and strategies, as well as benefit from the community’s hive-mind to get the best returns within cryptocurrency markets.

The platform provides intuitive ways to create your own trading strategies that can be set to execute automatically. Through a What You See Is What You Trade™ interface, you can design trading strategies making use of the industry’s most powerful tools and safely test them with backtesting and sandboxing.

Once your tools prove their worth, you can set them to live-trade on your behalf, taking the right positions at the right time, as if you were following the markets 24/7.

On Kryll you can also rent out your very own winning strategies to help fellow traders be more successful. You will be rewarded with passive income for sharing your strategies.

Click here to view Kryll White Paper 

Team

An accomplished team with a proven track record of success in both tech and entrepreneurial flair. Check out the full team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 6

Target Price: $0.73

Maximum Supply: 49M

We believe that Kryll has a unique business model which is gaining traction. We especially like the novel touch, where traders can rent out their own strategies to help fellow traders be more successful. This allows traders to be rewarded with passive income for sharing their strategies on something that could scale quickly. Despite the large maximum supply compared the price does not take into account the quality of the team and its current growth. The most significant risk in the near terms is its sensitivity to market volatility.

Yield App

Overview

YLD, a licensed and regulated FinTech company, offers a mobile app and web platform designed to provide the easiest way to invest in DeFi using crypto or traditional currencies.

Description

YLD’s intuitive app and web platform enable users around the world to earn high returns from DeFi products without having to go through a lengthy, complex, and often costly learning process. Operating under a banking license, YLD offers an insured investment fund managed by a team with years of experience in FinTech and cybersecurity. At the core of its strategy is the YLD token, which rewards community members and allows them to boost their APY.

Click here to view Yield App White Paper 

Team

Both an experienced and accomplished project team benefiting from a team of quality advisors. See the full team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 3

Target Price: $1.50

Maximum Supply: 300M

When you compare YLD to other similar platforms in the DeFi space it appears grossly undervalued. YLD’s platform is regulated and is aimed at the unsophisticated user, which could make this an attractive bet on the eventual mass adoption of DeFi. YLD is a good choice for any portfolio.

VIBE

Overview

VIBE operates marketplaces and hubs inside Augmented and Virtual Reality created on the Ethereum blockchain driven by the cryptocurrency VIBE.

Description

Creating next generation NFTs and developing new standards for gaming on the blockchain. Built for users and developers on the layer 2 solution VIBENet and powered by the VIBE token.

VIBE is a fully decentralized and immutable ERC-20 Token with a fixed token supply. VIBE is used for purchasing digital goods and services in the ecosystem. VIBE Ecosystem is powered by the VIBE token and the Layer-2 side chain solution VIBENet.

White Paper is not available — click here for news 

Team

Founded by Alessio Mack and Matthew Myers. The development team consists of 12 core members who are seasoned developers and marketing experts. It also has a quality assurance member, Renee Isaac.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 9

Target Price: $0.250

Maximum Supply: 267m

VIBE is certainly in the right space — NFTs. However, although it is obvious from its constant flow of news and developments that this project is carving itself into a lucrative niche, it doesn’t come without risk. We have scored VIBE a 9 in terms of risk as it is in a highly competitive market, saying that with its low market cap and the strong community, this project, in our opinion, is a risk worth taking.

RARIBLE

Overview

Rarible is a creator-centric NFT marketplace and issuance platform. RARI is a governance token with a Marketplace Liquidity Mining program.

Description

Rarible brands itself as the world’s first “community-owned NFT marketplace.” Furthermore, Rarible leverages its RARI token — which, similarly, is the world’s first governance token in the NFT field — to power this community-run platform model. In giving users a token with governance powers, Rarible is borrowing a page from the DeFi playbook.

At its core, Rarible is an NFT (non-fungible token) platform for securing digital collectibles secured with blockchain technology. However, Rarible has a considerably more ambitious vision than merely becoming a platform for securing art and digital collectibles using blockchain.

Rarible represents a digital NTF platform with a particular focus on art assets. Specifically, Rarible includes a marketplace that allows users to trade various digital collectibles or NFTs, similar to OpenSea.

Users can also use Rarible to create — commonly known as “minting” NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. This is significant for various content creators. For example, an artist could sell their creations, such as books, music albums, or movies, as NFTs.

Rarible is placing significant emphasis on creating an entirely autonomous platform, run through a community governance model. Moreover, Rarible is now shifting heavily towards becoming an actual Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).

The White Paper is not available — see this informative blog here.

Team

Rarible is a company founded by Alex Salnikov and Alexei Falin and is based in Moscow. Salnikov has worked in cryptocurrency since 2013, while Falin previously co-founded a marketplace for digital stickers that can be used on chat platforms.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 6

Target Price: $160.00

Maximum Supply: 25M

Rarible is an easy-to-use platform that has received a great deal of praise for its relatively simple and intuitive user interface. Its connection to Yearn Finance’s yInsure initiative is another promising development as Yearn Finance is one of the hottest names in DeFi. Rarible is a standout project in the NFT space.

StrongBlock

Overview

StrongBlock is the first and only blockchain-agnostic protocol to reward nodes for supporting the infrastructure of their blockchain.

Description

STRONG believes it is important to incentivize nodes because with limited resources and no financial incentive many nodes run out-of-date software, maintain incomplete blockchain histories and are intermittently off-line. To solve this, StrongBlock has made it possible for anyone to create a node in seconds and receive STRONG token rewards every day.

They call this “Nodes as a Service”. This allows anyone to create a Full Ethereum node in a few seconds with no technical expertise.

Since the launch of the StrongBlock DeFi node protocol, over 350 nodes have been registered. The total number of nodes number nearly 15,000. STRONG recently announced a tie up with leading DeFi platform Maker DAO, a major endorsement of STRONG’s business model.

According to STRONG each Node earns $20 per day, some people have multiple nodes. That makes this an attractive way of making passive income for anyone with a PC and some IT knowledge which is a definite formula for massive growth.

White Paper

There is no formal white paper. View more information here.

Team

The project is led by an accomplished and experienced team. You can view the team here.

Our Opinion

Target Price: $500

Risk Score: 6

Max circulation: 528,886

Although there is competition emerging, STRONG is a leading player in the nodes as a service space. In only one month STRONG has increased the number of nodes from 65,000 to 88,000 in the last month. Although we are not fans of its tokenomics the project is proving its model and is on a definite growth splurge. With the market weaknesses STRONG is a project worth buying into.

Polkastarter (POLS)

Overview

Polkastarter is a blockchain platform designed to provide an easy to use launchpad for cross-chain token pools and auctions. It is most commonly used by early-stage blockchain projects that want to raise capital and easily distribute their tokens at the same time.

Description

Through Polkastarter, blockchain projects can easily create their own cross-chain swap pools, which allow them to securely raise funds, while users can invest without risks, since swaps are automatically executed by smart contracts.

POLS is the native utility token of the Polkastarter platform and plays a number of roles in its ecosystem, being used for liquidity mining, governance, paying transaction fees, and gaining eligibility to participate in POLS-holder only pools.

Polkastarter’s main offering is its fixed swap smart contract, which allows projects to easily launch liquidity pools that execute orders at a fixed price — rather than using the AMM model made popular by Uniswap.

The platform is designed to handle a range of auction types, including sealed-bid and dutch auctions, as well as both fixed and dynamic ratio swaps. This makes it suitable for cryptocurrency projects looking to raise funds, as well as a variety of other use-cases, including private trades, OTC deals, and discounted sales.

Beyond this, other key features of the platform include permissionless listings, anti-scam capabilities, full KYC integration and liquidity mining.

The platform first went live in December 2020, and has quickly grown to become one of the most commonly used platforms for initial DEX offerings (IDOs).

Team

Polkastarter features an executive team with over three decades of combined experience in tech firms. It was co-founded by Daniel Stockhaus and Tiago Martins, who currently hold the roles of CEO and CTO at Polkastarter respectively.

Daniel Stockhaus is a serial entrepreneur credited with co-founding a highly successful e-commerce firm known as LiGo, as well as the digital growth agency Oliphant Ltd. Prior to this, he worked as a digital media designer for Fitch, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication and media studies.

Tiago Martins, on the other hand, is a former professor of computer science and an experienced developer with expertise in online education and product development. He is also the co-founder of Codeplace, an online platform that teaches the fundamentals of web development.

Click here to view Polkastarter’s White Paper 

Our Opinion

Target Price: $12

Risk Score: 6

Max circulation:100,000,000

Having already established a strong user base, Polkastarter is one of the leading lights in the decentralized launchpad space. It is looking to use its credibility and large investor base to diversify into other areas — the first one being DeFi insurance. Polkastarter is probably a billion dollar plus platform when you compare it to its rivals in the space such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. We have set a risk score of 6 and a price target of $12.

Opacity Storage (OPCT)

Overview

Opacity is a cloud storage provider with one major difference, privacy.

Description

With the rise of digital property, many people have increasingly become concerned with the security and privacy of materials stored with cloud storage companies such as Dropbox, Google, and others. Small businesses, individuals, and enterprises want to keep their data private.

Opacity protects people’s basic rights and provides private cloud storage to anyone through its Opacity token, OPCT. The token can be purchased on a crypto exchange and then used to purchase data storage plans that are completely private, and can only be accessed by the purchaser with the private key.

Unlike other service providers, Opacity does not require personal identification information. Opacity stores no information on its users, and allows people to store private information, such as company secrets, intellectual property, personal photographs, legal documents, and family moments, with assurance that personal data stays personal.

Click hereto view more information 

Team

Check out the team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 7

Target Price: $1.10

Maximum Supply:130,000,000

Opacity has an experienced team led by Jason Coppola who has previously worked at Microsoft, Paypal and Salesforce. We believe Opacity is a well thought out project that has the potential to carve a significant share of this market. Based on the valuations of both MaidSafeCoin and 0chain we believe Opacity is significantly undervalued.

Listen to our podcast Inside Track here where Opacity talks about their project, the decentralized storage space and the cryptocurrency market in general including some of their favorite projects.

Candela Coin (CLA)

Overview

Provision of solar energy through decentralized p2p energy transfer.

Description

Candela Coin’s vision is to create decentralized solar energy all across the world by cutting out the middleman — the power companies. They have created IoT hardware and software for seamless peer-to-peer energy transfer. By using blockchain technology this enables owners of solar panels to sell their generated energy to other users, bringing in the best returns possible for their solar energy and the cheapest green energy on the market. People across the globe will be able to transfer solar energy to others in their communities using Candela Coin as a medium of exchange.

Their decentralized system does not rely on the existing power grid infrastructure. In the event of inclement weather, power outages, or down power lines, decentralized solar power will still be able to be generated and provide electricity to the community. Candela is the impetus for the democratization of energy.

Click here to view the Whitepaper 

Team

Candela’s core team brings a diversity of skill sets, ranging from hardware development to utility design, technical standards setting, marketing strategy and policy advocacy. Check out the team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 10

Target Price: N/A

Maximum Supply: 125,000,000

Candela Coin is our long shot selection. There is one area of the crypto market that is yet to experience a boom — energy. Some crypto projects have tried and failed. Power Ledger being one such example. Power Ledger hasn’t been able to get the traction needed to make an impact. There are many theories as to why but many blame it on their willingness to work with the power company monopolies and not the people in the communities. Unlike Power Ledger’s b2b approach, Candela has taken an alternative path. They are targeting individual households, initially through a partnership with a panel manufacturer. Their business model allows householders to sell their excess energy to other householders in exchange for their native currency CLA. The beauty of their plan is that it allows households who do not have a solar installation to still buy green energy. That is a major selling point for Candela’s solution.

Now let’s look at the numbers. There are in fact two coins, a BEP-20 and an ERC-20. They both have the same tokenomics. It is worth checking out the two prices to see where you can obtain the best deal. At the time of writing the best price can be obtained by buying the ERC-20 token.

The reality is energy transfer on the blockchain is going to be a hot space — the big question is whether Candela has the ability to execute.

Certik (CTK)

Overview

A cross-chain Protocol with security scoring and decentralized reimbursements for building secure dApps.

Description

CertiK is a pioneering blockchain security firm that uses a cross-chain protocol with security scoring and decentralized reimbursements for building secure dApps.

Blockchain projects can receive security insights from its Security Oracle, which provides real-time guards of on-chain transactions and identifying and flagging a wide range of malicious vulnerabilities before they occur.

Depending on the level of the security score, audited blockchain projects of any protocol may be eligible for a CertiKShield membership, which is a flexible, decentralized reimbursement system for any crypto asset that is irretrievably lost or stolen due to security issues. CertiKShield memberships are open to all community members of these eligible blockchain projects, providing a safety net to holders of crypto assets in case anything unexpected happens.

Click hereto view CertiK White Paper

Team

CertiK has the advantage of an exceptionally experienced team. You can view the team here

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 6

Target Price: $5.00

Maximum Supply: 100,183,153

CertiK has been at the forefront of crypto investor interest recently after auditing the memecoin SafeMoon. CertiK and Quantstamp are the two leaders in this field, although Quantstamp focuses more on non DeFi projects. With the exponential growth of DeFi on BSC and DeFi in general there is going to be a continued demand for projects to be audited and as importantly, insurance cover.

We analyzed the crypto insurance space in a previous report highlighting its massive potential and the key players. CertiK wasn’t part of that analysis but it should have been. CertiK is in a prime position to build a significant share of this market competing directly with the likes of Nexus Mutual, its largest player.

The main risk is the unregulated nature of DeFi and the possibility governments will start coming down hard on projects which claim to be decentralized but still have an element of central control. On that basis we have scored Certik a 6 for risk. The beauty of CertiK is how its native currency is critical to its platform. That is a major tick in the box for the investor.

Haven (XHV)

Overview

Haven is an untraceable cryptocurrency with a mix of standard market pricing and stable fiat value storage.

Description

Haven has a built in on-chain smart contract that controls the minting and burning of coins to facilitate value for users that choose to send their coins to offshore storage contracts.

Sending Haven to offshore storage or burning records a reference on the blockchain to the current fiat value which can be restored later back into Haven by minting new coins to the tune of the current fiat value.

Haven uses ring signatures, ring confidential transactions and stealth addresses meaning payments cannot be tracked or linked back to any user. Wallet addresses and transaction amounts are completely obfuscated on the Haven blockchain making all activity invisible.

Click here to view Haven White Paper 

Team

The team is anonymous.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 6

Target Price: $27

Maximum Supply: 18,400.000

We believe Haven offers a novel solution to the user looking for privacy combined with stability.

Haven definitely has a unique solution to the privacy problem and is a hybrid of the typical privacy coin with its storage function. Haven’s market cap is at a significant discount to many of the larger privacy coins especially after the recent hack. We believe Haven is well worth closer attention.

Uno Re (UNO)

Overview

The first Decentralized Reinsurance platform.

Description

Reinsurance is also known as insurance for insurance companies. Reinsurance is the practice whereby insurers transfer portions of their risk portfolios to other parties to reduce the likelihood of having to pay a large obligation resulting from an insurance claim.

The option to trade in this highly profitable market is currently controlled by a few large corporations — Uno Re is a first-of-its-kind platform, allowing the average user to reap the rewards of trading and investing in this risk.

Click here to view Uno Re White Paper 

Team

An experienced and technically capable team. You can view the team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 5

Target Price: $1.00

Maximum Supply: 384,649,206

UNO is the first decentralized reinsurance platform. We have been followers of the crypto insurance market for some time as most of you know. However, a few months ago we predicted it would be the next big thing in cryptocurrency. What we hadn’t anticipated was how many new insurance based projects would enter the market. The good thing about UNO is that many of these new entrants are using UNO to offset some of their risk putting them in a unique position in a competitive space. The DeFi insurance market is set to grow exponentially and projects like UNO are in a prime position to benefit.

Mysterium (MYST)

Overview

Mysterium is building a decentralised P2P VPN and other tools that allow users to browse the internet freely, earn by sharing connections and build censorship-resistant applications.

Description

Mysterium Network is building the world’s largest P2P network to power Web 3 privacy applications. An open source, Swiss-based company founded in 2017, Mysterium is rewiring the internet so it’s secure, free and accessible for all. Mysterium held a token sale through which it raised $18 million USD.

The network is transparent and permission-less by default, made up of layered VPN protocols, blockchain and smart contracts. It lays the groundwork for all kinds of next-gen services to be built on top of it, including Mysterium’s flagship product, the decentralized VPN app.

This dVPN plugs into Mysterium’s global network of residential nodes, one of the fastest growing online communities decentralising the web. This open marketplace allows anyone to become a node and rent their unused bandwidth and IP address to those in need. Individual users can choose from providers located all around the world, allowing them to unblock content, and making them resistant to logging, surveillance and cybercrime. Users pay nodes for providing VPN services in MYST, the network’s native token and reserve currency.

Click hereto view Mysterium White Paper 

Team

Although there is limited information available on the team it does appear they are more than capable of achieving their goals having already raised significant funds and grown to 1,100 nodes in 409 countries in relatively short order. You can view the full line up here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 6

Target Price: $3.00

Maximum Supply: 32,433,365

Mystereum provides an alternative and arguably superior product to the popular VPN. It allows users to pay as they go, whilst node operators are paid to participate. It already boasts some 1800 nodes in 80 countries, a 60% increase from last month and it continues to grow its user base and node network. This is a perfect use case for blockchain technology, providing an alternative to VPNs which are centrally controlled, owned and operated.

Energy Ledger

Overview

Energy Ledger is a company and a token seeking to provide an energy value trade platform on the blockchain for the management of oil from ground to barrel to distribution.

Description

Energy Ledger seeks to make ELX the standard software development platform for energy value trade on the blockchain. The goal and intent of creating this generalized crypto-commodity is to (i) create a cryptocurrency that can be utilized by the energy industry to manage oil containers, and (ii) to incentivize the long term storage of crude oil through investment in the ecosystem. The idea for ELX was originally conceptualized in 2018 by founder and CEO of Energy Ledger Inc., William G. Pete, who identified the potential for Crude Oil markets to fall into contango or backwardation due to the lack of a computer system such as blockchain being developed to manage and understand the scarcity of storage for crude oil.

Energy Ledger was formed to prove the concept and eventual execution of a deployed blockchain solution for crude oil storage units. Smart contract process characteristics portend potential business process continuous improvement for supply chain processes.

The robust ecosystem available for smart contract development within the Ethereum Solidity Ecosystem, and IBM Hyperledger platforms became the catalyst for the development of Energy Ledger’s proposed solutions: i.) A public blockchain on Ethereum for developers to launch open source energy software utilizing the ELX token, ii.) A business, Energy Ledger Inc., who will act as a consultancy firm for private enterprise blockchains, iii.) Development of tamper proof IoT flow meters & liquid level sensors for containers.

Click here to view Energy Ledger’s White Paper 

Team

The CEO Willam G Pete is a software engineer and developer who has an in depth knowledge of the blockchain. You can view the full team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 9

Target Price: $0.04

Maximum Supply: 714M

Energy Ledger has a great idea to solve a problem no one else in the blockchain space has got round to tackling. It is however too early to make an estimation of its chances of success as the project is yet to launch. The valuation however does reflect this. Energy Ledger seems to offer excellent value but with the added risk that you would expect from any moonshot. It has a fully documented and experienced team which provides some confidence in their ability to pull this off. The one downside is its lack of volume but that can work both ways and is to be expected by undiscovered projects such as this one. ELX is one to add to your watch list.

Rentible

Overview

Rentible is a solution bringing decentralized Proptech to the masses. Rentible enables tenants and landlords to conveniently send and receive rental payments in cryptocurrencies.

Description

Rentible seeks to position itself as a first-mover in this niche and to advance the move towards a decentralized proptech-economy. Its platform is in development and is expected to be deployed in quarter four of this year. It has recently introduced a staking pool on Bancor where token holders can stake their currency.

Click here to view Rentible’s White Paper

Team

Founded by a team of seasoned Proptech entrepreneurs and blockchain experts. View the team here. .

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 9

Target Price: $7.00

Maximum Supply: 3.5M

Similar to Energy Ledger you have to take the rough with the smooth. The smooth is the high reward available if this project gains traction, the risks include among others poor liquidity. The surprising thing about this project is its listing on the top tier exchange Bittrex. This should provide the investor with some level of comfort. A small investment which is then staked on Bancor is probably not a bad bet as long as you don’t bet the house or the childrens lunch money!

Ethbox

Overview

Ethbox facilitates privacy both by design, and with an extra opt-in privacy feature. Sending and receiving funds through Ethbox interrupts the chain of transactions that can be clearly traced back. Additionally, an extra privacy feature will be implemented, which obfuscates the sender’s and recipient’s addresses.

Description

Ethbox provides a unique solution to a problem in cryptocurrency trading that is as devastating as it is widespread. Accidentally sending funds to a mistyped or mistaken recipient address has already been the cause for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of financial damage. Harnessing the cryptographically unbreakable safety of the underlying Ethereum blockchain, ethbox provides a smart contract based digital escrow service to completely alleviate any risk of loss while sending cryptocurrency.

Click here to view Ethbox’s White Paper

Team

An experienced and accomplished management team supported by an impressive team of advisors. View the complete team here.

Our Opinion

Risk Score: 9

Target Price: $0.70

Maximum Supply: 65M

The platform only launched a few weeks ago however the market value does not reflect that. This is one of those undervalued and undiscovered projects we love to find. It is a total moonshot as you are betting on the fact that people will start using their new platform in their droves. That is possible but like most things it is a long shot. However they do have a valuable product which is quite likely to gain traction but it may take some time.

Moonshot Portfolio – May 2021

 

 

Not Financial Advice

This article does not constitute financial advice or a recommendation to buy in any way. Always do your own research and never invest more than you can afford to lose. Investing in cryptocurrencies is high risk, and you could lose 100% of your investment. The article should be treated as supplementary information to add to your existing knowledge.